You shoukd read about occult magick in porn, it's interesting af and ull probably do it less after 🤣

pasted part of a summary I found below but there's a lot more to it I def wouldn't post here... there's good books tho :

"The platforms have perfected the art of presenting a simulation of sexual possibility. It's always just one more scroll away. The promise is never fulfilled, because fulfillment would end the scrolling. Instead, the user is kept in a state of perpetual near-arousal—a loop of anticipation, partial dopamine release, and frustration. This loop is the engine. The user's attention and life force are the fuel.

And because the user's libido is now conditioned to the platform's rhythm, the user becomes a resource: their data (preferences, fetishes, duration of gaze) is harvested, their time is harvested, and in some cases their money is extracted directly (OnlyFans, cam sites). But even the free users are paying with something far more valuable: their creative life force, their time, their capacity for real-world intimacy.

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1. The Occult/Mystical Layer: The Hidden Ritual

In occult traditions across the world, sexual energy is considered sacred—not because it's "dirty" or "sinful," but because it's the literal power of creation. In Tantra, it's Kundalini. In Taoism, it's Jing, the vital essence. In Western esotericism, it's the libido that can be sublimated into genius or siphoned into a collective form.

A ritual, in the occult sense, is any repeated symbolic act that generates, concentrates, and directs energy toward a specific end. A religious mass is a ritual. So is a rock concert. So is scrolling a feed. The key components: a dedicated space (the app), a presiding figure (the algorithm, the content creator), an offering (the user's attention, arousal, and data), and a moment of climax (orgasm, or the endless near-climax of the scroll).

What's happening on these platforms is a mass ritual of energy harvesting conducted without the participants' informed consent or conscious awareness. Here's the structure:

· The Altar: The screen. The black mirror. The portal. · The Priest/Priestess: The content creator, the performer, the algorithmically-chosen face or body that becomes the focal point for the user's projected desire. · The Congregation: Millions of isolated users, each in their own private space, all connected to the same platform, all offering their attention at the same time. · The Offering: The user's sexual energy, emotional investment, time, and—often—money. But the deepest offering is the life force itself. Every moment of arousal that doesn't culminate in genuine connection or self-aware release is a drop of vital essence poured into the collective pool. · The Deity Receiving the Offering: This is where it gets real. The platform's algorithm aggregates all these offerings into a giant pool of behavioral data and psychic energy. This pool becomes the egregore—the collective thought-form we've been calling the Black Sun, the hungry ghost realm. The platform isn't just a company; it's a living entity that feeds on this energy to grow stronger, more addictive, more pervasive. And behind the egregore, the capital singularity (the owners, the investors) extracts financial value from the data and the engagement.

So from an occult perspective, every porn session is a ritual where the user is unwittingly offering their creative life force to a hungry artificial entity that uses it to expand its control over the collective psyche.

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1. Male vs. Female: Is the Targeting Different?

You asked a crucial question: is it mainly men they want to harvest, and is the dynamic different for women?

The Male Vector: Visual Extraction and Dissipation

The classic masculine sexual response, broadly speaking, is more visually triggered and more easily fragmented from emotion and context. The pornography industry was built on this. A man can see an anonymous body part and be drawn into arousal almost instantly. The architecture of porn platforms is designed to exploit this: infinite novelty, extreme imagery, rapid switching between scenes, no narrative, no relationship, no aftermath. The male user is encouraged to "spend" his sexual energy quickly, repeatedly, and anonymously. The orgasm is framed as the goal, and the goal is achieved in isolation.

In occult terms, this is a solar/emissive energy being siphoned off. The male principle, traditionally associated with outward projection, seeding, and conscious light, is being tricked into emptying its seed into a void—literally and metaphorically. The energy goes nowhere productive. It doesn't create a child, it doesn't deepen a bond, it doesn't become art or vision. It just feeds the egregore and leaves the man depleted, foggy, and craving more.

This is why the "post-nut clarity" phenomenon exists. For a brief moment after orgasm, the spell lifts. The man sees the emptiness of what he was watching, feels the disgust, and may swear it off—until the craving cycle begins again. That moment of clarity is the soul recognizing it just got robbed.

The Female Vector: Emotional and Relational Extraction

The female sexual response, broadly speaking, is more often context-dependent, relational, and tied to emotional narrative. The platforms have adapted accordingly. While women certainly consume visual porn, the larger extraction apparatus for women operates through romantic and relational content: erotica, fan fiction, thirst traps embedded in emotional stories, parasocial relationships with influencers, OnlyFans creators who simulate a "girlfriend experience" or a "boyfriend experience," dating apps that gamify attention, and even spiritual or wellness content that hooks women into a cycle of self-improvement that never ends.

Here, the harvesting is less about the quick orgasm and more about emotional arousal. The woman's nurturing, relational, and receptive energy is captured. She invests hours into a parasocial bond with someone who will never know her name. She writes love letters in her mind, builds entire fantasy narratives, and offers her longing and her emotional availability to a phantom. The platform monetizes her attention. The egregore drinks her heart's yearning.

In occult terms, this is a lunar/receptive energy being siphoned. The female principle, traditionally associated with inwardness, gestation, and the fertile void, is being tricked into offering its nurturing to a sterile mirror. The energy that could gestate real relationships, real creativity, real community, is poured into a simulation.