Porn Causes Drop In Mental Power, Study Says

By Paul Gaita 6/18/14

A new German study about the association between pornography and the brain revealed a significant drop in brain activity in the prefrontal lobes and the prefrontal cortex with both parts being associated with porn use.

Conducted at the Max Planck Institute in Berlin, the study was published on May 28, 2014 by Simone Kühn and Jürgen Gallinat in JAMA Psychiatry and speculated that the loss of brain power was a result of over-stimulation of the brain’s reward center. When porn is consumed, the brain’s reward center in the prefrontal lobes lights up. The downside of such over-stimulation is noticeable brain impairment in relation to other functions and a general loss of mental power.

“Since pornography appeared on the Internet, the accessibility, affordability, and anonymity of consuming visual sexual stimuli have increased and attracted millions of users," the authors wrote. "Based on the assumption that pornography consumption bears resemblance with reward-seeking behavior, novelty-seeking behavior, and addictive behavior, we hypothesized alterations of the frontostriatal network in frequent users.”

In a study of sixty-four healthy male adults with a wide range of habitual pornography consumption at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, the reported hours of usage was catalogued on a weekly basis. The published report on the study described the methodology of how “[p]ornography consumption was associated with neural structure, task-related activation, and functional resting-state connectivity.”

The researchers found a significant negative association between reported pornography hours per week and gray matter volume in the parts of the brain related to consumption. Such a noticeable loss could reflect change in neural plasticity as a consequence of an intense stimulation of the reward system. At the same time, it could be a precondition that makes pornography consumption more rewarding. Although further study will be needed, a major implication of such results is that passing on pornography is undoubtedly a smart thing to do.


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Now we know what was wrong with Mikey, The Arm and Cornuto.

Watching porno's all day long can't be good for you. On the other hand using girls who make porno's might be a lot of fun.

I'm one dumb mf'er then! Haha

I can even get the wife to watch every now and then.

Haha I saw a documentary on youtube about young men in the UK who were supposedly "addicted" to porn.

Did the study check the grip strength of the subject? Their brain may be compromised, but their forearm muscles might have grown.

Doesn't it make you go blind?




TIS

That's why I watch while wearing a patch over one eye.

Ha ha ha ha ha!!!! What am I doing in this thread?



TIS

Don't they get hairy palms?

I went to Catholic school in the early 60's,and one day,the Nun who taught Health class told us that masturbation could make you go blind.
So I asked her if I could just do it until I needed glasses.

LOL!

What did she say?

Were the nuns at your school mean? I heard that decades ago some were and would hit students with rulers or their hands for no reason at all, if they thought you were bad or just did not like you.

A guy has his first physical after retiring. Dr. says, "You're in good shape overall. But I notice that your penis has a strange, orange color. I can't diagnose it. Are you doing anything different since you retired?"

"Yes," says the guy. "I watch porn all day and eat Cheetos."

The older nuns seemed to have a mean streak in them. We had a few who would absolutely use a ruler or pointer to crack you on your butt or the back of your head or wherever they felt like it. One time, when I was in 2nd or 3rd grade,I was in the cloakroom(Catholic school term for coatroom) and I accidentally knocked another kids metal lunchbox on the floor.
This nun left her desk,came into the cloakroom,saw what happened,and said"You naughty thing!". She then slapped me across the face. It wasn't a full force blow,but it was hard enough to sting. Regardless of that,what kind of sick bitch slaps a kid across the face (while wearing a crucifix around her neck,no less)?
There were numerous instances of discipline like this,and back in those days,there was a presumption of guilt on the kids part. The conventional thinking was that the nuns didn't whack you unless you gave them a reason to,so not only was nothing done about it,but you faced punishment from your parents when you got home, because you didn't listen at school.
In all fairness,the majority of the nuns were fair minded ,and would take you to the Principal,or call your parents if you seriously misbehaved.
It was just the few old,mean,(and probably sexually repressed)nuns that seemed to enjoy the control and fear that they were able to instill in a bunch of little kids.

I never went to a Catholic school but I'm not Catholic. In elementary school we called it a "cloak room" too but it was just a closet or sometimes a moveable piece of furniture where we would hang our jackets and keep lunch boxes.

My mother worked with women who went to Catholic schools and said how some told her stories about how nuns would get mad at their students and bang their heads into chalk boards; but my mother said most nuns were not like that but that one was mentally ill or something.

But when my grandmother and mother were in public school the teachers were allowed to hit you with a ruler like if you misspelled something, or did something you should not.

One of my friends is a teacher and he told me he wishes that in the north they could still paddle students like they used to be able to, and like how they still do in parts of the south or did for awhile.

I think he should find another job.

I've been a teacher before but while I'm not a pushover I don't flip out or yell at students. Instead I just tell them to calm down, or if they were very bad I would just get someone else to yell at them instead of me.

Friends of mine who grew up in certain Asian countries said how teachers there even in public schools would really literally beat their students like if they got something wrong, did something the teacher didn't like, or if the teacher was having a bad day, and these are kids in elementary school and jr. highschool.

My old man always said to go easy on the masturbation. He said God only gives you about a bucket and a half and then it is all dust and spores!!


Any of the older fellas care to confirm or deny this outrageous allegation??

Dunno about that but last night I got aroused and the next thing I knew there was a dust storm.

25 Things You Didn’t Know About Porn


25. In 2001, there were around 70,000 adult websites. Today, just 12 years later, they are more than 4.2 million pornographic websites in the US alone. It does not take a math major to figure out that increase is tremendous. Either people are lying about porn or people are lying about porn.

24. Male porn performers do not bring home all that much bacon. They can make more money performing in gay porn than straight porn, as much as three times as much per film. The term you are looking for is gay for pay.

23. At any second of the day, worldwide, almost as much as 30,000,000 unique visitors are viewing porn. So when you are sitting around the house during the day and think you are the only person creepy enough to be porn surfing, think again. In fact, for a 30 second porn clip, almost a million people have joined in on the action.

22. What feature on the female body do you think men focus on during a porn viewing? It isn’t the ass, breasts, or legs. It is the face. Of all the body parts to stare at during the moment, men would rather chose to look at the women’s face. That is a bit ironic, don’t you think?

21. The majority of porn websites, free and paid, feature videos and clips they purchased from other developers. A small percentage of porn sites actually include original content.

20. If you have A-Cup breasts or smaller, don’t worry about getting seen in Australia. They have a ban on pornography featuring women with tiny breasts. There is def a good Australian porn joke in here somewhere.

19. The most searched porn related word in America is MILF. The second most searched is Teen. Unfortunately for all the betters at home, anal comes in at tenth.

18. For every man that thinks he can start a career in porn, nice try. Unless you have connections or a smoking hot woman willing to join you, guy’s chances of becoming a porn star are slim to none. There is one other way but you need to ask Ron Jeremy about that.

17. Even if it is illegal to broadcast pornography in some countries, if you stay at a hotel, they are exempt to satisfy all international visitors. Besides, close to 70% of room service revenue comes from ordering porn. So don’t be bashful, everyone is doing it.

16. The largest porn network in the world sets up shop in Canada. Really? Those crazy Canucks had to be good at something else besides hockey and it looks like we just found it.

15. Almost 60% of Mississippi is white but the number one most searched porn term is ebony followed by gay black. Did we just end racism in Mississippi?

14. Which state in the United States has the largest consumption of porn per capita? Utah. That’s right folks, that was not a typo. Utah has the largest consumption of porn per capita in the US. Bet you didn’t see that one coming.

13. It is tough to research how porn affects a man’s love life because almost every single man watches porn. Someone from the University of Montreal tried conducting a study but when he tried to put together a control group of men in there 20’s that haven’t consumed porn, he couldn’t find a single one.

12. North Korea pretty much sucks at life anyways but if you are caught viewing porn the punishment is death.

11. People in South Korea have to use their version of a Social Security number to access any porn material online. #BigBrotherProblems

10. If life was a porno, nothing would ever get accomplished. It would just be a world full of people having sex. Everywhere.

9. Jenna Jameson hasn’t starred in or been featured in a porn movie since 2007 yet she remains the highest earning porn star grossing $30 million in 2012. The second highest grossing porn star is Tera Patrick at only $15 million. Needless to say, it isn’t even close.

8. Thanksgiving is the least popular day of the year to view porn. The most popular day for porn viewing? Sundays.

7. Jackie Chan didn’t get his start in porn but it did help. Back in 1975, he was struggling to break into the movie business so he did a couple adult films that featured little fighting and lots of crotch shots.

6. Rule 34. If you ever wondered about what it stood for, wonder no more. It basically states that if anything exists, there is porn for it. For example, if you love to see women dressed as Mario having sex with guys dressed as Elmo, according to Rule 34, there is a porn out there for it.

5. Porn does and doesn’t lead to sex crimes. That is a fact. Wait… There are about 4,000 studies proving one side or the other and not one of them is conclusive. So, until otherwise noted, porn doesn’t lead to sex crimes. Or maybe it does. We might not ever know.

4. If you thought having a family member starring in porn was awkward, try having both of your parents starring in it. Movie star Thora Birch knows the feeling as both her parents started off as porn stars and even had roles in the porn classic Deep Throat.

3. Just about half of the Internet is made up of porn or porn related content. Think about that commies before you go all Red Dawn on boycotting pornography on the Internet.

2. Porn controls digital media. A great example was VHS. Before everyone was on board with VHS, Betamax was fighting tooth and nail for control. Porn chose to use VHS tapes as its’ main source of distribution and the rest is history. Same can be said for Blu-Ray and HD-DVD. Porn chose the former and now you can buy HD-DVD’s for a dollar.

1. Women watch porn. If a woman tells you she doesn’t, she is lying. More people are watching porn than Hulu, Twitter, and Facebook combined. It isn’t just the bro’s out there doing the porn watching, women are too.

http://www.brobible.com/entertainment/article/25-facts-about-adult-film-industry/

Too many of us are apparently too busy basting our birds. And Sunday is the busiest time because while every guy in church is sitting bored for an hour, the mind starts to wander, and what do they all start doing? Coveting thy neighbor's wife.

Funny

24. Male porn performers do not bring home all that much bacon. They can make more money performing in gay porn than straight porn, as much as three times as much per film. The term you are looking for is gay for pay.

I saw this on a Louis Theroux documentary about porn. A straight guy doing gay porn, because the pay wasn't close.

15. Almost 60% of Mississippi is white but the number one most searched porn term is ebony followed by gay black. Did we just end racism in Mississippi?


14. Which state in the United States has the largest consumption of porn per capita? Utah. That’s right folks, that was not a typo. Utah has the largest consumption of porn per capita in the US. Bet you didn’t see that one coming.



if you love to see women dressed as Mario having sex with guys dressed as Elmo

I prefer Luigi, but this is normal right?

3. Just about half of the Internet is made up of porn or porn related content. Think about that commies before you go all Red Dawn on boycotting pornography on the Internet.

I heard on QI that less than 1% of the internet is porn, who knows?


Thanks for this NNY78, got a few laughs.

Camarel,

I thought number 13 was telling, they couldn't find a single kid under 20 that had not watched porn for their study.

Ivy,

Care to weigh in on number 14?

No. 14 is not shocking in the slightest.

Lotss of those southern Baptist preacher types and Mormons are sexual deviants and/or closet queers.

anybody ever watch German pron?

They are all unintentional comedies.

Porn

Gets, why do you keep misspelling porn?

Eye did knot reed any oaf this thread yet, but watt oar ewe tawking about??

New age spelling .....you spell it that way to semi mask what you're writing about and it just caught on.


Glad to know that people think that little of me to correct me for misspelling a four letter word though.