{"id":1003276,"date":"2021-11-12T12:59:21","date_gmt":"2021-11-12T17:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1003276"},"modified":"2021-11-12T12:59:26","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T17:59:26","slug":"10-reasons-you-should-quit-watching-porn-for-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/10-reasons-you-should-quit-watching-porn-for-good\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Reasons You Should Quit Watching Porn For Good"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2F10-reasons-you-should-quit-watching-porn-for-good%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1003276&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Statistics prove what most Americans don\u2019t want to admit: The vast majority of Americans watch porn on a regular basis. Pornography has become so synonymous with the internet that an estimated&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/us\/blog\/all-about-sex\/201611\/dueling-statistics-how-much-the-internet-is-porn\">30%<\/a>&nbsp;of all online traffic is related to pornography. Although it is widely viewed as harmless fun, and not everyone will experience any one of these symptoms, watching pornography is associated with a range of mental, emotional, sexual, and physical harms, from lack of concentration to impotence.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few of the harms scientifically proven to be associated with porn use:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. <\/strong><strong>Loss of sexual pleasure<\/strong>: Multiple studies have shown that people began to lose sexual pleasure in their current relationship if they watched porn a few times a year, provided they were male, in a relationship, or religious. For everyone else, sexual enjoyment plunged after they began watching porn once a month, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1080\/0092623X.2017.1377131?journalCode=usmt20\">and<\/a> \u201cadditional increases in the frequency of viewing lead to disproportionately larger decrements in satisfaction,\u201d one study notes. \u201cNotably, under no circumstances was pornography use associated with greater sexual satisfaction,\u201d wrote Grant H. Brenner, summarizing its findings for Psychology Today.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. Erectile dysfunction<\/strong>: Ironically, while people seek out pornography because they find it sexually arousing, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC5039517\/\">studies <\/a>have found that greater exposure to pornography can create <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC5039517\/\">psychogenic erectile dysfunction<\/a> (ED). That is, watching too much porn can make it more difficult for a man to get an erection with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esquiresg.com\/features\/why-porn-addiction-can-ruin-your-sex-life-for-good-feature-online-search-medical-symptom-psychology-couple-relationship-explicit-pleasure\/\">real human being<\/a>. \u201cDepending on the research, anywhere from 17% to 58% of men who self-identify as heavy\/compulsive\/addicted users of porn struggle with some form of sexual dysfunction. \u201cEssentially, research tells us that the more porn one uses, the more likely sexual dysfunction is,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/us\/blog\/love-and-sex-in-the-digital-age\/202104\/porn-induced-erectile-dysfunction\">explained<\/a> Robert Weiss.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. <\/strong><strong>Memory problems and inability to think<\/strong>:Watching pornography can make it <a href=\"https:\/\/therightswriter.com\/2015\/01\/mtv-ran-this-anti-porn-piece-really\/\">difficult for people to concentrate<\/a>, much less produce independent thinking. \u201cPorn use has been correlated with&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/surgicalneurologyint.com\/surgicalint-articles\/pornography-addiction-a-neuroscience-perspective\/\">erosion of the prefrontal cortex<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 the region of the brain that houses executive functions like morality, willpower and impulse control,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/watching-pornography-rewires-the-brain-to-a-more-juvenile-state-127306\">wrote<\/a> Rachel Anne Barr, then a PhD student at Canada\u2019s Universit\u00e9 Laval.<\/p>\n<p>Another study found that men <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/qkkvpb\/watching-internet-porn-ruins-your-memory\">gave the wrong answer to simple yes-or-no questions 72% of the time<\/a> after seeing a pornographic image \u2014 but the lack of cognitive function goes beyond rudimentary tests. Porn viewers \u201creport problems\u201d that are \u201cassociated with negative life consequences,\u201d so the researchers tested whether watching porn resulted \u201cin a neglect of relevant environmental information and therefore disadvantageous decision making.\u201d The 2013 study, which<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Statistics prove what most Americans don\u2019t want to admit: The vast majority of Americans watch porn on a regular basis. Pornography has become so synonymous with the internet that an estimated\u00a030%\u00a0of all online traffic is related to pornography. Although it is widely viewed as harmless fun, and not everyone will experience any one of these symptoms, watching pornography is associated with a range of mental, emotional, sexual, and physical harms, from lack of concentration to impotence.Here are a few of the harms scientifically proven to be associated with porn use:1. Loss of sexual pleasure: Multiple studies have shown that people began to lose sexual pleasure in their current relationship if they watched porn a few times a year, provided they were male, in a relationship, or religious. For everyone else, sexual enjoyment plunged after they began watching porn once a month, and \u201cadditional increases in the frequency of viewing lead to disproportionately larger decrements in satisfaction,\u201d one study notes. \u201cNotably, under no circumstances was pornography use associated with greater sexual satisfaction,\u201d wrote Grant H. Brenner, summarizing its findings for Psychology Today.2. Erectile dysfunction: Ironically, while people seek out pornography because they find it sexually arousing, studies have found that greater exposure to pornography can create psychogenic erectile dysfunction (ED). That is, watching too much porn can make it more difficult for a man to get an erection with a real human being. \u201cDepending on the research, anywhere from 17% to 58% of men who self-identify as heavy\/compulsive\/addicted users of porn struggle with some form of sexual dysfunction. \u201cEssentially, research tells us that the more porn one uses, the more likely sexual dysfunction is,\u201d explained Robert Weiss.3. Memory problems and inability to think:Watching pornography can make it difficult for people to concentrate, much less produce independent thinking. \u201cPorn use has been correlated with\u00a0erosion of the prefrontal cortex\u00a0\u2014 the region of the brain that houses executive functions like morality, willpower and impulse control,\u201d wrote Rachel Anne Barr, then a PhD student at Canada\u2019s Universit\u00e9 Laval.Another study found that men gave the wrong answer to simple yes-or-no questions 72% of the time after seeing a pornographic image \u2014 but the lack of cognitive function goes beyond rudimentary tests. Porn viewers \u201creport problems\u201d that are \u201cassociated with negative life consequences,\u201d so the researchers tested whether watching porn resulted \u201cin a neglect of relevant environmental information and therefore disadvantageous decision making.\u201d The 2013 study, which was published in the Journal of Sex Research, concluded that \u201csexual arousal due to pornographic picture processing interfere with [working memory] performance.\u201d\u201cSexual arousal interferes with working memory, an important facet of\u00a0executive functioning,\u201d said Christian Laier, who authored the study.4. Increased divorce rates: Pornography has never helped anyone\u2019s marriage, but statistical data now prove watching pornography increases the probability of divorce. Sociologists Samuel Norman and Cyrus Schliefer of the University of Oklahoma wrote:We found that the probability of divorce roughly doubled for married Americans who began pornography use between survey waves \u2026 and that this relationship held for both women and men. Conversely, discontinuing pornography use between survey waves was associated with a lower probability of divorce, but only for women. Additional analyses also showed that the association between beginning pornography use and the probability of divorce was particularly strong among younger Americans, those who were less religious, and those who reported greater initial marital happiness.\u00a05. More depression and loneliness: Psychologists have found a strong correlation between depression and viewing pornography. One study found the more frequently people used porn, the more depressed they felt. \u201cIndividuals who view pornography daily scored in the severe depression range,\u201d wrote therapist Kevin Skinner, who analyzed 450 people\u2019s porn use and their levels of depression.But another study seems to indicate that the influence goes in both directions. A 2017 study compared porn use with 1,247 participants\u2019 scores on the University of California\u2013Los Angeles Loneliness Scale (UCLALS) and found a two-way influence. \u201c[F]or each \u2018unit\u2019 of porn use, loneliness increased significantly by a factor of 0.20. For each unit of loneliness, porn used increased by a factor of 0.16,\u201d one person summarized. The study sees porn as a maladaptive response to feelings of isolation, which actually deepens the problem. \u201cPornography provides temporary relief, but ultimately induces greater feelings of loneliness and isolation, disrupting normal attachment behavior, leading to greater difficulty forming stable, satisfying relationships, and further increasing the likelihood of using pornography as a substitute for intimacy with close others.\u201d6. Porn use mimics drug addiction, especially in sex addicts: Although some doctors dispute this, many doctors say that porn functions in the brain the same way that drugs or alcohol do in the brains of addicts.\u00a0Dr. Valerie Voon, a neuropsychiatrist at the University of Cambridge, found that sex addicts\u2019 brains resembled those of alcohol or drug addicts, with a shriveled prefrontal cortex (which deals with moral and executive decision-making) and an enlarged ventral striatum, dorsal anterior cingulate, and amygdala.Watching pornography floods the brain\u2019s reward circuitry with dopamine, much like an addict taking another shot. This, in time, numbs the brain to normal pleasure and demands harder and harder pornography to achieve the same high. \u201cPorn scenes, like addictive substances, are hyper-stimulating triggers that lead to\u00a0unnaturally high levels of dopamine secretion. This can damage the dopamine reward system and leave it unresponsive to natural sources of pleasure,\u201d wrote Barr. Like with other addictions, tolerance requires greater novelty to trigger pleasure. \u201cPornography satisfies every one of the prerequisites for neuroplastic change,\u201d said psychiatrist Norman Doidge. \u201cWhen pornographers boast that they are pushing the envelope by introducing new, harder themes, what they don\u2019t say is that they must, because their customers are building up a tolerance to the content.\u201d7. Contribution to rape, sexual assault, and physical assault: Porn use normalized certain kinds of sexual behavior, and young people in Grade 10 (approximately 15-16 years of age) who watched violent pornography were more likely to inflict forms of teen dating violence (TDV). A study published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior in 2019 found:Violent pornography exposure was associated with all types of TDV, though patterns differed by gender. Boys exposed to violent pornography were 2\u20133 times more likely to report sexual TDV perpetration and victimization and physical TDV victimization, while girls exposed to violent pornography were over 1.5 times more likely to \u2026 perpetrate threatening TDV compared to their non-exposed counterparts.8. Porn viewers are more likely to \u201ccoerce\u201d unwilling girls into anal sex: Porn use also made young viewers, particularly young men, expect anal sex from their girlfriends, and they believed it was OK to \u201ccoerce\u201d them into the act against their will. Boys aged 16-18 \u201cfrequently cited pornography as the \u2018explanation\u2019 for anal sex\u201d and had internalized the belief that \u201cmen were expected to persuade or coerce reluctant partners\u201d into giving them anal sex, according to one study. \u201cYoung people\u2019s narratives normalised coercive, painful and unsafe anal heterosex,\u201d wrote authors Cicely Alice Marston and Ruth Lewis.9. Contribution to teenage sex, promiscuity, and other risky sexual behaviors: \u00a0A 2017 study from the University of Buckingham found that porn consumption increases people\u2019s likelihood of engaging in risky sexual activities that threaten their health. \u201cOur study examined how exposure to sexually explicit material, defined as any media depicting uncensored sexual behaviour, can influence the adoption of sexually risky behavior,\u201d meaning anything that \u201cputs people at high risk of contracting a sexually transmitted infection.\u201d The study concluded that the younger a person is exposed to pornography, and the longer girls are exposed to pornography, the larger number of sexual partners that person will have in life.10. And even non-pornographic, sexually explicit material harms children: At the risk of muddying the waters, the impact of sexually explicit media on young people holds true even when the media is not fully pornographic, according to a 2012 study published in\u00a0Psychological Science, a journal of the\u00a0Association for Psychological Science. \u201cAdolescents who are exposed to more sexual content in movies start having sex at younger ages, have more sexual partners, and are less likely to use condoms with casual sexual partners,\u201d\u00a0said Ross O\u2019Hara, who was then a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Missouri. If softcore porn or mainstream movies with sexual content can provoke that reaction, imaging multiplying it by the power of hardcore pornography on a regular basis.America would be better off without porn use; our minds, marriages, and workplaces certainly would, as well.The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0member.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1003276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}