We have to consider if these changes even occur in a well trained magician in the first place. The intensive mental training and discipline definitely rewires the brain to function far differently from the normal human brain and can provide exquisite levels of control over the physical body and mental psychology that spits right in the face of modern ‘science’. So long as self control and discipline is retained such changes can be guided, utilized, or even canceled out all together I would say based on the drastic differences in my own life and others I have seen progress down these paths.
Some of the greatest magicians in history were by our standards very lecherous and debased people at times yet were able to control these responses and work extremely powerful magick. What those studies don’t take into account is that those are average people which have very little self discipline or control over their minds and bodies so of course they are going to have far more vulnerabilities.
And as to the types of porn that existed back then rest assured mind fuckery was a very big thing back then just as it is today. Taking a look at all the love and domination spells from various time periods some of which are quite questionable in how it effects the minds and bodies of others changing them to the whims of the magician. Some of the stuff we have today is pretty fucking tame in comparison. You don’t see as many magicians with harems and sex cults but they certainly do exist and always have. The issue with it being mainstream is two fold as it both celebrates the pleasures of the flesh but also its vices which are often one and the same switching depending on use and by who is viewing or participating.
If someone is truly worried about this then practice of biofeedback and control and a few months discipline to develop it and learning to channel emotional and physical states and stimulus to completely unrelated goals will show how much this is true. Question is do people want to irk out the little extra bits of flexibility and mental perfection. For instance there are techniques to harvest energy from videos and images in fact some magicians such as Uncle Chuckie mention such though he applies it more to mass murder for the source it shows energy can be harvested and transmuted from such things and videos to your own purposes. There is no reason you cannot cycle your own energy and harvest and transmute extra energy to add to yours in the process. It is all about technique and application.
I just notice the further one goes along the further we tend to go from the normal masses in terms of what affects us and what can be utilized. In time all things become a potential tool or opportunity.
Going to leave this unedited because it took me a while to type and i don’t want to edit becuase even more time and catch up then.