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Internet pornography—akin to cocaine

Internet pornography is like cocaine in the brain.

The secular world is just beginning to understand the damage that porn does to oneself (physical and mental), marriages, and families.

There are even new acknowledgments from some states, most notably Florida, that calls pornography a real present health crisis.

When examining the brains of internet pornography addicts, the Cambridge scholars conducting these studies found “the same brain activity as seen in drug addicts and alcoholics.”

More specifically, these scholars found that addiction to Internet pornography seemed to affect the amygdala and ventral striatum in the brain much as alcohol, cocaine, and nicotine do.

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