Brain on Porn (Social #1) - DeYtH Banger (uplifting book club books .txt) 📗

problems that undergird and drive what many experience as sex addiction. Why do we need an additional diagnosis, an additional disease to add to the mix?
It is true that not every person who cheats on a spouse should use the label “sex addict” as an excuse—what is often labeled an addiction is just a person’s selfishness. It is also correct that there are often other underlying issues that drive someone’s unhealthy sexual habits.
Writing off the idea that sex can be addictive, however, simply doesn’t line up with modern addiction medicine. Dr. Robert Weiss comments about Dr. Ley’s theories:
Dr. Ley seems to be of the opinion that since sex does not introduce a foreign substance into the human body, it can’t be an addiction. Yet gambling is commonly recognized as an addiction, one that is listed in the DSM (as pathological gambling), and no foreign substance is introduced there. Gambling addiction, like sex addiction, is all about fantasy, euphoria, and emotional escape.
   Dr. Ley is equally misinformed about the nature of sex addiction. (In fact, he seems to not understand the nature of addiction in general.) He states: “There’s no evidence of a tolerance effect with sex. An orgasm never stops feeling good.” What Dr. Ley fails to understand is that sex addiction is not about orgasm per se, much like gambling addiction is not about winning or losing.
   Like all process or behavioral addictions, sex addiction is a process that utilizes fantasy-based euphoria and ritualistic behavior to escape and/or manage what feel like intolerable emotions, stressors, and psychological conditions. Sex addicts engage in their addictive behaviors as a temporary distraction from loneliness, low self-esteem, anxiety, depression, and other triggers related to past emotional and/or physical trauma.

In order to understand why sex can become an addiction, one first needs to understand why things like drugs are addictive. The very reason drugs are addictive at all is because they “trick” the brain: they activate the brain’s natural neural pathways, which are involved in reinforcement and pleasure. Neuroscientist Dr. William Struthers says that pornography “hijacks” the brain in the same way: it tricks the brain into thinking it is getting sex—and like a drug, the forced high can become a deadly habit.5 In other words, pornography can make us addicted to our own neurochemistry. Pornography triggers powerful neurotransmitters such as epinephrine—also known as adrenaline—dopamine, and others, so that when pornography is used compulsively, it becomes addictive. In 2011, the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) modified its definition of addiction, saying that it is “a primary, chronic disease of brain reward, motivation, memory and related.


circuitry”. This new definition now includes, for the first time, behavioral addictions—not merely substance abuse. This is why the ASAM now considers sex addiction a possibility: though sex is naturally neurologically rewarding, someone addicted to sex is engaged in the “pathological pursuit of rewards”.6
Dopamine is the primary neurotransmitter (brain drug) involved in the reward pathways in the brain. Dopamine is involved in our cravings for food, exercise, and sex. According to Neurosurgeon Dr. Donald L. Hilton:
Dopamine is essential for humans to desire and value appropriate pleasure in life. Without it, we would not be as incentivized to eat, procreate, or even to try to win a game.
   It’s the overuse of the dopamine reward system that causes addiction. When the pathways are used compulsively, a downgrading occurs that actually decreases the amount of dopamine in the pleasure areas available for use, and the dopamine cells themselves start to atrophy, or shrink. The reward cells in the nucleus accumbens are now starved for dopamine and exist in a state of dopamine craving, as a downgrading of dopamine receptors on the pleasure cells


occurs as well. This resetting of the “pleasure thermostat” produces a “new normal.” In this addictive state, the person must act out in addiction to boost the dopamine to levels sufficient just to feel normal.7
What does this mean? It means that just like a drug addiction, porn addiction causes a person over time to use the substance more and more. The porn addict needs to watch more porn or more hard-core porn to get the same high he could get with smaller doses.
Dr. Eric Nestler, head of neuroscience research at Mount Cedar Sinai in New York, agrees. In his 2005 paper for the journal Nature Neuroscience, he said that the dopamine reward system is involved in not only drug addiction but also “natural addiction”—that is, the compulsive consumption of a natural reward, such as the pleasure of eating food or having sex.8
Added to all of this is one of the biggest components of modern porn addiction: the Internet. To date, there have been

well over a hundred studies showing the impact of overuse of the Internet on the brain. Internet overuse has been shown to impair cognitive function, decision-making, information integration, working memory, and impulse control.9
Moreover, sex and porn addicts show all the telltale signs of addiction: tolerance, withdrawal symptoms (such as irritability, violent dreams, mania, insomnia, violent mood swings, paranoia, headaches, anxiety, and depression), desensitization, and repeated failed attempts to quit, despite the negative consequences of their behavior.
Sex and porn addictions are realities, and just as with alcoholism or drug addiction, the label “addict” does not excuse a person for his actions. Addiction is slavery, to be sure, but it is a chosen slavery. Addicts find freedom not by denying the power that porn has over them, not by denying that their addiction is real, but by admitting it to others and asking for help.

 

 

 

 

Chapter 5.1. - You are in

 

 

 

(Note: This is disgusting... nothing sexual... in this... this shit is fucked up.)

 

Let's throw up more Porn material

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(Note: It's normal to see violent behavior... craving inside your body... THERE ISN'T AN EXAMPLE OF PORNOGRAPHIC CONTENT WHICH ISN'T  VIOLENT... EACH IMAGE, VIDEO IS VIOLENT... RECOGNIZE IT OR NOT... JUST LOOK WHAT HAPPENS... IT LOOKS LIKE ALL OF THEM HAPPY AND READY TO TAKE ALL OF THE CUM... BUT THIS ISN'T REALLY THE WHOLE SCENARIO... DEEP THROAT IS - ABUSIVE... (aka choke)... blowjob (disgusting), facials... something like slavery.... (The whole idea of pornographic material is women to don't have rights... THE SHOULD EXECUTE MALE FANTASIES... that's why they are here.)

 

 

- PORN DOESN'T HELP LEARNING ABOUT SEX... IT HELPS IN CRAVING FOR THINGS WHICH ARE WHOLE WHOLE A LOT HIGHER LEVEL THAN WHAT SEX IS ALL ABOUT.

 

 

 

 

 

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Yes... you are fucking in,... you are seeking for pleasure. In the end after hour of pornographic material you end up covered in cum... like your body... or even go so silly in such stupid as doing facials ..


The more you watch... the more non brainer you become

- "You are on drugs" - But you don't recognize it... because it's as good as sexual pleasure.

- People end up feeling guilty... stress needs relief.. relief aka relapse makes you feel guilty.


IT GOES HANDS IN HANDS

 

 

 

 

 

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Chapter 5.2 - Too Much Porn (Part 4)

The scary effects of pornography: how the 21st century's acute addiction is rewiring our brains

 

 

 

 

 

n the late 1980s, it is thought there were just three kinds of people using the internet: civil servants, academics and people looking for pornography. Presumably, they were not mutually exclusive either.

It is students we have to blame, or thank. From the beginning, the ‘internet’ – then a rudimentary platform rooted in bulletin board systems and file transfer protocol – was being harnessed on college campuses across America as much for research purposes as it was for the sharing of explicit, copyrighted images from the porn industry. Where there was demand, supply followed, and it grew.

Over the next few years, sex sites began pioneering every incoming technological development, adopting text and visuals before many other sectors, innovating file sharing, and making huge amounts of money. By 1995, when the US entrepreneur Gary Kremen (that’s Kremen like ‘Werder Bremen’, not Kremen like ‘semen’) registered sex.com, the industry was already a dominant force.

Experiment - Students react to watching porn with friendsh

Today, it is believed the online porn sector is worth around $15 billion, and it reaches more people, and younger people, every year. In 2016 the analytics report of just one website, Pornhub, revealed that its videos were watched 92 billion times last year, by 64 million daily visitors. It works out at 12.5 videos for every person on the planet, and if you tried watch all of them consecutively – don’t – you’d be busy for 524,641 years.

 

 

 

It’s a very thorough report, and fascinating. In the site’s ranking of the most popular search terms, ‘lesbian’ once again conquered all, while ‘step mom’ gained the second spot from ‘MILF’ and ‘teen’ for the first time.

Meanwhile, for another year, porn users in the Philippines spent the most time per visit, clocking up a full 12 minutes and 45 seconds on average. Here in the UK, where ‘british chav’ is the 9th most popular search term and requests for the word ‘giantess’ increased by 354pc over that 12 months, we stick around for just 9 minutes 40. It is a middling effort: better than the French, worse than the Aussies. 

Today marks the start of Sexual Health Week in the UK, with a specific focus on the role of porn in 21st century society.  So, with ease of access all but guaranteed, and appetite apparently unceasing, what effect is pornography having on users’ brains?

 

 

More children are exposed to pornography below the age of 16 than ever before CREDIT: GETTY

 

Undeniably, heavy consumption can have clear consequences, especially for those already inclined toward compulsive sexual behaviour. In 2014, a Cambridge University study found that pornography triggers brain activity in sex addicts in the same way drugs trigger drug addicts.

“Compulsive behaviours, including watching porn to excess, over-eating and gambling, are increasingly common. This study takes us a step further to finding out why we carry on repeating behaviours that we know are potentially damaging to us,” said Dr John Williams, Head of Neuroscience and Mental Health at the Wellcome Trust, which funded the research. “Whether we are tackling sex addiction, substance abuse or eating disorders, knowing how best, and when, to intervene in order to break the cycle is an important goal.”

While it wasn’t enough to declare pornography inherently addictive, the same study did draw a correlation between brain activity and age. The younger the user, the greater the neural response to porn, potentially for the long-term. Last year, it was found that 53pc of