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Why is it so powerful? Pornography taps into intense emotional, biological and chemical connections throughout the brain and body. Arousal through pornography leads to the release of the naturally occurring chemicals dopamine, norepinephrine, oxytocin and serotonin.

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Mary Anne Layden, Sexual Trauma and Psychopathology Programme co-director at the University of Pennsylvania, says: ‘Porn is the most concerning thing to psychological health that I know of existing today.’

According to Layden, online pornography is akin to having an addictive drug pumped into your house for free, 24 hours a day.

And unlike other drugs, which users can get out of their system, pornographic images stay imprinted in the brain…

What is disturbing, however, is that in clinical trials where subjects are exposed to repeated presentations of pornography over a six-week period, the subjects are found by the end of the trial to devalue monogamy and cease to regard marriage as a lasting institution.

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