In this video, Dr. Trish Leigh explains your brain on porn. Continue reading to learn how to quit porn for good. Therefore she goes over the following:
1. How the Brain Shrinks and Has Less Activation
Porn may also literally shrink the brain, a 2014 study in the journal JAMA Psychiatry found. Men who regularly consumed porn had smaller brain volume and fewer connections in the striatum, a brain region tied to reward processing, compared with those who didn’t view porn.
2. How the Brain Wired Toward Juvenile State (Arrested Development)
Prefrontal Cortex Erodes controld bad decision making and judgment. It’s also an area of the brain critical for impulse control. The eroding prefrontal corex damages the dopamine reward system. Therefore, researchers evaluate the impact of viewing pornography on the brain.
3. Sexual Dysfunction: Erectile Dysfunction & Delayed Ejaculation
In the long term, pornography seems to create sexual dysfunctions. However, especially the inability to achieve an erection or orgasm with a real-life partner.
4. Marital Quality & Commitment to One’s Partner Decreases
Marital quality and commitment to one’s romantic partner also appear to be compromised. This causes extreme acts, multiple partners, lack of consent for non-pleasurable. Therefore causing actual painful & harmful acts.
5. Sex as Performance,Not Experience
Learning from a screen about how sex is supposed to be isn’t valid. Porn wasn’t made to teach you have to have sex because these scenes aren’t realistic. Although “soft porn” may be a better representation, but still causes you to watch it, not do it.
6. Turn to Tech for Sexual Release (instead of a person)
Instead of turning to a romantic partner for sexual gratification or fulfillment. Habituated porn users instinctively reach for their phones and laptops when the desire comes calling.
7. Increases Shame (Keeps Cycle Going)
Decreases integrity and leads to depression, anxiety, irritability, mental health problems.
8. Habituation in the Brain – Keeps You Coming Back for More & More
Unnaturally strong explosions of reward and pleasure evoke unnaturally strong degrees of habituation in the brain.
Norman Doidge: The Brain That Heals Itself
“Pornography satisfies every one of the prerequisites for neuroplastic change. When pornographers boast that they are pushing the envelope by introducing new, harder themes. Therefore what they don’t say is that they must, because their customers are building up a tolerance to the content.”
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