Men who watch porn have less brain grey matter


Felicity Nelson
Saturday, 31 May 2014

Porn consumption has been linked to differences in the structure and function of male brains

Men who watch porn have significantly less grey matter in their brains, a new study shows. MRI brain scans of 64 men between 21 and 45 years of age were taken while participants were shown images of porn and people exercising.

The participants were later requested to provide information about weekly porn consumption via a phone interview. Every person in the study volunteered to answer these questions, even though they were not told that this information would be needed before commencing. The men had a wide range of porn consumption averaging 4 hours a week.

Men with higher porn consumption had lower grey matter volumes. Interestingly, when men were shown sexually explicit material during the MRI scan, the region of the brain associated with motivation showed reduced activity.

"Our findings indicated that grey matter volume of the right caudate of the striatum is smaller with higher pornography use," researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, Germany told ABC Science.

The study could not show that porn caused men's brains to lose grey matter. "Future studies should investigate the effects of pornography longitudinally or expose naive participants to pornography and investigate the causal effects over time", researchers told ABC Science.

This research was published this week in the journal JAMA Psychiatry.

http://pda.sciencealert.com.au/news/20143105-25589.html

Huh? Wot.

All people watch porn.

Scientists get paid to do weird studies like this?

lol. Guess mankind is doomed then. Doesn't everybody go to youporn, pornhub, etc these days? :D

Edited by homerboy: 24-7-2015 08:25:37

Well I'm convinced

Lol.... No they don't.

I'm guessing he means men and women.

Another fact* proudly sponsored by your local TRP branch. Fucking clueless.

Not really. If you base your entire view of 49% of the population on a mindset invented by keyboard warrior virgins, you deserve to be called out at every moment you claim anything as a fact in regards to sex.

And I mean no offense, but coming from a blidnly faithful Christian such as yourself, it's fucking hilarious to see that you can bond with such a staunch atheist as notor about how shit women are. Good stuff.

64 guys tested. great sample size to represent billions :oops:

Would all people watch porn if they were able?

-PB

most medical studies use very small sample size

That would make more sense than how I read it.

"Not really" :lol:

He's not even here to read or respond to you anymore but you still feel the need to "call him out"? FFS move on.

Is there that much wrong with what he said though? Granted "all people" maybe a bit strong but in the western world most men watch porn and a lot of women do likewise, certainly the overwhelming majority of people would have at least some experience with watching porn.

What's more ridiculous ITT: Notor saying all people watch porn? Or you labeling anyone who defends Notor (or disagrees with you) a woman hater?

How do either of you know this?

(I know notor can't answer)

Also, sick random bumpage.

I don't belive this. Everyone is watching porn. I saw that GOV employees are watching sites like Fapshows.cam and Pornhub during their program and I can't see them with less brain.

Is it good or bad to have less grey matter?

Edited by Harrison84: 15/8/2015 09:52:54 AM

Good.

You can't see gov employees with less brain? Gimme some of the drugs you're on.

grey matter
noun
the darker tissue of the brain and spinal cord, consisting mainly of nerve cell bodies and branching dendrites.
informal
intelligence.
"I wish I had a little of her grey matter"
synonyms:   intelligence, intellect, intellectual capacity, mental capacity, brains, brainpower, cleverness, wit, wits, powers of reasoning, reasoning, wisdom, sagacity, acumen, discernment, shrewdness, judgement, understanding, common sense, sense; More

and i watch about 2 hours per week ;)

There may be hope yet for my brother to get funding to find out what percentage of white Americans are named "Billy Bob and/or Billy Ray".

Finally empirical data to prove my hypothesis on porn. Watching porn (and by extension masturbation) makes you lazy, as sexual gratification is always within arms reach. The longer you deny yourself such gratification the greater the ability of your penis to overpower your brain and drag you into the great unknown for relief.

Porn is misogynist and debasing. It harms children who are exposed to it online and it encourages rape culture. It has no place in our society.
The sooner this stuff is filtered out the better.

lol @ rape culture, mentioning that is the same as comparing an opponent to Hitler.

I cant understand how anyone could defend such a misogynist and exploitative industry.