The study suggests that the brains of heavy porn users show signs of degradation and shrinkage.
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin found that men who watch a lot of porn tend to have a smaller striatum, an area of the brain “linked to rewards and motivation”.
They also found that the connection between the striatum and the prefrontal cortex - the part of the brain associated with behaviour and decision making degraded with increased porn watching, ‘The Telegraph’ reported.
Although the study suggests that porn causes the brain to shrink, researchers cautioned it could be that people with smaller brains are more attracted to porn.
For the study, sixty-four healthy male adults with a broad range of pornography consumption reported hours of pornography consumption per week.
Pornography consumption was associated with neural structure, task-related activation, and functional resting-state connectivity.
Gray matter volume of the brain as measured by voxel-based morphometry and resting state functional connectivity was measured on magnetic resonance imaging scans.
“We found a significant negative association between reported pornography hours per week and gray matter volume in the right caudate as well as with functional activity during a sexual cue–reactivity paradigm in the left putamen,” researchers wrote in the journal JAMA Psychiatry.
“Functional connectivity of the right caudate to the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex was negatively associated with hours of pornography consumption,” they said.
No… in that instance it will be your wallet that is shrinking… unfortunately… .this often goes unnoticed and the undesired result is that should the wallet completely disappear, so too may the ‘material’. It’s often a symbiotic relationship.
The simple fact of your being capable of formulating a plan and articulating it in this thread seriously undermines the research findings referenced in the OP. :laugh:
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin found that men who watch a lot of porn tend to have a smaller striatum, an area of the brain "linked to rewards and motivation".
If you are getting it in real life then no, this does not happen as you have to “work for” the reward rather than simply hitting the play button.
Government grant = scholarship. Surely there’s a degree in something you don’t have that you might be able to wrap in a year or two, yes? Facility = local big university. Dozen hot chicks = sorority or underappreciated sports team (e.g. volleyball, field hockey, rowing, etc. They still work out a lot, but if they have a losing record or it’s just not that celebrated, they have all the athleticism but none of the demand for their off duty talent.) if you have a couple bottles of top shelf booze, a good camera w/ pro grade flash unit (one thing hot chicks almost always are is vain: indulge their desire to celebrate themselves by being a party photographer), and sufficient free time on your hands.
