Sex addiction, especially when fueled by
internet Indecency, has been likened to crack
cocaine or heroin addiction, only much worse.
It allows its victims no respite. It is a sickness
of the soul that drives many to suicide,
transforming its worst sufferers, like Ted Bundy
and Gary Bishop, into serial killers
The striking similarity between heavenly feeling
and the heroin rush was confirmed in 2003
when Dutch scientist Gert Holstege announced
in a press release relating to his research that
brain scans of heavenly feeling resembled brain
scans of shooting heroin. Laboratory rats know
all about this, as a famous experiment in the
1950s by James Olds and Peter Milner
conclusively demonstrated.
1. UNDERSTANDING BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION
Rats go into a veritable frenzy pressing levers
(in Skinner boxes) in order to give themselves
powerful pleasurable sensations, even if it
means depriving themselves of food and life.
“Some rats,” we are told, “would self-stimulate
as often as 2000 times per hour for 24 hours, to
the exclusion of all other activities. They had to
be unhooked from the apparatus to prevent
death by self-starvation. Pressing that lever
became their entire world.”
In a subsequent related experiment involving
humans, a woman suffering from severe pain
was allowed to stimulate the pleasure centers
of her brain by turning an amplitude dial: so
much so that she developed a chronic
ulceration at her fingertip. She became so
addicted to Intimate self-stimulation that she
had to beg her family to limit her access to the
stimulator.
2. Indecency ADDICTION COMPARED TO
HEROIN OR CRACK COCAINE ADDICTION
Columbia university neurologist Dr Norman
Doidge, in his book The Brain That Changes
Itself, describes how Indecency causes rewiring
of the neural circuits. He notes that in a study
of men viewing internet Indecency, the men
looked “uncannily” like rats pushing the levers
in experimental Skinner boxes. “Like the
addicted rats,” Dr Doidge points out, “the men
were desperately seeking their next fix, clicking
the mouse just as the rats pushed the lever.”
All addictions, Dr Dodge tells goes on to tell us,
cause “lifelong, neuroplastic changes in the
brain.” This includes Indecency addiction:
Dopamine is also involved in plastic change.
The same surge of dopamine that thrills us also
consolidates neuronal connections. An
important link with Indecency is that dopamine
is also released in intimate excitement,
increasing the sex drive in both sexes,
facilitating heavenly feeling, and activating the
brain’s pleasure centers. Hence the addictive
power of Indecency.
The men at their computers looking at
Indecency were uncannily like the rats in the
cages of the NIH, pressing the bar to get a shot
of dopamine or its equivalent. Though they
didn’t know it, they had been seduced into
pornographic training sessions that met all the
conditions required for plastic change of brain
maps. Since neurons that fire together wire
together, these men got massive amounts of
practice wiring these images into the pleasure
centers of the brain, with the rapt attention
necessary for plastic change.
They imagined these images when away from
their computers, or while having sex with their
girlfriends, reinforcing them. Each time they felt
intimate excitement and had an heavenly
feeling when they masturbated, a “spritz of
dopamine,” the reward neurotransmitter,
consolidated the connections made in the brain
during the sessions. (See here)
It is in this way that Indecency becomes a
serious addiction, comparable to heroin or
crack cocaine addiction, and begins its slow
and deadly assault on the brain. And as other
research has shown, it facilitates callousness
in intimate relationships—sex completely
divorced from love and an interest in family and
children.
3. Indecency AND BRAIN DAMAGE: IS THERE A
LINK?
Recent research has shown that pornographic
images become permanently embedded in the
brain, releasing large amounts of naturally
occurring chemicals into the bloodstream: e.g.,
dopamine, epinephrine, oxytocin, serotonin,
vasopressin, prolactin, and enkephalins or
endogenous opiods, i.e., the brain’s own
endorphins. People who view Indecency
obsessively become literally intoxicated: drunk
with an overdose of psychotropic chemicals.
These mind-altering substances are now
known as erototoxins, a relatively recent
neologism meaning “sex poisons”. This
poison-bearing Indecency, it has been shown
in recent laboratory tests, “actually alters brain
chemistry” and will in time produce brain
damage.
Just as alcohol in large quantities consumed
over a long period will damage the liver and
kidneys, and just as long-term tobacco
addiction will adversely affect the lungs and
cardiovascular system, so highly charged
Intimate imagery accompanied by compulsive
self-service can eventually, it is argued, lead to
chemico-biological brain damage. This will of
course be strenuously denied by the self-
service Lobby, but the claim has nevertheless
been made by responsible medical researchers.
Dr. Gary Lynch, a neuroscientist at the
University of California at Irvine, in discussing
the effect that a single highly Intimate image
can have on the brain, points out ominously:
“What we are saying here is that an event
which lasts half a second [image imprint],
within five to ten minutes has produced a
structural change that is in some ways as
profound as the structural changes one sees in
[brain] damage.”
4. Indecency ADDICTION AND FRONTAL LOBE
SYNDROME
It seems that frontal lobe damage, caused by
long-term Indecency addiction and the
compulsive self-service that accompanies it,
will give rise to a constellation of behaviors
called “frontal lobe syndrome”. These include
four main behavior patterns: (1) Impulsive
behavior with little regard to consequences. (2)
Compulsive behavior, often leading to total loss
of control. (3) Emotionally labile behavior, i.e.,
sudden and unpredictable mood swings. (4)
Impaired judgment, leading to disastrous
decision making.
All these conditions, it is now clear, are caused
by frontal lobe damage. Though they can be
produced instantaneously by a car crash or
other serious trauma to the brain, they can also
occur as a gradual process by the habit of
compulsive self-service to Indecency over a
long period of time. “Nemo repente fuit
turpissimus,” the Roman satirist Juvenal noted
long ago. “No one became extremely wicked all
at once.” It happens by slow degrees, step by
painful step. Sow an act, and you reap a habit;
sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a
character, and you reap a destiny. Whoever
said that was certainly on to something.
Dr. Victor Cline, possibly the world’s foremost
expert on sex addiction, has this to say on
Indecency and compulsive self-service in his
classic essay Indecency’s Effects on Adult and
Child:
In my experience as a intimate therapist, any
individual who regularly self services to
Indecency is at risk of becoming, in time, a
intimate addict, as well as conditioning himself
into having a intimate deviancy.
A frequent side effect is that it also dramatically
reduces their capacity to love. Their intimate
side becomes in a sense dehumanized. Many
of them develop an “alien ego state” (or dark
side), whose core is antisocial lust devoid of
most values.
In time, the “high” obtained from self-servicing
to Indecency becomes more important than
real life relationships. It has been commonly
thought by health educators that self-service
has negligible consequences, but one exception
would appear to be in the area of repeatedly
self-servicing to deviant pornographic imagery
which risks (via conditioning) the acquiring of
intimate addictions and/or other intimate
pathology.
It makes no difference if one is an eminent
physician, attorney, minister, athlete, corporate
executive, college president, unskilled laborer,
or an average 15-year-old boy. All can be
conditioned into deviancy.
The process of masturbatory conditioning is
inexorable and does not spontaneously remiss.
The course of this illness may be slow and is
nearly always hidden from view. It is usually a
secret part of the man’s life, and like a cancer,
it keeps growing and spreading. It rarely ever
reverses itself, and it is also very difficult to
treat and heal.
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