This is how humans learn and empathise, but with porn it proves to be a dangerous thing. Therefore when watching an activity on the screen, the brain is firing as if the person is performing it. Some of the signs of addiction would include not being able to stop watching it, hiding the fact that it’s being watched, and getting angry when it’s not watched.Īnd for Warrane boys – who are all about strong character and solid values, and who want to form a strong families and a strong society, and live fulfilling lives – there is just no room for something like this, as the doctor pointed out.ĭr Choong told the boys how the brain uses mirror neurons which learn by watching and imitating. Because it is total immersion into the situation – there is no distinction between reality and fantasy… and that has an enormous effect upon your brain.”ĭr Choong warned the boys that pornography is easily addictive because of the way it behaves with the brain. I think the next stage, which I really worry about, is virtual reality porn, which is already here.
It’s happening every day, all the time, and it’s as weird as you want.” But nowadays, you can see it’s free, you can do it at any age, as long as you’ve got a smartphone or a computer or any access to internet.
I’d have to run down – or sneak into – an adult bookshop somewhere down in Haymarket, or go to a newsagent’s and under the counter they’d have paper bags with R-rated magazines and that was the only way you could get to it. “When I was your age, I couldn’t just pull out my smartphone and click on it for free. “Before the internet, you had to go to a bit of trouble to get porn,” said Dr Choong. So although pornography has existed for thousands of years, the intensity with which it is readily available now is making it a larger problem. In a world with over 24 million porn sites and over 30,000 people watching porn every second, this is not surprising. He came to talk to the boys about an important topic: the impact of pornography on the brain.Īnd the doctor’s opinion? “There is nothing good that comes out of porn – to society, to yourself physically…and certainly to you emotionally and spiritually,” he said.ĭr Choong told the boys that statistically, most of them would have engaged in or been exposed to pornography to some degree. On Wednesday, the Warrane boys had a visit from Dr Robin Choong – a Paediatric Intensive Care Physician with a specialist interest in neuroscience and the interaction between the human brain and its environment. The impact of porn from a doctor’s perspective
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