


We're probably hunched over in front of our computers making a lot of unfortunate faces. It's pretty rare for a guy to light some candles, lie down on his bed, and explore his body for hours. "How else am I going to masturbate?" His question is entirely reasonable. You would've thought I asked him why he's really into having a functioning central nervous system. "It's porn," one friend said when I asked why he liked watching it. It not until porn impacts a man's personal life or sex drive that you should be concerned. They're not necessarily addicts or alcoholics. Some men have higher sex drives and more frequent masturbation habits the same way some people might like to have a glass of wine with dinner every night.

It's funny, when guys talk about how often they watch porn, they assume they are average anything else is too little or too much. Maybe the guys who have a lot of sex look at a little less porn, and maybe the ones in a dry spell Google it a little more, but relationship status doesn't affect guy's habits a whole lot. These are single guys, dating guys, married guys, and guys who have fuck buddies. Every guy I know looks at it anywhere from once or twice a day to once a week. But most guys look at porn on a fairly regular basis. Your boyfriend (probably) doesn't have some insane stash of weird fetish porn and Fleshlights hidden somewhere in his walls. It doesn't mean men are constantly looking at porn and self-pleasuring like fiendish deviants. Men just get off to visuals more easily, which is why it always seems to be guys watching all the porn. Guys, including your boyfriend, like porn. I mean, uh, I guess?" Eventually, every man put in this position forces out the same phrase: "I don't really like that stuff." Lots of "ums" pepper a few awkward, contradictory phrases like, "Well, no. He does some awkward stammering, some handwringing, some eye contact avoidance. Every guy dreads the moment his girlfriend, inevitably, asks if he watches porn.
