Pornography addiction can lead to erectile dysfunction through changes in the brain's reward system. Watching porn causes a spike in the reward chemical dopamine that conditions the brain to only respond to porn. This can desensitize the brain's response so that real-life partners no longer provide the same level of arousal. The document outlines 7 levels of porn addiction and how treatments aim to reduce porn viewing and retrain arousal responses through cognitive methods and medications like Naltrexone. Reducing porn use is important to maintain a healthy sex life and relationship intimacy.

1. PORN INDUCED ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION
BY- ARGHYA CHOWDHURY (ROLL NO.: 18162027), M.PHARM(2ND SEMESTER)
Department of Pharmaceutical Engineering and Technology ,IITBHU, Varanasi

2. INTRODUCTION
• Porn has grown into one of the largest forms of entertainment
in the world.
• Erectile dysfunction (ED) has been increasing in sexually active
men under 40. Researchers have identified Internet porn is to
blame for this rise.
• Moreover ACCESSIBILITY, AFFORDABILITY and ANONYMITY
makes online sex so popular.

3. SKINNER’S SEVEN LEVELS OF PORNOGRAPHY
ADDICTION
• Level 1- Just recently been exposed, Thoughts and everyday actions not
focused on porn
• Level 2 - Time spent thinking about is still limited
• Level 3 - Episodes about once a month
• Level 4 - Begin to wonder why it occupies thoughts so much
• Level 5 - Borderline compulsive
• Level 6 - Begins to dominate life – has become compulsive
• Level 7 - Viewing porn almost daily, Deep seeded compulsive feeling to
act out

4. THE BRAIN’S NATURAL REWARD CIRCUITS FOR LIFE SUSTAINING
ACTIVITIES

5. RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PORN & ED VIA REWARD SYSTEM
• When watching porn, reward system generates an enormous
amount of dopamine (motivation to reach orgasm).
• Gradually watching more, it create tolerance for that
excitement.
• But dopamine receptors shut down to avoid getting that huge
rush of stimulation.
• When we abuse a reward; dopamine becomes the addiction
molecule.
• Viewer can become conditioned to this type of sexual arousal
that does not carry over into real life sexual situations. Due to
this porn overload, some guys are no longer aroused in the

6. PORN CAUSING DOPAMINE SPIKE

7. TREATING/RECOVERY PORNOGRAPHY
ADDICTION
• Assess Current Internet Use
• Cognitive Restructuring
• Abstinence from Internet Porn
• Three seconds rule (Alert- Avert- Affirm)
• Internet Sex Addiction Treated With Naltrexone

8. MANAGEMENT OF PIED USING NALTREXONE

9. CONCLUSION
• Porn posses a serious threat to couple intimacy and
relationship harmony.
• The frequency to watch porn should be reduced to null to
normalize arousal latency and to ensure a healthy sex life
which is also of similar importance like other physiological
activities.
• Recently in India banning of internet access to such medias is a
step forward.

10. REFERENCE

11. THANKS FOR LISTENING