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Friday Fun Thread for June 5, 2026

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Facebook and Instagram routinely show me reels by porn stars, and my AI-dar is strong enough that I usually notice when it's showing me AI-generated girls who don't actually exist. (No doubt there's a potential toupée fallacy here.) I assume these models are advertising their OnlyFans pages or similar, and that if one were to follow the link it would contain softcore photos and videos for a fee. I wouldn't know, as I've never clicked on one of these links.

Jerking off to softcore videos of photorealistic AI-gen women seems extremely lame to me, lamer than watching live-action porn featuring real women (which is already pretty lame). On the other hand, is watching photorealistic AI-gen porn lamer than watching hentai, animated furry porn, or similar? Technically, both hentai and photorealistic AI-gen porn are types of animated pornography, but at least the latter looks enough like a real person that you might not notice it on a cursory inspection. A guy might consume a lot of photorealistic AI-gen porn and still be attracted to real women who actually exist, whereas I fear for the habitual hentai user, eventually no 3-dimensional flesh-and-blood woman will ever appeal to him.

On the other hand, habitual hentai users might put the unambiguous fantasy of 2-dimensional hentai in a completely separate mental category to IRL sex and be able to derive enjoyment from both (just because you like burgers, doesn't mean you don't also like salmon); whereas photorealistic AI-gen porn looks just like real life except with every conceivable imperfection mercilessly rooted out. Someone who habitually consumes the latter might eventually find that the imperfections all flesh-and-blood women have* (to a greater or lesser extent) are impossible to overlook.

Obviously consuming either kind of porn to excess will mess with your head. But which do you think is worse?

*Men too, obviously, but I can't imagine many straight women have much interest in watching photorealistic AI-gen softcore porn of male characters.

Is watching cartoons lamer than watching kid movies?

Are you asking if it's lamer to watch cartoons or to watch live-action children's films?

Yes.

I guess it depends on the film.

That's my answer to your question about hentai vs porn.

So you think watching certain kinds of hentai is less lame than watching certain kinds of live-action porn?

Yeah?

Isn’t that a tautological truth given how awful most live-action porn is?

Is it?

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