WHAT IS PORNOGRAPHY?
Pornography is understood as a set of materials, images or reproductions of the performance of sexual acts in order to provoke the sexual arousal of the recipient.
WHAT IS NOT PORNOGRAPHY?
It is important to distinguish that an advertisement for women or men in swimsuits or underwear, a parade of models or a provocative TV presenter is not pornography.
WHAT LEADS US TO CONSUME IT COMPULSIVELY?
Pornography has been expanding in recent years to become ubiquitous. The Internet has made pornography more anonymous, accessible and affordable than ever, attracting new users, increasing use among existing consumers and driving many people towards sexual compulsivity.
Young people pose in a pornographic attitude on social networks, creating even porn-style videos starring themselves, in which they are shown directly to an incalculable number of strangers.
There are many causes that can lead us to consume pornography. Having been sexually abused, physically or psychologically abused, feeling abandoned by parents or caregivers, feeling negative emotions such as sadness, loneliness, emptiness, anguish or boredom and lacking adequate skills for handling, low tolerance for frustration, or simply having a predisposition toward anxiety, obsessiveness or impulsiveness makes compulsive consumption of pornography more likely.
PORNOGRAPHY: A POSSIBLE ADDICTION
The consumption of pornography produces the release of dopamine, better known in society as "the pleasure hormone", the same substance that your brain produces when you consume alcohol or drugs.
Thus, if high amounts of pornography are consumed, the brain becomes accustomed to this substance needing more pornography to become aroused each time it is consumed. Thus, the images that you saw before no longer satisfy you. You always need more. And you enter a vicious circle that normally is not easy to leave.
POINTS TO KNOW IF I AM ADDICTED TO PORNOGRAPHY
The addiction to pornography belongs to what is known as addictions without substance, and that in the latest Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM-V can be labeled as a 'Control Disorder' of impulses not specified ', which basically consists of the inability of the person to control their need to develop an impulse, in this case, to consume pornography.
The most frequently described symptoms in this disorder are described below (it is not necessary to meet all of the criteria described below to have a problematic use):
1. Having difficulty being a whole day without consuming pornography.
2. On occasion be surprised by your partner, parents, friends or acquaintances visiting these types of pages, causing an uncomfortable situation.
3. Prefer to leave other social, leisure or recreational tasks for spending time consulting pornography.
4. See yourself often involved in the search for increasingly exotic content because traditional sex is monotonous and boring.
5. Consult pornographic content in places where you might have problems, such as at work, at home or on a public computer.
6. The sexual appetite with your partner has descended lately or if you do not have a partner, you do not intend to seek it; instead, sexual activity with pornography continues to be increasingly active.
7. Having trouble masturbating without resorting to pornography.
8. Propose on occasion to stop consulting these contents and relapse once again.
9. Sometimes recognize that you have a problem with pornography and feel bad about it but can not stop using it.
10. Having to erase the browsing history of your computer or mobile every time someone is going to use it for fear that they will see pornography consumption.
11. Present problems to concentrate on daily activities. If you see that your personal, social or economic life has been affected by the use of pornography, you may consider that consumption is problematic and therefore, you need help.
WHAT TO DO TO BRING A MORE HEALTHY LIFE AWAY FROM PORNOGRAPHY?
1. Limit your exposure to the internet when its use is not necessary.
2. Activate an anti-porn filter on the devices you use regularly (computer, mobile, television) and destroy all the pornographic material that you have stored.
3. Place your computer in an open and visible place of your home and / or work so that the temptation is less.
4. Pay special attention to situations, objects, places or people that trigger the desire to consume porn: see what activates the desire.
5. Detect what has led you to consume pornography asking you these questions: why consume pornography? Why waste so much time? What happened before consuming it? What was he thinking? That I felt? Does it happen to me when something happens related to me, to other people, to other problems, to difficulties at work or to the family?
6. If you feel sad, bored, alone or distressed, try to identify why you feel this way and do not let that emotion take you like a wave: focus your attention on something else or activity that allows you to get out of that emotional state negative: stay with friends, make a phone call that entertains you, read a book that is of interest, listen to music, play sports ...
7. If you feel bad, express it with people you trust. Lean on your loved ones.
8. Order your life: schedule your day, take your time with other activities: do sport, have hobbies, eat healthy, sleep at least 7 hours a day. Do not give up before a fall. You can always get back up again. If you keep without consuming, reward yourself with a whim like a meal that you like, buy yourself an interesting novel, a shirt, pants or shoes that you have been wanting for a while to buy yourself any little thing that makes you feel satisfied with your achievement.
YOU CAN
In the consultation we see daily the devastating consequences of consuming pornography: couples and marriages are often broken, jobs are lost, excessive money is spent, mood decreases, social relationships deteriorate And despite all this, You can not stop doing it.
The moment you give up pornography, you will feel more energetic, with an enhanced willpower, with more interest in relationships, less anxious, freer and happier. Do not let society treat pornography as something normal, fun and modern.
The reality shows daily that the continuous and frequent use of pornography can destroy your life, as it happens with drugs, alcohol or any other addiction.
If you see that you can not stop using for yourself, go to a professional - psychologist or psychiatrist - of your confidence. Overcome shame. You have the right to be happy.
Pornography is understood as a set of materials, images or reproductions of the performance of sexual acts in order to provoke the sexual arousal of the recipient.
WHAT IS NOT PORNOGRAPHY?
It is important to distinguish that an advertisement for women or men in swimsuits or underwear, a parade of models or a provocative TV presenter is not pornography.
WHAT LEADS US TO CONSUME IT COMPULSIVELY?
Pornography has been expanding in recent years to become ubiquitous. The Internet has made pornography more anonymous, accessible and affordable than ever, attracting new users, increasing use among existing consumers and driving many people towards sexual compulsivity.
Young people pose in a pornographic attitude on social networks, creating even porn-style videos starring themselves, in which they are shown directly to an incalculable number of strangers.
There are many causes that can lead us to consume pornography. Having been sexually abused, physically or psychologically abused, feeling abandoned by parents or caregivers, feeling negative emotions such as sadness, loneliness, emptiness, anguish or boredom and lacking adequate skills for handling, low tolerance for frustration, or simply having a predisposition toward anxiety, obsessiveness or impulsiveness makes compulsive consumption of pornography more likely.
PORNOGRAPHY: A POSSIBLE ADDICTION
The consumption of pornography produces the release of dopamine, better known in society as "the pleasure hormone", the same substance that your brain produces when you consume alcohol or drugs.
Thus, if high amounts of pornography are consumed, the brain becomes accustomed to this substance needing more pornography to become aroused each time it is consumed. Thus, the images that you saw before no longer satisfy you. You always need more. And you enter a vicious circle that normally is not easy to leave.
POINTS TO KNOW IF I AM ADDICTED TO PORNOGRAPHY
The addiction to pornography belongs to what is known as addictions without substance, and that in the latest Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM-V can be labeled as a 'Control Disorder' of impulses not specified ', which basically consists of the inability of the person to control their need to develop an impulse, in this case, to consume pornography.
The most frequently described symptoms in this disorder are described below (it is not necessary to meet all of the criteria described below to have a problematic use):
1. Having difficulty being a whole day without consuming pornography.
2. On occasion be surprised by your partner, parents, friends or acquaintances visiting these types of pages, causing an uncomfortable situation.
3. Prefer to leave other social, leisure or recreational tasks for spending time consulting pornography.
4. See yourself often involved in the search for increasingly exotic content because traditional sex is monotonous and boring.
5. Consult pornographic content in places where you might have problems, such as at work, at home or on a public computer.
6. The sexual appetite with your partner has descended lately or if you do not have a partner, you do not intend to seek it; instead, sexual activity with pornography continues to be increasingly active.
7. Having trouble masturbating without resorting to pornography.
8. Propose on occasion to stop consulting these contents and relapse once again.
9. Sometimes recognize that you have a problem with pornography and feel bad about it but can not stop using it.
10. Having to erase the browsing history of your computer or mobile every time someone is going to use it for fear that they will see pornography consumption.
11. Present problems to concentrate on daily activities. If you see that your personal, social or economic life has been affected by the use of pornography, you may consider that consumption is problematic and therefore, you need help.
WHAT TO DO TO BRING A MORE HEALTHY LIFE AWAY FROM PORNOGRAPHY?
1. Limit your exposure to the internet when its use is not necessary.
2. Activate an anti-porn filter on the devices you use regularly (computer, mobile, television) and destroy all the pornographic material that you have stored.
3. Place your computer in an open and visible place of your home and / or work so that the temptation is less.
4. Pay special attention to situations, objects, places or people that trigger the desire to consume porn: see what activates the desire.
5. Detect what has led you to consume pornography asking you these questions: why consume pornography? Why waste so much time? What happened before consuming it? What was he thinking? That I felt? Does it happen to me when something happens related to me, to other people, to other problems, to difficulties at work or to the family?
6. If you feel sad, bored, alone or distressed, try to identify why you feel this way and do not let that emotion take you like a wave: focus your attention on something else or activity that allows you to get out of that emotional state negative: stay with friends, make a phone call that entertains you, read a book that is of interest, listen to music, play sports ...
7. If you feel bad, express it with people you trust. Lean on your loved ones.
8. Order your life: schedule your day, take your time with other activities: do sport, have hobbies, eat healthy, sleep at least 7 hours a day. Do not give up before a fall. You can always get back up again. If you keep without consuming, reward yourself with a whim like a meal that you like, buy yourself an interesting novel, a shirt, pants or shoes that you have been wanting for a while to buy yourself any little thing that makes you feel satisfied with your achievement.
YOU CAN
In the consultation we see daily the devastating consequences of consuming pornography: couples and marriages are often broken, jobs are lost, excessive money is spent, mood decreases, social relationships deteriorate And despite all this, You can not stop doing it.
The moment you give up pornography, you will feel more energetic, with an enhanced willpower, with more interest in relationships, less anxious, freer and happier. Do not let society treat pornography as something normal, fun and modern.
The reality shows daily that the continuous and frequent use of pornography can destroy your life, as it happens with drugs, alcohol or any other addiction.
If you see that you can not stop using for yourself, go to a professional - psychologist or psychiatrist - of your confidence. Overcome shame. You have the right to be happy.
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