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Originally Posted by Lycanthrope
PMO stands for porn, masturbation, orgasm.
Look I'm not suggesting that all social anxiety/depression is caused by watching porn. Brain studies suggest porn affects dopamine, similar to the way cocaine can.
A lot of men who quit porn say their social anxiety/depression went away. Not all, but there's something in it. Unless you're suggesting all these men are liars.
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No. No no no. Porn is NOT like a drug. Porn is images/videos/text you read on the screen. It is NOT a highly dangerous physical substance you put in your body that could kill you every time you ingest it. It does NOT create withdrawal when you try to stop it.
Yes, porn/masturbation releases dopamine. Dopamine is not a bad thing. Exercise also releases dopamine. There are some people that take exercise too far, but those people are far and few between.
I have met a few people who find that porn makes them feel depressed and lonely. They find that watching two people doing sexual stuff on camera made them feel more alone because they don't have anyone to do that stuff with. They were depressed and lonely before porn and it ended up exasperating it for them. I have to admit that if I'm having a bad day, watching two people do stuff on camera can make me feel like I'm missing out on life. But that thought was a pre-existing thought that porn triggered.
You're also leaving out context. Perhaps someone enjoys porn and his wife found out and she got jealous. Or maybe someone feels like porn is something wrong/sinful so they feel an immense amount of shame from watching it. In those instances, porn can be a negative stressor on your life, however the porn by itself is not what is creating the problem.
If you are comparing porn to drugs, it is ridiculous to say that porn affects the male brain differently than the female brain. The reason you mostly hear about men having problems with porn is because most men have a higher sex drive than most women. Not all men and not all women, but generally speaking. A lot of women also often prefer to read their porn rather than watch it and there is for some reason MUCH less social stigma against reading porn rather than watching it (ex soccer moms ready Fifty Shades of Gray on public transport). But these men don't have a problem with porn, they have a problem with a monstrously high sex drive.
I'm sorry but there is no way that images and video can be harmful to your brain in anyway similar to cocaine.