Post by Tlaloc on Oct 10, 2013 5:39:08 GMT -8
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coolidge_effect
I remember TJ once arguing that enjoying porn is but a part of a healthy sexuality. However, I'm beginning to think that porn actually subverts healthy sexuality. The exploitation of the above effect by the indoctrination of constant sexual novelty, it's easy to see how porn works to reinforce itself very quickly until you get to the point where its viewing has more to do with psychological addiction than "healthy" sexuality.
Of course, like all addictions, they usually tend to grow the more you feed them. As "tolerance" for pornographic material grows, it almost always leads the user to seek out harder and harder material to achieve the same dopamine high until you get to the point where the material can either get to outright debased levels, or alternatively (but not mutually exclusively) with the aforementioned; leads the user spending large amounts of time going through piles and piles of the stuff just to find that "something" that actually manages to sufficiently arouse and thus give off that "hit" (only of course, within a day if not hours to be hooking themselves back to that drip feed like drug addicted lab rats) not realising how that drip feed is working to actually divorce them from the very sexuality they think they are enjoying.
Now am I saying porn is some moral scourge that is the cause of everything bad in society? Of course not! As far as societal problems go pornography is probably very low on the totem pole. Further I am also not saying that all users end up on the extremes I mentioned. What I am saying however, is that I'm not convinced that porn is as physiologically harmless as people such as TJ would have it. I think they are in a way defending their own manipulation.
A male rat was placed into an enclosed large box with four or five female rats in heat. He immediately began to mate with all the female rats again and again until eventually he became exhausted. The females continued nudging and licking him, yet he did not respond. When a novel female was introduced into the box, he became alert and began to mate once again with the new female. This phenomenon is not limited to common rats.[8] The Coolidge effect is attributed to an increase in dopamine levels and the subsequent effect upon an animal's limbic system.[9]
I remember TJ once arguing that enjoying porn is but a part of a healthy sexuality. However, I'm beginning to think that porn actually subverts healthy sexuality. The exploitation of the above effect by the indoctrination of constant sexual novelty, it's easy to see how porn works to reinforce itself very quickly until you get to the point where its viewing has more to do with psychological addiction than "healthy" sexuality.
Of course, like all addictions, they usually tend to grow the more you feed them. As "tolerance" for pornographic material grows, it almost always leads the user to seek out harder and harder material to achieve the same dopamine high until you get to the point where the material can either get to outright debased levels, or alternatively (but not mutually exclusively) with the aforementioned; leads the user spending large amounts of time going through piles and piles of the stuff just to find that "something" that actually manages to sufficiently arouse and thus give off that "hit" (only of course, within a day if not hours to be hooking themselves back to that drip feed like drug addicted lab rats) not realising how that drip feed is working to actually divorce them from the very sexuality they think they are enjoying.
Now am I saying porn is some moral scourge that is the cause of everything bad in society? Of course not! As far as societal problems go pornography is probably very low on the totem pole. Further I am also not saying that all users end up on the extremes I mentioned. What I am saying however, is that I'm not convinced that porn is as physiologically harmless as people such as TJ would have it. I think they are in a way defending their own manipulation.