The rising usage of porn, especially among young men is now a public health crisis. In this article, I’m gonna list the top 7 reasons why porn is a public health crisis.
Our society doesn’t consider compulsive porn usage as an addiction. Porn addiction is not seen as damaging or dangerous behavior.
But in reality, porn addiction is as worse as alcohol or drug addiction, if not more.
1) Porn Makes Men Think it’s Ok to be Aggressive During Sex
Porn is made keeping in mind the young male viewer. They are the biggest consumer of porn.
In most of the porn available online, you see men being dominant and aggressive and women being submissive. Practices like choking, gagging, or hair-pulling is a common thing you see in those videos and it makes men think these are all part of sex.
Men think that women screaming and moaning during sex is normal and when they have sex with a partner and they don’t scream or moan, they think something is wrong, either with them or with their partner. And they try harder and become more aggressive to make the woman moan or scream.
Porn makes men think that they should always be aggressive during sex and being aggressive is the only way they’ll find pleasure.
2) Porn Sets Unrealistic Beauty Standards for Women
Most of the women you see in porn have the perfect body. They have a pretty face, big boobs and booty, narrow waist, and overall perfect body.
This sets an unrealistic beauty standard for women both in the eyes of men and women.
Men think that the women they see in porn is how a woman should look like and they expect their women to do all the things with them that the women in porn do.
Women compare themselves to porn actresses and think they are not good enough, they don’t have the perfect face, boobs, booty, and overall body. It harms their self-esteem and causes an inferiority complex in them.
3) Porn Makes Unnatural Sexual Behaviour Ok
Porn makes people think that practices like Ass to mouth, double penetration, injecting things into the vagina are normal and are part of sex. It promotes unnatural and dangerous practices like these.
Porn makes practices like mouth fucking, butt hole fucking, BDSM seems Ok and normal. As a result, people who watch porn want to try these things with their partners.
Porn makes people think that they need to perform extreme and aggressive acts in order to enjoy sex. It makes them think the more extreme the sex is, the more enjoyable it becomes. Of course, these things are far from the truth.
When people can’t convince their partner to perform extreme sexual acts with them, they start losing interest in them. This is one of the main reasons why sexual activity decreases between partners and they drift apart.
4) Erectile Dysfunction
In the past, erectile dysfunction(ED) was seen mostly among older men. But now, more and more young people find themselves suffering from it.
Porn Induced Erectile Dysfunction(PIED) is a very real thing and has been on the rise in young men.
People who watch excessive porn find it difficult to get an erection and keep it while having sex with a partner.
If you want to know more about porn-induced erectile dysfunction(PIED), check out my detailed article on the topic by clicking here.
5) Porn Promotes Rape Culture
In the majority of porn, men do whatever they want with women. They make them choke while pulling their hair, slap them, verbally abuse them, and humiliate them and the women do nothing. This is nothing short of rape.
Watching these videos, men think it’s OK to do these things to women and that’s how good sex should be.
This is one of the reasons why marital rape has been on the rise.
6) Porn Addiction Could Lead to Depression
When you watch porn and ejaculate, your brain thinks you just had sex with a real partner and passed on your genes, so it releases a “feel good” chemical known as dopamine to reward you as your brain can’t differentiate between having real sex with a partner and watching virtual sex(porn).
As a result of a huge rush of dopamine, your dopamine receptors get desensitized and will now need a relatively more amount of dopamine to give you the same level of pleasure. As a result, activities that don’t give you that huge rush of dopamine, don’t excite you anymore and you don’t feel like doing them. To know more about dopamine, and how porn and masturbation damage your brain, check out my THIS ARTICLE.
Since normal day-to-day activities can’t give you the same level of dopamine as porn, you don’t feel like doing them and keep going back to porn to satisfy your high level of dopamine need. As a result, you start losing interest in normal day-to-day activities and start feeling sad and unmotivated all the time, which is one of the symptoms of depression.
Low dopamine levels have been linked to depression and various symptoms of depression.
I asked people the question whether porn and masturbation gave them depressive symptoms or not on my Instagram page(@the_fapstronaut). Let’s look at what they say.
96% of people said that porn and masturbation gave them depressive symptoms, while 4% said it didn’t.
7) Porn Could Potentially Make Men Sex Offenders
Most of the men found guilty of rape or sexual harassment admit to having a compulsion to watch porn and are heavy consumers of porn.
This does not mean that every person who watches porn or every porn addict will be a sex offender. But, porn does make men aggressive and violent and a lot of sex offenders are porn addicts.
In porn, men usually do not ask permission from women and do whatever they like and women are always sex-ready. It makes men think this is the reality and they don’t bother to ask women’s opinion. Porn is many things, reality is not one of them.
If you want to know how porn damages your brain and how you can quit this addiction, check out the book “Your Brain on Porn” by Gary Wilson on Amazon. It’s the best book I’ve read on the topic.
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Conclusion
Here are the top 7 reasons why porn is a public health crisis:-
- Porn Makes Men Think it’s Ok to be Aggressive During Sex
- Porn Sets Unrealistic Beauty Standards for Women
- Porn Makes Unnatural Sexual Behaviour Ok
- Erectile Dysfunction
- Porn Promotes Rape Culture
- Porn Addiction Could Lead to Depression
- Porn Could Potentially Make Men Sex Offenders
Porn is the new drug. It damages your mental and physical health. The amount of aggression and violence in porn has been on the rise. High-speed internet porn is a serious issue the world is facing today.
