It is the middle of the night and you are suddenly overtaken by the urge to indulge in some "self love" and help yourself to some pornographic movies. You satiate yourself. After a while, you are overtaken by the urge again, even if you decide to not masturbate this time. It is a compulsive, all consuming desire to simply watch some porn. A part of your brain doesn't understand why this is happening, but you can't care more because you are already on the search tab.
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Porn Addiction Is A Real Thing, And We Should Know About It
For many people, watching porn may be part of an every day routine. It goes a little something like this: In a fleeting moment of boredom, arousal, or a combination of both, you head to your site of choice, make a few quick clicks to find your preferred content, stare at your screen for a few minutes, and possibly hopefully get off. Then, in all likelihood, you close the tab and go about the rest of your day or night without giving it another thought. So, what happens in your brain when you watch porn? Well, let's just say it can have a pretty powerful impact. The conversation around porn and its physical and mental effects is a complicated one because psychologists, neurobiologists, and sociologists are all involved in the discussion, and given that their research methodologies differ quite a bit, so have their conclusions on the matter.
At the end of my senior year of high school, a group of my male friends announced their pact to give up porn for a solid month. It was just fantasy-land sex, I thought. But recent studies suggest that porn addiction is quickly gaining traction as a real form of sex addiction. Only one member of my group of friends lasted all the way to the end of the month. For the rest of my friends, their relapses may have been attributed to the physiological changes that occur when the human mind is subjected to porn.
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