You may not be physically burned by sexual images, but psychologists argue that those images can actually be burned into your mind. Emotional arousal causes the release of a hormone called epinephrine in your brain that chemically burns the pictures into your permanent memory. This affect is heightened by the combination of pictures and masturbation. Porn affects real relationships, too. You may think that it's okay to experiment now, while you're single, but getting married won't stop a fascination with porn if you've already been feeding it.
Many wives complain that pornography crowds their marriage with unwanted extra faces.
Our bed is crowded with countless faceless strangers, where once we were intimate. Brad came from a loving, two-parent home. He had a younger sister, a cat and a dog. He was active in church and school, but pornography caused him to live a double lifestyle. Brad's first exposure to pornography came when he was only 8 years old.