Internet Porn is the New Cocaine (important!)

is this why i as a straight male am onto cross dresser porn ? Also even when i imagine it i get somewhat aroused but i don't like these things in real life . Has my mind really been super damaged ?

 

You can revert back it's called brain plasticity.

 

I imagined that I could write a virus, and send it to the world. A virus that deletes Porn on every Server. A world without porn. That would be great.

 

If porn was, as addictive as cocaine, porn distribution would carry jail time and we as species are doomed to die, because everyone will be addicted and society would not function.
In reality addictive quality of porn is at best about the same as your favorite television show.
We have far more addictive activities like eating or should I say "consuming garbage instead of food", and those have majority of the population actually hooked and are demolishing human health on massive scale.
Unhealthy individuals aside from being unhealthy, do not have normal brain function, or motivation, so they cant learn, cant plan, cant focus and are constantly depressed. Making them prone to exploit addictive behaviors


Number of porn addicts compared to entire population is very very very tiny. People become addicted to porn due health or psychological challenges, like depression, isolation etc.

 

I believe that number is bound to rise since more and more teenagers are getting hooked on to it because of technology.

 

It made me watch child porn...

 

@Ronila

Cocaine vs porn...

 

It's illegal.

 

I think that it is a correlation not causation, it is not that younger generation sees porn and instantly becomes hooked, addicted and cant stop.

Its more of younger generation gets poor physical and mental health that in tern makes them more likely to seek porn and other addictive behaviors.

Remember that people watch porn to feel good, or to feel better. That implies they do not feel good to begin with, and seek pornography, or alcohol or drugs as a way to feel better.

Cause is poor health, which means poor brain function, poor judgement, poor decisions.

Why are we only looking at increase in porn use alone? Why not look at increase in heart disease, cancer, brain disorders, increase in rate depression, obesity? What about increase in alcohol and drug addiction? Public health is poor and sick people do what they can to cope.
Increase in pornography addiction numbers is a symptom, not the cause and correlates clearly with decline of health, and health is not how you feel, poor health is poor ability to think.

 

This is great video, and they clearly say that when you loose normal functioning in prefrontal cortex you do not make good decisions. You can see it as chicken and egg problem - "do you loose healthy brain function and then make bad decisions like abuse porn" or " does porn cause you ro loose normal brain function and then you keep making bad decisions" In case of pornography those two work together, first you loose good brain function due to poor health and that makes addictive behaviors, like porn, drug or alcohol abuse more likely.

The reason pornography is not widely accepted as being addictive is because healthy individuals do not get addicted to porn by just mere exposure. Which means they are able to consistently resist executive function suppression.
Addictive substances like cocaine will chemically suppress executive function and healthy people will still get addicted.

Unhealthy lifestyle which majority of Americans follow compromises normal brain function, making people more likely to becoming addicted.

 

Thanks a lot for the post. I think this is really important to consider. Only since about 3 or 4 years I am actually aware of porn being an addiction. I think there needs to be much more awareness raised, especially for younger kids. Unfortunately, porn is considered to be okay by society at large. Its dangers are never really made clear. What the consequences are we all here very well know. I guess most of us would have wished that someone had told us about the effects a long time ago. Just as they do with drugs, alcohol, smoking, etc.

 

You're...you're on a porn addiction forum. Of course everyone is going to vote that they've been addicted to porn.

 

Yes. This is why I need to quit Porn.

 

To the guy that made the big confession.

Get rid of that addiction at all costs. I don’t care if you have to smash every device you own.

I heard of someone committed suicide rather than live with the stigma of watching that.

Do you want to be thought of in the same vein as Gary Glitter?

 

Maybe the dissenting opinion has some merit. Maybe it is only sad, pathetic losers that have no passion for life or are unable to flirt with women that are prone to this addiction.

All the more reason to quit