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When pornography takes over, spousal love is suffocated. If a partner
doesn't stop viewing pornography, there is a high possibility the marriage
will end in divorce. In testimony to the United States Senate, Dr. Jill
Manning reported that “56 percent of divorce cases involved one party
having an obsessive interest in pornographic websites.” There can be no
place for two different lovers in a marriage. Too many addicts choose to
give up on their spouses rather than give up pornography.
2. It’s addictive
There's a reason why some experts have called pornography "the drug of
the new millennium." It has been suggested that pornography is far more
addictive and destructive than hard drugs like heroin and cocaine, working
in the same way as a chemical drug — only with more power because it
deals with carnal thoughts and behaviors. It takes over a person's thinking.
3. It spoils intimate relationships
Pornography's portrayals are fake. The subjects are actors. There is no
love involved. Porn paints a false picture of intimacy. A spouse cannot live
up to this untrue image, and marital intimacy becomes less fulfilling.
Pornography kills the beautiful tenderness of marital affection. It leaves
victims lonely, unable to enjoy normal relationships with their spouses.
4. It negatively affects your brain
Research suggests that pornography causes ADHD, social anxiety,
depression, performance anxiety and OCD. In a TED talk from physiology
teacher, Gary Wilson, titled "The great porn experiment," Wilson addresses
the effects of pornography on the brain. Since watching porn releases
dopamine, he states that “too much dopamine can override our natural
satiation mechanisms.” The result is that the brain experiences physical
changes, including a numbed pleasure response that causes real intimacy
to become unfulfilling. This change also creates hyperreactivity to
pornographic material, causing an insatiable appetite for it. Will power is
eroded. When this happens, all that matters is viewing more pornography.
5. It causes you to lose respect for women
The continual viewing of pornography promotes the degradation of women.
Porn promotes the falsehood that women are objects with which to fulfill
carnal pleasure.
6. It causes you to lose respect for men