In this post, we discuss the hot topic of Internet porn addiction. How To Overcome Your Internet Porn Addiction – The Complete Guide Fading unhealthy pathways and strengthening healthy pathways.Becoming a participant rather than a voyeur.Altered stress response due to porn addiction.Weakening of Hypo-frontal lobes and loss of willpower.A decline in dopamine: a loss of 'grey matter'.Desensitisation and the 'acquisition' of new fetishes.How desensitisation affects Internet porn addicts.Brain changes associated with Internet porn addiction.Incentive salience: when wanting is divorce from liking.Similarities between Internet porn and drug addiction.Conditions that encourage unnatural pathways for Internet porn addiction.Competing pathways for porn and normal sexual experiences.The dangers of watching porn for adolescent males.Neuroplasticity: how new reward pathways arise.Nerve cells that fire together will wire together.Sensitised pathways remain even when you quit your addiction.DeltaFosB and genetic survival via memory and repetition.Rewiring reward pathways and sensitisation.Replacing the need for real sexual experiences.Skewing what's acceptable sexual behaviour.What are the consequences of all this dopamine?.Ever more shocking genres of porn to keep dopamine souring.How Internet porn elevates dopamine levels.Young men showing no interest in 'real' sex.Internet pornography and the Coolidge effect.Why Internet porn is similar to drug addiction.Reward circuits: seeking pleasure and avoiding pain.How Internet porn addiction causes these diverse symptoms and conditions.
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