Should you avoid watching pornography -pros & cons of porn-

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00:00We're going to answer that question. I'm Doctor Rena Malik

00:02Urologist and Pelvic Surgeon and if you're new here, I make

00:05content weekly on sexual health, bladder health, urologic

00:08health, and so much more. If you like what you see, make sure

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00:20Before I get started, I want to be 100% clear. I strongly

00:24believe that no one should be shamed for their sexual

00:27behaviors as long as they're not damaging themselves or

00:31damaging others and quite frankly, pornography is

00:34everywhere. People are going to get exposed to it and maybe

00:36even have problems with it. So let's take a deep dive into the

00:39scientific research about pornography. So first off, who

00:43uses it? Well, depending on the study up to seventy to 80% of

00:47men have used pornography or use it regularly and up to 32%

00:50of women. Interestingly, traffic to pornography sites

00:53increased by 11% during the COVID pandemic and people use

00:57pornography for a number of different reasons to increase

01:00sexual desire to satisfy their curiosities about sex and

01:04sadly to learn about anatomy because let's face it, sexual

01:08education is limited if not mediocre at best. Is

01:11pornography black or white good or bad? Well, there's not one

01:15right answer for every person. So I'm going to ask each of you

01:19to please watch this video in its entirety to learn the pros

01:22and cons of pornography before you make your decision. On the

01:26positive side, people have shown that pornography users

01:29have a more positive attitudes towards sex. They may be

01:32willing to experiment more with their partners and have a more

01:35satisfied sexual life because of it and in the moment,

01:38watching pornography usually causes people to feel good and

01:41lastly, some studies have shown particularly in women that

01:44watching pornography increases their sexual satisfaction and

01:47libido and people who watch porn with a partner actually

01:51find that they're more dedicated to their partner and

01:54more sexually satisfied and I know a lot of people worry

01:57about watching abusive and damaging pornography and how

02:01that can cause maybe sexual violence, but there has been no

02:04linkage after looking at multiple studies with

02:06pornography and increases in sexual violence, rape or

02:10assault. So when does pornography become a problem

02:13across multiple studies up to four to 10% of people find that

02:18they have a problem with porn use or may self identify as

02:21having a porn addiction. Medically porn addiction is not

02:24a classified disease. What people in the medical field

02:27call it is problematic pornography use. So who's at

02:30risk for getting problematic pornography use watching more

02:34pornography does put you at higher risk, but doesn't in and

02:37of itself mean that you have a problem. Also, if you have

02:40depression or anxiety on top of watching a lot of pornography

02:44that puts you at a higher risk as well. If you find yourself

02:47having moral incongruence or feeling that morally

02:50pornography is bad, you're more likely to have a problem

02:53due to pornography use. Lastly, if you find yourself

02:56preferring masturbation to pornography than having sex

03:00with your partner or a real person, then that's also a sign

03:03that you may have a problem. If you think you have a problem,

03:05you probably do. So how does this actually happen? Let me

03:09explain how pornography affects our brains and our behaviors.

03:13Our brains are often exposed to a neurochemical called

03:17dopamine. It makes us feel good and our brains are wired to

03:20look for things that give us dopamine and those are usually

03:22things that help sustain our bodies and help sustain our

03:25species and sex is one of those things because sex leads to

03:28fertility, which leads to propagation of humankind and

03:31when you watch pornography, your brain releases the same

03:34chemicals that get released during sex dopamine. So

03:38watching pornography and people who develop this problematic

03:41pornography use have up regulations in pathways in our

03:45brain that cause us to look for these dopamine pathways over

03:49other things that we normally would do. So your brain starts

03:52developing cravings for pornography and even signs of

03:56things that may be similar to other addictive substances like

03:59drugs. For example, you may develop a tolerance so you'll

04:03watch some pornography and you may need to find more novel

04:06more aggressive or different types of pornography to get the

04:10same sort of enjoyment from watching it. You also get

04:13impulsivity and compulsivity. What that means is you get

04:16strong sudden urges to watch pornography and you

04:20compulsively do them. You keep repeating it regardless of the

04:23negative consequences that might occur and you get what's

04:26called a weakened executive function. What that means is

04:29your brain when it tells you to do things that are good for

04:32you. So like go to work, take a shower, pick up your kids from

04:35school, just normal activities, but when you have this pathway

04:39up regulated, you actually impair that executive function.

04:42So you're less likely to do things that you normally would

04:45do and lastly, you can get dysphoria and so what that

04:49means is that you start feeling very frustrated and unhappy in

04:52other parts of your life when you're not watching pornography

04:55and this all of this taken together can really impact your

04:58willpower and willpower is actually not the best way to

05:01get rid of these cravings and we'll talk about how to get rid

05:04of this problem. If you are finding yourself having

05:07problematic pornography use in a video to follow so when all

05:11this is going on in your brain, what happens to people in real

05:14life? Well, you'll find yourself avoiding doing normal

05:17daily activities spending time with family or friends rather

05:20than going to work finding yourself watching pornography

05:23instead. This can lead to social isolation feeling very

05:26lonely and having very few connections. It can lead to

05:30financial problems where you're spending more and more money to

05:33use pornography and it can cause problems in your

05:36relationships more than that people can find themselves

05:39getting signs of real mental health disorders like

05:42depression or anxiety where you're feeling constant sadness

05:45or constant worry and what about your sex life? Here's

05:49where some of the problems come in people are accessing

05:52pornography at younger and younger ages. In fact, boys are

05:55accessing pornography as early as 10 years of age and in fact,

05:59I'm going to make a video of how this could be detrimental

06:02to younger kids and how to talk to your kids about pornography

06:05also coming up. So make sure you subscribe to my channel and

06:08turn on that notification bell so you can make sure you don't

06:10miss these new and upcoming videos. So these younger

06:13children who are watching pornography don't have fully

06:17developed brains and they have difficulty discerning what's

06:20reality and what's fake and pornography if you're not aware

06:24is a fake product. It is not real life. This is not how

06:27normal sexual encounters occur. This is a highly edited

06:31product with lighting with special effects and all sorts

06:35of things that can make sex seem like something very

06:38different from what it really is and quite frankly, a lot of

06:41pornography is aggressive abusive and doesn't show you

06:45how you actually need to pleasure your partner. These

06:48actors in pornography are not average people. They have above

06:52average length penises. They have special effects to make

06:55look like they have higher volumes of semen and they are

06:59immediately erect and women are immediately lubricated, which

07:02is not at all what happens in real life. If you want to learn

07:05more about how to pleasure women or about an anatomy of

07:08women, please check out my previous videos. I've done some

07:11great interviews with Lisa Mungo, Dr. Kelly Casperson and

07:14Dr. Laurie Mintz about how to pleasure women and I made a

07:17great video about female anatomy so you can understand

07:20exactly how and women do derive pleasure based on their

07:23anatomy. The real issue with this fake production of

07:26pornography is people can start really having self esteem

07:29issues. So they start thinking like, oh, am I good enough

07:33because I don't look like that or am I pleasuring my partner

07:37well enough because they're not responding like the woman

07:40on the porno video did. All of this taken together can lead to.

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