While the results are not entirely conclusive, there are certainly some statistics that should give a moment’s pause.
A recent survey of a Reddit community called NoFap, which is committed to abstaining from porn and masturbation, has helped researchers open the door to a better understanding of the effects of pornography on our lives. With such an inexhaustible supply of porn at our disposal, there is a growing concern that it is beginning to affect our brains, our relationships, and even our bodies (beyond, of course, your mother’s idle threats of blindness and hairy palms). Scientists at Cambridge University recently studied the brain scans of porn addicts and found that they looked exactly like those of drug addicts. According to a website called, 420 million web pages are dedicated to porn, meaning the non-porn Internet roughly consists of.well, Wikipedia. With the ubiquity and easy access to porn these days, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that people are beginning to study the effects of it on our sex lives.
