5 Things They Don’t Tell You Before You Start Watching Porn

It all seemed so simple the first time you flipped through the pages of a porn magazine or clicked a link on the internet to see a video. You thought, “This can’t be a bad thing. I’ll only look for a few minutes.”

But then a few minutes turned into an hour, then an afternoon, and then a whole day. Then another day. Before long, you were hooked. Porn became a consuming desire that was almost always on your mind.

Here are five things that you probably wish you knew before you started watching porn.

1. It changes your brain.

When you’re watching porn, it is not simply your eyes that are involved. Chemicals and circuits within your mind spring into action. They begin to form pathways in your brain that become more embedded with each piece of porn viewed.

Author Luke Gilkerson explained:

“Multiple problems happen when porn is used. First, instead of forming a deep connection to a person, your brain ends up ‘bonding’ to a pornographic experience. Your brain remembers where the sexual high was experienced, and each time you desire sexual stimulation, you feel a sharp sense of focus: I’ve got to go back to the porn.”

Dopamine is one of the powerful chemicals that drive the reward center of the brain. Viewing porn causes dopamine levels to rise and fall, creating the desire for more stimulation.

Gary Wilson, author of Your Brain on Porn, noted:

2. It will affect your relationships.

You may think your porn viewing is only affecting you. Unfortunately, it changes your relationships with your children, family, friends and many other people. Especially your wife.

Research shows that porn usage is a major contributing factor in about half of all divorces in the United States. Porn breaks the bond of trust, isolates you and sets unrealistic standards that your wife feels she must meet to compete with the women you are viewing.

But all of your relationships will eventually suffer. Author John Buckingham noted in Relevant Magazine:

“Sexual addiction is not a thing to be taken lightly. It is a destroyer of relationships and a corrupter of the body of Christ. Satan uses it against us to crush us and divide us one from another as we cover our shame with lies and half-truths.”

Former porn star Shelley Lubben, who is the founder and president of The Pink Cross Foundation, which ministers to the sex industry, said:

Lubben stated:

4. It can lead to erectile dysfunction (ED).

Researchers are discovering that porn can cause erectile dysfunction in men. According to The Daily Mail, the Naval Research Center of San Diego noticed “a strong association between regularly watching porn and suffering from a lack of sexual desire and erectile dysfunction.”

The vast amounts of pornographic images that are easily and quickly available today are a main cause of porn-related ED.

Author Matt Fradd wrote:

Gabe Deem told The Globe and Mail that he realized he had a problem when he was 23 years old.

5. It changes the way you view the opposite sex.

Porn usage dramatically impacts how a man views women. The fantasy world of porn replaces reality and leads men to disrespect women and can even lead to violence when trying to act out what was viewed.

A recent study found that 88 percent of the hundreds of porn scenes they analyzed depicted violent behavior towards women.

Marriage Today reported:

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