According to brain scans, watching pornography has the same effects as drinking alcohol. When you masturbate to porn, a neurological pathway that releases pleasure hormones is activated just like when you drink alcohol or use recreational drugs.
Almost every human engages in the natural act of masturbation. However, a person who can't stop watching porn will masturbate at the same rate and intensity as a drug or alcohol addict.
What are some warning signs?
- Even if you don't feel sexually stimulated, you still masturbate.
- Your default response while experiencing unpleasant feelings, such as anger, worry, tension, or despair, is to masturbate for solace.
- After masturbating, you experience guilt, discomfort, or upset.
- Masturbation affects your relationships, work, and in personal life.
- You might miss appointments, postpone activities, or leave social functions early to masturbate.
- You engage in masturbating in public because you can't wait to get home.
- You masturbate for hours to the point that you hurt yourself.
- Your sex life becomes less fulfilling.
- Relationship problems and you have little affection for your partner because of pornography and masturbation.
- You experience erectile dysfunction.
- A person engages in risky activity just to watch porn like viewing it in public.
- You watch increasingly intense and weird types of porn.
- Despite feeling angry or humiliated after seeing porn, you keep doing it.
- You spend a lot of money on porn, for example, you are subscribed to many only fans' accounts.
If these describes you, then you need to get help.