Porn is destroying your life. = Thread =
65% of men watch porn in 2022. It's a growing addiction and taking the; • Drive • Ambition • Motivation • Self-esteem • Self-confidence Of many unfortunate men. Here's 8 ways porn is destroying your life: (A thread to wake you up)
1. Increased social anxiety. Porn destroys your self-esteem. As your esteem diminishes, you start to worry more and more about being judged by others, even those who are close to you. Over time, the effects can become devastating and lead to social withdrawal.
2. Lower energy. When you watch porn you cause physical damage to your brain. When you masturbate you are giving away your life energy. Semen has the power to create another human, full of vitamins and energy. You are wasting your life energy.
3. Makes you feel guilty. Why? Because watching porn violates your sense of right and wrong ways for you to behaviour. Your personal code of conduct, the honourable way for a guy like you to be.
4. It causes depression. Watching porn releases large amounts of dopamine in our brains. Porn down-regulates dopamine receptors as a way to maintain homoeostasis. This takes away your happiness from everyday moments and times you should be enjoying.
5. It weakens willpower. As dopamine receptors decline in the brain, so do the amount of neural cells in the prefrontal lobes. This then weakens your willpower. This is what makes quitting porn addiction challenging.
6. It destroys productivity. There are no limits to consumption with porn so you can spend as long as you want watching it. The average porn addicted male watches anywhere between 4 - 12 hours per week. That’s essentially an entire work day wasted that you’ll never get back.
7. You’ll start hating your body. When you watch porn you can start comparing yourself to the actors. Very quickly you'll develop insecurities about your body and self-image. Compare yourself to a porn star is ridiculous because they are chosen for the way they look.
8. Porn causes you to stop appreciating people. Porn is designed to appeal to our fantasies where everything is perfect. Because of that its easy to stop appreciating real partners. When you quit porn, you'll start appreciating people the way they are.
