Look at a diagram of the hypothalamus. I don't feel like looking up the components of the striatum right now. Maybe another time, if you don't feel like looking it up yourself.
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As a man who started viewing pornographic material around 8(?), I am happy to report I don't feel useless sexual arousal around beautiful women I find myself surrounded by on a daily basis. And I am also glad that I am more interested in chemistry than many—perhaps even the majority?—of men I know who suddenly go into a stupor at the sight of an attractive woman, a good number of which will pursue simply based off of a female's shape.
I remember us (and Alena) talking in chat once about you being apathetic to sex. I think this is another example of someone not being able to fully enjoy sex because of porn misuse/abuse.
I also believe in all that stuff the article says, read about it before.
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Tryptamine stated: source post
As a man who started viewing pornographic material around 8(?), I am happy to report I don't feel useless sexual arousal around beautiful women I find myself surrounded by on a daily basis. And I am also glad that I am more interested in chemistry than many—perhaps even the majority?—of men I know who suddenly go into a stupor at the sight of an attractive woman, a good number of which will pursue simply based off of a female's shape.
I remember us (and Alena) talking in chat once about you being apathetic to sex. I think this is another example of someone not being able to fully enjoy sex because of porn misuse/abuse.
I also believe in all that stuff the article says, read about it before.
Elaborate please. That point of view could be interesting
I recently got into explaining this in some thread. For us men especially, since we are mostly visual and visual stimulus means a lot, watching a lot of porn wires the brain to get excited at certain visuals. Then those visuals won't do the job so well anymore and seem boring, so you look for smth else, more extreme, and so on... Then you can end up desensitized to sexual stuff you'd be exposed to in real life, end up with some weird fantasies and fetishes which only they can turn you on. And when a woman is naked next to you you can only get excitement and pleasure if you picture some tentacle anime or large insertions or fuck knows what. I don't want to find out how sad that might be, I avoid getting off to internet porn (as a habit anyway).