Porn is cheating

Some people (let's call them women) believe that watching porn is the same thing as cheating (though, if you have read my earlier posts on cheating, one can easily see that one is not having sex as long as one wears a condom or some barrier between the two or more parties involved).

There was an interesting article in this months Scientific American: Mirror Cells in the Brain. Basically, they found that when primates do something (like lifting a block) certain neurons in the brain fire. They also found that when a primate watches another primate do that same thing, those same cells fire. As far as that part of the brain is concerned, watching someone do something is that same thing as doing it. They of course didn't make the connection to porn, so that is where I come in.

Watching pornos has the same affect in the same regions of the brain as if you are actually the one engaged in these acts. So, you are in essence, having sex. Which some consider cheating. Seems like an obvious conclusion. But wait, there's more...

These neurons do not fire in people with autism when watching others, which is what they believe might be the source of autism. These mirror cells allow us to empathize with our fellow humans. We feel other people's pain. We can understand what people are going through, because we feel it ourselves. Except for people with autism - they live in a world where they do not understand why others do what they do, because they can not put themselves in the other person's place. Trapped in their own world. Though, name me a human who isn't.

And all of this ties together! By watching people have sex, you understand sex better, you build up that sexual empathy. So, go get a better understanding of the people around you, watch a porno.

The Edward

PS Okay, so I didn't tie autism into my conclusion, so here is an alternate one: I've watched adult movies with friends before. I always found it fascinating to watch, because I always felt that I was missing out on something, and now I know - I wasn't developing that empathy. To me, it was just something interesting to see, but I now realize why some people have issue with this, because to them they can not separate out the reality of watching something from the reality of actually doing something. Watching a porno, they are feeling like they are there, which was something I had never considered. Same with going to Good Vibrations, the act of holding a dildo and seeing pictures probably was triggering mirror cells. It definitely shines a whole new light on some of my memories of events and things people have said!