Pornography offers the chance to explore your sexual fantasies. But while X-rated films can boost your libido, it can have a sinister effect on the brain, scientists have revealed.
From releasing mood-boosting hormones to triggering addictive tendencies, porn can have a sinister effect on our brains.
A slew of studies show excessive watching of pornography may actually re-wire the brain, Medical Daily reports.
Guys who watch pornography may be shrinking their brains, the German researchers described.
The striatum area of the brain, linked with the motivation and reward response, shrank in size the more porn a person viewed.
The study marked the first time researchers found a possible link between regularly viewing pornography and physical harm.
Researchers also discovered that brains of young men who are obsessed by online pornography ‘lit up like Christmas trees’ upon being shown erotic images.
The area stimulated – the part of the brain involved in processing reward, motivation and pleasure – is the same part that is highly active among drug and alcohol addicts.
