Top 10 Effects Of P0rn On Your Brain, Your Marriage, And Your Sex Life
Pornography is ravaging marriages. In our culture porn is treated as if it’s harmless, but it’s not. Porn will wreck the arousal process in your brain and end up wrecking your sex life in marriage.
I receive emails everyday from women who are desperate to fix their marriages, but they don’t know what to do.
They married men who never seem to want sex.Or their husbands are never satisfied. Or their husbands call them boring or unattractive.
And the root of many of these problems is porn.
Here’s the really devastating part: Because so much of what porn does to you happens chemically in the brain, the porn use doesn’t have to be going on NOW to have these effects.
A boy who grew up on porn in his teens, and then managed to stop watching it in his twenties (with occasional relapses) will still suffer from many of these things.
The good news: There is healing! You can rebuild those chemical pathways to arousal.
But first we have to understand 10 ways that porn affects the brain, and thus wrecks many couples’ sex lives.
I thought I’d share: The Top 10 Negative Effectsof Porn on Your Sex Life And remember– women use porn, too! While some of these apply just to men, many of them apply to both genders.
Pornography is ravaging marriages. In our culture porn is treated as if it’s harmless, but it’s not. Porn will wreck the arousal process in your brain and end up wrecking your sex life in marriage.
I receive emails everyday from women who are desperate to fix their marriages, but they don’t know what to do.
They married men who never seem to want sex.Or their husbands are never satisfied. Or their husbands call them boring or unattractive.
And the root of many of these problems is porn.
Here’s the really devastating part: Because so much of what porn does to you happens chemically in the brain, the porn use doesn’t have to be going on NOW to have these effects.
A boy who grew up on porn in his teens, and then managed to stop watching it in his twenties (with occasional relapses) will still suffer from many of these things.
The good news: There is healing! You can rebuild those chemical pathways to arousal.
But first we have to understand 10 ways that porn affects the brain, and thus wrecks many couples’ sex lives.
I thought I’d share: The Top 10 Negative Effectsof Porn on Your Sex Life And remember– women use porn, too! While some of these apply just to men, many of them apply to both genders.
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- 1. Porn Means You Can’t Get Aroused by “Just” Your Spouse.Do you remember reading about Pavlov and his dog in Psychology? Pavlov would give the dog a nice juicy steak, but right before he did he would ring a bell. He conditioned the dog to associate ringing the bellwith getting great food.Eventually Pavlov took the food away, but kept ringing the bell. The dog kept salivating at the bell, even though there was no steak, because the dog associated the bell with the food. The same thing happens when we see porn. Porn stimulates the arousal centers in the brain.When it’s accompanied by orgasm (sexual release through masturbation), then a chemicalreaction happens and hormones are released. In effect, our brains start to associate arousal with an image, an idea, or a video, rather than aperson.When you don’t watch porn and save yourself until marriage, then all of those chemicals and hormones are released for the first time when you’re with your spouse, and it causes you to bond intensely (and sexually) to your spouse. But when you spend a ton of time teaching yourbrain to associate arousal and release with pornography, your brain can’t associate arousal and release with a person anymore.Either you have to fantasize about the porn, andget those images in your brain, or you have to watch porn first. Often people can “complete the act”, but it’s not intense for them the way porn is. You’ve rewired your brain, and now you’re salivating at the wrong thing.
- 2. Porn Wrecks Your Libido. It’s only natural, then, that many people who use porn in the past, or who use porn in the present, have virtually no libido when it comes to making loveto their spouse. The spouse is not what turns them on, and so the natural drive that we have for sex is transferred somewhere else.I get so many emails from young women in theirtwenties who say, “my husband and I were both virgins when we married, and I thought he’d want sex all the time. But after our honeymoon sex went to maybe twice a month, and that’s only if I pressure him.He says he just isn’t interested.” With so many men growing up on porn, this is just to be expected.
- 3. Porn Makes You Sexually Lazy. In porn, everyone is turned on all the time. You don’t have to make any effort to arouse someone; it’sautomatic. There is no pre-intimacy in porn. Andso if your spouse isn’t aroused you start to thinkthat it’s somehow their fault.There’s no expectation that we will have to “woo” someone or be affectionate and helpjumpstartthat arousal process. It’s almost as if we approach sex as two different beings and we’re just using each other, rather than thinking of each other. And thus we never learn how to please the other or become a good lover because we’re always thinking that the other is somehow “frigid”.Pornography teaches you that sex is about getting my needs met; it isn’t about meeting someone else’s needs or experiencing something wonderful together.
- 4. Porn Turns “Making Love” into a Foreign Concept.Those arousal centers and pleasure centers in our brain are supposed to associate sex with physical pleasure and a real sense of intimacy. But the intimacy doesn’t happen with porn, and so the pleasure is all that registers.Thus, porn makes sex all about the body, and not about intimacy. In fact, the idea of being intimate isn’t even sexy anymore; anonymous iswhat’s sexy. We may call “having sex” “making love”, but in reality they aren’t necessarily the same thing.Someone who has used porn extensively often has a difficult time experiencing any intimacy during sex, because those arousal and pleasurecenters zero in only on the body. And that’s another negative effect of porn: porn users often need to objectify or degrade their partner in order to achieve pleasure, the exact opposite of intimacy.God made sex to actually unite us and draw us together; He even gave us a bonding hormone that’s released at orgasm so that we’d feel closer! But if that hormone is released when no one is present, it stops having its effects. Sex nolonger bonds you together.
- 5. Porn Makes Regular Intercourse Seem Boring.An alcoholic drinks alcohol for the “buzz”. But after a while your body begins to tolerate it. To get the same buzz, you need more alcohol. And so the alcoholic begins to drink harder liquor, or drink larger quantities.The same thing happens with porn. Because porn teaches us that sex is all about the body, and not about intimacy, then the only way to geta greater “high” or that same buzz is to watch weirder and weirder porn. I think most of us would be horrified if we saw what most porn today really is.It isn’t just pictures of Unclad women like there used to be in Playboy; most is very violent, extremely degrading, and very ugly. “Regular” intercourse is actually not depicted that often inporn, and so quite frequently the person who watches porn starts to get a warped view of what sex really is. And often they start to want weirder and weirder things.Now, I’m not against spicing things up , and I dothink lots of things can be fun! But when we’re wanting “more” because we’ve programmed ourselves to think “the weirder the sexier”, there’s a problem.
- 6. Porn Makes it Hard to Be Tender. When You Have Sex It’s no wonder, then, that people who use porn often have a hard time being tender when they have sex. Sex tends to be impersonal, rushed, and “forced”. I’m absolutelynot saying that all porn users rape their wives, but porn itself is often violent.There’s no pre-intimacy. There’s no waiting to arouse someone. It’s just taking what you want.Being tender means to be loving. It’s to give andto express affection. Because these things aren’t paired with sex in the porn users brain, tenderness and sex no longer go together.
- 7. Porn Trains You to Have Immediate Gratificationand Have a Difficult Time Lasting Long With porn, when you’re aroused you reach orgasm very quickly, because porn users tend to masturbate at the same time. Thus, orgasm tends to be very fast.The porn user hasn’t trained his body to draw out sex so that his spouse can get pleasure; his body is programmed to orgasm quickly. Many porn users, then, suffer from premature ejaculation. Some porn users go to the other extreme when they start suffering from erectile dysfunction .They have a difficult time remaining “hard” enough during sex because the stimulation isn’tenough. In their case, orgasm can take an eternity, if it’s possible at all. While both seem like polar opposites, the simple fact is that sexual dysfunction of some sort is one of the big negative effects of pornography.
- 8. Porn Gives You a Warped View of what Attractive Is.Sex is supposed to bond you physically, emotionally and spiritually with your spouse. But if porn has made the chemical pathways in your brain go haywire, then sex becomes only about the body.And porn shows you that only certain body typesare attractive. It’s not about the whole person; it’s just a certain type of person. If a woman gains even ten pounds, then, she’s no longer attractive, and the porn user has an honest to goodness difficult time getting aroused, because he associates only a certain body type with arousal. Porn has taught your brain that sex is only about the body, and not about the relationship, so if someone’s body isn’t exactly right, no arousal happens.
- 10. Porn Causes Selfishness.All of this causes a spiral of selfishness where the person ignoreshis spouse’s needs and is focused only on getting what he wants, and getting it instantly. Often this manifests itself in other areas of the relationship as well, where the spouse becomesannoyed if they have to wait for something, or if they don’t get what they want.Porn has sold them the message: you deserve pleasure when you want it. You shouldn’t have to work to get what you want. Your needs are paramount.It’s no wonder that shows up in other areas of your relationship. People who think that porn is harmless and simply helps people “get in the mood”, or “relieves frustration”, are kidding themselves. The chemical processes in our brains are really complicated, and when you start messing with them, it’s really difficult to develop a healthy sexuality again.However, it absolutely can be done! Later this year I’ll be working on an ebook about it, but fornow, these posts may help: Marriage Recovery after a Pornography Addiction Rewiring Your Brain After a Porn Addiction Also, let’s remember: too often we tell teenagers not to use porn because it’s a sin, and they’re not supposed to lust. I think we need to start tellingthem these ten things.If you want amazing sex when you’re older, don’t use porn now. If you do, you’re setting yourself up for a world of hurt. Ask teenagers, “who wants amazing sex when you’re married?”, and pretty much everyone will put uptheir hand.
- Then tell them: Use porn now, and you’ll make that almost impossible, without a major work ofGod in your life. Tell them the truth.
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