A doctor has revealed what happens to your body when you take a break from watching p*rn.
Now, addiction comes in all sorts of forms, and excessively consuming adult content for short-term gratification is perhaps one of the least-discussed ones.
In this society, we have seemingly normalized the negative impact erotic content can have on our brains, but a doctor has gone viral yet again after a segment of his appearance on a podcast recently resurfaced.
US neuroscientist Dr Andrew Huberman took the time to explain to young men - who are seemingly more at risk from mental health issues due to their consumption of regular adult content - the real-life impact watching p*rn regularly can have on one's brain function.
"The brain is a learning prediction machine and I'm not trying to say that all *ornography is bad," he said on an episode of Chris Williamson's Modern Wisdom podcast. "But there is good data to support the idea that if your brain learns to be aroused by watching other people have sex, it is not necessarily going to carry over to the ability to get aroused when you're one-on-one with somebody else."
He added that this behavior can go on to create "challenges with sexual interactions with a real partner."
Huberman then went on to discuss how the excessive consumption of p*rn can desensitize us to other content, leaving the door open for more extreme/violent content to try and achieve that same hit as the first time.
"Extremely palatable food, extreme p*rnography, extreme experiences like bungee cord jumping - those set a threshold for dopamine release," he explained. "The higher the dopamine peak, the bigger the drop afterwards. It's not that you drop to baseline, you drop below baseline."
He continued: “The amount of dopamine released over time goes down and down and down and pretty much traversing into the level of pain. People are back to this thing where they’re scrolling internet p*rn eight, nine, then hours a day and they’re wondering why this isn’t effective for them anymore."
However, there is a way to fix this issue and it's pretty simple: Stop watching it altogether.
If you go cold turkey on the act, it can actually bring the baseline back down, altering your dopamine fix back to a normal level.
"When people are pursuing dopamine peaks over and over and over and they aren't getting them, typically it's because they've been pursuing that activity far too often," Huberman said.
"Staying out of high-intensity, highly rewarding activities could be useful in terms of re-establishing the dopamine balance," he added.
Watch the full segment below:So there we have it guys, try and stay away from p*rn if you want to be able to develop meaningful connections with your partners. Or better yet, rather than searching for your high in videos, why not try initiating actual sexy time with your lover - it's much more fun.
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