A husband was suspicious of his wife so he hired a private detective to find out whether she had a lover or not. The detective came back to report after only two days. His arm and nose were broken and his head was tied up in bandages. “What happened?” the husband enquired eagerly. “Any proof yet?”
“Well,” the detective answered, “I hid outside your house when you left in the morning. After half an hour a man came and let himself in with a key. I climbed a tree to see into the bedroom, and there was he holding she and she kissing he. So he play with she and she play with he; I play with me and I fall down from the tree.”
That is what pornography is.
Do you suffer from the following symptoms?
- Irritability
- Moodiness
- Headache
- Migraine
- Lower Back Ache
- Low Levels of Energy
- Low Levels of Motivation
- Poor Memory Recall / Retention
- Procrastination
- Disregard of Consequences
- Low Self-esteem
- Brain Fog
- Erectile Dysfunction
You would be forgiven for thinking that this list of symptoms rather belongs to a tropical disease. The disease we are talking about is in fact porn addiction.
Research has shown that in today’s age almost all teenage and young adult men have been exposed to pornographic material and during different phases of life use pornographic material to assist sexual activity. Females, although to a marginally lesser degree, are also involved in this activity and experience the same devastating symptoms.
The definition of porn has changed. During the 80’s and 90’s porn was limited to the occasional magazine, most of which were very modest by all accounts. Videos were expensive and rare. Since the advent of internet, DVD’s and digital photography porn has literally exploded into our culture. Massive amounts of extremely graphical movies and pictures are available free on the internet and at conveniently located adult shops. Current internet usage research shows that approximately 60% of internet data is solely devoted to porn.
Porn addiction has also changed alongside the humble beginnings of the internet. Where previously people would sporadically expose themselves to images, this has escalated to habitual internet porn usage in combination with masturbation. The intense graphical stimulation provided by internet porn completely overrides the capacity of the human brain to deal with this stimulus. The result is that with every porn linked masturbatory experience a very high level of dopamine (the human brain’s pleasure hormone) is released. Once your brain has experienced this high, it gradually returns to normal functioning.
Except, normal functioning is now no longer normal. Such masturbatory experiences can be repeated often, as much as five to seven times in a day, and this is necessary to feed the brains addiction to its own pleasure hormone. The high frequency of orgasm leads to a dopamine exhausted brain that is ironically starved for more dopamine at the same time. This situation creates terrible conflict within a person, which is compounded by the manifestation of the physical symptoms mentioned above.
Ultimately, intense graphical stimulation is the only way to reach orgasm and this tragic situation leads to erectile dysfunction as a spouse can no longer reach orgasm through the stimulation of his partner alone.
There are a number of important things to remember when dealing with porn addiction:
- Porn is often viewed secretly by one of the partners and when it is inevitably discovered by a spouse this leads to feelings of insecurity, frustration and betrayal.
- Porn usage has a devastating impact on the physical well-being of humans.
- Porn usage is considered normal in society, especially by men. This belief comes from a time when porn availability was limited. It may be time to revisit these beliefs due to the way porn and porn usage has changed.
- A large quantity of hyper stimulating and graphical images are freely available to children and adults.
- Dopamine is a natural hormone produced by the brain. Porn addiction means that through excessive usage of hyper stimulating graphical images in combination with masturbation you will now be training your brain that this is normal and you will be addicted to a naturally produced internal hormone.
