The ups and downs of looking at Porn
Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2006 9:25 am
Images are powerful to the human brain. They are the basic language of the brain, the language of religious revelation, dreams, imagination--and pornography is a poweful form of imagery, one that particularly suceptible to abuse. (With its built-in attractiveness to us humans, sex itself suceptible to abuse, especially to those of us who are strongly sexed, or without a partner, celibate, or otherwise unusually subject to frustration.)
If you go to China and start snapping pictures of the locals, you will quickly learn that they don't care to be photographed.
Perhaps you yourself have resisted being photographed in certain situations--especially awkward ones that might be "frozen in time." I don't pretend to understand exactly how it works, but its been clear to me from childhood that photos can contain--or at least point the viewer towards--a person's "spirit" or ki. (Ki or chi energy is the ancient yoga term for the fluid energy in the body that is the motivating force for physical movements.) Part of what happens during normal social interactions is an exchange of ki between individuals. That can typically involve drawing out ki thru the top of the other person's head (thru the crown chakra). This can also take place during viewing photographs, including (or especially, given the intensity that can be involved) erotic images--either stills or videos.
My advice: Be able to quit, hard as that can be... just as in sex, the benefits of allowing the aroused energy to rise up thru the chakras can be very satisfying... (Just as deferring orgasm is one of the main points of ancient sex manuals)... Respect the person whose image you are viewing... Breathe his/her ki energy...
If you go to China and start snapping pictures of the locals, you will quickly learn that they don't care to be photographed.
Perhaps you yourself have resisted being photographed in certain situations--especially awkward ones that might be "frozen in time." I don't pretend to understand exactly how it works, but its been clear to me from childhood that photos can contain--or at least point the viewer towards--a person's "spirit" or ki. (Ki or chi energy is the ancient yoga term for the fluid energy in the body that is the motivating force for physical movements.) Part of what happens during normal social interactions is an exchange of ki between individuals. That can typically involve drawing out ki thru the top of the other person's head (thru the crown chakra). This can also take place during viewing photographs, including (or especially, given the intensity that can be involved) erotic images--either stills or videos.
My advice: Be able to quit, hard as that can be... just as in sex, the benefits of allowing the aroused energy to rise up thru the chakras can be very satisfying... (Just as deferring orgasm is one of the main points of ancient sex manuals)... Respect the person whose image you are viewing... Breathe his/her ki energy...