According to researchers and clinicians at a Senate Hearing.
It kinda amuses me somewhat, especially what it’s supposed to cause. Let’s run down the list, as it pertains to me:
Addiction: No shit sherlock. I look at porn daily.
Misogyny: I’m no mysogynist, bitch. snickers Anyways…
Pedophilia: Am I normal in saying that I prefer people with actual busts and functional equipment?
Boob jobs: … right.
Erectile dysfunction: Run that by me again?
Here’s a few other choice excerpts:
Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kansas), the subcommittee’s chairman, called the hearing the most disturbing one he’d ever seen in the Senate. Brownback said porn was ubiquitous now, compared to when he was growing up and “some guy would sneak a magazine in somewhere and show some of us, but you had to find him at the right time.”
That’s because, unlike other people, you’re still uncomfortable with whackin’ it.
Jeffrey Satinover, a psychiatrist and advisor to the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality echoed Layden’s concern about the internet and the somatic effects of pornography.
“Pornography really does, unlike other addictions, biologically cause direct release of the most perfect addictive substance,” Satinover said. “That is, it causes masturbation, which causes release of the naturally occurring opioids. It does what heroin can’t do, in effect.”
And that, my friends, is why masturbation is bad for you. Mind you, this is from a guy at the “National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality” which brings thoughts of the old belief that homosexuality is a mental disorder. And I’m supposed to take this seriously how?
Pornography addicts have a more difficult time recovering from their addiction than cocaine addicts, since coke users can get the drug out of their system, but pornographic images stay in the brain forever, Layden said.
As Saladin said about this: “If that’d be true my head wouldn’t contain anything else than a huge stash of porn” I can remember the majority of fantasies I have had of Weiila (mostly mental constructs), while I can’t remember what I beat off too last night. I forget about the porn an hour after I look at it. Is it supposed to be like chinese food or am I just abnormal?
Queen also criticized the methodology behind research showing that pornography stimulates the brain like drugs do, saying the research needs to take into account how sex itself stimulates the brain.
“There’s no doubt the brain lights up when sexually aroused,” Queen said.
I know she’s on my side, but I keep getting images of heads lighting up during orgasm.
Queen too would like to see more money devoted to research on sex, but thinks it is unlikely that researchers on either side of the divide are likely to receive large grants any time soon.
Studies intended to show the harmful effects of pornography must contend with ethical rules prohibiting harm to human subjects, while sex researchers have a hard time getting any funding, unless their study is specifically HIV-related, according to Queen.
The problem being that most people are still uncomfortable about sex. Stupid really. Oh well.