Anglican Mainstream

Pornography, by offering an endless harem of sexual objects, hyperactivates the  appetitive system. Porn viewers develop new maps in their brains, based on the photos and videos they see. Because it is a use-it-or-lose-it brain, when we develop a map area, we long to keep it activated. Just as our muscles become impatient for exercise if we've been sitting all day, so too do our senses hunger to be stimulated.

Norman Doidge, M.D., Columbia University

There is evidence that the prevalence of pornography in the lives of many children and adolescents is far more significant than most adults realize, that pornography is deforming the healthy sexual development of these young viewers, and that it is used to exploit children and adolescents.

Mary Anne Layden, director of the Sexual Trauma and Psychopathology Program,
Center for Cognitive Therapy, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania

Particularly on the Internet, where much of pornography today is consumed, the type of sexuality depicted often has more to do with violence, extreme fetishes and mutual degradation than with sexual or emotional connection

Pamela Paul, author of Pornified    Read here

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