Pornography & Mental Health

Every year people get addicted to pornography due to the high adrenaline and the chemical reactions in the brain. Too much pornography is addictive, and it damages healthy relationships. Although, a little bit of pornography does enhance and make a healthy intimate relationship satisfying; It also distorts the human body and makes a different perception of intimacy.  Yet, viewing pornography twenty-four hours a day is addictive and harms your mental health. More people are getting addicted to pornography to get a temporary sense of pleasure in the brain without knowing the consequences. 

Pornography damages the relationship with your partner. It changes your mood making you feel insecure and aggressive, and a temporary feeling of gratification. In the long run, this stimulation of the brain is unhealthy. There will be a rush of spontaneous happiness and a quick feeling of sadness after viewing pornography. This will make you feel terrible, disgusted, and dirty about yourself. 

You might compare your partner's body to the actresses in the pornography movie. This will make you make bad comments toward your partner making him or her feel inadequate about themselves. These comparisons about body appearances are destructive and lower your partner's self-esteem. Additionally, you will want and ask your partner to change their appearance so they can look more like the pornography actresses. Besides that, this will make your partner no longer want to be intimate with you. 

Pornography changes your perceptions and makes you want to live in that fantasy world. This misinterprets your reality and makes you feel obsessed with sexual intimacy. When a child is exposed to pornography at an early age it makes them believe that is what sexual intimacy is all about. It also makes them feel withdrawn from their friends and makes them feel depressed. As this cycle of pornography continues, a teenager loses respect for young women. 

It makes them believe that is the only technique to get a girlfriend. This makes them avoid the feeling of loneliness, boredom, and lack of socializing. If this is not treated, the adult becomes anxious and unable to sleep if he or she is not exposed to pornography. It makes him or her believe that pornographic comments are acceptable, and it is the only form of flirting. Furthermore, pornography may lead to other addictions such as alcoholism and substance abuse. 

When women are exposed to pornography, they become more self-conscious about their bodies. They may feel that their body is not attractive enough for their partners. It makes them negatively compare their partner's body. Also, it makes them see a man's body as a sexual object. But most of all it makes a woman lose respect for a man and makes them obsessed with looks.

Pornography challenges healthy relationships and each other's mental state. It makes your partner treat you with less passion and treat you as a sexual machine. As well as influencing your partner to treat you less than him. Pornography must be discontinued. These days pornography is easily found online for free, e-mail scams, advertisements, and other digital media. 

Pornography uses a person's body and mind in a negative aspect. It is time-consuming to block and delete those e-mails, but it is necessary for your mental health. Children should not be exposed to pornography. It is harmful to their developing brains and their behavior. If you or your partner want to quit pornography, here is more information. 

How to Quit Porn:

https://www.allprodad.com/how-to-quit-porn/

End Sexual Exploitation Organization-Issues about Pornography: 

https://endsexualexploitation.org/issues/pornography/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=MW_NCOSE_206-45856_google-grant-fy23_20220701_GGRANT2207&utm_content=exploitation-and-trafficking_abuse_nil_nil&sl_tc=GGRANT2207&mwsc=NCOSE-206-GGRANT2207&gclid=Cj0KCQiAj4ecBhD3ARIsAM4Q_jHy0hBfCCQi-zf2s0ubUbMA6FdaMDfgrbmd8MGHVfK5sUYCnX3-WA4aAn8nEALw_wcB 

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