Porn: The New Narcotic

[Sevenseas]

Philippians 4:8

[Sevenseas]

 

Just look around on the websites they are loaded with porn.I can go to a very simple website searching for something very simple and innocent.Their is porn everywhere.Satan loves it .It is temptation.To me it is obnoxious.Porn is alot easier to come by and cheaper than cocaine.But just as damaging.

 

 

 

Your claim that the entire internet is loaded with porn is incorrect.  There may be some validity to the article, which apparently the op wanted to discuss.  

 

If you are seeing porn pop up all over on your computer, then you should adjust your browser settings...purge your cache...and be careful what you open up

 

There is absolutely no need to be burdened with viewing objectionable material online.  

 

As I already stated, I can look around on the internet all day and not see one thing that could be classified as porn...by you or anyone else.  

 

I think that the op may have wanted to discuss a comparison to addictive behavior as per the article and not how women dress or what appears on one's computer

 

There have been numerous threads in which attire has been discussed and what one considers porn, disgusting and or tempting.  That is not what the op is about

[Sevenseas]

A new British study finds that addiction to pornography leads to similar brain activity patterns found in alcohol and drug addicts.

Researchers from Cambridge University found that MRI scans of 19 addictive pornography users showed that the reward centers of the brain reacted to explicit images in a similar way that an alcoholic might respond to liquor or beer advertisements.

"We found greater activity in an area of the brain called the ventral striatum, which is a reward center, involved in processing reward, motivation and pleasure," lead scientist Dr. Valerie Voon told the Sunday Times in the UK.

 

"When an alcoholic sees an ad for a drink, their brain will light up in a certain way and they will be stimulated in a certain way. We are seeing this same kind of activity in users of pornography."

The study is yet to be published, but UK viewers can see it featured in a Channel 4 documentary titled "Porn on the Brain," airing September 30.

Preliminary findings in a separate study from the University of Sydney find that porn addiction is on the rise, due to the ease of access via the internet and other new technologies, researchers say.

 

 

This, is the study.   Apparently it was done at Cambridge University and the article linked to in the op is a blog post.  This study has been picked up by newspapers, reporters and the like and is all over the

internet because it is relatively new and conclusions are not actually concrete, so, to state that it is a proven fact is not actually so.

 

Addictions are not simple to begin with and not all personalities are susceptible.  

[nikki1]

 

and some people seem to love to talk about porn, bad girls and how awful others dress

 

it's a good thing we have threads like this because of course, none of us know any of this

 

yes I am being sarcastic...I don't know how many threads on what others think of how some women dress, how bad those women are, how nasty they are, how terrible we have to

see them, how much satan uses them, how we should all dress like momons and wear magic underwear or dress like Amish and ride to work on horses (oh wait we couldn't go to work

out of the community) or how awful that men are tempted by these she devils in a red dress

 

so glad we have a new platform to do all that again because it has been so engaging, delightful and encouraging

Proverbs 27:6 Faithful are the wounds of a friend,

But the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.

 

2 Timothy 2:24-25 And a servant of the Lord must not quarrel but be gentle to all, able to teach, patient, ²⁵ in humility correcting those who are in opposition, if God perhaps will grant them repentance, so that they may know the truth,

 

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; ⁵ does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; ⁶ does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; ⁷ bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

 

Galatians 5: 22-23 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, ²³ gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.

 

 

HuH?  I don't get how the above scriptures apply to sevenseas comments?  I see sevenseas comments as a reproof or rebuke as in

 

Reprove not a scoffer, lest he hate you: rebuke a wise man, and he will love you.

 

Proverbs 9:8  KJV

[WIP]

Here is a really good article I stumbled across.

 

 http://www.desiringgod.org/blog/posts/pornography-the-new-narcotic?utm_content=bufferf3482&utm_source=buffer&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=Buffer

 

It explains why porn is so addictive and how your brain is affected by it. Very informative. 

  

It is very informative..thanks for posting this

 

Bottom line is BOTH are soul destroying....

[Guest Butero]

Here is a really good article I stumbled across.

 

 http://www.desiringgod.org/blog/posts/pornography-the-new-narcotic?utm_content=bufferf3482&utm_source=buffer&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=Buffer

 

It explains why porn is so addictive and how your brain is affected by it. Very informative. 

The article is interesting, and it may be 100 percent right?  I do believe pornogaphy is addictive, but I would have liked the specifics about the neurological studies, and how they were done?  How did they determine their were changes in the brain? 

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Why would porn be literally addictive? I don't get it. We are entirely too quick to label things as addictions. Yes, if you do x and it's pleasurable, you are more inclined to do thing x again. Is that all that we mean? Because that learned behavior applies to just about anything.

[Guest Butero]

Why would porn be literally addictive? I don't get it. We are entirely too quick to label things as addictions. Yes, if you do x and it's pleasurable, you are more inclined to do thing x again. Is that all that we mean? Because that learned behavior applies to just about anything.

The article claims changes to the brain as a result of porn.  That is why I would have liked more information about the study and how it was conducted? 

[alphaparticle]

 

Why would porn be literally addictive? I don't get it. We are entirely too quick to label things as addictions. Yes, if you do x and it's pleasurable, you are more inclined to do thing x again. Is that all that we mean? Because that learned behavior applies to just about anything.

The article claims changes to the brain as a result of porn.  That is why I would have liked more information about the study and how it was conducted? 

 

Any repetitive activity will change the brain, that seems trivial to me.

[Guest Butero]

 

 

Why would porn be literally addictive? I don't get it. We are entirely too quick to label things as addictions. Yes, if you do x and it's pleasurable, you are more inclined to do thing x again. Is that all that we mean? Because that learned behavior applies to just about anything.

The article claims changes to the brain as a result of porn.  That is why I would have liked more information about the study and how it was conducted? 

 

Any repetitive activity will change the brain, that seems trivial to me.

 

If there are actual changes in the brain, then the article has merit.  The changes in the brain create an addiction.