PORN ADDICTION: Always Private, Never Harmless -By Promise Eze

Only one who has known the enticing enslavement of pornography and has bore the raw, awakening image of nudity and intercourse will understand what it means to be addicted to pornography.

Pornography thrives on secrecy. That’s why a deeply religious individual may be so active on the outside with the affairs of spirituality but is stinking inside because he wrongly assumes that as long as no one catches him viewing porn to feed the lust in his heart everything is fine.

With the advent of the internet, pornography has become more and more widely available. A considerable portion of the internet is devoted to pornography sites, and viewership among adults and minors is on the rise.

Our phones provides us with the liberty to dive into anything we want at an unlimited speed and very unfortunately many young people are researching the wrong things.

One of the lies of pornography is it is harmless as long as you keep it private. But the more porn you take the more defiled and corrupt you become. The more sex becomes a mere activity between two or more horny people. The more you begin to see women as inflatable plastic dolls meant for sex. Pornography dehumanizes women. What we don’t know is that majority of the women we see on porn videos are actually forced and coerced.

“They spread my legs this way and that, shoving their things at me and into me, they were playing musical chairs with parts of my body. I have never been so frightened and disgraced and humiliated in my life. I felt like garbage. I engaged in sex acts for pornography against my will to avoid being killed. The lives of my family were threatened,” confessed Linda “Lovelace” Boreman, an ex–figure in the American Pornographic industry.

So porn is not harmless after all because apart from destabilizing your mindset it also is destabilizing lives of actors forced to partake in it.

You could be coached in bed relishing images of sensuous women with tipsy curves and videos of men with gigantic genitals but you could also at the same time be crippling your mental health. Ian lyle says in his article Pornography And The Brain that “Neuroscience proves pornography negatively affects mental health. Though a person cannot inject it like heroin or drink it like alcohol, brain scans and studies from recent years show that pornography has an effect on the brain similar to drug usage.”

The more porn you watch you more addicted and helpless you become. The more inactive your capacity to make right decisions becomes. It may take years to return to normalcy if you don’t take the fight against porn seriously.

At first porn seems relishing from afar but after gulping down its contents it tastes like gall in the mouth. Pornography is a worthless search of pleasure.

It could be private but it is ultimately harmful.