According to a study by some German researchers, watching
pornography could have a damaging effect on the brain.
The study, published on medicaldaily says, frequent porn watching
could re-wire the brain and alter its structure and functions.
It stressed that it could shrink part of the brain and reduce the
ability of watchers to be sexually stimulated.
According to the study having sex and watching pornography
cause dopamine, the neurotransmitter responsible for learning,
reward, emotions and pleasure, to be released in the brain.
The researchers noted that the more porn a person watches, the
more the dopamine that is released, which makes the brain to be
desensitised to its effects, which could reduce their decision-
making capabilities.
Young people who watch porn frequently were also found to have
reduced likelihood or tendencies to venture into risk-taking
ventures.
The leader of the researchers, Simone Kühn, noted that men who
view too much porn may become lazier than others and that their
research provided strong evidence that pornography might harm
the brain in some ways and change its size.
According to Kuhn, their findings showed that those who watch
pornography have smaller corpus striatum, a part of the basal
ganglia of the brain, comprising the caudate and lentiform nuclei,
and that the more pornography people watched, the lower the
activity in the reward centres in their brains.
The researchers further warned that people who are used to
watching porn tend to first think of porn instead of the actual
sexual experience anytime they have sexual desires, once their
brain associates the feelings given by oxytocin, vasopressin and
serotonin (often released during porn or sex) to pornography. The
researchers had yet to ascertain the level of impact watching porn
has on the brain.
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