The Brain’s Delete Button: How You Can Erase Years Of Watching Porn
Synaptic pruning
As it turns out, the ability to learn is about more than building and strengthening neural connections. Even more important is our ability to break down the old ones. It’s called “synaptic pruning.” As explained by Pollack and Cabane, here’s how it works:
Your brain is like a garden, except instead of growing flowers, fruits, and vegetables, you grow synaptic connections between neurons. These are the connections that neurotransmitters like dopamine, seratonin, and others travel across.
“Glial cells” are the gardeners of your brain—they act to speed up signals between certain neurons. But other glial cells are the waste removers, pulling up weeds, killing pests, raking up dead leaves. Your brain’s pruning gardeners are called “microglial cells.” They prune your synaptic connections. The question is, how do they know which ones to prune?
Researchers are just starting to unravel this mystery, but what they do know is the synaptic connections that get used less get marked by a protein, C1q (as well as others). When the microglial cells detect that mark, they bond to the protein and destroy—or prune—the synapse.
This is how your brain makes the physical space for you to build new and stronger connections so you can learn more.
Fascinating right? The article goes on how to talk about how important sleep is because that’s when the most “synaptic pruning” takes place, solidifying new connections and erasing old ones. It also talks about what you dwell on the most is going to become where your brain’s energy is spent making new connections.
Porn and pruning
Now let’s talk about how all this relates to porn. When we look at porn, connections are formed that connect viewing these sexually explicit images with pleasure. As we look at porn more frequently, those connections get stronger and stronger, while our old connections are slowly erased to make room.
Over time, the brain gets used to those connections being there, and it takes more and more porn to keep them strong. Soon, it seems porn is dominating our thoughts for most the day: When can I watch it again? What am I going to watch next? This makes it so when we try to stop watching porn, we can start to feel empty, anxious, and stressed. Our brain has been customized to like–and even need–porn.
But luckily for us, this process works both ways.
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