Pornogrophy is damaging to society

Awesome, thanks for excepting. Damaging to User Porn use is first and foremost damaging to those who view and use it. I will first point out the effect porn use has on the brain of the user. Each one of our brains has a reward pathway that helps us connect to people and enjoy pleasure from life. The brain releases chemicals called dopamine to give us a sense of pleasure. This happens when we get complimented or smell our favourite food or when we"re with someone we love. Our brains also create dopamine when the body is exposed to drugs like cocaine and opioids, oh and also porn. Users of these products have a similar relationship with their choice of "drug", that is to say they overflow their brains with these chemicals artificially and a new pattern begins to form. Fightthenewdrug.org in their article "Porn is like a drug" has this to say when speaking of the new way our brains are trained after viewing porn. "Over time, the constant overload of chemicals causes other brain changes as well. Just like a junkie will eventually require more and more of a drug to get a buzz or even just feel normal, porn users can quickly build up a tolerance as their brains adapt to the high levels of dopamine that porn releases. [11] In other words, even though porn is still releasing dopamine into the brain, the user can"t feel its effects as much." (Fightthenewdrug.org) Why is this damaging to the user? Well beside the point that users now need more and more porn to get the same stimulation we can also track behavioural differences in those who become more and more addicted to porn. The most often response to escalating porn use is to gravitate to more violent and extreme content. Once again our friends at Fightthenewdrug.org can help us understand how. In their article "Porn affects your behaviour" here is what they say. "In a 2012 survey of 1,500 guys, 56% said their tastes in porn had become "increasingly extreme or deviant." [12] Because consistent porn users" brains quickly become accustomed to the porn they've already seen (See Porn Addiction Escalates), they typically have to constantly be moving on to more extreme forms of pornography to get aroused by it. [13] As a result, just like the rats, many porn users find themselves getting aroused by things that used to disgust them or that go against what they think is morally right. [14] "And once they start watching extreme and dangerous sex acts, these types of porn users are being taught that those behaviors are more normal and common than they are. [15] One study found that people exposed to significant amounts of porn thought things like sex with animals and violent sex were twice as common as what those not exposed to porn thought. [16] And when people believe a behavior is normal, they're more likely to try it. [17]" Fightthenewdrug.org) This may seem to be an extreme but the fact is it does happen and lesser effects are almost unanimously experienced by users. I will speak from personal experience when I say that porn caused me to look at women as a body to be used and not a person to be loved. I could hardly go half a day without undressing every women I saw, often even against my will. This included family members simply because porn had trained my brain to see women as sex objects. The same can be said for every friend of mine who I have talked to about porn use, but let"s move on. Damaging to Spouse/Future Spouse Although the vast scientific data does not exist in this area as it does in the first area, there still remains a vast amount of personal testimonies that display to this truth. From an objective view one can ask, "How could porn possibly be good for marriage?" The answer is it cannot. As we all know, porn is fake and it does not display how sex in reality often is. A young man or women that are viewing pornography train themselves to be disappointed come marriage to a single person. In porn you can constantly switch from video to video, or picture to picture always looking for the perfect seen. Imagine being in a marriage trying to compete with porn. There you are with all your differences and problems and there is the woman on the computer that never says no to anything and looks like a goodness. It is no wonder that some men have become more attached to porn then to real sex. Matt Fradd on his website theporneffect.com has a wealth of information regarding these intimacy problem caused by porn. Here is an excerpt from his article "Porn and Marriage: What the Experts are Saying" "Frequent exposure to porn is associated with diminished trust in intimate partners, increased risk of developing a negative body image, especially for women, acceptance of promiscuity as a normal state of interaction, beginning to view love in a cynical manner, belief that superior sexual satisfaction is attainable without having affection for one"s partner, belief that marriage is sexually confining, and belief that raising children and having a family is an unattractive prospect"(theporneffect.com) I encourage you to go to his site to see more. Damaging to Actors As one can expect the major demand for porn in today"s culture is luring many men and women into the industry, but conditions for these men and women are less than ideal. Minus the risk for STD"s aside these shoots are often filled with drugs and alcohol to get the actors numb enough to get through the shoot. Listen to ex-porn actor April (may be a fake name), this comes from an article she did for theporneffect.com called "An Open Letter From an Ex-Porn Star". " Myth # 1 " The girls in porn enjoy making the videos: Nothing could be farther from the truth. What people who hold to this myth fail to realize, is that these girls are acting, plain and simple. None of it is real. In all of my experience, I have yet to meet a single girl who actually enjoyed making pornography." (theporneffect.com) Adding later in the article "Having been in the industry, I can tell you that it is not a pleasurable experience. The sex itself is painful, and the girls are exposed to all kinds of abuses, both by the pornographers and the people on set. It is beyond degrading, and for many of us, the only way we could endure the shoots was by numbing ourselves with drugs or alcohol, telling ourselves that it will all be over in a couple of hours, and completely zoning out, sort of disconnecting ourselves from the whole experience." (theporneffect.com) I"ll let these statements speak for themselves. Conclusion So in conclusion we can see clearly that porn use has negative effects or all three of users, their spouses/future spouses, as well as the actors. Sources: All information came from two sources. See titles articles for citation for stats and research. 1.http://fightthenewdrug.org... 2.http://theporneffect.com...