Pornography Addiction is a Brain Disease

Pornography addiction may be more often seen as a moral weakness or a form of entertainment only. But an addiction to pornography as experts claim the chemical addiction, which is a brain disease.


Addiction to pornography is the most difficult addictions to treat, because addiction is attacking 'heart' of humanity. This is because sexuality is a key driver of human interests.


"Pornography is the perfect poison," said Gordon S. Bruin MA, LPC, founder and president of Counseling Services Inc. InnerGold., As reported from HubPages, Monday (14/06/2010).


Bruin who for 18 years has been treating patients addicted to chemicals like alcohol, heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine, marijuana, and including pornography, looking at pornography addiction as a brain disease like addiction to chemicals.


Addiction occurs when the brain is physically have mastered the mind. The mind is the intelligence of frustration due to loss of control. This is the part that generates a sense of right or wrong, because the physical brain has no concept of right or wrong.


Addiction is a condition where the brain is physically and chemically force someone to do a certain behavior without the involvement of mind or conscience.


But because of the power of the brain limbic system (one system to the brain structure) and the capacity to overshadow the moral and rational parts of the brain, many people who claim that pornography is normal behavior or as mere entertainment.


Basically, the only difference between drug addiction, like heroin or cocaine with pornography is a way of entering the system. The brain responds to information received through the eye more quickly than from other sources.


Visual information is processed in the limbic system within nanoseconds (ten rank minus nine seconds). This is why addiction to pornography becomes a big problem.


Visual information is processed more quickly than the other senses of information, even though the response of heroin or cocaine is much slower.


Besides the visual, the hormone oxytocin also plays a role in addiction to pornography. Oxytocin can create a sense of unity and togetherness during sexual intercourse.


However, when this hormone is released through sex without a partner as ways of seeing sexual images of pornography alias, the recipient oksiton left feeling alone, depressed, and confused, although accompanied by the release of dopamine (the hormone triggers a sense of fun).


Oxytocin is a chemical 'glue' that ties looking for something. Pornography is the power of oxytocin, which causes an empty feeling and confusion for all those who do. And this makes pornography addiction as a brain disease.