An increasingly hyper-sexualised mainstream culture has made pornography much less of a taboo in the present times. Huge advances in technology like fast internet broadband service, cheap smart phones and HD quality video streaming has made porn more accessible than ever to this generation.
Recent studies show that effects of porn on the human brain are far more serious than previously thought. Several studies have shown that excessive porn watching may actually rewire the brain, as reported by the Medical Daily.
According to a 2011 study, published in Psychology Today, exposure to porn resulted in dopamine spikes in the brains of the porn-users, reports the Daily Mail. However, after being exposed to many graphic images, the men became de-sensitised and unable to be satisfied by ordinary sexual encounters. They now needed sexually extreme experiences and hardcore pornography to become sexually aroused.
Another study published in JAMA Psychiatry in 2014 discovered that regularly viewing pornography could actually cause our brains to shrink. The German researchers explained that the striatum area of the brain, linked with the motivation and reward response, shrank in size the more porn a person viewed, reports the Daily Mail.
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