Some questions about dopamine

Semen is power.. many ancient cultures valued semen and ur balls won't explode no matter how long you abstain nothing bad comes from it..

 

Not sure..

 

When we view porn for many time dopamine goes to low level and low level! Our brain want your dopamine and we go to harder porn to give him more! When we stop porn dopamine comes in some days to real normal levels! I hope helps you!

 

The problem is porn and fantasies! We should stop it this!

 

From what I've heard dopamine itself isn't the problem. It's the dopamine receptors. If you watch porn, you rewire these receptors over time, causing them to get over-stimulated with dopamine. Research now suggest that the receptors actually shrink, cause of that is evident, i.e. the dopamine-surge. The receptors are bombarded with this neurochemical and therefore become tired/lazy. In time, if you get that dopamine hit enough times in a row, you can actually shrink the reward center in your brain. Then, if you know what's happening and try to break the addiction, you will feel very miserable, because the now undersized dopamine-receptors aren't getting the dopamine splash they're used to. If you abstain long enough, the receptors in your reward circuitry have no choice but to grow again, in order to rebalance the pathways.

 

There are plenty of metaphors that can help- for example, you could think about it like alcohol.

If you drink every day, by like the 5th day (if your liver hasn't exploded) you'll no longer get drunk on 1 beer, you'll need 3. If you continue this (for this example, you have a liver of steel) then by day 100 you'll need 50 beers to get a buzz. If you drank one beer, you wouldn't feel a thing or get even almost drunk.

After a year of not drinking any beer, you'll be able to get drunk on one beer again.

In this metaphor:

Beer = The level of dopamine you're 'getting' from the activity. If one beer is how much you get from a standard sexual encounter, 50 beers is how much dopamine you'd 'get' with weird porn you never thought you'd watch
Drunk = an erection and a satisfactory sexual response and experience

It is a little different (porn is more like 'shots of vodka' and you don't really 'get' dopamine), but that's a basic metaphor!

During abstinence from porn, you're brain is recalibrating so that it doesn't need as much dopamine to 'fill the cup' in the 'receiver' and is then happy with the amount that normal activities give it.