After half a lifetime of porn addiction, and since the advent of AI deepfakery, I am now conflicted about continuing to consume pornography.

It is of personal consequence that I have made the turn to no longer wish for explicit influence to have sway in my life. It is not a judgment on sexual proclivities and how they are identified, but more the sheer waste of time that the glut of porn access represents, compounded with certain lines of ethics being crossed through the proliferation of open AI. 

Factors that have caused conflict with me regarding porn use:

Elements that make explicit acts toxic; such as regrading the object of sexual veneration receiving maltreatment. (More clealy defined as: acts that promote the belittling of performers).  

Memes, or captions that suggest non-consensual behaviors. (I well recognise the idea of rape fantasies as fantasies before actions, and the idea of play acting in these regards, but the idea leads to my want for detraction).

I am wholly uncomfortable with what has transpired with AI over the last 2 years, which has spurred on my reaction to no longer wishing for explicit content to hold sway over me. I attribute this shift to an event which has altered my views on pornography and the nature of technology as a whole. This event involved a fairly popular website that hosted AI videos of celebrities. A member had turned a scene in a movie pornographic through the use of open AI, and it involved persons of inappropriate age. This sickened me deeply. It caused me to address that I was not ok with the idea that people were manufacturing content with persons underage. This caused substantial disphoria upon fully realising what I had viewed. 

I do not write this message with the intent to shame or condemn persons for their sexaul prefrences, or make any moral proclamations regarding the use of pornography, but it has been with the release of open AI that a sea of what I consider to be inappropriate content has been released, which now is making me wish to completely stave off of porn altogther. I want nothing to do with where it is headed.  

I have put some links up on my profile with the intent to promote supports for persons sturggling with porn addiction. I will no doubt add more as time goes on. 

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