The Effects Of Porn On Relationships And The Brain
The porn industry generates over $97 billion in worldwide revenue each year, and porn sites receive more traffic than Amazon, Twitter, and Netflix combined each month. To say this is an epidemic is no exaggeration, and the effect on relationships is tragically very real and lasting.
Regardless of whether or not you consider porn to be an addiction, the use of porn has an ever increasing number of well-researched effects on the brain. One of the most prominent effects is that the use of porn is actually linked to changes within the structure of the brain. The full 2014 study can be accessed here, but without getting too scientific, the results showed that an increased use of porn led to a “higher need for external stimulation of the reward system and a tendency to search for novel and more extreme sexual material.” While there are more studies and research out there that further detail the effects of regular porn use, these two findings seem to have the most significant impact on romantic relationships.