Toxic Love Essays - Human Sexuality, Pornography, Sex Industry

Toxic Love Love. Love is deep devotion and affection for someone who is close to us. It's positive attitude to demonstrate charity, benevolence, gratitude, kindness, and tenderness. However, love has been distinguished by a new drug that creates untasteful and uncomfortable emotions and feelings towards others and especially to ourselves. This new drug is called "porn". Pornography has become an international epidemic that can be easily linked to broken families, child abuse, rape, human-trafficking, and can create an indifference in personal intimacy and relationships. The battle against pornography must not only begin in the home, but a stand must be taken by the rising generation of youth who have been affected by it and also have been watching it. You (youth) are the future. If you watch pornography, you will have major effects to the mind and body, including "isolation, secrecy, and deceit that damage relationships and leave one vulnerable to poor self-esteem, anxiety, and depression; u nrealistic expectations and misinformation about sexual intimacy; conditioning us to see people as objects to be used and abused; and the development of obsessive thoughts and compulsive behaviors."(Pornography'- LDS Church). While reading, I want you to reflect on this inspired quote by President Gordon B. Hinckley, former president of the LDS Church, "You can be smart and happy or stupid and miserable.. it's your choice." Pornography originates from the Greek word pornographos writing about prostitutes'. It is visual or printed material that contain an explicit and crude perspective of sexual activity to stimulate erotic feelings to oneself. Where can you find out? Everywhere. You can access it in entertainment/media, such as movies, books, television, the internet, billboards, and magazines. It has been a multi-billion dollar industry in the world today. From NCOSE (National Center on Sexual Exploitation), "64% of young people, ages 13-24, actively seek out pornography weekly or more often." That's right, over half the youth in the world have sought to find and watch porn daily. SimliarWeb says that "eleven pornography sites are among the world's top 300 most popular Internet sites. The most popular such site, at number 18, outranks the likes of eBay, MSN, and Netflix." I myself love to watch Netflix and many of my youth friends also do. However, most of the youth around us are subscribed to porn than Netflix and other famous sites such as IMDB, Amazon, and Twitter. Pornography harms you in three ways. Number one, the brain. Number two, the heart. And number three, the world. In a study of how the brain is affected by pornography, Dr. Simone Kuhn, psychologist, Max Planck for Human Development, explains, "We found that a structure called striatum or caudatum in the brain's reward system is smaller in individuals who consume a lot of pornographic material, which could mean that it actually shrinks over time, depending on how much material is consumed. As a result, the individual requires increasingly more intense and more frequent stimuli in order to maintain the feeling of reward." The brain receives a deep decrease in the reward system by the use of porn and loses control of positive actions and thoughts to the mind. Through various counseling with his clients, a Seattle Christian writer, Ron Weiss, explains, "When the human heart is damaged in this way, it becomes aimless or discouraged. It searches for the quickest way of finding comfort o r pleasure. For many men, pornography becomes an effective means of masking this pain, for the fantasy involved in pornography, and the ritualization elements inherent in its use, produce a neurochemical high that enables them to avoid their emotional pain." By having a brain and heart consumed with pornography, it leads many individuals to tragedy in the world. Violence, rape, sex trafficking, and other cruel acts have been lead by the use of pornography. Fighting the New Drug, reports that "A recent UK survey found that 44% of males aged 11-16 who viewed pornography reported that online pornography gave them ideas about the type of sex they wanted to try." Now.. is there hope that people can stand up and say no to pornography? Yes. Has there been any youth affected by porn and then decide to reform his or her life? Yes, many