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How Porn Impacts the Brain, Relationships, and Psychology with Sathiya Sam

The Dad Edge Podcast

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Porn Induced Erectile Dysfunction in Men

When you watch pornography, something that is incredibly stimulating above what is normal, the threshold for your brain to experience arousal get raised. The rates of erectile dysfunction have never been higher in younger men as well. So much so that there's actually a diagnosable condition called porn induced erectile dysfunction. Dopamine is not about the acquisition of pleasure. It is about the pursuit of pleasure. What our brains actually get attached to or wired to is what's next. And so those are the two major things that I would say are really major problems. But one we could talk about if it allows it time for rewires from watching pornography.

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