An 18-Year-Old’s Perspective on Teenage Girls and Pornography (#137)
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The Effects of Pornography on the Brain
Porn is not a neutral activity. It affects the brain just like a child's brain gets revved up and hyper stimulated when they're playing their video games or when the brain is on social media or in the casino. All this dopamine, the chemicals are all triggered and they're triggered in unusually high amounts. We have natural amounts of dopamine with food and with sex. So what happens is that when you get too much dopamine, it becomes very harmful.
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