Every day there is some news article about the “moral implications” of pornography. But lets face facts, porn has been a part of civilization since the very beginning in one form or another. Be it through art, fashion or outright prostitution – it has always been there. So the question is: is porn really bad? and if so, what exactly is it that makes it bad? Surely this must be perfectly natural?
Not the moralizing crap
Porn, there is no free lunch. Mystics have known the effects of these things since the dawn of time.
Normally articles like this begin with a long and sad story about a girl with a horrible background. Abused perhaps in her early years leading to her making movies or posing for porn as a young adult. Well, im not going to go there at all because you will find just as many people who likes being a pornstar as those who hate it. So its a dead end conversation. But how does porn, or “images that make you horny” affect people from a mystical approach?
Well then. In Buddhism people spend a lot of time “plucking the seeds of karma”. In Christianity we find the same concept, although slightly different – where the field of your mind holds seeds that the world has planted there. Some seeds grow up to become weeds, killing the good in us. Christian monks especially from the contemplative movement (both catholic and protestant) spend a lot of time plucking out wrong ideas and healing old wounds. But why?
Any idea or desire you put into your mind, especially those that produce chemical responses in your body, will grow the more you focus on them. Growing means that more cells in your brain, or neural pathways, will be allocated to invoking the thought – who in result leads to faster response times. This is what education is all about, shaping those aspects of mind that you are going to use to make a living. But in this case you are educating a part of your brain to respond faster to sexual stimuli, leading to .. complications.
It’s what happens in you, not just the girl on the screen
(.. because what happens to you, indirectly controls what happens to her. There would be no porn makers if they knew the implications if their actions -ED). Now take that same principle and apply it to porn. By watching porn you develop bad masturbating habits as a result, whom inevitably ensure the following factors:
- More neural pathways in your brain will hardwired to sex
- Nerves in your genitals will heighten in sensitivity, meaning that you will reach orgasm faster (not a good idea if you are a man, but perhaps a bonus for women)
- Your PC muscle will loosen if you masturbate to much
- The quality of your sperm is radically altered
- The seminal energy, the same energy your body use to field your immune system and your vital organs, is constantly in debt because of excessive ejaculation
- Spinal fluids become less potent since the body is constantly busy making sperm
- You get sick more often because your immune system is weakened
- In terms of Buddhist and christian concepts of mind, you are littering your mind-field with desire that, when fully develop, will blind you to “the real”. When you see a woman, you will no longer see “her”, but rather the idea of her.
- You stand a risk of becoming chemically addicted to the high of desire. Lab rats are shown to having masturbated themselves to death once seriously addicted. I doubt that would happen with a human being, but that you can attract sickness and hurt your organs – that is a fact known for thousands of years.
Run from desire like a deadly snake oh monks!
Do not exploit the passions
-Source: Lord Buddha
Going out in style
At the end of the day i can quote a million things for and against this. But as a mystic, i can only tell what the ancient masters taught. And the sum of all teachings is moderation in all things. If you have to much sex, or masturbate to much – then that will have negative side effects. But it also goes both ways. If you have to little sex, then that likewise leads to problems. It is a strange and perhaps funny fact, that the group of men that dies the most of prostate cancer – are catholic priests. Each organ in our body serves a function, and whenever that function is disrupted or abused in some way – it results in injury or sickness (to refuse is also a sign of imballance).
It is curious though, regarding the celibate priests i mean, as to how they attract this. Symbolically the genitals represent John the baptist with his “waters of life”, beheaded (circumcised) and made little by the coming of Christ (the birth of the spiritual heart, the hope of perfecting the gift of life, the life force recognized within). I mean, if these child molesting bastards got it all right then they should be perfectly healthy. Let us leave it at that.
The Hindus though have taken another route, a route of balance (as have the Taoists and the Buddhists). If you remain celibate for to long the prostate is expanded and becomes fixiated leading to all kinds of problems. All men know that the urge for sex builds up over hours (teens) and days (adults), the tank becomes full – and we slowly “loose our heads”. This is actually physical, the tank truly fills up (!). But the prostate must be allowed to return to its natural form. In other words it must be allowed to empty. To the Hindu, the fire of the genitals that comes with over-indulgence is associated with Rudra, the angry aspect of the life-force. Taoism also use a symbol of “fire” for sex, as have Christianity through the devils brimstone. And play with fire and you get burned. No mystery there.
So the mystic approach will always be: moderation, moderation, moderation. Do not exploit the passions for the passions are the same energies that upholds your life. Your spine (if you have a bad back, notice that it is even weaker after copulation) is the first to feel the effect of over-indulgance. It is no co-incident that both Buddha and saint Paul suffered from back pains (yoga, transmutation of sexual energy into spiritual energy).
Personally I have lived by an old Taoist formula for a long time. The formula is simple:
Age * 0,2 / 2 (round down to nearest decimal).
So for me, age 35 – I can enjoy safe-sex with my wife once every 3 days (as a maximum) without loosing life force or undermining the vital organs. As a modern man I can’t always stick to this (I am faithful to one, my loving wife, and would not even dream of another), but as a general rule it works quite well. Besides, men with children and a household are usually utterly exhausted by the end of the week anyway.. But no way I’m going to waste my life energy on stupid pictures! Created by even dumber people, ignorant of even the most simple of principles, hell bent on their own destruction. Sex is fine, abuse is just stupid. Talk about cutting the very branch that holds you up!
Do you have the balls dude?
And for God sake stay away from the ji-min (also called the million dollar point, a pressure point beneath the testicles that some men use to in-jaculate). Stay away from all such empty promises unless you have access to a certified chineese master. And Mantak Chia does not count!
Let it be for love, not lust.
Use your mind, and get rid of the milk in christ, grow up!
Solid food is for those that are mature – and porn is for children in understanding.
References
- 20 years of porn
- Porn addiction
- How porn works
- Anti porn activist network (a bit “out there”, but loads of facts)
