I used to compulsively store erotic images and it would take up space on hds but I made myself stop. I wouldn't look at them again so idk why I saved them. Made me think of a background nudity scanning model that cleans up your computer.
The reason you store them is because one day you will think of this image you enjoyed. You'll feel compelled to look for it. You scour your history, bookmarks, search and anything else for clues. Finally, you find the URL! You click on it and is 404'd.
And this is why people compulsively store things they might want to one day revisit.
For the same reason, I have ISOs of software CDs from the 1990s scattered across my many hard drives, just in case I need to scratch an itch and play with those programs again in some VM or emulator.
It was a great opportunity to train your discipline. Sorting through personal porn archive involves the hardest control and assessment skills you couldn’t find anywhere else.
I think people store porn as a form of “like” that would be otherwise too cumbersome to implement. What you do like is usually scarce and the big archive is a good training set for the future automated image search technology. Think of it as a web anonymity for the times when all your posts will be analyzed and categorized by software, but in the reverse.
Well for me it's a personal problem regarding lack of real world intimacy vs. porn. I'm not saying porn is bad. I am thankful it exists and not censored, it's my outlet. I have tried to not use it/stop but I am not really able to function/focus without that 5 min pit stop a night. The avoidance of saving content for me is trying to not enforce the fixation on a particular woman or shape or whatever... but yeah I'm still a guy so the urge is still there always.
Anyway there is so much out there/so much new stuff being generated, I personally would rather watch new things than see old stuff... granted I understand some scenes may be favorites, that kind of thing... I know I have my own fetishes ha.
That is interesting about the training comment, I have thought about that because I want to make sure the code I run is trustworthy so I would rather train/host it myself... and yeah you need data.
I suspect in the future the searches won’t really matter any more. There will be software that automatically generates ultra real synthetic porn from your favorite fetish based on a deep learning model built on representation of what you have already enjoyed.
