The Effects of Pornography

Pornography has become quite rampant and acceptable in our current society, and it is embedded in the fabric of all ages, genders, races, and ethnicities. Although pornography is not a new phenomenon, it certainly has taken the population by storm. There are a lot of popular pornography sites and recent statistics show that there were over 39 billion pornography searches along with the addition of almost 7 million new videos to the inventory. These figures are quite astounding, and this data should really make you realize how enormous this industry has become.

Pornography can have many negative influences, which may be harmful and detrimental to the psychological well being of individuals. The mind is bombarded by approximately 11 million bits of information per second, and the conscious mind narrows that down to a manageable amount of 40 bits per second. However, all the information that bombards the brain, continues to the subconscious part of the mind, which can create a false sense of reality. To say that just watching porn, or anything for that matter, cannot affect a person is way off base. The subconscious mind is the part of the brain that gets trained and acts automatically by the input that it is given, and it does not know the difference between thoughts, this reality, or what enters through passive actions. What I am attempting to say is, then, is that watching pornography will affect…