Purchase tendencies, Porn and Dopamine

What we can learn from Dopamine and porn

People often need to watch different pornographic content over time due to the brain's tendency to seek novelty and variety to enhance pleasure.?

Here are the key reasons:

1. Novelty enhances pleasure. When experiencing something new for the first time, it amplifies the pleasure response in the brain. With repeated exposure to the same pornographic content, the novelty wears off, leading the brain to seek new and more intense stimuli to derive the same level of pleasure.
2. Neural associations form during curiosity. The brain is highly plastic during moments of curiosity and pleasure. When watching novel pornographic content out of curiosity, neural associations are formed, making it easier for the brain to crave and seek out that content again for pleasure.
3. Variety and endless options. Pornography offers an endless supply of new content and variety, allowing users to constantly explore new fantasies and fetishes that their partner may not be willing to engage in. This variety can become addictive as the brain seeks more novelty.
4. Instant gratification. In our fast-paced world, pornography provides instant sexual gratification, which can lead to a desire for more intense and varied content over time to maintain the same level of stimulation.
5. Mood elevation and escape. For some, watching pornography can temporarily elevate mood or provide an escape from negative emotions like loneliness or anger. This reinforces the behavior, leading to a cycle of seeking more varied content.

In essence, the brain's natural drive for novelty, combined with the accessibility and variety of pornographic content, can create a cycle where individuals continuously seek out new and more extreme material to maintain the same level of pleasure and stimulation.

How does novelty in porn consumption affect brain chemistry

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Novelty in porn consumption significantly impacts brain chemistry, particularly the dopamine system, which is involved in motivation, reward, and addiction.?

Here are the key ways novelty affects the brain:

1. Dopamine spikes. Each new pornographic video or image provides a sense of novelty that triggers a spike in dopamine release in the brain's reward circuit. This dopamine surge reinforces the behavior of seeking more novel sexual stimuli.
2. Desensitization and tolerance. With repeated exposure to the same pornographic content, the brain becomes desensitized and requires more extreme or novel material to achieve the same dopamine release and level of arousal. This leads to a cycle of escalation and tolerance.
3. Conditioning and neural pathways. The repeated pairing of novelty with sexual arousal and dopamine release strengthens the neural pathways associated with seeking novel pornographic content, making it a conditioned behavior.
4. Coolidge effect. The "Coolidge effect" is an evolutionary mechanism that increases sexual interest and arousal in response to novel mates. Internet porn provides an endless supply of novel sexual imagery, amplifying this effect and driving users to seek more novelty.
5. Reward system hijacking. The constant novelty and dopamine spikes from internet porn can potentially "hijack" the brain's natural reward system, making it less responsive to normal, familiar rewards like sex with a partner.

In essence, the novelty and variety provided by internet pornography create a powerful reinforcing cycle in the brain's reward circuitry, driving users to seek more extreme and novel content to maintain dopamine levels and sexual arousal. This can lead to desensitization, tolerance, and potential addiction-like behaviors.

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So, how does TIK-TOK fit here???

Dopamine, stimulus, fast satisfaction and the dysregulation of dopamine. In lame terms, the brain craves more dopamine, and people get on the dopamine loop.

The algorithm?

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The risk of high exposure to Dopamine on the media

High dopamine levels from frequent exposure consumption can have several long-term detrimental effects on the brain:

• Desensitization and tolerance
• With repeated exposure, the brain becomes desensitized to dopamine release from familiar content
• It requires more extreme or novel material to achieve the same level of dopamine spikes
• This leads to a cycle of escalation and seeking out more intense content
• Addiction and compulsive behavior
• The constant dopamine jolts can "hijack" the brain's natural reward system
• It creates powerful neural connections driving the compulsive seeking for more despite negative consequences
• Users may experience cravings and an inability to control their dopamine habits
• Dopamine dysregulation
• Users may experience a disconnect between "wanting" and "liking"?
• This is similar to the effects seen in substance addictions
• Structural brain changes
• The release of DeltaFosB, a protein that reinforces neural pathways, can cause lasting brain changes
• This leaves users more vulnerable to compulsive? consumption and potential addiction

In essence, the repeated dopamine spikes can lead to desensitization, tolerance, addiction-like behaviors, and even structural brain changes over time. Moderation and breaks from dopamine consumption from the media as well as from porn may be necessary to restore dopamine sensitivity and a healthy brain function.

Conclusion:

Nothing is bad or good, let’s put a limit on the amount of exposure. If you want to know why your kids are disconnected, your employees or partners are more connected to their phones than to you, work, or socializating in the real world, well here is the science behind it.

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About the Author:

Susan is a former political influence consultant, profiler, and civilian hostage negotiator, with expertise, studies and Master’ in Human Behavior, Behavior Economics, Neuroscience and a nerd for data. Susan works on the humans that grow your business | High-performance Human Behavior training- I teach corporations & employees how to hack into humans using Behavior, Neuroscience & Persuasion |Behavior Economics

She has been called Freaky and the top expert on her field,? by the Chicago Tribune and Psychology Today.

She is the author and researcher of “Irrational Humans. People Make 35,000 Decisions a Day and 95% are Irrational, but Why & How?”

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