Top 1. 0 Effects of Porn on Your Brain, Your Marriage, and Your Sex Life. The effects of porn are devastating. Pornography is ravaging marriages. In our culture porn is treated as if its harmless, but its 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 dont 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. Heres the really devastating part Because so much of what porn does to you happens chemically in the brain, the porn use doesnt have to be going on NOW to have these effects. Timein techniques support childrens social and emotional needs when they become upset or are misbehaving. 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Tuesday, I thought Id share And rememberwomen use porn, too While some of these apply just to men, many of them apply to both genders. For sources of these claims, see the graphic at the bottom of the post. A look at the effects of watching porn on your marriage, your brain, and your sex life. We have to take this seriouslyTheyre all listed there. Porn Means You Cant 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. Thomas Trainz Mac. He conditioned the dog to associate ringing the bell with 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 its accompanied by orgasm sexual release through masturbation, then a chemical reaction happens and hormones are released. In effect, our brains start to associate arousal with an image, an idea, or a video, rather than a person. When you dont watch porn and save yourself until marriage, then all of those chemicals and hormones are released for the first time when youre with your spouse, and it causes you to bond intensely and sexually to your spouse. But when you spend a ton of time teaching your brain to associate arousal and release with pornography, your brain cant associate arousal and release with a person anymore. Either you have to fantasize about the porn, and get those images in your brain, or you have to watch porn first. Often people can complete the act, but its not intense for them the way porn is. Youve rewired your brain, and now youre salivating at the wrong thing. Porn Wrecks Your Libido. Its 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 love to 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 their twenties who say, my husband and I were both virgins when we married, and I thought hed want sex all the time. But after our honeymoon sex went to maybe twice a month, and thats only if I pressure him. He says he just isnt interested. With so many men growing up on porn, this is just to be expected. Porn Makes You Sexually Lazy. In porn, everyone is turned on all the time. You dont have to make any effort to arouse someone its automatic. There is no foreplay in porn. And so if your spouse isnt aroused  you start to think that its somehow their fault. Theres no expectation that we will have to woo someone or be affectionate and help jumpstart that arousal process. Its almost as if we approach sex as two different beings and were 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 were always thinking that the other is somehow frigid. Pornography teaches you that sex is about getting my needs met it isnt about meeting someone elses needs or experiencing something wonderful together. 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 doesnt 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 isnt even sexy anymore anonymous is whats sexy. Pro Karaoke Full Version. We may call having sex making love, but in reality they arent necessarily the same thing. Someone who has used porn extensively often has a difficult time experiencing any intimacy during sex, because those arousal and pleasure centers zero in only on the body. And thats 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 thats released at orgasm so that wed feel closer But if that hormone is released when no one is present, it stops having its effects. Sex no longer bonds you together. 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 get a 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 isnt just pictures of naked 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 in porn, 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, Im not against spicing things up, and I do think lots of things can be fun But when were wanting more because weve programmed ourselves to think the weirder the sexier, theres a problem. Porn Makes it Hard to Be Tender When You Have Sex. Its 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. Im absolutely not saying that all porn users rape their wives, but porn itself is often violent. Theres no foreplay. Theres no waiting to arouse someone. Its just taking what you want. Being tender means to be loving. Persian To English Dictionary. Its to give and to express affection. Because these things arent paired with sex in the porn users brain, tenderness and sex no longer go together. Porn Trains You to Have Immediate Gratification and Have a Difficult Time Lasting Long. With porn, when youre 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 hasnt 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. Can Affair Relationships SucceedDo Affairs Ever Work out I came across an interesting statistic recently 2. Actually, I was surprised, if I had to guess, I would have thought the figure to be much lower. For an update on this statistic go to Can Relationships That Start as Affairs Succeed Revisited But a statistic is just that, and doesnt tell you anything about your own individual situation. Feeling torn between two lovers can be an agonizing experience. Besides the guilt, and fear of discovery, you also know that sooner or later you will have to lose someone you love or have loved. Thinking about this, you may wonder what the chances are that a relationship that starts as an affair will succeed. Pitfalls of Affair Relationships. Relationships that start as affairs have many strikes against them. Many affairs are like rebound relationships. They can arise out of an urgent emotional need, a need so urgent that a thoughtful process of getting to know someone and assessing what kind of partnership the two of you would have is not part of the bonding process. Rebound and affair relationships frequently have rescue fantasies attached to them, these fantasies can be overpowering and cloud your vision. Sometimes relationships that start as affairs serve as an escape from difficult interpersonal dynamics in the primary relationship. Succumbing to the fantasy that the new relationship will be free of conflict or other emotional difficulties can be a setup for another failed relationship. We tend to repeat patterns over and over until we come to understand ourselves. Trust is the foundation of successful relationships. Another reason why many affair relationships fail is that it is difficult to deeply trust someone who has started the relationship by being unfaithful and deceitful with someone else. You cant help but understand that their solution to a difficult interpersonal situation was betrayal. In the initial blissful stage, it might be unimaginable that they could do the same thing to you, or that you could do the same thing to them, but once you hit the stresses of real everyday life, things can feel different and much less secure. Imagine you or your partner has to go on a lot of out of town business trips some years into the relationship during a time when you are struggling with conflict. What do you imagine you and your partner feelingThere is also the issue of not having the support of family and friends. Having long term successful relationships are difficult enough without trying to do them in a vacuum. Acceptance is usually won over eventually, but it can take a long time. Your new partner may truly be a wonderful person but many friends and family that are close to you are going to be so prejudiced that it will be hard to give the new person a chance. You face going from the bliss of secrecy into a tailspin of conflict with many people at once. Of course, you face this once the affair is disclosed, no matter who you end up with, but it is less awful if you are attempting to repair the damage with your primary partner. Of course you should not make your decisions based on what others would think or feel. But it is important to honestly assess your affair and think about whether this relationship could stand this kind of stress. Can the two of you exist in a relatively socially isolated situation for some time Losing a long term partner, even if things feel bad, is still a loss and needs to be grieved. New lovers vary on how willing and able they are to cope with your grief over losing your partner. You may stuff these feelings in order to maintain the new relationship, only to discover down the line that you have many unresolved feelings about your partner that are interfering in your new relationship. The question of whether the new relationship will succeed relates to what function it is playing in your relationship with your current partner. If you have the kind of primary relationship where you initially experienced a significant amount of time where you were mutually in love and satisfied with the relationship and then grew apart because of life stresses or conflict and you entered the affair to experience being in love again, this does not bode well for the long term success of the affair relationship. That is because almost all relationships follow a predictable course of developmental stages, all at some point going through a period of disillusionment. If you can get through this difficult phase, you have the potential of entering into a mature, dependable and sustaining love based much more on reality and much less on romantic idealization. If you deal with the disillusionment by betraying the commitment you have made, then you may not have the tools to navigate this stage which is waiting for you down the road in your new relationship. Affair Relationships That Have a Better Chance of Success. If, however, your primary relationshipmarriage was somehow wrong from the beginning if one or both of you werent in love, if it was a marriage of convenience, or if it has been mostly miserable or abusive, if it was simply to escape loneliness or have children, that is a different story. You may not have been equipped at that time in your life to make an appropriate choice for a life partner. Admitting the reality of these situation is painful because you can still feel very attached as distinct from connected to this person and the idea of leaving can fill you with dread of the loss of security this relationship has provided. In my experience, these relationships that were wrong from the start are very hard to repair. Meeting someone when you are more mature, know yourself better and have learned how to have relatively healthy relationships maybe you have been in therapy by now certainly can bode well for a promising future together. Meeting someone you respect, are attracted to, who genuinely cares about you, shares your values and at least a few interests, and with whom you can work through conflicts can be a catalyst for not only a great and lasting new relationship with a new person, but with yourself as well. For example, if, prior to entering your primary relationship, you had the unconscious belief that you were unlovable, or didnt deserve to be loved, you may have ended up with someone who couldnt really give you love. If you have changed, but your partner has not, and you now believe you deserve to be loved, and are truly willing to give love in return you will be attracted to the kind of person who would be capable of this kind of reciprocity. The whole foundation for your relationship would be quite different than what you have experienced before. What Next With all of this said, I believe that in most cases the most promising path is to separate the question of whether you want to end things with your current partner from whether you want to have a relationship with this new person. If the aloneness that this entails feels too intolerable to you, talking to a professional might be very helpful. Admittedly, it is the road less traveled but most often has the richest rewards.