A Contrarian Article

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/women-who-stray/201307/your-brain-porn-its-not-addictive

Personally, and I'm no expert here, but I don't fully believe that watching porn has no effect on one's neurotransmitters, to include dopamine and serotonin. I know squat about EEG's, but I intuit that being in a sterile room, with folks monitoring little wired nodules running out of your head, might skew the readings a bit. One might not have had access to their favored fetish sites/preferred scenarios, and might be a little "exposed" in all of that experience, anyways.

In short, the article takes the focus off of how porn affects the everyman's brain, and says it just ain't so according to their findings. Instead, it points to it being the fault of the individual man for not being able to control his own libido, basically saying that one who has a higher libido needs more visual erotica to have any kind of satisfaction. Are we to believe that libido is a god-granted quality, one to be argued as thought it's been bestowed from birth? Gee, I wonder if there's any Socratic dialogues on this, heh. So we go off of self-reports of libido and then look at EEG to see response? Does this sound legit? Something's missing for me. Could it be that those with higher libido had been deeper into their porn use, sexuality, and/or sexual deviance before the study and had a lower response as a result, whereas at one time, it was much higher? What is this article trying to prove, exactly? It's one point in time, in a controlled environment.

What say you who have actually researched all of this type of stuff some? And as a favor, can you point me to some good studies about how porn and even social media give us "hits" of dopamine/affect serotonin? I believe there are good bits of research out there to the contrary of these findings. There's some stuff on this site, too, isn't there? I was linked in my intro, I think, but can anyone link me here? Thanks much for any and all fodder/contributions!