![]() ![]() “And how can I ever trust him again when he watches women do anything he wants?” asked one wife in a recent Psychology Today article. No woman can compete with endless images and videos of online porn. Men who view porn tend to have less desire for their own spouse. ![]() Truth #3: Porn Will Destroy Your Marriage In fact, almost half of all porn addicts will end up getting fired at some point for this very reason, according to the Family Research Council. Of course, none of this accounts for the risk of losing your job should workday porn use be discovered by your employer. Multiply that by the 25% of the employees a business may have, and you can see that this is a huge loss in dollars and productivity. Those lost minutes add up to over 30 hours a year on average (per employee) that is devoted to porn on the job. Employees who view pornography spend about one hour and 38 minutes a month doing so on the clock, according to the Nielsen survey. The average time spent visiting pornographic websites on company computers is 13 minutes per visit. Just how long are employees viewing porn during the workday? A Nielsen study put that percentage at 28% in 2010. In a 2013 Forbes article, Cheryl Conner noted that 25% of working adults admit to looking at porn on a computer at work. However, some people can’t even get through the workday without a fix. Half of all porn addicts who watch porn at work get fired at some point So we see that what you do in off-hours can bleed into your job or business. That is, if the same thing doesn’t happen again.Įven if you have your own business, you aren’t getting the sales, the new clients, or even the next great idea if you are operating like a zombie. You can imagine what that would do to your work performance that day and probably for several days after that. This means they are showing up to work on just a few hours of sleep (or even as little as one hour, according to one man who was willing to share his experience). Men who are addicted to porn have been known to stay up late at night watching it. Unless you are financially independent, you need to put in quality time (not just a lot of hours) in order to make a living. There are only 24 hours in a day and it’s how you spend them that count. The time you spend on porn is robbing you – literally. “Time is money,” Benjamin Franklin once said. Underactive in some areas and overactive in others, your brain displays this as bumps and craters which can be seen in scans. What all of this comes down to is: you now have an abnormal brain. Often, this leads to men seeking out more extreme forms of pornography, more frequently, as well as indulging in riskier behavior. In short, you need higher and stronger doses of dopamine to get your fix. How Sexual Sin Sears Your Conscience (VIDEO) Not only that, over time, you damage the brain’s pleasure center so that you are less able to experience normal pleasure. However, the desire to watch porn again returns with a vengeance. When those chemicals (strong as any drug!) hit, you feel better for a short period of time. It also sends a powerful jolt of dopamine and other hormones directly into your limbic system a lower part of the brain where pleasure is experienced and where you act on impulse. This part of your brain is responsible for impulse control and good decision making. Second, watching pornography bypasses and weakens the prefrontal cortex. Addiction provides a powerful pathway from ‘I don’t feel good’ to… ‘I feel magically wonderful.'” “The brain will do the thing with which it is most familiar. ![]() ![]() Jes Montgomery, psychiatrist and addictionologist, shares this in the Conquer Series, a cinematic study that helps men break free from porn: This strengthens porn’s hold on you, making it that much harder to try to break free.ĭr. There are two key points to understand here.įirst, your brain is constantly changing in response to your thoughts, actions and experience, creating trails in your brain.īy doing the same thing over and over, you strengthen those neural pathways – the trails in your brain – so that they fire on an automatic sequence. Tucker, PLLC, Diplomate, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, and appearing in the Conquer Series In both cases, you are changing the very structure of your brain. Truth #1: Porn Damages Your BrainĪ porn addict’s brain looks similar to a heroin addict’s in brain scan. Here are five major ways pornography usage will ruin your life unless you pursue a battle plan to conquer sexual addiction. Viewing porn results in a wide range of devastating consequences for you and others, including those closest to you. These are some of the lies the enemy would have us believe about pornography especially the last statement. ![]()
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