Can porn damage dopamine receptors ?

I have noticed quite a few posts from people worried about having done permanent damage to their dopamine systems with porn, and concerned they may have damaged them, so here is my take.

When you do porn, you raise your Dopamine to about 1100 ng of dopamine, the same as cocaine does.
The usual maximum dose of dopamine for everyday pleasures varies from 40ng to 100ng for most pleasurable activities.
So you can see the un-natural high that porn produces in dopamine, just the same as a cocaine addict receives.

The flood of dopamine eventually causes the loss of dopamine receptors in the bodies attempt to rebalance itself (homeostasis), since the brain says, well if I have so much dopamine I don't need all those receptors and will prune a few to rebalance.

This drop in the number of dopamine receptors means that everyday pleasures in the 40 to 100ng range just don't excite you anymore and life feels bland and boring.

The huge increase in dopamine also causes other brain pathways to be created linking porn with memory and automatic functions, similar to driving a car after a long period, where it becomes automatic.

When you give up porn the reduction in dopamine receptors will eventually be corrected, but that is assuming you don't refresh the porn induced pathways. So know that just as a drug addict or alcoholic will always have to be aware of their vulnerability, as porn addicts we are the same.

My advice, and I am not a doctor or therapist, so it is only a personal opinion, is to NEVER look at porn again, full stop.

Not once a month, not once a year, otherwise you will refresh those old porn pathways and although you are not back to square one but it will take you about 1 week to recover back to feeling good again. That is my experience, so I just never watch porn, otherwise I may as well go back to being an addict.

If you are not sure you never want to watch porn and PMO again it will make quitting that much harder.

So stay positive, you will recover, but it could take up to 2 years,

So remember, simply NO PORN of any type, not even playing it in your mind.

All the best, cheers for now.