Hmm... I have just read this highly enlightening piece of writing...

One of the five points its two co-authors make is...

"Lie: Women are property. It's common to see pictures of the slick car with the sexy girl draped over it. The unspoken message is, "Buy one, and you get them both." Hard-core porn carries this even further. It displays women like merchandise in a catalogue, exposing them as openly as possible for the customer to look at. It's not surprising that many young men think that if they have spent some money taking a girl out, they have a right to have sex with her. Porn tells us that women can be bought."

And I thought that women had been considered property until very recently in most jurisdictions and but "very recently" ended in most jurisdictions roughly in the 19th century, BEFORE the advent of the Internet in general and Online porn, in particular. Apparently, the authors of his enlightening piece of writing would contend that online porn RETROACTIVELY influenced the world's history to treat women as property. You need to believe in some sort of super powers or magic for that, but if online porn is so powerful, I am willing to grant the possibility that it has magical powers as well.

One of the many translations from the Bible says:

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◄ Exodus 20:17 ►

New International Version (©2011)
"You shall not covet your neighbor's house. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his male or female servant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.""

It is very clear - crystal clear - from this quotation that women were treated as property at the time of the writing of this particular portion of the Bible.

Were the creators of the Bible influenced by online pornography or did they conceive of making a list of items of property and including women in this list completely independently and on their own?

Caveat: per the Exodus quotation, not every woman is a piece of property but only somebody's wife. So I can see how online pornography went above and beyond the Bible in making EVERY woman an item of property regardless of her marital status.

Apart from discussing all of this highly entertaining stuff, heyitsme7, you really should do something that does not involve being in front of the computer - not reading the Internet, not posting on the Internet, not masturbating to online porn, not anything Internet-related. I reiterate my suggestion to go play badminton or tennis.

I have also explained to you many times that porn is a huge industry by numbers, which means that lots of people use it - I personally do not because I do not understand what is enjoyable about it, but in a market economy a big industry cannot exist without consumers. So clearly many people find it enjoyable. So just by looking at the numbers ((1) porn is a huge industry, and (2) the world has not come to an end ==> conclusion that most people can handle porn fine)) it is clear that most people can handle porn just fine, without asking questions about how to stop their porn use on a daily basis. I believe that you can become one of those people if you stop trying to stop the activity of watching porn altogether but simply diversify your whole portfolio of activities - see the badminton suggestion above.

I do not know what porn does to the brain. Probably, it does something because everything does something as High Treason succinctly pointed out. Most likely it does not do anything permanently.

I do know for a fact that exercise does great things to the brain. So, for a third time, log off the computer and go play badminton or tennis.

Also, if you are concerned with the effects of various things on your brain, you may want to buy fish oil. It is not certain that it affects the brain positively, but there is enough data to suggest that it does, and since it is cheap, it is worth taking even without waiting for the final verdict on its effect of the brain.

There is also some evidence that pomegranates affect the brain in a beneficial manner.