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Porn the new drug

An young entrepreneur and President of the Young Chamber of Commerce (YCC), Ansif Ashraf stated that the growing trend of Pornography through the social media is taking a very dangerous turn across the Globe and especially in India. He said that it is high time to curb such activities and save the society in general and the younger generation in particular. He has demanded stringent action against suchactivities and added that if permitted further, will spoil the life of the innocent. Kids have the access to internet and there are numerous Porn sites which show sexual videos and also those websites which telecast the weird content is showing how a father is having sex with the daughter and the mother with the son, son with his friends mother, boy with aunt and the niece with uncle. This sort of public nuisance which pose a severe threat to the society should not be tolerated any more, he added.

With this act, they have spoiled the lives of many people and is still continuing it. Now, this industry has been taken to such a low standard that the younger generation, especially the teenagers are being misguided. This has even spoiled and is spoiling the lives of the new generation especially, the one’s who are preparing to lead a family life and even their relatives. “This sort of videos are watched more by the children than the adults”. Moreover, in the days to come it will be the Kids who are going to be affected more, especially under the context that this sort of videos are watched more by the children than the adults. It is this sort of uncivilized act that is going to pose a very severe threat to the younger generation.

It is high time that the authorities take stringent action against such acts or else it will lead to the brain drain of the younger generation. In effect, what is needed at this juncture to curb such activities more effectively is that the government should bring in strict laws without any loopholes, that may help those involved in such acts from escaping.

Ansif Ashraf, added that this sort of social menace, if not curbed immediately will damage the brains of the new generation and even the spirituality. And, if the government doesn’t take a bold step against this sort of activities, India will become one of the main centres of this sort of activities. And, above all, news will pop up showing such incidents which will endanger the peaceful life of the society. India has got a well nurtured culture which, if we don’t take utmost care will be spoiled. – Today pornography is becoming a social menace across the length and breadth of the nation. If the present trend continues unabated, it will become a major threat to the nation. “Government of India should ban all those websites as our neighboring countries like’ China, Srilanka etc. have done”. There is a big and direct link between the websites which show this sort of vulgar videos and even certain channels which telecast similar sex films. In essence, these are all resultant factors of the adoption of the European and American cultures. Government of India should ban all those websites as our neighboring countries like’ China, Srilanka etc have done.

The situation in India was entirely different 50 years ago. There were no cases of rape or similar incidents reported in our news papers as of today. But, now the entire situation has changed and this change is obviously taking a very dangerous turn. We would not even have imagined that such things would happen in India. But to the dismay of all, whenever we open a newspaper or TV channel it has always been the story of rape of women or children that appear first. This in fact, is a question of shame for the community as a whole.

Connection between Porn & West The United States of America is the factory where it is all produced. Playboy Enterprises, the no: 1 in this industry is owned by Hugh Hefner and is based inBeverly Hills in California. Pornography in the United States of America has existed since the country’s origin itself. First, introduced by immigrants and later produced domestically, pornography has been ever present, but not readily acknowledged until it came out into the “mainstream” in the 21st century. Advanced by technological development, it has gone from a hard to find “back alley” item to being readily available and accessible by anyone with a computer connected to the Internet and even through tabs and mobile phones.

Although, pornography dates back to thousands of years, its existence in the U.S. can be traced back to the 18th century. By the end of the 18th century, France became the leading country in the spread of porn pictures. Porn had become the subject of playing-cards, posters, post cards, and cabinet cards. The Internet maintains a significant part of American adult entertainment, also because the 1997, Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union case specified that the term “indecent” also has no specific legal meaning in the context of the internet.

According to a Committee to Study Tools and Strategies for Protecting Kids from Pornography and their applicability to other inappropriate internet content, subscription sites with adult content exceed 1,00,000 in the United States, with each site having multiple web pages underneath it.

Seattle-based Flying Crocodile, Inc. has a stable of more than 2,80,000 adult sites. Another famous leader is XPics Publishing, which launched more than 600 adult sites, like Xpics.net and Xpics. cc.

In 1975, the total retail value of all the hardcore pornography in the U.S. was estimated at $5–10 million. The total income of modern country’s adult entertainment is often rated at $10–13 billion, of which $4–6 billion are legal.

Porn is Like a Drug

On the surface, cocaine and porn don’t seem to have a lot in common but studies are showing that viewing pornography tricks your brain into releasing the same pleasure chemicals that drugs do. What’s more is your brain actually begins to rewire itself because of this artificial stimulation. It may sound crazy, but it’s true.

On the surface, cocaine and porn don’t seem to have a lot in common. One is purchased in seedy alleyways; the other is free to download. One habit can get expensive pretty fast, while the other is about the price of a high-speed Internet connection. Besides, Hugh Heffner doesn’t exactly conjure up images of a cartel drug lord. So where’s the similarity? Inside the brain. In case you’re not a neurosurgeon, here’s a crash course in how the brain works. Deep inside your brain, there’s something called a “reward pathway.” You’ve got one. Your cat’s got one. For mammals, it comes standard. The reward pathway’s job is to help keep you alive by doing exactly what its name promises: rewards you, or more specifically, rewards you when you do something that promotes life, such as eating food or achieving something you’ve worked hard for. And the way it rewards you is by releasing chemicals in your brain—mainly one called dopamine, but also others like oxytocin. Normally, these chemicals are really handy. They help us feel pleasure and to bond with other people, and they motivate us to come back to important activities that make us happy. The problem is, the reward pathway can be hijacked.

The way substances like cocaine and opioids make users feel high is by triggering the reward pathway to release high levels of dopamine without making the user do any of the work to earn it. Want to guess what else does that? Porn. And that surge of dopamine is causing more than just feelings. As it goes pulsing through the brain, dopamine helps to create new brain pathways that essentially lead the user back to the behavior that triggered the chemical release.

The more a drug user hits up or a porn user looks at porn, the more those pathways get wired into the brain, making it easier and easier for the person to turn back to using, whether they want to or not.

Over time, the constant overload of chemicals causes other brain changes as well. Just like a junkie will eventually require more and more of a drug to get a buzz or even just feel normal, porn users can quickly build up a tolerance as their brains adapt to the high levels of dopamine that porn releases. In other words, even though porn is still releasing dopamine into the brain, the user can’t feel its effects as much.

That’s because the brain is trying to protect itself from the overload of dopamine by getting rid of some of its chemical receptors, which act like tiny catcher’s mitts that receive the dopamine released. With fewer receptors, the brain thinks less dopamine is there and the user doesn’t feel as strong a reaction. As a result, many porn users have to find more porn, find it more often, or find a more extreme version—or all three—to generate even more dopamine to feel excited.

And once a porn user becomes accustomed to a brain pulsing with these chemicals, trying to cut back on the habit can lead to withdrawal symptoms, just like with drugs. While people often think of porn as something that’s been around forever, today’s version of porn is a whole new ball game. Thanks to the Internet, porn now mixes the most powerful natural dopamine release the body can produce with a cocktail of other elements— endless novelty, shock, and surprise—all of which increase the dopamine surge. And because Internet porn offers an endless stream of variety, users can flip to a new image every time their high starts to fade, keeping dopamine levels elevated for hours.

Describing porn’s effect to a U.S. Senate committee, Dr. Jeffrey Satinover of Princeton University said, “It is as though we have devised a form of heroin… usable in the privacy of one’s own home and injected directly to the brain through the eyes.”

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