What P*RN Does to Your Brain Will Shock YOU..

   

WATCHING X-rated footage has an alarming affect on your brain and sex life.


With access to the internet easier than ever, more people are watching porn than ever before.
Even teenagers as young as 13 are regularly watching adult movies.
But while porn might boost your sex drive or even improve your relationship, it may also be having a detrimental affect on your health.
From triggering addictive tendencies to shrinking your brain, this is what porn is doing to your body….

WATCHING TOO MUCH MIGHT SHRINK YOUR BRAIN

People who regularly watch pornography may be shrinking their brains, a German study found.
The striatum area of the brain, linked with the motivation and reward response, shrank in size the more porn a person viewed.
The study led by Dr Simone Kühn recruited 64 healthy men between the ages of 21 and 45 years and asked them questions about their porn-watching habits.
Images of their brains were then analysed and the findings suggested evidence between porn consumption and reductions in brain size and brain activity.
Those who regularly watched more porn had a smaller striatum area of the brain than those who abstained.
However, Dr Kühn stressed that it is possible that people who spend more time looking at pornography are born with a certain type of brain.


THE MORE PORN YOU WATCH, THE MORE YOU NEED

Having sex and watching porn both stimulate dopamine – the neurotransmitter which makes us feel pleasure.
But if you repeatedly activate these feelings the brain becomes desensitised to its effects.
This means tou will need more and more to feel the same high and it can lead to sex or porn addiction.
Regular porn users may feel the need to watch increasingly extreme footage to get the spike in dopamine, a 2011 study published in Psychology Today revealed.
This may also mean you find it hard to get sexually excited in the bedroom.


PORN ADDICTS HAVE BRAINS LIKE DRUG ADDICTS

When someone is obsessed with porn the addiction part of the brain lights up on scans, Cambridge University researchers discovered in 2013.
As porn addicts were shown erotic images and X-rated footage, the part of the brain that is highly active among drug and alcohol addicts lit up.
Another study by the university found that three areas of the brain were more active in those addicted to porn.
These were the ventral striatum, dorsal anterior cingulate and amygdala – the same areas activated in drug addicts when shown drug stimuli.