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Support The Movement Hit enter to search or ESC to close PORN HARMS IN THREE WAYS. Scroll down to continue or click an icon to jump to a section. Peer reviewed research on how pornography affects the brain. LEARN MORE Peer reviewed research on how pornography affects the heart. LEARN MORE Peer reviewed research on how pornography affects the world. LEARN MORE Studies have found that frequency of porn consumption correlates with depression, anxiety, stress, and social problems. LEARN MORE Even moderate porn consumtion is correlated with shrunken grey matter in parts of the brain that oversee cognitive function. LEARN MORE There are clear differences in brain activity between patients who have compulsive sexual behavior and healthy volunteers. LEARN MORE “Sexual tastes are molded by an individual's experiences and their culture…” –Norman Doidge, PhD LEARN MORE Porn consumption has been found to influence some consumers' sexual preferences, leaving them wanting what they've seen onscreen and significantly less satisfied with sex in real life. LEARN MORE After being exposed to pornography, men reported being less satisfied with their partners' physical appearance, sexual performance, and level of affection and express greater desire for sex without emotional involvement. LEARN MORE Among the effects of the consumption of pornography are an increased negative attitude toward women, decreased empathy for victims of sexual violence… and an increase in dominating and sexually imposing behavior. LEARN MORE A meta-analysis of 33 studies found that exposure to either nonviolent or violent porn increased behavioral aggression, including both violent fantasies and actual violent assaults. 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More OK How Porn Affects The Brain Although porn consumption promises to help individuals relax and relieve their stress, a growing number of studies have found that porn consumption is actually linked to poor mental health outcomes. This link is particularly strong when porn consumers engage in a pattern of “self-concealment,”—which is when they do things they’re not proud of and keep them a secret from their friends and family members. This pattern not only hurts their relationships and leaves them feeling lonely, but also makes them more vulnerable to emotional and psychological problems. For both male and female porn consumers, their habit is often accompanied by problems with anxiety, body-image issues, poor self-image, relationship problems, insecurity, and depression. Laird, R. D., Marrero, M. D., Melching, J. A., and Kuhn, E. S. (2013). Information Management Strategies in Early Adolescence: Developmental Change in Use and Transactional Associations with Psychological Adjustment. Developmental Psychology 49, 5: 928–937 Flisher, C. (2010). Getting Plugged In: An Overview of Internet Addiction. Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health 46: 557–9 GO BACK Or read more about the harmful effects of pornography here . How Porn Affects The Brain German researchers recently found that there is an association between the number of hours of pornography someone consumes each week and less grey matter in their brains. Grey matter is the darker tissue of the brain and spinal cord, consisting mainly of nerve cell bodies and branching dendrites. It is associated with decision making and intelligence. Simone Kühn and Jürgen Gallinat, “Brain Structure and Functional Connectivity Associated With Pornography Consumption: The Brain on Porn,” JAMA Psychiatry (2014): 827–834. GO BACK Or read more about the harmful effects of pornography here . How Porn Affects The Brain As pornography consumption escalates, the consumer has a whole new set of problems because porn impacts the brain like a drug. Porn can be addictive, and addiction damages the part of the brain that helps people think things through to make good choices—the brain’s limit-setting system. For more than 10 years, studies have shown that drug addictions can cause the brain’s frontal lobes to start shrinking. While “frontal lobe” sounds really technical, basically it’s the part of the brain that controls logical problem solving and decision making. Hilton, D. L., and Watts, C. (2011). Pornography Addiction: A Neuroscience Perspective. Surgical Neurology International, 2: 19; (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3050060/) Leshner, A. (1997). Addiction Is a Brain Disease and It Matters. Science 278: 45–7. Lyoo, K., Pollack, M. H., Silveri, M. M., Ahn, K. H., Diaz, C. I., Hwang, J., et al. (2005). Prefrontal and Temporal Gray Matter Density Decreases in Opiate Dependence. Psychopharmacology 184, 2: 139–144 Hilton, D. L. (2013). Pornography Addiction—A Supranormal Stimulus Considered in the Context of Neuroplasticity. Socioaffective Neuroscience & Psychology 3:20767. GO BACK Or read more about the harmful effects of pornography here . How Porn Affects Relationships “Sexual tastes are molded by an individual’s experiences and their culture. These tastes are acquired and then wired into the brain. We are unable to distinguish our ‘second nature’ from our ‘original nature’ because our neural-plastic brains, once rewired, develop a new nature every bit as biological as our original.” In a 2012 survey of 1,500 males, 56% of them said their tastes in porn had become “increasingly extreme or deviant” the more porn they watched. This happens because as consistent porn consumers’ brains quickly become accustomed to the porn they’ve already seen, they have to constantly be moving on to more extreme forms of pornography to get aroused by it. As a result, many porn consumers find themselves getting aroused by things that used to unsettle them or that go against what their personal values of what they think should be accepted. As this happens,...