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Does porn have its place?

Researcher707 · 2019-08-06T20:12:09+00:00

I know that the general consensus is that it is damaging to your mental health, but does it have a place (like some people say) or is it just pure...

Researcher707

August 6, 2019

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Title	Does porn have its place?
Author	Researcher707
Upvotes	7
Comments	28
Date	August 6, 2019 8:12 PM UTC (7 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/askTRP
Original Link	https://old.reddit.com/r/asktrp/comments/cmvkx3/does_porn_have_its_place/
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[–]fds_1 1 points 7 years ago* [recovered] (2 children) | Copy Link

^ Frame this comment OP. Now lemme tell you some of the science of why porn is so bad. Do you know why you can cum to porn, feel bad and then after 5 minutes you go to watch it and you still get turned on? That's because our brains don't recognize the difference between tits on a screen and tits in real life. The poor bastars things you're about to get laid so of course his natural response is to get ready for it. Porn is a super stumuli, your brain can always be surprised by new things, new positions, new girls, new videos etc. Your dopamine receptors almost overdose on porn so by time they get weaker and weaker making you depressed, anxious and ashamed.

Think of the most basic view of porn. You as a man are watching another man fuck a girl you'd like to fuck. Now if this isn't some beta shit I don't know what is...

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This is just the tip of the iceberg.

The real damage from porn comes from the constant novelty, the seeking and searching of a never ending library of free content that is available instantly almost anywhere. It's a supranormal stimulus that can completely hijack your brain - we have a dedicated circuit in the brain that is solely responsible for regulating sexual behavior.

50 tabs open - clicking constantly between different clips, edging, escalating genres, shock, surprise, anxiety, disgust - these all trigger cause a massive dopamine response and accumulation of a protein ΔFosB in the nucleus accumbens - leading to a whole host of deterimental neurological changes including sensitization to the stimuli (porn), desensitization to everything else.

It's scary shit. People simply aren't aware of the latest literature that has been published over the past ten years.

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Neuroscience of Internet Pornography Addiction: A Review and Update

"Many recognize that several behaviors potentially affecting the reward circuitry in human brains lead to a loss of control and other symptoms of addiction in at least some individuals. Regarding Internet addiction, neuroscientific research supports the assumption that underlying neural processes are similar to substance addiction… Within this review, we give a summary of the concepts proposed underlying addiction and give an overview about neuroscientific studies on Internet addiction and Internet gaming disorder. Moreover, we reviewed available neuroscientific literature on Internet pornography addiction and connect the results to the addiction model. The review leads to the conclusion that Internet pornography addiction fits into the addiction framework and shares similar basic mechanisms with substance add."

Neuroscientific Approaches to (Online) Pornography Addiction

"In the last two decades, several studies with neuroscientific approaches, especially functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), were conducted to explore the neural correlates of watching pornography under experimental conditions and the neural correlates of excessive pornography use. Given previous results, excessive pornography consumption can be connected to already known neurobiological mechanisms underlying the development of substance-related addictions."

"Most of the studies report stronger cue reactivity in the reward circuit toward sexual material in excessive pornography users than in control subjects, which mirrors the findings of substance-related addictions. The results concerning a reduced prefrontal-striatal-connectivity in subjects with pornography addiction can be interpreted as a sign of an impaired cognitive control over the addictive behavior."

Neurobiology of Pornography Addiction – A clinical review

" In an early study using fMRI scans, researchers showed cocaine addicted patient’s preconscious sexually related visual cues (erotic images). They found activation of the same limbic system/reward circuitry in subjects shown sexual cues as when shown drug related cues. Neurobiological reviews on sexual behavior and drug addiction have confirmed that the networks involved in sexual behavior are similar to those involved in processing other rewards including addictions.

Also these:

Pornography addiction: A neuroscience perspective

Brain Structure and Functional Connectivity Associated With Pornography Consumption

There's a lot more I could send you but I think this is enough for now.

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Neuroscience of Internet Pornography Addiction: A Review and Update

"Many recognize that several behaviors potentially affecting the reward circuitry in human brains lead to a loss of control and other symptoms of addiction in at least some individuals. Regarding Internet addiction, neuroscientific research supports the assumption that underlying neural processes are similar to substance addiction… Within this review, we give a summary of the concepts proposed underlying addiction and give an overview about neuroscientific studies on Internet addiction and Internet gaming disorder. Moreover, we reviewed available neuroscientific literature on Internet pornography addiction and connect the results to the addiction model. The review leads to the conclusion that Internet pornography addiction fits into the addiction framework and shares similar basic mechanisms with substance addiction."

Neuroscientific Approaches to (Online) Pornography Addiction

"In the last two decades, several studies with neuroscientific approaches, especially functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), were conducted to explore the neural correlates of watching pornography under experimental conditions and the neural correlates of excessive pornography use. Given previous results, excessive pornography consumption can be connected to already known neurobiological mechanisms underlying the development of substance-related addictions."

"Most of the studies report stronger cue reactivity in the reward circuit toward sexual material in excessive pornography users than in control subjects, which mirrors the findings of substance-related addictions. The results concerning a reduced prefrontal-striatal-connectivity in subjects with pornography addiction can be interpreted as a sign of an impaired cognitive control over the addictive behavior."

Neurobiology of Pornography Addiction – A clinical review

Also these:

Pornography addiction: A neuroscience perspective

Brain Structure and Functional Connectivity Associated With Pornography Consumption