porn kills love

Class will be meeting next on Sunday, May 12.

Last time, we discussed how pornography kills love, degrades persons, and harms relationships. It also leads to a loss of personal freedom and often to addiction.

Key points:

Porn is any media — songs, stories, images, or videos — intended to arouse lust by showing nudity or sexual behavior.

Porn can harm the user by leading to an addiction. Especially in younger persons, it can lead to serious addictions and a warped understanding of love and sexuality.

The American Society for Addiction Medicine explains:
We all have the brain reward circuitry that makes food and sex rewarding. In fact, this is a survival mechanism. In a healthy brain, these rewards have feedback mechanisms for satiety or ‘enough.’ In someone with addiction, the circuitry becomes dysfunctional such that the message to the individual becomes ‘more’, which leads to the pathological pursuit of rewards and/or relief through the use of substances and behaviors.

In simpler terms, addiction involves changes in the brain that cause the following (and more):

Good Pictures, Bad Pictures by Kristen A. Jenson and Gail Poyner. I based my talk on this book plus online resources including those below.

All of the resources below include links to relevant research.

Protect Young Minds - Information for parents of younger children, from the authors of Good Pictures, Bad Pictures.

Fight the New Drug - Information for high-school students and older.

Class will be meeting next Sunday, May 29.

Last time, we discussed how pornography kills love, degrades persons, and harms relationships. It also leads to a loss of personal freedom and often to addiction.

Key points:

Porn is any media — songs, stories, images, or videos — intended to arouse lust by showing nudity or sexual behavior.

Porn can harm the user by leading to an addiction. Especially in younger persons, it can lead to serious addictions and a warped understanding of love and sexuality.

The American Society for Addiction Medicine explains:
We all have the brain reward circuitry that makes food and sex rewarding. In fact, this is a survival mechanism. In a healthy brain, these rewards have feedback mechanisms for satiety or ‘enough.’ In someone with addiction, the circuitry becomes dysfunctional such that the message to the individual becomes ‘more’, which leads to the pathological pursuit of rewards and/or relief through the use of substances and behaviors.

In simpler terms, addiction involves changes in the brain that cause the following (and more):