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<ul><li>Psychological Impact of Addiction: Chronic porn use can increase feelings of anxiety, depression, and isolation, reducing mental health.</li><li>Reduced Enjoyment of Everyday Life: The numbing effect of desensitization lowers the brain’s ability to find joy in daily activities, often resulting in low motivation and energy.</li></ul>

4. Increased Anxiety and Depression

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<ul><li>High-Speed Internet and Accessibility: The endless variety and speed of internet porn make it more addictive than traditional media.</li><li>Personalized Recommendations Fuel the Cycle: Algorithms that suggest similar content increase engagement and make it harder for users to stop.</li></ul>

9. The Role of Technology in Addiction

<ul><li>Reduced Interest in Real-Life Partners: Regular porn use makes real-life relationships feel less exciting or satisfying, leading users to prefer virtual over real experiences.</li><li>Lack of Emotional Exchange: Pornography provides one-way gratification, lacking the emotional connections that foster strong, meaningful relationships.</li></ul>

3. Impact on Real-World Relationships

<ul><li>Increased Self-Esteem and Motivation: Users who quit often feel more self-confident and driven in their personal and professional lives.</li><li>Improved Relationships and Mental Clarity: Many report deeper connections in relationships and an enhanced ability to enjoy life fully.</li></ul>

10. Long-Term Benefits of Quitting Porn

<ul><li>Emergence of Porn-Induced Erectile Dysfunction (PIED): A concerning trend is the rise of erectile dysfunction in young men directly tied to excessive porn consumption.</li><li>Decreased Real-World Attraction: Men experiencing PIED often find it difficult to be aroused by real-life partners, further alienating them from healthy relationships.</li></ul>

5. Erectile Dysfunction in Young Men

<ul><li>Need for Intensity and Novelty: Over time, regular porn use requires more extreme or novel content to achieve the same level of satisfaction.</li><li>Lowered Sensitivity to Real-Life Pleasure: This escalation results in desensitization, where normal, real-world experiences bring less pleasure, creating a cycle of dependency on porn for satisfaction.</li></ul>

2. Escalation and Desensitization

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<ul><li>Identifying and Managing Triggers: Wilson suggests strategies such as identifying personal triggers and practicing mindfulness to manage cravings.</li><li>Support Systems: Accountability partners and support groups can help users maintain their goals and avoid relapse.</li></ul>

8. Self-Control Techniques

<ul><li>Overstimulation of Dopamine: Internet porn overstimulates the brain’s reward system, causing a surge of dopamine – the pleasure chemical. This effect is far stronger than what is triggered by everyday rewards.</li><li>Rewiring of Priorities: The brain begins to prioritize pornography as a primary source of pleasure, sidelining healthier activities and relationships.</li></ul>

1. Pornography Hijacks the Brain’s Reward System

<ul><li>Neuroplasticity and Recovery: The brain is adaptable, allowing for recovery when a user stops consuming porn. Abstinence gives the brain a chance to reset.</li><li>Improved Mental Health with Time: Many users who quit report improvements in mood, mental clarity, and enjoyment of relationships and activities.</li></ul>

6. The Science of Rewiring the Brain

<ul><li>Common Withdrawal Symptoms: When quitting, users often experience mood swings, irritability, and cravings, making the process challenging.</li><li>Risk of Relapse: The difficulty of overcoming withdrawal makes relapse common, though gradual progress is possible with determination.</li></ul>

7. Withdrawal and Relapse

Over 100,000 copies sold! When Your Brain on Porn was first published the porn industry and its lobbyists reacted with outrage. How could a commodity so popular - and so profitable - be a problem? But evidence of porn's addictiveness has been accumulating ever since. In February 2022 the peer-reviewed journal Psychological Medicine published a large-scale, longitudinal study that confirmed what many users and former users of digital pornography had figured out for themselves: 'porn - a male-dominated industry that targets a male-dominated audience - is associated with the erosion of the quality of men's sex lives.' In the same month the World Health Organization issued a clarification to its diagnosis of Compulsive Sexual Behaviour Disorder. Contrary to the claims of a vocal group of sexologists, the WHO insisted that the disorder 'may be expressed in a variety of behaviours, including sexual behaviour with others, masturbation, use of pornography, cybersex (including internet sex), telephone sex, and other forms of repetitive sexual behaviour.' Compulsive porn use is now recognised as a pathology by the world's leading health experts, in the most widely used diagnostic manual on the planet. This should not be surprising. As soon as high-speed internet became widely available a decade ago, growing numbers of people began to worry that their porn use was running out of control. Far from preparing them for fulfilling relationships, viewing an endless stream of porn videos led to unexpected adverse effects. Perhaps most surprisingly, for the first time in history erectile dysfunction was becoming a pervasive problem for young men. This led to one of the largest informal experiments in the history of science. Tens of thousands of people have tried abstaining from sexually stimulating material in a process they call 'rebooting'. Many of them reported startling changes, from improved concentration and elevated mood to a greater capacity for real-life intimacy. The late Gary Wilson listened to the stories of those who have tried giving up internet porn and related them to an account of how the reward system of the brain interacts with its environment. A growing body of research is definitively confirming what these pioneers discovered for themselves - internet pornography can be seriously addictive and damaging. No doubt the porn lobby will continue to try to sow doubt and distraction. But the evidence of both formal science and lived experience is now overwhelming. In Your Brain on Porn Gary Wilson draws on both first-person accounts and research findings. In a voice that is generous and humane, he offers advice for those who want to stop using internet pornography. The publication of Your Brain on Porn is a landmark in our attempts to understand, and remain balanced in, a world where addiction is big business. Praise for Your Brain on Porn In Your Brain on Porn Gary Wilson sets out to explain how abundant free pornography is causing serious problems for thousands of, mostly young, people. Your Brain on Porn gives guidance on how to break out of addictive porn use. - Dr Nicole Oei PhD, Addiction, Development and Psychopathology (Adapt) Lab, Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam Your Brain on Porn is the most considered, thorough and accurate account of internet porn addiction that exists at the time of writing.- Anthony I. Jack, Professor of Philosophy, Psychology, Neurology and Neuroscience, Case Western Reserve University

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