porn and the death drive

  There is something else which is deeply disturbing about porn. I feel it is good to put this into an extra post.

A  comparison between the way how Evola descirbed "traditional Sex" in his  book "The Metaphysik of Sex" (and similar ideas by Aleister Crowley, Rudolf Steiner and some anarchists) is enlightening and disturbing.

Evola  and the other authors described traditional sex as an activity where  "orgasm" is not the main goal and the orgasm is actively delayed and the  ejaculation is often even prevented.

Traditional  sex according to Evola is not to "lose pressure" of any kind, but  instead heighten the tension and pressure to the highest possible  levels. (Even by help of things like Psylocybin, like Terence McKenna  described. )

And now, look at modern porn. This is  basically the complete opposite of that. One aspect is the topic of  "watching porn to lose tension", and then the typical way of the sex act  in the porn, which is basically to do the act in a way to get to a  spectacular "money shot" in the shortest time possible. Sex in porn is  nothing about "enjoying the moment", but doing it so it ends as fast as  possible.

With that, Sex is basically degraded to an act similar to "taking a shit".

And  now, to the really disturbing fact. Alexander Dugin said modern porn s  not a revolt "of sex" but "against sex". Could he be more right than he  thinks?

Sigmund Freud said that next to the sex drive "Eros", there is a force counteracting the sex act: The death drive of Thanatos.

According  to Freud, Thanatos main goal is basically to get rid of any tension and  create a situation calm, free of any tension. It is called "death  drive" because the biggest way to end tension in the human mind is to  kill yourself. But another way the death drive works is pointless  extreme aggression.

And now, with that in mind, is  porn really working "for the sex drive"? Not really. Modern porn culture  is instead in service of the death drive.

And  interestingly, Freud said that another function of the death drive is to  reduce human activity and to sever connections between other humans  (while the sex drive forces humans to forge connections).

Isn't that exactly what porn does? Preventing connections to other humans?

And  interestingly, many people in the nofap movement said that after they  stopped porn, they were less lethargic and more active in their life.  This completely fits within the description of the death drive.

Freud  also said that one expression of the death drive is extreme anxiety and  interestingly, many people in the nofap community said that stopping  porn helped them to gain courage.

With that in  mind, modern porn consumption is basically in service of the death  drive, and because of that, it is not erotic, but anti erotic and anti  life.