The Pornographic Mind

Internet PORN damaging Teenagers Brain

• When people view X-rated images it causes a rise in the chemical dopamine.
• Repeated dopamine outpouring means the brain comes desensitize to it.
• More is needed for the same “Hit” –meaning men are unexcited by ordinary sex.
• Regularly watching pornography also causes the brain to shrink, experts found.

Dopamine
Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that helps control the brains reward and pleasure centers. It helps regulate movement and emotional responses, and it enable us only to see rewards, but to take action to move toward them. Dopamine deficiency results Parkinson ’s disease, and people with low dopamine activity may be prone to addiction. The presence of a certain kind of dopamine receptor is also associated with sensation-seeking people, more commonly known as “risk takers”

Teenagers as young 13 regularly watch it, and for millions of adults is their guilty pleasure.

Pornography offers men and women alike to explore their sexual fantasies.

But while X-rated images and films can help to boost your “Libido” and many report it improves relationships, there is another side affecting your health.

From releasing mood –boosting hormones to triggering addictive tendencies, porn have a sinister effect on our brains.

Daily Medical Reports: A slew of studies show excessive watching of pornography may actually re-wire the brain.

THE MORE YOU WATCH -- -- MORE YOU NEED
Both having sex and watching porn causes dopamine, the neurotransmitter responsible for reward and pleasure, to be released.

But repeatedly causing this surge in dopamine-by regularly watching pornography-means the brain become numb to its effects
A study published in JAMA Psychiatry in 2014 found regularly viewing pornography seemed to dull the response to sexual stimulation over time.

This means the brain needs more dopamine in order to feel the same “High” which causes a person to watch more porn, German researchers found.

And a 2011 study, published in Psychology Today, found that these dopamine spikes mean porn users start needing increasingly extreme experiences to become sexually aroused.

After being exposed to so many lurid images in films, men have become de-sensitized and are increasingly unable to become excited by ordinary sexual encounters.

Conclusion: Pornography is creating a generation of young men who are hopeless in the bedroom.

PORN SHRINKS YOUR BRAIN
Men who watch pornography may be shrinking their brains, the German researchers described and discovered.

The striatum area of the brain, linked with the motivation and reward response, shrank in size the more porn a person views.
The study marked the first time re searchers found a possible link between regularly viewing pornography and physical harm.

However, they noted that is possible that people who spend more time looking at pornography are born with a certain type of brain.
Watching adult Films Alters Brain Activity Similar To Drug Addicts, Alcoholics.

When porn addicts watch X-rated material, the addiction part of the brain light up on scans, Cambridge University researchers discovered in 2013.

The brains of young men who are obsessed by online pornography “lit up Like Christmas trees” upon being shown erotic images, a pioneering study has found.

The area stimulated – the part of the brain involved in processing reward,motivation and pleasure-is the same part that is highly active among drug and alcohol addicts.

A year later, another study by the same University found sex addicts who watched porn from an early age had three regions of the brain that were more active than their counterparts who were not addicted sex.

The ventral striatum, dorsal anterior cingulated and amygdale-were active in the sex addicts – and experts said these are the regions that are also particularly activated in drug addicts when shown drug stimuli.

The ventral striatum is involved in processing reward and motivation, whilst the dorsal anterior cingulated is implicated in anticipating rewards and drug craving.

The amygdala is involved in processing the significance of events and emotions.