Take away online porn and what do you get?

Ian Kerner, a sexuality counselor and New York Times best-selling author, blogs about sex on Thursdays on The Chart. Read more from him on his website, GoodInBed.

Over the past month, I've been conducting a "no-porn" experiment with a group of guys. Not that I'm anti-porn; I'd like to think that I take a nuanced perspective.

As a sexuality counselor and author, I've written quite a bit in this column about Internet porn - from how it's altering the contours of our sex lives in unexpected ways to how women are starting to use porn much in the same ways as men.

But unlike the subjects of some articles about porn that have also recently appeared on CNN.com - Can the Christian crusade against pornography bear fruit? and Is pornography driving men crazy - I emphatically do not buy into the alarmist rhetoric that contends that porn is addictive, porn is a gateway drug, and porn destroys marriages.

Rather, I view Internet porn as just another form of erotic material, one that many (if not most) people use in healthy ways to enjoy their own sexuality.

That said, I grew up in the age before Internet porn - when guys in search of erotic fodder were compelled to use magazines, videos, and even (gasp!) their own imaginations and sexual memories. That's clearly become ancient history: For the past few years I've noticed that nearly 100% of the men I come into professional contact with, regardless of age, now use Internet porn as a tool for self-pleasure.

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Rather, I view Internet porn as just another form of erotic material,

Nothing gets past him, does it?

20 years ago you would go into the sex shop, buy a $5 xxx magazine, head to your local Macca's, smuggle the magazine into the toilet cubicle, spend 10 minutes "self-pleasure" jerking off, and leave the magazine for the clean-up guy.

Now you just go into the Macca's cubicle with your mobile device, tap your favourite site, spend 10 minutes "self-pleasure" jerking off, and hopefully leave nothing for the clean up guy.

Much better.

20 years ago you would go into the sex shop, buy a $5 xxx magazine, head to your local Macca's, smuggle the magazine into the toilet cubicle, spend 10 minutes "self-pleasure" jerking off, and leave the magazine for the clean-up guy.

Now you just go into the Macca's cubicle with your mobile device, tap your favourite site, spend 10 minutes "self-pleasure" jerking off, and hopefully leave nothing for the clean up guy.

Much better.

Not if you're the clean up guy.........

Oversexed. Another invented obsession.

Porn is totally subjective....for some men its a harmless glance and for others a lifetimes study.

All of us however share that common interest.

20 years ago you would go into the sex shop, buy a $5 xxx magazine, head to your local Macca's, smuggle the magazine into the toilet cubicle, spend 10 minutes "self-pleasure" jerking off, and leave the magazine for the clean-up guy.

No wonder the world's going to hell in a handcart if you discard a porny mag after 10 minutes. Think of the trees! Think of the children! Wrap it in cellophane and leave to your grandchildren in your will. Make sure you've wiped the stains off first though

So that's why blokes go to Macca's. After all, it couldn't be for the food...