Does Porn Hurt a Relationship?

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"Dr. Ruth" Westheimer, PhD
If both of them can look at a sexually explicit movie, I say have a great time. Women want stories. They want something to happen there and they want Lady Chatterley's lover in that fantasy. Women like fantasies. Men seem to get aroused just by seeing two women having sex or by just having this kind of very visual experience. If they use that to be aroused, have a good time. If however, if they become hooked on it, if they can't have an erection without looking at the sexually explicit movies, that's a different story. Then it becomes like a must. Now for me, sexually explicit movies are perfectly are all right, except I don't want to see violence and I don't want to see children. So there is no question about that, loud and clear on WebMD that we have to say sexually explicit, perfectly all right, but there are limitations. I personally also don't want to see masochist and sadists. If a sadist and a masochist walk into my office, even though I say anything two consenting adults do in the privacy of their home is all right, if a sadist and a masochist come to my office and he can only have an erection if he hits her or if he sees blood and she can only have an orgasm if she gets hit, they have people like this, every sex therapist must know his or her own limitations. I couldn't work with them because when a couple comes and I give homework, I have to visualize what they do, and that's something that I can't visualize. So I'm not saying you are bad people. I use a white lie. I look at my book, and I say, I am so booked up, here are three names of psychiatrists.