Harmful side effects of excessive PMO(Porn,Masturbation & Orgasm)

1.Social Anxiety-It has been reported that individuals who engage in excessive PMO suffer from social anxiety. They don’t feel like going out and socialising, they isolate themselves. They feel awkward at social gatherings and try to avoid every possible human contact.

They’d rather spend time alone in their room than go out and they find excuses of not going out and to avoid social gatherings.

Whenever they are in public, they feel their heartbeat going up and keep thinking about going home as soon as possible.

Of course, excessive PMO is not the only reason for social anxiety, but it is one of the reasons.

2.Depression-People who indulge in excessive PMO also reported having depression or symptoms of depression.

When you watch porn and ejaculate, your brain thinks you just had sex with a real partner and passed on your genes, so it releases a “feel good” chemical known as dopamine to reward you as your brain can’t differentiate between having real sex with a partner and watching virtual sex(porn).

As a result of a huge rush of dopamine, your dopamine receptors get desensitized and will now need a relatively more amount of dopamine to give you the same level of pleasure. As a result, activities that don’t give you that huge rush of dopamine, don’t excite you anymore and you don’t feel like doing them.

Since normal day-to-day activities can’t give you the same level of dopamine as porn, you don’t feel like doing them and keep going back to porn to satisfy your high level of dopamine need. As a result, you start losing interest in normal day-to-day activities and start feeling sad and unmotivated all the time, which is one of the symptoms of depression.

Low dopamine levels have been linked to depression and various symptoms of depression.

3.Low self-esteem-People who indulge in excessive PMO, have been reported to have low self- esteem. They don’t think highly of themselves, they feel worthless and think they are not good enough for society

As a result, they miss out on a lot of opportunities in life. They feel like they are not worthy of anything good in life. They have an inferiority complex and think other people are always superior to them. This results in them not realising their potential and wasting it.

4.Lack of Motivation-When you indulge in PMO, your brain releases a huge amount of dopamine which gives you pleasure and desensitises your dopamine receptors. Activities which can’t provide that huge rush of dopamine, don’t excite you anymore and you don’t feel like doing them.

You feel a lack of motivation to do the things which are necessary because your dopamine receptors have now become desensitised to the dopamine released by those activities, after receiving a huge amount of dopamine released by indulging in PMO.

5.Erectile dysfunction-It has been reported that indulging in excessive PMO causes erectile dysfunction. Porn induced erectile dysfunction(PIED) is a very real thing and the no. of people suffering from it has been on the rise due to easy availability and unlimited no. of porn videos available and high speed internet.

Before high speed internet porn, erectile dysfunction(ED) was mostly found in older men, but now, even people in their early 20’s and a lot of teenagers find themselves suffering from it.

Young men have reported difficulty in getting an erection or keeping an erection during sex with a partner.

Some men, especially young, who indulge in excessive PMO, have reported that they have no interest in having sex with a real partner and they find porn more pleasurable.

6.Changed attitude towards women-Men, especially young men have reported that excessive PMO changed their attitude towards women for the worst. They started seeing women as sex objects. They were unable to form a genuine connection with women. They felt like they needed women just for sex and nothing else.

They also felt like they were unworthy and undeserving of women and put women on a pedestal that screwed their dating life.

Whenever they saw an attractive woman, they could only think about having sex with her. They also felt awkward and less confident in talking to women. They couldn’t hold eye contact and felt inferior when talking to women.

7.Brain fog & concentration problems-Brain fog is the inability to have a sharp memory or to lack a sharp focus. You feel like you are not yourself and you’re unable to think clearly.

Individuals indulging in excessive PMO have reported that they suffer from brain fog and had a hard time concentrating and often find themselves getting lost in unrelated thoughts while doing an activity.

If you’ve been feeling brain fog, loss in memory, and have a hard time concentrating on an activity, consider quitting PMO. People have reported that their brain fog went away and they had a much better concentration after quitting PMO.