Pornography on a Roll: Set to Destroy Your Life!

Gone are the days that pornography was only available if you found it under your brothers mattress or raided your friends dad’s collection. Pornography has been around for many years but with internet technology it has taken porn to such extremes that our brains cannot process it properly. Pornography is now being accessed at home, work, public places and even our phones. It is skewing the reality of intimacy, destroying families, causing increase of sexual abuse, distorting how genders view each other and eventually ruining lives. Pornography is now being viewed by younger viewers and increasing the decline of morals. 1 out of 5 adults is addicted to pornography and viewing it regularly. 90% of children ages 7 to 16 have seen pornography. Look around you and someone within your site is likely viewing pornography regularly – and you don’t even know it!

Our society has embraced soft porn as creative and fun advertising, receiving great reviews for being edgy, racy and willing to push the line for many products. Unfortunately, this edgy, racy attitude is also tremendous triggers for porn addicts. It is also this edgy, racy soft porn that lead children to wanting to view more and more. They go online to check out the video and after viewing the video they want to see more so that start to surf looking for these types of video because of the elated or euphoric feeling it gives them. Here is a recent comment, “I only wanted to watch the one video but 3 hours later I was watching stuff that was absolutely disgusting. However, I still wanted to watch, why?”

Understanding how our brain works, helps shed some light on this. Our brain has two main parts, pre-frontal cortex (logical thinking portion) and the limbic system (survival portion of the brain).

The Animal in Us All

First we will focus on the Limbic system. The limbic system is the animal in us. It has one purpose and that is to survive. This survival portion of our brain helps us to relax when we are bored, lonely, angry, stressed or tired without any logical thinking, just like a lion that needs to eat. Without this portion of the brain, we would not have a long mortality rate. Thus, the Limbic System is required. We can’t do without it. The problem is many people have trained the Limbic System to use pornography as the survival mechanism, just like a drug addict has trained his body that he needs the drugs to survive, many have trained their bodies they need pornography to survive.

Time to Re-wire

Now comes logical thinking, “Just Stop!” Ok, for a person who is not struggling with an addiction, this makes sense. However, the addict wants to stop but they don’t know how. Many have tried 12 step programs, wilderness programs and many other programs but the problem still relies and retraining the brain to put the stimulus in its proper place. The Pre-frontal cortex is key to recovery of any addiction. A person must learn to control their Limbic System in order to overcome any addiction. The Pre-frontal cortex is the logical thinking side of a person.

For example, when you were told not to touch the stove because it was hot, it did not matter, until you got burned. Once you were able to recognize a reaction to what you were doing, your brain, without you knowing it, would go into logical thinking mode about touching the hot stove again. Here is a simplified version of what would take place with your pre-frontal cortex.Last time I touched the stove I got hurtDon’t touch the stove again or I may get hurt again.
All of this happens within milliseconds and you don’t even realize it. An addict needs to strengthen his pre-frontal cortex so that he can logically think about things but now it needs to be done consciously so the addict can strengthen their brain. Once an addict starts to recognize this and implements the exercises, they can began to gain control of their life and overcome their addiction to pornography.

InnerGold is dedicated to helping individuals struggling with pornography and sexual addiction issues. InnerGold has many resources that will help addicts along the way. The core of the InnerGold Treatment System is helping the addict gain a better understanding of their addiction and giving them the tools they need to learn how to manage it so the addict can take control of their life.