And it’s not just your personal opinion. It’s the educated viewpoint of Dr. Judith Reisman and other respected researchers.
Many relevant links, here are two:
http://www.drjudithreisman.com/porn_as_erototoxic.html
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Porn as Erototoxic
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The term erototoxin has been introduced by Judith Reisman, PhD, in order to operationalize how the human brain processes erotically stimulating intimate scenes that appear outside, in the public media, a documentably unnatural, dangerous environment for such scenes. The resulting harms to the observer may present as physical impotence and/or as emotional, in the inability to bond. Such psychopharmacological dysfunctions will afflict many or all repeated pornography users. While the visual stimulus’ entry into the limbic system is virtually automatic and autonomic, it still allows for some levels of frontal cortical discernment commonly undeveloped in the adolescent brain. Although the tragedy of pornography use is thoroughly documented anecdotally, science is just beginning to confirm the involuntary anti cognitive nature of media eros.
Neurosurgeons Hilton and Watts explain in Pornography addiction: A neuroscience perspective, that all addictions cause chemical, anatomical and pathological brain changes “collectively labeled hypofrontal syndromes ... damage to the ‘braking system’ of the brain ... well known to clinical neuroscientists, especially neurologists and neurosurgeons.” “Patients with traumatic injuries to this area of the brain” the authors report, “display problems-aggressiveness, poor judgment of future consequences, inability to inhibit inappropriate responses that are similar to those observed in substance abusers.” Dr. Nora Volkow, head of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) stated, “addictions such as pornography ...” Hilton and Watts agree. They urge a medical study of “the pathology of pornography” similar to the study of cholera, when its Public Health implications were “perhaps as primitive as that of pornography today.”
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And here’s another one, a bit less scientific:
http://www.salvomag.com/new/articles/salvo26/the-porn-factor.php
The Porn
Factor
The Path from Playboy to Sex Offender Is Well Traveled
- See more at: http://www.salvomag.com/new/articles/salvo26/the-porn-factor.php#sthash.1x8lTh8W.dpuf
In December 1953, Playboy magazine was launched and immediately began normalizing a new world order of autoerotic sexual fantasy. Hugh Hefner (until reading Kinsey in college, a virgin like most single young men) pledged that his “romantic” magazine would turn his “Playboy men” into skillful lovers, readying them for lifelong marriage. Yet his monthly magazine ridiculed virginity and marriage while glamorizing adultery and rape and showing consumers ways to trick women and children into illicit sex.
By 1969, millions of Playboy users, struggling with their unexpected, porn-induced “diminished arousal response,” began eagerly embracing the amplified stimuli offered by Penthouse. This gave us another generation of intimacy and potency challenged men.
By 1974, millions of Penthouse users, struggling again with a diminished sexual response, turned to Hustler for help. Hello to yet another generation of arousal—challenged pornography addicts, millions of whom became pushovers for internet pornography.
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Excellent information! Thank you. BTW, I think time and faith can help overcome a porn addiction, but like all addicts, porn addicts should always tread very lightly lest they fall back into their addiction. I know Christian alcoholics that have similar issues with alcohol, but the good news is it gets easier for them the longer they abstain from alcohol.