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10 Negative Effects of Pornography Addiction

It can vary from physical issues to psychological illness.

*1. Unable to Love*
People who watch pornography have reported that their love for their spouse and others are there somewhere in them, but unable to connect or show it.
They can’t connect to their parents, to their wives or girlfriends, to their friends, or with any other individual.
These viewers of pornography are unable to connect on an emotional level with any individual.
Because of this, viewers suffer from bad relationships and failures in other areas of life.
But why does this happen?
Humans are social beings. Our primal brain is designed for society and we greatly enjoy the company of others when we are included and accepted in a group.
But to bond with others, we need to connect on an emotional level. We want to feel the joy to be with others and others also need to feel the same.
But, a pornography viewer doesn’t feel any joy in the small things in any relationships.
He doesn’t enjoy the company of others, he doesn’t like talking, walking, sharing secrets, spending time with important people, etc.
He blames others for a bad relationship, he doesn’t want to deal with the real world because according to his brain, there is a secret world for him, a safe world that makes him happy.
The pornography viewer is attached to the digital fantasy world. The only thing that can make him happy is pornography.

*2. Career Failure*
The negative effects of pornography addiction don’t end only in failed relationships. It greatly affects your productivity.
To work we need Intrinsic motivation. I have highlighted intrinsic because extrinsic motivation is temporary and it will not lead you to success, except for a start.
Extrinsic motivation like money or other external rewards will energize you for the beginning but soon the motivation will fade away.
If you don’t enjoy your work while doing it, you have to drag yourself to complete it or in other words, you have to use your willpower.
We all know how our willpower works. The result of your work is always unsatisfactory.
On the other hand, if we feel Joy (intrinsic motivation) while working on our task, the quality and quantity of our work improve.
The pornography viewer doesn’t enjoy their work.
They look at the task at their hand as a burden. They force themselves to work on their pending activities, but they can’t.
This leads to frustration, stress, and anxiety. Again, frustration, stress, and anxiety lead to pornography.
The cycle continues and our activities keep getting delayed.
The work that we complete because of the fear of getting fired or any other external force is never satisfied and it leads you to nowhere.
When we watch pornography, our happy chemicals surge and gives us a euphoria moment.
Again, when we repeat the same behavior every day, our brains start to predict the high chemicals hit every day.
If we fail to provide the hit, we get uncomfortable and unhappy.
Our brain doesn’t care for other activities because it knows the level of this chemical hit can only be provided by pornography.
With the hope of getting the same hit every time, we view novelty porn minute after minute, hour after hour, day after day, and it takes hours before we find the perfect clip.
Once we are satisfied and rested, the urge to get the hit comes sooner than we think.
There is no release of happy chemicals from our work because our reward system in our brain is exhausted.
The things that we were passionate about once now seem dull and boring.
This is one of the biggest negative effects of pornography addiction that leads to

*3. Low Self-esteem*
Self-esteem is having the confidence of completing your work and also having self-respect for yourself. It is the opinion about your self-image that greatly affects your life.
By: via Apostolic Life ( Prayer Warriors)