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Hi, Dan.

My name is Glenn.

I'm calling about porn.

I enjoy looking at porn and everything that accompanies that sort of activities very much.

But I often find that I can't shake the feelings of guilt that accompany it.

I used to think that this was just normal sort of run in the mill guilt, you know,

associated with our sexually repressed culture here.

But after thinking about it some more, I think that it runs a little bit deeper than that.

I think that somewhere, somehow, I think that

looking at porn irrevocably damages my brain. It changes the way that I look at women in some way

that I can't change at a subconscious level or something, some sort of psychobabble like that.

I was wondering if you thought there was any truth to that, if there really is some sort

of irrevocable harm or otherwise done as a result of looking at this sort of stuff

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