Porn on the Brain

lahalane

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2428861/Porn-addicts-brain-activity-alcoholics-drug-addicts.html

I saw ads for a show that's on Channel 4 next Monday about how compulsive porn users brains shows the same signs of addiction as drug addicts and alcoholics.

Would the same signs show up if you did tests on a passionate sports fan, extremely religious person, regular gym frequenter, etc?

If so, then aren't we all 'addicted' to the things we are most passionate about? Whether it be TV shows, the internet, buying shoes or playing poker.

I know I'm more than likely wrong so please explain it to me.

28064212

Ah, the Daily Mail and Channel 4. Those bastions of scientific research.

If you're really interested, look into the actual research conducted, not what's been filtered through groups whose job requirements include the need to be controversial

lahalane

28064212 wrote: »

If you're really interested, look into the actual research conducted

How would I go about that?

Iano_128

Here you go, this is real interesting...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSF82AwSDiU

EDIT: It's a TED Talk explaining exactly what you are asking about.. 100% SFW

Lando Griffin

lahalane wrote: »

How would I go about that?

Just google XXX porn.

lahalane

Lando Griffin wrote: »

Just google XXX porn.

The scientists just started having sex with each other

28064212

lahalane wrote: »

How would I go about that?

Start here: http://www.google.ie/search?q=research+papers+pornography. And when someone makes a claim, find out what their source is for making that claim.

--Kaiser--

Humans can get addicted to anything that gives you a rush of brain chemicals (dopamine, endorphins, adrenaline), hardly groundbreaking research

Savoir.Faire

If you spend most of your evenings alternating between eating pizza, playing computer games, and trying to pull the flute off yourself to videos of people having sex for money then you're leading a pretty unfulfilled life.

Using pron on a long-term basis as an alternative to meaningful human relationships is symptomatic of an emotional or psychological issue.

lahalane

28064212 wrote: »

Start here: http://www.google.ie/search?q=research+papers+pornography. And when someone makes a claim, find out what their source is for making that claim.

I think if I replaced the word 'pornography' with 'addiction' it might be more beneficial to my original question but thanks for your help.

zl1whqvjs75cdy

Savoir.Faire wrote: »

If you spend most of your evenings alternating between eating pizza, playing computer games, and trying to pull the flute off yourself to videos of people having sex for money then you're leading a pretty unfulfilled life.

Using pron on a long-term basis as an alternative to meaningful human relationships is symptomatic of an emotional or psychological issue.

Some would say unfulfilled life, others would say living the dream.

lahalane

Savoir.Faire wrote: »

If you spend most of your evenings alternating between eating pizza, playing computer games, and trying to pull the flute off yourself to videos of people having sex for money then you're leading a pretty unfulfilled life.

Using pron on a long-term basis as an alternative to meaningful human relationships is symptomatic of an emotional or psychological issue.

How did pizza and computer games come into this?

If you spend every night at the gym, watching Eastenders and browsing Facebook is it not an unfulfilling experience too by that rationale? Yet I know loads of 'losers' who do this...

Lando Griffin

lahalane wrote: »

The scientists just started having sex with each other

Sounds like a good story line for a porn flick, dosent sound familar though.

Mr Benevolent

Jesus, this anti-porn movement on Boards is nearly as bad as the Temperance Movement in the 1880s.

lahalane

Iano_128 wrote: »

Here you go, this is real interesting...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSF82AwSDiU

EDIT: It's a TED Talk explaining exactly what you are asking about.. 100% SFW

That was very interesting and quite grim when you apply it to other mediums instead of porn. We are a very addictive species...

Iano_128

lahalane wrote: »

That was very interesting and quite grim when you apply it to other mediums instead of porn. We are a very addictive species...

Yeah I only watched it myself yesterday evening it's very good! I looked in to it further after watching that video and saw a lot of people who did the "NoFap" challenge on Reddit saying they felt much better and had better confidence and motivation in all aspects of life when they stopped, very similar again to drug addiction.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

lahalane wrote: »

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2428861/Porn-addicts-brain-activity-alcoholics-drug-addicts.html

I saw ads for a show that's on Channel 4 next Monday about how compulsive porn users brains shows the same signs of addiction as drug addicts and alcoholics.

There are two categories: substance addictions and behaviour addictions. Both have the same patterns in that something is idetified that gives pleasure and then becomes a need. But in one it's a chemical that does the trick in other it's an experience of specific pleasure.

The strategies for getting peopel to give up are different, too: substacne addiction requires abstinance, behaviour addiction is moderation.

Would the same signs show up if you did tests on a passionate sports fan, extremely religious person, regular gym frequenter, etc?

If so, then aren't we all 'addicted' to the things we are most passionate about? Whether it be TV shows, the internet, buying shoes or playing poker.

I know I'm more than likely wrong so please explain it to me.

Because it depends on the personality too. Some people have little will power and get addicted very easily (espically behaviour addictions) and some don't.

lahalane

Iano_128 wrote: »

Yeah I only watched it myself yesterday evening it's very good! I looked in to it further after watching that video and saw a lot of people who did the "NoFap" challenge on Reddit saying they felt much better and had better confidence and motivation in all aspects of life when they stopped, very similar again to drug addiction.

I'm thinking of starting 'NoSoap' and 'NoEPL' movement. Maybe then my friends would stop talking about Eastenders and Manchester United.

lahalane

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

There are two categories: substance addictions and behaviour addictions. Both have the same patterns in that something is idetified that gives pleasure and then becomes a need. But in one it's a chemical that does the trick in other it's an experience of specific pleasure.

The strategies for getting peopel to give up are different, too: substacne addiction requires abstinance, behaviour addiction is moderation.



Because it depends on the personality too. Some people have little will power and get addicted very easily (espically behaviour addictions) and some don't.

Thanks. This explains everything that was originally confusing me. So basically, some people can be addicted to Liverpool, Catholicism and make-up. Maybe instead of doing a show concentrating on a particular addiction, Channel 4 could just deal with addiction as a whole...but as somebody mentioned before, that might not be controversial enough.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

lahalane wrote: »

Thanks. This explains everything that was originally confusing me. So basically, some people can be addicted to Liverpool, Catholicism and make-up. Maybe instead of doing a show concentrating on a particular addiction, Channel 4 could just deal with addiction as a whole...but as somebody mentioned before, that might not be controversial enough.

I'd class that more as idolisation or fanatacism than addiction. Certainly with Liverpool, there's no guarantee of a plesaurable fix .

lahalane

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

I'd class that more as idolisation or fanatacism than addiction. Certainly with Liverpool, there's no guarantee of a plesaurable fix .

95% of the people I know who like those things are in the idolisation category but there are the 5% who are addicted.

My grandmother would refuse to miss mass on Sunday even if she was sick or on holiday.

My friend never misses a Manchester United game. He watched all of their friendly games this season.

When I was in college there were girls who got up an hour early to put on make-up.

Addicts the lot of them :P

stateofflux

Savoir.Faire wrote: »

If you spend most of your evenings alternating between eating pizza, playing computer games, and trying to pull the flute off yourself to videos of people having sex for money then you're leading a pretty unfulfilled life.

better than a sexless partner, x factor and broccolli

R019912

http://yourbrainonporn.com

http://yourbrainrebalanced.com

A very real addiction that has caused problems for thousands of men. Obviously some are more susceptible to it than others, but I think there's a lack of awareness out there about it

Itwasntme.

Savoir.Faire wrote: »

If you spend most of your evenings alternating between eating pizza, playing computer games, and trying to pull the flute off yourself to videos of people having sex for money then you're leading a pretty unfulfilled life.

Using pron on a long-term basis as an alternative to meaningful human relationships is symptomatic of an emotional or psychological issue.

Slightly off topic but what if I am fulfilled by eating pizza, masturbating and gaming? Why is it labelled an 'unfulfilled life' simply because it's not something to which you aspire?

If music be the food of love, then masturbation is just a snack between meals.

Itwasntme.

^^ :pac::pac: Let's run away together you and me and make lovely masturbation music till the end of our days.

Itwasntme.

Itwasntme. wrote: »

^^ :pac::pac: Let's run away together you and me and make lovely masturbation music till the end of our days.

We can watch porn, right?

docile_drinker

docile_drinker wrote: »

id well believe it , porn is destructive for a lot of people

Yeah, those DVDAs would take their toll alright.

Itwasntme.

Deleted User wrote: »

We can watch porn, right?

Of course . Masturbation without porn is terribly pedestrian. Porn adds a level of depravity to the whole experience, making it so much better.

Itwasntme.

Itwasntme. wrote: »

Of course . Masturbation without porn is terribly pedestrian. Porn adds a level of depravity to the whole experience, making it so much better.

Right, just let me complete this mission in GTA V, finish off this wagon wheel pizza, and I'll be right with you.

sparksfly

Savoir.Faire wrote: »

If you spend most of your evenings alternating between eating pizza, playing computer games, and trying to pull the flute off yourself to videos of people having sex for money then you're leading a pretty unfulfilled life.

I think this statement should be printed as a government warning on every pizza box, video game and porn DVD.

Cody Pomeray

Savoir.Faire wrote: »

If you spend most of your evenings alternating between eating pizza, playing computer games, and trying to pull the flute off yourself to videos of people having sex for money then you're leading a pretty unfulfilled life.

Using pron on a long-term basis as an alternative to meaningful human relationships is symptomatic of an emotional or psychological issue.

Which is why between eating pizza, playing on the computer, and pulling the flute of ourselves, most of us run, study, have careers, play 5 a side, or watch paint dry, whatever.