What about porn and masturbation? (video)

Rob Norris (novice Ven. Bhante Rakkhita Samanera, facebook.com); Seinfeld (Larry David, TBS); Keith Haring; Sheldon S., Ashley Wells, Seth Auberon, Ellie Askew, Dhr. Seven (ed.), Wisdom Quarterly

The Great Porn Experiment

See, this would never happen if one stops.

"I undertake to refrain from sensual abuse." This is the third precept. So we're going to take a 30, 60, or 90 day challenge to abandon it.

We are in The Great Porn Experiment. Our response? Let go and say "No thanks" to the dumping of billions of addictive naked images for free access without any guidance, advice, or censorship.

Their experiment has been running for a while, long enough that we have all been exposed and affected and infected, directly and indirectly.

Untitled (Keith Haring, 1985, Vagina Museum)

Social Science has a few conclusions and the same conclusion the field always comes to: More studies are needed. It's like leaving millions of lines of cocaine lying around wherever teenagers relax and sleep.

One Western Buddhist novice (Rob Norris or Ven. Bhante Rakkhita Samanera) feels a moral responsibility to address the pink "elephant in the room" of auto-erotic self-indulgence.

Here's a list of 100 benefits from letting go of porn and therefore of masturbation or self-stimulation. Go out and have real sex that doesn't harm anyone.

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