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Porn Sickness 

A distorted view of the world due to an obsessive interest in pornography. A subset of internet addiction.

Coined by the r/pornfree community on reddit, porn sickness results from a hyper-imbalanced relationship with pornography. Bored by the lack of novelty in vanilla content, porn sick users seek out and become familiar with increasingly perverted porn fetishes online. Often they feel as if that there's little that can surprise them anymore.

This oversaturation leads to gradual detaching from society. What is considered normal, even in non-sexual social interactions, tends to fade from memory as the user spirals around his obsessive interest. These affected users tend to find themselves in a "porn focused state of mind" 24/7, left wondering what happened to the original sexual tastes that set them on their dark journey so long ago.

Porn Sickness usually has 3 main tells:
-Decreased enjoyment of pornography
-Increased escalation of said pornography
-A confusing separation from otherwise healthy relationships
Internet addiction is quickly becoming a talking point in today's society....but people are still discovering the symptoms of porn sickness.

Using online activity as a way to detach from real emotions is common in those with internet addiction, but the symptoms of using porn are especially detrimental and lead to porn sickness.
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Porn Sickness 

A distorted view of the world due to an obsessive interest in pornography. A subset of internet addiction.

Coined by the r/pornfree community on reddit, porn sickness results from a hyper-imbalanced relationship with pornography, not from the use of porn itself. Bored by the lack of novelty in vanilla content, porn sick users seek out and become familiar with increasingly perverted porn fetishes online. Often they feel as if that there's little that can surprise them anymore.

This oversaturation leads to gradual detaching from society. What is considered normal, even in non-sexual social interactions, tends to fade from memory as the user spirals around their obsessive interest. These affected users tend to find themselves in a "porn focused state of mind" 24/7, left wondering what happened to the original sexual tastes that set them on their dark journey so long ago.

Porn Sickness usually has 3 main tells:
-Decreased enjoyment of pornography
-Increased escalation of said pornography
-A confusing separation from otherwise healthy relationships
Internet addiction is quickly becoming a talking point in today's society....but people are still discovering the symptoms of porn sickness.

Using online activity as a way to detach from real emotions is common in those with internet addiction, but the symptoms of using porn are especially detrimental and lead to porn sickness.

bang a you-ee 

of Massachusetts orig. "to make a u-turn"
hey, we missed the bar, bang a you-ee
Word of the Day on July 19, 2026
The word 'flag' as pronounced by people with thick Belfast accents. The term is a perfect encapsulation of the disproportionate and overblown reaction to the removal of the Union Jack (as in 'de fleg') from above City Hall in Belfast. Where previously it had flown for 365 days per year, it is now flown on 17 designated days of the year - in line with many other British cities.

The event caused a portion of the Protestant community ('fleggers') to make international pricks of themselves as they proceeded to wreck the fucking place, claiming it was another erosion of a 'British' identity they perceive to have been under attack since the horrifying spectre of equality reared its head in Northern Ireland.

The word 'fleg' - and indeed 'fleggers' - fittingly describes a section of humanity unconcerned with knowledge, reality or the vagaries of the English language. Like America's tea-baggers they are ruled by instinct, fear and paranoia with a side dish of rampant bigotry and startling ignorance of the world around them.
"Wat de fuck like! The taigs got de fleg took down! Let's wreck de fuckin place! No surrender!"

"De fleg has been took down! Before ye know it there'll be a united Ireland! Attack Short Strand! God Save The Queen!"
Fleg by OnionFleg August 9, 2013
Word of the Day on July 18, 2026
To take something small, that doesn't quite qualify as a theft. Probably from the Danish "skæv" or the Dutch "scheef", both of which are pronounced similarly, meaning "askew, or not quite right'. To change an item's ownership without permission, but only something small and of little worth.
"I skeefed an apple off the neighbor's tree." "I skeefed some chips outta your bag when you looked away." "Don't skeef my chair when I go to the bathroom."
Skeef by kachinaflonk July 16, 2026
Word of the Day on July 17, 2026

Hair spider

A tight, tangled knot of loose hair and lint that forms inside clothing during the clothes dryer cycle. It typically hides inside garments, causing an annoying lump or a phantom tickling sensation against the skin until it is found or falls out onto the floor during folding.
I was folding my clothes and a huge hair spider fell out onto my hand
Hair spider by Kmorsels July 15, 2026
Word of the Day on July 16, 2026
n. A screenshot fabricated by a company to misrepresent the graphics of a game; a combination of the words bullshit and screenshot.

Originated from Penny Arcade, a popular gaming webcomic.
-Have you seen Madden 2006 for the Xbox 360? The graphics are gonna be awesome!
-Dude, the Madden 2006 images they showed at E3 were bullshots. It doesn't look nearly as good as they said.
bullshot by Worker Unit #503,298,545 September 26, 2005
Word of the Day on July 15, 2026