Sunday, 1 June 2014

Watchig porn could cause brain shrinkage!

 It could sound a little weird, but a new research found an association between porn watching and brain shrinkage.

  1. Study showed striatum was smaller the more porn someone had viewed.
  2. The striatum is a brain region linked with motivation and reward response.
  3. This is the first direct link between pornography and a lack of motivation.
  4. Researchers said it is not clear whether watching porn leads to brain changes or whether people born .with certain brain types watch more porn.




Men who watch pornography may be shrinking their brains and dulling their responses to sexual stimulation, a study has found.It is the first time researchers have found a possible link between regular viewing of pornography and physical harm.However, an alternative explanation is that people who spend more time looking at pornography are born with a certain type of brain.

Dr Simone Kühn, the study’s lead author from the Max Planck Institute in Berlin, said it was the first evidence for a link between porn consumption and reductions in brain size and brain activity in response to sexual stimuli. But the study can’t prove porn-watching causes changes to the brain.People who already have a smaller ‘striatum’ (the reward part of the brain) may be more likely to use pornography.


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