The Science of Porn Addiction (VIDEO)

The Science of Porn AddictionAsapScience has released a new video about the science behind pornography addiction noting that “The not-so-shocking truth is that pornography has profound consequences for the brain and acts, in many ways, like a drug.”

It’s the number one topic for internet searches, but do we ever consider how pornography can have lasting neuroplastic effects? Discover the hard science behind the ‘porn epidemic’ – the internet’s drug of choice.

Written and created by Mitchell Moffit (twitter @mitchellmoffit) and Gregory Brown (twitter @whalewatchmeplz).

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Gregory Brown
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Further Reading –

Is Porn an Addiction?
1) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/artic…

The Great Porn Experiment:
1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=…

Brain Plasticity:
1) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11…
2) http://psycnet.apa.org/psycinfo/1995-…
3) http://www.pnas.org/content/100/3/140…

Relationship Effects:

1) http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10…
2) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22…
3) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21…

Books:
1) The Brain That Changes Itself – Norman Doidge, M.D.
2) The Alchemy of Love and Lust – T.L. Crenshaw

Comments

  1. foxfixer says:

    Money has the same effect. The easier it is to make money. And the more you can make. The harder you work for it. If you find a gold mine you will try to get every ounce,even if you get to the $50 billion dollars worth. It can produce Dopamine. It’s called addiction and/or greed. No human being is immune.