Ah, the Truth About Porn

My mate, Tim accused my other mate, and his boyfriend, Nick, of cheating on him because he watched porn. 

My head spun. 

There's a tough call. I mean, I can kind of see his (stupid) point, weirdly, if you have that kind of relationship, you know, buttoned up tighter than a… not really sure how to finish that analogy… a homophobe’s arsehole at a gay orgy. 

You know, if you both agreed to only have eyes for each other, I guess. Maybe? If you had to be that uptight?

I've never thought about it that way before, myself. Cheating, presumably, on your own in a room on your own? Is that even logical? I’m not really sure about that.

Later, I found out that Nick had told Tim earlier that he didn't like Tim watching porn. What? My head spun again.

Oh, I see what this is about now. (is that revenge porn?)

It's not about porn, it is about lying. Is it?

Ah the (unnecessarily) tangled webs we weave.

All the things that could go wrong with a relationship, the trip ups, the fails, the problems, the hurts, the misunderstandings, the let downs, the boring bits, the pain, the lies, even the white lies, I can’t really see the above being one of them.

Is it self sabotage? Or just sabotage?

I mean, seriously, in my book anyway, talk about getting upset over nothing.

Still, if you tell your boyfriend you don’t like him watching porn, and then you watch porn yourself? I, guess, that is something. I’m just not quite sure what that something is?

I wanted to laugh and say, You are kidding me? But Tim wasn’t laughing, as her poured his, who knows what number, chardonnay for the evening.

Nick and Tim aren’t really compatible anyway, I’ve always said that. Tim is a drinker and Nick is a pot smoker and never shall the two succeed. If you are in an addictiondiscordant relationship, it rarely works, I’ve always said that too. Pot smokers and drinkers rarely understand each other.

I would have thought that porn was the safest way to get your jollies which doesn’t involve your significant other. There are all those people, mostly chicks, who tell us that porn is a terrible thing, that it is really bad for us. I admittedly tend to think that is, probably, just girls disapproving of the things men do. I wonder if there is any, actual, evidence that porn is bad for anyone. I don’t know?

I always think of them as Christian Girl Scouts who wouldn’t even let their boyfriends go down on them as they think that is unnatural, you know, those wowsers who bang on about porn corrupting the minds of the youth, but maybe that is just my bias.