Evolution shaped this basic human drive to build families: sexual desire is one of our most powerful motivational forces, and has been essential to the flourishing of the human race. Yet pornography transforms that drive into a force that primarily motivates the completely solitary and unproductive activity of masturbation.
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It's amazing what you learn doing this. I think I now fully understand the saying that 'knowledge is power.' Once you know how something works and how it affects you, it's much easier to muster the willpower to make a change if you wish.
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But desensitisation can also take the form of escalating to new genres, sometimes harder and stranger, or even disturbing. Remember: shock, surprise and anxiety can jack up dopamine.
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Lead researcher Kühn told the press that the results ‘could mean that regular consumption of pornography more or less wears out your reward system.’
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Sexual arousal is nature's number-one priority and raises dopamine the highest of all natural rewards.
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The pleasure of climax appears to arise from opioids, so think of dopamine as wanting and opioids as liking.
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Although dopamine is sometimes referred to as the ‘pleasure molecule’, it's is actually about seeking and searching[48] for pleasure, not pleasure itself. Thus dopamine rises with anticipation.[49] It's your motivation and drive to pursue potential pleasure or long term goals.[50]
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Choice is a subtle form of disease.
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Researchers have found that time in nature is good for the brain. It boosts creativity, insight and problem solving
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My favourite was a book that said to take a goal you want to accomplish; decide what steps you have to take in order to accomplish that goal; and do it no matter how you feel.