Porn can be awesome; but its "synthetic" - its the cocaine of male entertainment. Its completely unnatural for us men to be exposed to vast amounts of women on tap, we are simply not built for it (evolutionarily) > BUT we are built to pursue it, _at almost any cost_ . Just with this knowledge we can be sure that there will be serious side effects. In terms of Dopamine and test specifically though, we are training the brain to respond to specific pathways through habitual porn use (leading to a search for increasing kinks, like the coke user needs more for the same high). With dopamine, we are rewarding ourselves for absolutely nothing. Normally we would need to work for status, look good, develop courage etc to get that girl _ in reality_ . But now we just knock one out on demand on the hottest girls we can find with zero effort. Ergo, *desire for achievement and goals reduces* . IMHO porn (like candy) can be great fun, _but its candy_ , its not steak and eggs (thats real goal achieving activity) and too much candy turns us into fat, lazy, dirty slobs.
Masturbation can be a problem - you're rewarding yourself for nothing. This stuff runs deep in the male evolutionary brain. Beware of nutting too much!
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Porn can be awesome; but its "synthetic" - its the cocaine of male entertainment. Its completely unnatural for us men to be exposed to vast amounts of women on tap, we are simply not built for it (evolutionarily) > BUT we are built to pursue it, _at almost any cost_ . Just with this knowledge we can be sure that there will be serious side effects. In terms of Dopamine and test specifically though, we are training the brain to respond to specific pathways through habitual porn use (leading to a search for increasing kinks, like the coke user needs more for the same high). With dopamine, we are rewarding ourselves for absolutely nothing. Normally we would need to work for status, look good, develop courage etc to get that girl _ in reality_ . But now we just knock one out on demand on the hottest girls we can find with zero effort. Ergo, *desire for achievement and goals reduces* . IMHO porn (like candy) can be great fun, _but its candy_ , its not steak and eggs (thats real goal achieving activity) and too much candy turns us into fat, lazy, dirty slobs.
Masturbation can be a problem - you're rewarding yourself for nothing. This stuff runs deep in the male evolutionary brain. Beware of nutting too much!