Is porn bad for you? - Yes and here's why

Lets talk about chemicals in your body. For men, there's five main chemicals involved in sexual stimuli. You might have already heard about this but the one that plays the most important role in this activity is dopamine. Dopamine is responsible for rewarding your brain when it does something that your body of flesh really wants. So when you watch porn you are making your body think its getting the real flesh contact when in reality it really is not.

If this doesn't break it to you lot of the drugs that we have come to understand are harmful for our health directly affect dopamine such as cocaine, amphetamine, and methamphetamine. Dopamine surges when you are exposed to imaginary stimuli, specially if it is sexual. Because almost every time erotic imagery triggers more dopamine than sex with a familiar partner, exposure to pornography leads to arousal addiction and teaches our brain to prefer the image and become less satisfied with real life sexual partners.

If that isn't enough to convince you consider this.

Scientific findings by German researchers indicated that gray matter volume of the right caudate of the striatum is smaller with higher pornography use, referring to an area of the brain associated with reward processing and motivation. Men who watched more porn also showed less activity in another area of the striatum, called the left putamen, which usually lights up in response to sexual images.

Heavy porn consumers also had a weaker connection between the striatum and the prefrontal cortex, an area of the brain associated directly with decision-making ability.