"I think a little part of it lives in each and everyone of us. I mean, porn. For example, mine is sometimes visible, it is very subtle but is there if you dig a little bit more on appearances. I believe everyone has it, obviously, in a different level. I consider mine as a 'healthy' level. I can go on with a responsible/adult life and live with it. Maybe most of the people is here too, maybe, I don't know, I'm just supposing, I'm just giving you this thought. When I wrote the previous message, I tried to say something, I tried really hard to be clear but instead of being it I wrote what you posted. A strange message, I accept it. By the way, I didn't expect you to do that (post it) but given the nature of the message I thought if I had a blog and received that kind of message I would have done the same thing. Anyway, I still feel it was very kind of you and I took it as a courtesy to what I tried to say; I guess you also felt my admiration to you and your blog (I hope you did, but if not, this is a good time to feel it). Ok, I don't want to miss the point. The point is I that I also wanted to say that I believe we all have a part of it, whether we accept it or not. We can not escape to it, it is a part of us, but the only thing we can do to live with it it's to accept it, nothing else works. I agree when you talk about dissociation. We all do this too, as I said it before, in a different level, but we all do. Have you ever said a lie so many times that you end up believing it? Of course, we all have done that. But, if we wouldn't have been raised in fear boxes we wouldn't have to do this, don't you think? it would be a natural thing, we wouldn't have to be surprised or shocked, we wouldn't have the limit of our eyes to deal with the real/unreal matter. We'd be more humans, or another kind of humans, open minded, call it what you want, you know what I'm saying. And maybe if we all could accept this, porn wouldn't even have to exist the way it does now. Maybe. What a crossroad, right? And we are all in it."
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