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Overindulgence: How Watching Porn Is Actively Ruining Your Life by tstx(m): 8:58am On Mar 07, 2018 |
Pornography has long been a staple of young men’s lives, and it has evolved over time. It has gone from hidden issues of erotic magazines under beds to an easily accessible, multifaceted industry on the Internet. Right now in our world, porn is easier to access than ever before. Our generation also has access to unlimited photos and entertainment through social media. But what people don’t know is, overindulging in porn has proven to affect the human brain. Continues reading and you will find out how. Overindulgence: How Watching Porn Is Actively Ruining Your Life 1. It Rewires Your Brain. According to a study by Cambridge University, researchers have found “compulsive porn users react to porn cues in the same way that drug addicts react to drug cues.” How it works is the brain has something called the reward circuit, which developed during simpler hunter-gatherer times to produce dopamine for naturally rewarding things like food, sex and connection. However, there are extreme versions of these rewards, like high-calorie foods or a bombardment of boobs, that provide too much dopamine and can override our natural satiation mechanisms. The reaction that triggers in your brain from porn is extremely similar to the reaction from drug abuse. What happens is, your brain has a molecular switch that creates an excessive repetitive cycle, promoting a craving to continue receiving that reward. This extreme binge cycle of dopamine received through porn produces the same side effects drug addicts have: a numbed pleasure response, hyper-reactivity and the erosion of will power, as your frontal cortex changes. 2. You Build a Tolerance Like anything that produces pleasure, porn can be addictive. And like anything addictive, you can build up a tolerance for it. Heavy porn consumption is an arousal addiction, in which you need more or different ways to keep receiving the same high from a dopamine release. In his TED talk, physiology teacher, Gary Wilson, explains that once you’ve seen the same porn over and over again, your brain wants something different, merely for novelty, shock or surprise. That’s when you see yourself downloading more porn. It starts out with a man and a woman, and next thing you know, you see yourself downloading extreme porn. It is known as the Coolidge effect, and dopamine levels surge for each novel image the viewer sees. Every new babe on the screen provides a new blast of dopamine. This is how high-speed Internet porn varies from porn of the past: You can receive a new dopamine blast with a mouse click, constantly providing yourself with more and more pleasure. And just like with all addictions, you may be in over your head before you know it. Porn allows you to explore all of your curiosities, including ones you never imagined being interested in. The problem with porn addiction is there is no one to see the damage, no one to say whether what you are doing is right or wrong. This is because people don’t really know what you’re going through unless they snoop your browser history. One wipe of your search history covers your tracks, and your dirty little secret is safe. 3. It Dilutes Your Real Sex Life In his TED talk, Wilson describes the differences between real sex and porn. Masturbation and porn focuses on isolation, “voyeurism, clicking, searching, multiple tabs fast-forwarding” and “constant novelty.” while real sex focuses on “courtship, touching, being touched, smells, pheromones, emotional connection and interaction with a real person.” Over time, your brain adapts to porn because, it becomes exposed to it much more often than real sex. Excessive abuse can not only change your brain, but it can change your male organ (Pen1s). That same Cambridge University study found “over 50 percent of subjects (average age: 25) had difficulty achieving erections with real partners, yet could achieve erections with porn.” Erectile dysfunction is no longer your grandfather’s problem; it’s yours. http://listwand.com/2018/03/overindulgence-how-watching-porn-is-actively-ruining-your-sex-life/ |
Re: Overindulgence: How Watching Porn Is Actively Ruining Your Life by Ejize(m): 9:26am On Mar 07, 2018 |
Pornography, masturbation, pre-marital sex, adultery all have significant effects on the bearing of one's life. You can't find these lascivious practices among great men and women. Even in the secular world. If you think I'm lying ask the likes of Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Henry Ford 2 Likes |
Re: Overindulgence: How Watching Porn Is Actively Ruining Your Life by tstx(m): 9:42am On Mar 07, 2018 |
Ejize:Even if those guys engage in it do you think they will divulge it to the public ![]() ![]() 4 Likes |
Re: Overindulgence: How Watching Porn Is Actively Ruining Your Life by ubunja(m): 10:30am On Mar 07, 2018 |
hands off our porn!!! if you hate porn good for you. go join women and their porn of Romance novels. just dont trouble us and our Latinas 2 Likes |
Re: Overindulgence: How Watching Porn Is Actively Ruining Your Life by lenghtinny(m): 11:03am On Mar 07, 2018 |
Ejize:Do you know these men personally ![]() Not trying to encourage porn but you can't defend that sentence in the court of law... 2 Likes |
Re: Overindulgence: How Watching Porn Is Actively Ruining Your Life by abfemi163: 11:17am On Mar 07, 2018 |
Pornography, masturbation, pre-marital sex, adultery all have significant effects on the bearing of one's life. You can't find these lascivious practices among great men and women. Even in the secular world. If you think I'm lying ask the likes of Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Henry Ford That's good motivation for any dat wants to be great,dats deep oooo,let it sink |
Re: Overindulgence: How Watching Porn Is Actively Ruining Your Life by tstx(m): 1:30pm On Mar 07, 2018 |
ubunja:u must really love Latina porn... take am softly oo. pls. Too much porn is unhealthy |
Re: Overindulgence: How Watching Porn Is Actively Ruining Your Life by ubunja(m): 1:50pm On Mar 07, 2018 |
tstx:latinas bewitched me bro 1 Like |
Re: Overindulgence: How Watching Porn Is Actively Ruining Your Life by tstx(m): 1:15pm On Mar 08, 2018 |
ubunja:You are not alone bro.... they've bewitched many NL's too 1 Like |
Re: Overindulgence: How Watching Porn Is Actively Ruining Your Life by Mandrake007(m): 2:49pm On Mar 08, 2018 |
but if the brain releases excessive dopamine as a reaction to things we derive pleasure from and if pleasure is indeed a good thing which I believe it is,how can an addiction to it make it a bad thing?,does that make pleasure a bad thing? remember there are other things we love to do on a regular basis which I believe makes our brains produce dopamine likely the same amount as porn consumers,doesn't that make all of us pretty fúcked up regardless of porn addiction or not? 2 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Overindulgence: How Watching Porn Is Actively Ruining Your Life by tstx(m): 4:17pm On Mar 09, 2018 |
Mandrake007:it is obvious you are not a porn addict.. |
Re: Overindulgence: How Watching Porn Is Actively Ruining Your Life by Supremor(m): 7:34pm On Mar 09, 2018 |
Evidences in support of the damaging effect of porn are so glaring and cannot be overemphasised. The only reason we are oblivious to these effects is the fact that the implications are accrued- notably affecting the brain, thereby leading to mental and psychological instability, the level of damage varying in individuals depending on the level and period of addiction or exposure. |
Re: Overindulgence: How Watching Porn Is Actively Ruining Your Life by Nobody: 8:05pm On Mar 09, 2018 |
cigarettes have way too drastic harmful effects than porn but you don't see them creatng endless topics on it oo....if it's pornand masturbation now you see different versions of sermons every hour. na wa o.....is it your porn ![]() you guys should let us be abeg...the benefits derived from engaging in those activities far outweighs the risk. 1 Like |
Re: Overindulgence: How Watching Porn Is Actively Ruining Your Life by tstx(m): 12:12pm On Mar 17, 2018 |
oneblackguy:claps |
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