A short YouTube/podcast-style monologue (by Nick Stumbo) arguing that pornography is unrealistic and harms intimate relationships by creating false expectations and changing brain chemistry; the speaker says porn causes the brain to bond to viewed stimuli, producing chemicals and inner conflict that can interfere with sexual intimacy with a spouse.
Pornography isn't real, right? What you're watching isn't real. It isn't the way that relationships work and it's not the way that people respond and react and interact in relationship or even in a, in a healthy relationship, you know what I mean? And so I think that it really does set yourself up and set your brain up to respond in a way that is based on false expectations. And, and it also creates those chemicals because your brain is only going to do what it's supposed to do. It's going to do what it's supposed to do. It's going to still create those chemicals, and then your brain is going to bond to whatever it's looking at. This becomes really problematic, I think, and creates a really strong inner conflict in people because their brain is bonding to something almost to a point where they can't have sex with their spouse anymore because their brain won't do it. It's.
