"It's conditioning your sexual arousal just like Pavlov's dog to constant novelty, fetishes, etc," Wilson explains. The simple aspect is shock or surprise - that's why a horror film is exciting, that's why a roller coaster is exciting The beauty of porn is that it comes to you, with no effort required, flooding your brain with images of unrealistic pleasure and beauty. You don't have to use your imagination anymore, or even take an active part in the process. The scientist suggests the ubiquity and addictiveness of porn is, essentially, rewiring our brains to view sexual gratification as a passive experience. And anxiety is really, really exciting it causes adrenaline, which in turn causes arousal."
The simple aspect is shock or surprise - that's why a horror film is exciting, that's why a roller coaster is exciting. You're constantly getting more than what you expected, getting different stuff to what you expected.
When something's different than expected, that gives you dopamine. The internet is so appealing, smartphones are so appealing, because they activate the reward circuit through novelty. You get a big jump in dopamine and an activation of the reward circuit. "And that's what the internet is - the ability to click from scene to scene. "The reward circuit gets activated for things such as sex, food, water, achievement, but it also gets activated for novelty," Wilson tells me. It's all to do with dopamine, the neurotransmitter that regulates the brain's reward and pleasure centres. Thanks to the internet, everyone now has access to streaming videos." 'It's rewiring our brains'Īccording to Wilson, porn is so addictive because the core functions of the internet tap directly into our primitive brain. Porn also created tube sites, short clips on the internet depicting scenes of hardcore sex. "That means that pre-adolescents can watch three-minute clips of real people, of real sex, if you want to call it that. "First of all it's about videos, streaming videos," Wilson says. Over $3,000 is spent on pornography every secondĪ new pornographic video is created in the United States every 39 minutesĪnnual porn industry revenue in China is almost $28bnīut why are sites like YBOP gaining so much traction now? Surely porn has been around since man learnt to draw - why is it such a menace to society all of a sudden? It has been estimated that up to 37% of the entire internet is devoted to porn - although the figures vary His site, Your Brain On Porn, is one of the most popular resources for those seeking to learn more about the dangers posed by modern erotica, and has persuaded an army of addicts to go cold turkey. To find out, IBTimes UK spoke to Gary Wilson, the high priest of the anti-porn movement, a man whose scientific background has earned him a huge internet following. Campaigns are gathering momentum on social media, with a persuasive vehemence that would have made American prohibitionists proud a century ago.īut is porn really that bad? Is this a genuine problem, or simply a corrective response to the tsunami of T&A which has engulfed the internet? Sites such as No Porn and the charmingly named NoFap are encouraging people to kick the habit, to stop watching porn in the belief that abstinence improves people's performance at work, at school and in the bedroom. Yet there is now a burgeoning movement to rid humanity of this scourge. Porn's tentacles are wrapped around each and every one of us there's no escape any more. Even mainstream celebrities such as Kim Kardashian and Kate Moss are getting in on the act by getting it out, flaunting their nakedness on social media and in semi-respectable magazines. The extension of the internet into all aspects of our daily lives allows people to find porn whenever and wherever they like, and nothing, not even the most extreme or depraved material, is more than a few clicks away.
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