Porn-Brain Study: Erotic Movies Make Brain Regions 'Shut Down'

[DalTheJigsaw123]

[JustARandomPanda]

Fascinating. Thanks for sharing that Leon.

 

I wanted to add this resource that Lurkers or Registered Taobums may find useful.

 

It's YourBrainOnPorn.com

 

 

There's a lot of evidence starting to build up that excessive viewing of porn induces chemical changes within men's brains that can lead to erectile dysfunction.

 

The following set of YouTube videos goes into detail about this. The website also has a self-help program that helps men regain natural, healthy function again.

 

 

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=ro2ysOhlXMs

 

The above continue on for another 3 - 6 vids

 

 

But I also wanted to share their other series of vids: again 1 - 6

 

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=nOsF81sC4vo

 

 

 

p.s. Just wanted to say I personally have no problem with anyone watching porn. I simply share this in case there are men out there who might be dealing with this problem but were not aware this could be a potential cause for it. It's something worth looking into at the very least if one is experiencing it and their program might help (which I think is free if I recall correctly).

[DalTheJigsaw123]

You are welcome! Here is another article on DailyMail: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2132342/How-internet-porn-turned-beautiful-boy-hollow-self-hating-shell.html (How internet porn turned my beautiful boy into a hollow, self-hating shell).

[三江源]

There is a lot of info about from people who felt addicted to porn, who have given it up and found their ability to be aroused in real life coming back, and have been beyond delighted and amazed at their own erotic capacity for responsiveness, which was so dulled by habitual porn habits.

 

Good info, thanks.

[DalTheJigsaw123]

Thank you for sharing!

[therion]

PORN is extremely beneficial for spiritual practice especially vajrayana where you integrate energy and bliss into non-dual awareness. Not only that but it allows you to become familiar with the rebirth process coming out of the bardo when your mind is attracted to a mating couple, your future parents. If you have become familiar with porn you can suddenly awaken to your true nature just before you are about to re-enter the human realm next time and achieve buddhahood in that very moment thus liberating your mind-stream.

[三江源]

PORN is extremely beneficial for spiritual practice especially vajrayana where you integrate energy and bliss into non-dual awareness. Not only that but it allows you to become familiar with the rebirth process coming out of the bardo when your mind is attracted to a mating couple, your future parents. If you have become familiar with porn you can suddenly awaken to your true nature just before you are about to re-enter the human realm next time and achieve buddhahood in that very moment thus liberating your mind-stream.

 

Tenuous and tortuous, are the words that come to my mind here in response to your hypothesis.

[Jetsun]

PORN is extremely beneficial for spiritual practice especially vajrayana where you integrate energy and bliss into non-dual awareness. Not only that but it allows you to become familiar with the rebirth process coming out of the bardo when your mind is attracted to a mating couple, your future parents. If you have become familiar with porn you can suddenly awaken to your true nature just before you are about to re-enter the human realm next time and achieve buddhahood in that very moment thus liberating your mind-stream.

 

That is only true when watching Ron Jeremy porn as you will get so disgusted at the thought that he could be your next father that you will do anything to achieve liberation from rebirth.

[Birch]

The point of PORN is that it's something you will (likely) never have. That's the 'PORN' part (hence 'appartment-porn', 'time-porn', any of those '...-porn' ideas).

 

It's supposed to be FANTASY.

 

Otherwise it's not porn, it's just "not you having sex" (unless you're extremely enlightened in which case it's you having sex all the time:-)).

 

Any, if you are having sex PORN probably intereferes with how good you think it is or if you're not, just reinforces that you're not.

 

--- opinion etc---

 

Edit: I wonder what pornstars' porn is

Edited April 25, 2012 by -K-

[resonant111]

PORN is extremely beneficial for spiritual practice especially vajrayana where you integrate energy and bliss into non-dual awareness. Not only that but it allows you to become familiar with the rebirth process coming out of the bardo when your mind is attracted to a mating couple, your future parents. If you have become familiar with porn you can suddenly awaken to your true nature just before you are about to re-enter the human realm next time and achieve buddhahood in that very moment thus liberating your mind-stream.

 

i'm not gonna lie, that's an incredibly interesting hypothesis.

 

anyone who's familiar with the bardo states KNOWS that visions of mating couples are part of that experience. let me quote the english version of the tibetan book of the dead for those not familiar:

 

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SEXUAL VISIONS

O (name), At this time you may see visions of mating couples. You are convinced that an orgy is about to

take place. Desire and anticipation seize you, You wonder what sexual performance is expected of you.

When these visions occur, Remember to withhold yourself from action or attachment. Humbly exercise your

faith. Float with the stream. Trust the process with great fervency. Meditation and trust in the unity of life

are the keys. If you attempt to enter into your old personality because you are attracted or repulsed, If you

try to join the orgy you are hallucinating, You will be reborn on an animal level. You will experience

possessive desire and jealousy, You will suffer stupidity and misery. If you wish to avoid these miseries

Listen and recognize. Reject the feelings of attraction or repulsion. Remember the downward pull opposing

enlightenment is strong in you. Meditate upon unity with your fellow voyagers. Abandon jealousy, be neither attracted nor repulsed by your sexual hallucinations. If you are you will wander in misery a long time.

Repeat these words to yourself. And meditate on them.

***

 

So perhaps by watching porn in a meditative state, one can practice the idea of being "neither attracted nor repulsed by the sexual hallucinations." in that case, watching porn COULD indeed prove beneficial.

 

if one is using it simply to get off on their egoic sexual fantasy however, well that wouldn't exactly be spiritual use of the medium. everytime i've ever used porn to "just get off" it has been a completely shallow sexual experience, devoid of any love or awareness whatsoever.

 

interesting post though therion!