Published On: Mon, Mar 4th, 2019

The Dangers of Watching Porn

There are many different views that people have about watching porn. One of the most acceptable views is that porn is safe and it cannot harm anyone. It is education and it helps people to reduce stress. Some also say that when porn is watched together by a couple it can enhance the relationship and make it stronger. Overall the concept about porn is that it is normal and harmless.

What Studies Say?

The recent studies conducted on this regard have a completely different story to say. Porn is actually not as harmless as it is thought to be. Most people who did the research believe that the wrong concepts that have been doing rounds about watching porn were just circulated by the people who make profit through porn. The new facts that have emerged from the research are that watching porn is addictive and it can ruin the mental health of the people.

We will list some of the things that porn can do to the person who watches it on a regular basis:

  • Watching porn can change the wiring of the brain. We know that human brain is a complex machine. There are millions of nerve cells that make the human brain. Brain keeps changing with time and age. People who see too much of porn have brain that are smaller in certain areas, their brains are less connected and the brain is also less active.
  • The brain will constantly keep rewiring itself as per the changes that are happening in and around the person. There are many pathways in the brains. If you do not use some pathways much you will slowly lose them.  Only the pathways that are strong will survive. There is a lot that porn can do to the brain and one of the things it does is that it affects the brain in such a way that the person loses the urge to have sex with a real partner. The person feels no need to have physical love and slowly prefers to only watch porn and lose interest in sex completely.
  •  Watching porn can be as addictive as drugs – the brain controls a lot of emotions and actions that we do on a daily basis. Porn watching triggers a chemical in the brain that is called dopamine. This chemical is triggered in that part of the brain which we know as reward centre. This is a pathway or system that helps us to feel excited and good.
  • For example the feeling one gets after having sex or after eating a good food. When a person is watching porn regularly the brain triggers dopamine only at that time. This can become an addiction and people continue to watch the porn videos. Slowly the normal contents in a porn video do not excite the person and they want more and more erotic stuff. There are many porn providers who are ready to go to any extent to provide all types of contents to the viewers. This is the stage when watching porn can become as addictive as drugs.
  • Porn can become a compulsion – this is something that not many people are aware of. Porn can become very addictive. It has the tendency to become more addictive compared to social media, surfing and as well as gambling. This is what the biggest concern is and we want the readers to be aware of this.
  • Porn watching is something that is very difficult to get out of. You will tend to come back again and again to watch porn. The pleasure that you get from it cannot be compared to anything else as time passes. There have been many people who will tell you that watching porn was a difficult habit to let go. When the brain has an overload of dopamine it cannot feel normal under normal circumstances. The porn habit becomes one of the most hardcore habits.

  • It can alter the sexual taste of the viewer – the reward chemicals we have already mentioned about them. When the reward chemicals are generated by healthy behaviour it is absolutely fine but when the same is triggered by something that is not healthy the situation can become very dangerous. The alarming study shows that watching porn is something a person starts from a very young age. Young adults and teenagers are the first who tend to get used to porn. The earlier you start with it the more difficult it will become later on in life to get over the habit.
  • The scary part is that for a person who has been watching porn from a very beginning they start to feel unnatural sexual acts as normal. For example violent sex and even having sex with animals seem like normal to these people. They also try these and do not fee these acts abnormal at all.

  • Porn can be compared to having tobacco – when we talk of addiction tobacco is an addiction that we all know is fatal and very difficult to get rid of. A person who is watching porn on a regular basis is as addicted to it as a person who is smoking daily. The person reaches a point when he cannot live a day without watching porn. That is the only thing that is going on in their mind and they just look for a chance to see porn. There are many articles on the internet that will help you understand how addcitive porn can be and also help you realize that it is a tough addiction to get rid of.
  • Porn can damage sexual health of a person – it has been noticed that the habit of watching porn is so bad that young men are not able to have erection with a real partner as they do not feel aroused. If a person is addicted to porn he will start finding real life sex not attractive. Many doctors say that couples come to them with complains that they are not able to enjoy sex and the man does not have enough sex drive. The doctors say that on further investigation in most of these cases it is found that men are addicted to porn and they think watching porn is absolutely normal.
  • Teenagers and young adults must have very high sexual drives. However, the study reveals that when a young man is exposed to watching porn their sexual drive is much lesser than what it is actually supposed to be. This is a very alarming fact and scientists believe that this awareness of how harmful porn is must be given to the kids when they are in high school because that is the time when these kids start to get addicted to these.

  • Porn contains a lot of toxic lies – Sex is natural and normal among all species. Since ancient times people have been involved in sex and it gave them a lot of pleasure which is natural. Today the scenario is changing with the concept of porn. Porn is a relatively new cocept. It is like a virtual way of having sex. It is so toxic and unnatural that the damage it does cannot be reversed even after years have passed. The porn sites have to ensure that viewers keep coming to them and they keep selling unnatural and synthetic materials to the viewers.
  • Porn gives people a feel that what they see is real and spontaneous. However, that is not true at all. A porn flick that lasts 45 minutes could have actually taken three days to make. The scenes were edited and directed again and again to ensure that they look too good to be true. That is why you cannot just compare it to something that is natural and normal. So basically porn is nothing but a lies.

  • Porn can create a rift in relationship – people who are addicted to porn are not stable in a relationship. They are difficult to understand and get along with. They can do anything from infedility to even physically hurting the partner. These men divorce their wives and at one point in time do not feel attracted to any real women. The study of the recent divorce cases prove that most of the men involved in these cases were watching porn at least once a day. So many studies done in different parts of the world cannot be wrong if all of them come down to the fact that watching porn can harm the marriages in more than one way.
  • Some may ask what is the link between a bad marriage and watching porn. Well there is definitely a link. For example if a man is watching too much of porn he wil find it difficult to trust his partner. He will start to tell lies to cover up for his addiction. These men at some point feel that they would prefer to be left alone and not be in any relationship. These men cannot communicate what they actually want and as a result they get into more trouble with the marriage.

  • Porn can lead a person to depression – when a person is into porn and they run into trouble with the marriage. They do not want to fix the problems and try to stay away from everthing. They start feeling bad about themselves and get into depression. They feel at times that watching porn can help them fell better and they start to watch it more, only to become more lonely and depressed at the end of it. Sometime the partner or the friend will not be able to understand why the person is behaving in such a way. In many cases the partner knows that the other partner is watching porn and they do not feel that it could be a root cause of all these issues in the relationship. 
  • Porn can cause a lot of pain to the partner – when a man is watching porn regularly he is continuously being exposed to very good looking women who have had all types of surgeries to look the way they are. They are always with loads of makeup and they are photo shopped too. Making them look to good to be true. Men who have hardly seen real women start thinking this to be real and they do not feel attracted to a real woman who is naked. Many partners say that they feel hurt when the man tells them that they are not attractive enough. In most of these cases it has been seen that the men are addicted to porn and they fail to understand the real sex drive and life. They land up hurthing their partners both emotionally and mentally.
  • Porn is common among people below 18 – Yes porn is for adults or people who have crossed the age of 18. Nevertheless, can the porn sites say for sure that all their users are actually above 18? Well they cannot as there is no gurantee for this. Kids are strating to watch porn from a young age and they get carried away by the content of the site as a result they tend to have sex with more than one partner and get exposed to diseases that are sexually transmitted. When a teenager is exposed to porn the affect that it can have on the child is unimaginable. It can completely ruine the mental framework of the child. The sexual fantacies of men who are exposed to porn are unimaginable. They keep changing partners to fullfill these fantacies. They tend to visit prostitutes more and as a result again get exposed to a lot of diseases that are life threatning.
  • It is not necessary that all porn is consensual – Let’s move to some really dark realities of porn that not all the material you view as porn is made consensually. A big amount of porn that you see is a result of human trafficking and women who are forced into the sex racket. Especially the child ponography is something that is definitely not consensual. Much porn is made with people who were forced into se trade. These videos are made without the consent of the people. When you are watching porn you do not know how it was made. It is impossible for a person to findout if the content is genuine or it was made by forcing a person.
  • Some of the participants were beaten and forced to make the video. They were forced to do what you see. Many people who were sexually abused to get a porn video will tell you about the torture that they had to bear. They will also explain how the videos ensure that they did is with consent. Morally and ethically porn is wrong no doubt because it often forces people to have sex and make the videos steamier. It is not possible to say which ponography company is doing a morally right job and which one is not. If you are into porn watching you must know at the back of your mind and in many of the porn that you see the person was forced to be a part of the content.

  • Sex trafficking is a dirty reality that is often associated with porn – What we see in movies about sex trafficking is actually nothing when we compare it with what happens in real life. Forcing a person below 18 into an act of sex is against the law. Even commercial sex can be illegal if a person was intimidated to it. Maybe there was no force involved but it is not legal. Even a particular incident or an act can be considered to be sex trafficking. When people get addicted to porn they want to see more and more violence in it which is not natural and this is when the sex trafficking comes into picture.
  • More and more victims are forced to have sex and trafficking becomes a way to do it. A study done recently has come up with a very shocking detail. They claim that the people who make porn start with showing porn to the victims. This helps the victims to understand what is expected from them when they become a part of porn videos. If the person who is exposed to this porn is involved in substance abuse or is from a poor background they will more easily become a victim of trafficking. This becomes even more common with a child who has been brought up in a house where pornography is watched regularly. These kids can become a part of trafficking in some point of their life or the other.
  • Although there is no direct connection between pornography and trafficking but there is a connection that cannot be denied and that is what we are trying to establish here. The hunger that is growing among the people all over the world to watch porn is one of the reasons for increase in trafficking too. It is a global problem and a modern type of slavery. The figure we have with us might be much smaller than what the reality is. This is simply because many of these incidents do not even get reported.

  • Porn and violence go hand in hand – It is true that not all porn is violent. Some of them are and some are not. However, from violence what we mean is that porn can make a person sexually violent and aggressive. In most of the videos men are shown to be dominating the women and the women are submissive. They just let the man do what he wants to. The people who see porn regularly start to believe that this is reality. These men naturally show a more aggressive attitude towards all women. They become sexually and physically more violent to women. Study was conducted on a group of twenty men. The group included both types of men some who watched porn and some who did not. It was noticed that men who watched porn believed that they could be violent with women and assault them. They found this type of behaviour natural and normal. This proves that wither the porn is violent or not it can trigger violence among those who are watching it and it is definitely not something that can be accepted as normal.
  • Porn is being taken to a new level of violence and it is degrading – Porn has changed over the years. It was very different years back when it would just show people having sex. Now the concept is different, it is becoming more and more violent and unnatural. They show women being humiliated and abused in all possible ways. There are many teenagers who are watching porn regularly. Some teenagers are already addicted to watching porn and are watching it for 24 hours a day. This can be very harmful for the society as a whole and must be controlled at some point or the other.

These are some of the points on how dangerous porn actually is and how it is influencing people all over the world. We have just tried to bring it to the notice of the readers that porn is something that is very wrong and it can change people as well as lives for the worse.

We will discuss in the next article as to how you can ensure that those who are addicted to porn come out of it. Getting educated about porn is the first step on understanding how dangerous it can be. The major problem starts from the fact that most of the people actually thing that porn is safe and there is no harm in watching porn.

This is not true, porn is a very dangerous habit that can ruin lives and we must try to stop it from the root itself. If we want the society to be a normal and happy place with normal people porn must be controlled.

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