Par-’s Reviews > Your Brain On Porn: Internet Pornography and the Emerging Science of Addiction > Status Update
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“More porn use correlated with less gray matter and reduced reward activity (in the dorsal striatum) when viewing sexual images. More porn use also correlated with weakened connections to the seat of our willpower, the frontal cortex.”
— Aug 10, 2020 09:51AM
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Too much stimulation weakens pair bonds. Also, after pornography consumption, subjects of both sexes report less satisfaction with their intimate partner – including the partner's affection, appearance, sexual curiosity and performance.
— Aug 06, 2020 12:01PM
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What makes internet pornography addiction so troubling is that it represents a tuning of the reward system from a very healthy type of reward, that of forming a genuine and intimate connection with another, into a type of reward that removes the user from social contact.
— Aug 06, 2020 01:25AM
