Sick Of Constantly Being Exposed To Soft Porn? Try this
Men of culture, we meet again
In 2024, it’s hard get through a single day without seeing a pixelated woman’s ass in yoga pants.
Despite the fact that I’m a straight man who very much enjoys looking at women’s asses in yoga pants, I’m genuinely sick to death of seeing this all the time.
Every time I open Tiktok and every time I open Instagram, I’m exposed to countless digital thumbnails of beautiful women in tight clothes. My male brain simply can’t help but be at least marginally distracted when exposed to images like this. And every once in a while, perhaps right after waking up in the morning before my brain has had a chance to switch on properly, I will click the thumbnail.
The algorithms register my click (that I instantly regret), and continue to recommend more and more digital images of sexy women.
No, I do not want to watch a sexy speedskater in tight trousers. No I do not want to watch a beautiful pole vaulter in tight shorts. No I do not want to watch a model do a workout in yoga pants.
Just because I click, that doesn’t mean I necessarily want to watch this kind of content.
I have goals to achieve. Ambitions to live out. Money to make. Art to create. I don’t want to be endlessly distracted by pixelated images of beautiful women that my primitive brain is too dumb to understand aren’t actually real.
When you make a social media profile, and register your account as a man aged from 18–30, you will immediately be recommended videos of sexy women from Day 1 of making your account. Most men, even the strongest willed among us, will eventually click one of these videos, causing the algorithms to recommend even more content of sexy women in tight clothes.
Content creators have long since realised that including an image of a sexy woman in the thumbnail is a guaranteed way of bringing in views. It’s a cheat code to the male brain that will always bring results.
The pointless clip of a sexy woman exercising will get 10 million clicks, while a documentary of world history will get 75,000.
The use of sexy women made of digital pixels to draw the attention of men will continue — forever. When VR headsets finally become mainstream, you can be sure that we will have 3D digital images of sexy women thrown in our faces to hack our brains and take our attention against our will.
From now, until you’re an old man, you’ll have images of sexy women in tight clothes pushed in front of you to try and grab your attention. Businesses and influencers will always use your own, natural biological drives against you to hack your brain and try to get attention.
So, you’d better find a strategy for dealing for this facet of modern life. Let’s think about this carefully.
Men. Let’s do a thought experiment.
Just look at this image? What do you see?
If you think you’re looking at a woman right now, you’re wrong.
You’re not looking at a woman, you’re looking at the representation of a woman created by a collection electronic pixels displayed on the screen of your device.
You’re not looking at a sexy woman standing next to a tree in a bikini. You’re looking at thousands electronic pixels of different colours grouped together. And this group of electronic pixels is tricking your brain.
In fact, this particular photo was taken all the way back in 2017 — 7 years ago! This woman, assuming she’s still alive, is now 7 years older. She may have even put on 50lbs since the photo was taken.
So let’s think this through. You feel yourself attracted to the image above? It’s a collection of digital pixels of different colours grouped together in order to display a representation of woman who actually no longer exists in the same body as when it was taken.
That’s absurd.
Men: Do you want a date a beautiful woman some day? Then stop staring at digital, fake versions of them.
The very act of gawping at a digital image of a beautiful woman is to put yourself below them. Continually looking at sexy women on screens is messing with how you view women and how you see yourself in relation to them.
Spend time speaking to beautiful women in the real world you’ll quickly discover they’re not that different from ordinary people. There’s a lot of them around. They live on the same planet as you do, with their two feet on the ground just like you. They get sick. They even go to the toilet (shocker I know).
“The attractive digital people you see on screens do not exist. They are merely representations of people created with pixels or ink on a page. Nothing more than phantoms. The more time you spend gazing at them, the worse your romantic life shall become” — The 70 Commandments Of Screens and Technology
Every single time you have images of sexy, digital women thrown in your face by social media algorithms, think: I am not looking at a woman, I am looking at a digital image of a woman. These are entirely separate entities.
Take a moment to pause and reflect on this, and then do not click it.
I don’t click images of sexy women on my screen anymore, and the algorithms have learned not to feed me soft-porn style content.
This is what my Instagram feed looks like now.
My Youtube shorts page is also completely clean of soft-porn.
This is exactly what your social media feed should look like. Social media algorithms are an extension of your consciousness. To take control of your clicks is to take control of your life.
What you click on is not a trivial issue. It’s one of the most important things you do on a daily basis. Choose the content you click on carefully and mindfully.
If you want to stop being exposed to soft porn, then stop clicking on soft porn.
When are you going stop gawping at a digital fantasy that you can never touch or interact with? When are you going to embark on your life’s adventure? When are you going to live your dreams?
What the hell are you doing you moron? Stop staring at women who you’ve never met and go the f**k outside.
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