Pearl - August 30, 2026


Pearl vs Dr. Nicole Rakowski: P*rn Has Saved Marriages


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00:00:00.000 I don't disagree with any of that, but it takes two to tango. 0.97
00:00:02.640 And I think we can both agree that some women are not reasonable, not saying all, but there's 0.73
00:00:06.780 a significant portion of women that don't want to sleep with their husbands. 0.72
00:00:10.880 It's, you know, a quarter and it changes throughout their life. 0.97
00:00:13.900 So if a woman says no, we can't legally enforce her. 0.82
00:00:17.120 What is he supposed to do? 0.98
00:00:18.700 Thanks for having me.
00:00:19.540 My name is Pearl Davis.
00:00:20.460 I'm a YouTuber and cultural commentator.
00:00:22.820 My prompt today is that porn has saved more marriages than it has destroyed.
00:00:28.480 Okay.
00:00:28.920 Okay. Tell me why you think that because I 100% disagree.
00:00:32.000 Okay. So the reason I think that is because a quarter of marriages are sexless
00:00:35.600 and there are times when men have no other choice.
00:00:39.500 So the issue you get, women struggle with obesity. 0.89
00:00:42.140 So that can be a problem in this country where the wife gains a ton of weight. 1.00
00:00:45.940 The wife doesn't want to sleep with the husband. 1.00
00:00:48.040 Other times the husband could be deployed
00:00:50.320 and you don't want to be in a situation where he's going to cheat or something.
00:00:53.500 So it's better that he watch porn rather than cheat or divorce.
00:00:57.020 but that treats the symptoms and not the actual relationship right so that can actually create
00:01:02.140 completely unrealistic expectations right so there's something that's actually called
00:01:05.880 porn related sexual dysfunction erectile dysfunction right so when you have a couple
00:01:10.600 that's actually watching porn you're masking what the underlying issues are in the actual 0.84
00:01:15.340 marriage itself right but i don't disagree with that but what is he supposed to do if the wife
00:01:20.460 says no i mean we would agree that the state shouldn't legally enforce women to have sex if
00:01:24.740 they don't want to yeah and i agree with that we would totally agree as yeah as women you have a 0.98
00:01:29.820 right to do whatever you want in terms of the sexual so nature of a relationship if she says
00:01:34.000 no and she says i don't want to work on it what is he supposed to do but then the question is in
00:01:39.120 the first place you know what is the relationship of a marriage what is the relationship in the
00:01:43.220 first place and what are the underlying issues that you need to address before come porn actually
00:01:47.520 comes into play because porn it creates these unrealistic expectations of what sexual what
00:01:53.920 sexuality between two individuals actually is supposed to be okay so what
00:01:57.240 would be your plan a guy comes to you he says my wife will not sleep with me so
00:02:01.000 I would say what are the reasonings for that let's explore that through the
00:02:03.820 psychology of it right so understanding exactly what it is is it due to
00:02:07.980 communication is it due to other underlying issues in the relationship
00:02:11.600 before you actually get to the intimacy part of things because porn is what we
00:02:15.580 are conditioned our brain is conditioned when we're watching porn to actually
00:02:19.240 focus on the digital pixels everything is heightened to an unrealistic
00:02:22.540 expectation right so when you're using bandages when you're using other things and then once you
00:02:26.400 get into the actual relationship yourself everything is downplayable you build up a
00:02:30.780 tolerance i don't disagree with any of that but that's still not a plan for the guy whose wife
00:02:34.700 said no but that's when you get into the counseling part of things of understanding what's the
00:02:39.680 underlying communication right so why are you not talking to your spouse about it versus just saying
00:02:43.780 no okay let's resort to porn okay so he goes to therapy she still says no now what then maybe the
00:02:48.700 marriage is not meant to be okay so you would just say you should divorce not right away without
00:02:52.820 trying kids right but most men know they're going to put their kids at a statistical disadvantage
00:02:57.740 and most men want to be in a two-parent household so for the guys out there that don't want to
00:03:02.540 divorce and their wife doesn't want to sleep with them what is your plan the plan is to continue to
00:03:07.320 work on the relationship right they always say that you go through separation before you actually
00:03:10.720 go through divorce right i don't so so you go through the actual steps of trying to rebuild
00:03:15.080 that relationship understanding what the underlying root cause I don't disagree with any of that but 0.99
00:03:19.360 it takes two to tango and I think we can both agree that some women are not reasonable not
00:03:23.760 saying all but there's a significant portion of women that don't want to sleep with their husbands 0.63
00:03:28.500 it's you know a quarter and it changes throughout their life so if a woman says no we can't legally 0.54
00:03:34.040 enforce her what is he supposed to do so obviously the ideal is we want them hooking up but this is
00:03:40.780 the real world and that's not always the case and there's also situations like i know people that
00:03:45.880 have been in long distance marriages where they're both working in different places or maybe the
00:03:49.900 husband's deployed right and i think it's unrealistic to say that he should just do nothing
00:03:55.180 for six months or nine months yeah so i agree with that when it comes to sexual needs and the
00:03:59.680 physical yeah needs like so you agree that sex is a need for men yes and for women too right for
00:04:05.480 women right but you have different levels right so you don't have every single woman on this planet
00:04:09.120 that needs it to the same extent of men, 1.00
00:04:11.260 and there's also certain men
00:04:12.400 that don't need it to the extent of women, right? 0.99
00:04:14.040 I totally agree. 1.00
00:04:14.600 So every single person is completely different
00:04:16.560 in terms of what their actual needs are,
00:04:18.340 but you have to communicate on both ends
00:04:21.420 what actually works and what doesn't work.
00:04:23.120 Okay, what if he communicates, 0.74
00:04:24.620 I want to have sex, and she says no, now what?
00:04:27.360 So again, you work through the underlying issues 0.96
00:04:30.040 that are there,
00:04:30.520 because I don't think it's very black and white
00:04:31.880 in terms of saying that, 0.86
00:04:33.120 okay, she doesn't want to have sex, 1.00
00:04:34.540 then what, either the marriage is done, 1.00
00:04:35.760 or is porn the only thing that can save a marriage?
00:04:39.120 I did not say it was the only thing, but I'm saying it's used as a tool for situations that are not ideal.
00:04:46.560 Maybe he's not dating, right?
00:04:47.780 Maybe he uses it when he's younger and he doesn't, you know, he's not dating currently.
00:04:51.440 He wants to build himself up before he gets married.
00:04:53.540 Right.
00:04:53.880 Right?
00:04:54.140 That's a situation.
00:04:55.500 But then is that you're creating unrealistic expectations because then you're building up a tolerance to what sex should actually be.
00:05:00.680 Look, it causes problems.
00:05:01.980 I'm not saying it doesn't.
00:05:03.680 What I'm saying, it's a tool, and the issue is now that there are situations where men really don't have other choices, I would say, or limited choices.
00:05:12.160 But then should they be in a marriage in the first place, right?
00:05:15.160 If they're saying that that is the only option, if that's the only tool that can actually help them in a marriage, then should they be married in the first place?
00:05:21.280 And I don't disagree with that, but the issue is you have a lot of men that want to be a part of their kids' lives.
00:05:25.980 and with the court structure the way it is depending on the judge they get you know they
00:05:31.400 know if they divorce they might not see their kids as much and they don't want to roll the dice on
00:05:34.700 that now I'm not here to say one way or the other what they should do in that situation that's up to
00:05:39.840 the individual man but I'm not going to shame a guy for staying in that because he wants to be a
00:05:44.800 part of his kids lives and using that as a tool and I find that conservatives tend to shame men
00:05:50.420 for doing that I'm not saying that's you I don't know your personal beliefs on it but
00:05:54.780 and I'll say it's a tool and it has prolonged and saved more marriages than it's destroyed in my
00:06:02.340 opinion so I would love to see the statistics on that because I don't agree with that but what I
00:06:06.260 will say though is when so let me just finish this thought so I also know a ton of individuals that
00:06:13.240 there's research out there that there's been way more unsuccessful parenting and children actually
00:06:20.720 growing up in households that are not working than it is if the couple actually were to stay
00:06:24.820 together so separating can actually be beneficial for the kids if there's constant arguments at home
00:06:30.460 if there's constant you know dismissal at home so I would argue that it's not necessarily just
00:06:35.140 staying with the actual couple themselves that would then allow the couple to see their kids
00:06:38.980 regularly I don't necessarily disagree but that's going to be the choice of the man and he's going
00:06:43.080 to know the situation better than you um you know i've and same with the woman right like we can't
00:06:48.460 speak on behalf of any right but all i'm arguing is that porn is a tool um that has prolonged more
00:06:53.380 marriages than it's destroyed and it is and when a quarter of marriages are sexless it's pretty
00:06:58.860 widely used i would say um so again i would disagree that it's prolonged a lot more marriage
00:07:04.400 i think sorry i should say that you wouldn't agree that you wouldn't agree that in a situation where
00:07:09.240 guys deployed that could be useful? I think if the couple communicates that together and that's
00:07:14.680 something that they decide on, then that's something that can work. But I think ultimately
00:07:18.100 it destroys a marriage. It destroys their intimacy. It destroys the connection that they have. It
00:07:22.480 destroys the social community and it builds up a huge tolerance. But didn't the woman destroy the 1.00
00:07:26.480 marriage because she started it? She didn't have sex with him? I don't think so. I think it comes 1.00
00:07:31.160 down to communication. So I think it can actually come down to the men destroying it because they
00:07:34.820 have unrealistic expectations of what the woman actually should be wanting. American women are 1.00
00:07:38.140 fat i don't think they have unrealistic expectations so i will agree with you being a professional 1.00
00:07:42.700 bodybuilder that a lot of women are actually overweight yeah right but that comes down to a
00:07:46.940 couple again right having the expectations of actually coming into a marriage and what both 0.55
00:07:50.940 people actually want in it i agree but people can say things before marriage and then change
00:07:55.420 after 100 and i think we've probably you've probably seen a couple where they blow up after 0.92
00:07:59.660 the kids yeah yeah so you know people become you can't the woman becomes fat and we would agree 0.97
00:08:04.860 men shouldn't be able to legally control women right no yeah so women should also not be able
00:08:09.980 to control men fine fine i agree but my point is you can't control another person and porn is used
00:08:14.940 as a tool today yeah so yeah i i've heard that several times and again i agree that porn is a
00:08:20.540 tool but i do not agree that it's saved more marriages right so you don't think in the sexless
00:08:25.900 marriage when he does that instead of cheat it saves the marriage um i would not say it saves
00:08:31.580 the marriage no no i think the ultimate i think the ultimate would be to have the conversation
00:08:38.380 and clearly if that is something that is needed in the relationship then they need to have a
00:08:41.980 conversation maybe they separate and maybe it's not meant to be together then right but for the
00:08:46.140 sake of the kids to actually stay together i don't think that makes okay but me and you are going to
00:08:50.060 disagree right and we're having a conversation yeah so therefore a couple can also have a
00:08:55.260 conversation and still have the same opinion after so a conversation isn't necessarily going
00:08:59.660 going to change anything for a woman that doesn't want to sleep with the man she married it does 1.00
00:09:04.120 sometimes right but but like in those situations uh porn is used as a tool yeah but it also it
00:09:11.460 doesn't also repair any sort of betrayal right like porn does not porn doesn't fix trust issues
00:09:18.840 porn doesn't yeah the goal is better connection at the end of the day right so if you have two
00:09:23.180 people that disagree regardless of what it is if we're going to work if we're going to school or
00:09:27.000 whatever it is it's communication is the underlying factor of it okay so if porn comes into play and
00:09:33.120 one person disagrees with it the other person wants it then again it's a mismatch of communication
00:09:37.460 that needs to be explored far before you know porn comes in as the ultimate fixer of the tool right
00:09:43.580 but I think at times you can communicate with a person but it takes two to tango and there are
00:09:49.160 marriages where one person doesn't want to fix the problem so what do you do then you can't control
00:09:54.940 another person if they don't want to be divorced which a lot of people don't what then maybe they
00:09:59.480 believe it's from god right maybe they believe in a more traditional marriage and they don't
00:10:03.540 want to get divorced right so in that situation he's stuck and nobody and nobody really no one
00:10:09.740 really has a plan for them it's just don't watch porn well what is he supposed to do if she doesn't
00:10:13.480 want to sleep with them well you're stuck to the extent of what you're actually willing to work on
00:10:16.720 right so again what else can be brought in as opposed to just porn is that better no but those 0.71
00:10:22.080 are the only two options that you brought forward either porn or cheat okay what's your third option
00:10:25.580 you go to a counselor you talk about it and it doesn't get resolved so then what but it's the
00:10:30.220 same thing as with work or with any other relationship let me put it this way we're in
00:10:34.340 the real world right so we know that not all problems are going to get resolved you'd agree
00:10:38.140 right for sure okay so you know that men are you know they're going to go to counseling and women
00:10:43.300 and there's going to be times where the woman still doesn't want to sleep with the husband
00:10:46.860 even after and that happens all the time it happens all the time okay so in those situations
00:10:50.740 what do you want him to do if he doesn't want to get divorced but then that's up to the couple
00:10:55.540 to actually say what they want to do right but so so okay in one sense if we're talking
00:11:00.760 theoretically sure it can actually prolong a marriage yeah but is the marriage actually
00:11:05.780 better has it saved more marriages no if you want to put it on paper that actually i was thinking i
00:11:11.100 would agree prolonged would have been a better term actually i was thinking when i said it i
00:11:15.120 would agree with but not saved a marriage let me just jump in here let me give you all about two
00:11:20.220 more minutes then we'll go to closings go ahead sorry go ahead well i would just say prevent a
00:11:23.500 divorce at the very least that i would agree with yeah it could prevent a divorce but to actually
00:11:27.620 say that it has saved a marriage i would 100 disagree with i would say it extended the marriage
00:11:32.120 yeah um and you know most like conservatives want you to be together for life so exactly what else
00:11:39.120 is he supposed to do so i would agree with that in terms of the prolongation of it but has it
00:11:43.140 actually saved it no i think it can actually do a lot more damage even when kids are in the
00:11:47.800 household right because it's taking away the emotional intimacy that you actually have with 0.99
00:11:52.100 the other person right but she did that first if she's withholding sex she did that first it wasn't
00:11:57.420 his choice but it depends what led to that what led to her holding it off was an issue with the
00:12:03.040 man or was it issue with herself right so don't you think that in a relationship you're both doing
00:12:07.880 stuff like it's not just he did things like normally you both you both are flawed people
00:12:12.740 everyone's flawed right nobody is perfect i totally agree we're both people so again it's
00:12:19.660 not really an excuse to withhold sex like you started it by withholding sex so let me ask you
00:12:26.140 this so if there was two people having sex and the man constantly abused the women during sex
00:12:31.400 and now she doesn't want to have it anymore then what so she with she withheld herself from sex 1.00
00:12:36.980 because she was abused every single time she watched sex then what some women are asking for 1.00
00:12:41.280 abuse these days in the bedroom but what if the woman is actually withholding from sex because 1.00
00:12:46.100 every single time but every single time she had sex with her husband she was abused because that's
00:12:52.220 what he saw obviously obviously i'm not pushing i said that women should not be able to or should
00:12:59.080 not have to be forced so yeah i'm not saying again she's withholding right so to your point to say
00:13:03.460 that do you think that's the majority of sexless marriages honestly i really think i think it's
00:13:08.680 now um dr carlo fresto was actually talking about aggressive marriages from watching porn in the
00:13:14.520 digital means and he's actually saying that the rates have gone up significantly higher from the
00:13:18.820 that's because women's porn um has increased women watch more violent porn than men so if
00:13:23.860 anything it's the other way around i think it's increased i mean the amount of men that actually
00:13:27.920 watch aggressive porn is significantly higher so men has the women watching it has increased but
00:13:32.580 men watching i'm just saying women have led that trend and it's pretty evident with 50 shades of
00:13:36.900 right yeah yeah but again that's like the point still remains the same right so what if the woman
00:13:41.060 wants to withhold because she doesn't want to be abused right so it's still the same thing 0.92
00:13:43.880 ladies ladies you can say no if you're getting abused i'll give you that yeah um however what 1.00
00:13:50.540 i would say is still back to the point that porn has prolonged more marriages and the majority of
00:13:55.180 sexless marriages i would say are not abused let's let's go to you for a closing statement
00:13:59.600 go ahead i would agree that porn has prolonged more marriages has it saved them i would say
00:14:06.740 Absolutely not.
00:14:07.620 You know what?
00:14:07.860 I would actually agree because that probably would have been a more accurate term.
00:14:12.600 Oh, wow.
00:14:13.300 Finding consensus.
00:14:14.180 That's good.
00:14:14.600 I love it.
00:14:14.960 Yeah.