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Does porn addiction cause irreversible damage to the brain?

It’s a common and erroneous belief that addiction equals “harm” to the brain, or that addiction is caused by “damage” to the brain. While certain addictive substances (meth, alcohol) can be neurotoxic, addiction is caused by a specific constellation of brain changes that are not necessarily classified as “brain damage”. Debunking the damage as addiction […]

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Remove your incentive (masturbation)

Here’s one guy’s creative solution to getting past the first few days of withdrawal cravings

I made quite a few attempts at “rebooting”, but ultimately couldn’t make it past first four full days. Until I tried a different approach, similar to what I used when I was trying to stop myself from (1) constantly drinking excessive amounts of coffee and (2) playing computer games.

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DSM-5 Attempts to Sweep Porn Addiction Under the Rug (2011)

Finally, the American Society of Addiction Medicine has acted, since the DSM would not. The Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders work group for the upcoming Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) is currently discussing whether to demote the proposed “Hypersexual Disorder” (which addresses compulsive porn use, among other behaviors) from Sexual Dysfunctions to […]

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Can Pornography Use Become An Actual Brain Addiction? (2011)

COMMENTS: This a lay version of Dr. Hilton’s “Pornography Addiction: A Neuroscience Perspective”, that is found in this same section. he makes some interesting points about mirror neurons and deltafosb, that we have yet to discuss. He is convinced, as we are, that natural rewards can be addictive and cause the same fundamental brain changes as drugs. We emphasize how dopamine is affected by the novelty of Internet porn, the seeking of users, ever shocking material. Our point is that Internet porn is different from porn of the recent past in how it affects the dopamine systems.

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Move your furniture around

moving eyesAddiction researchers speak of a phenomenon called “conditioned place preference” as being a big factor in relapse. If researchers move rats from the cage in which they became hooked on a drug to another cage and offer them the drug, they often won’t use it. But if they return them to the original cage, the rats almost always begin using again.

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