A Biological Perspective

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Many people get to a point in their pornography use where it feels compulsive, like they have to do it because they crave it and want to get rid of that craving. I have found many times that when people are given an understanding of the way in which pornography might have affected their biochemistry, it helps them see why they got to the point of feeling addicted.

Even if we are in a spiritual battle, even if we use the language of sin, we are creatures made with all the elements that neuroscientists are finding out more and more about. We need to bring our knowledge and responsibility to bear on what happens to the bodies and brains God made, so that we can stop feeding into dysregulation. The more we understand how we are put together, the more we can understand what has the potential to go wrong. I have heard of God and angels repairing cars, but mostly He lets Earthly experts guide us through what has gone wrong when it comes to our MOT (as is a frequent occurrence when one has a 1992 Peugeot 205).

When we are dealing with primary drives, we are looking at ancient systems predicated on the survival of us or our genes. When we hijack these, they become hard monsters to fight because we are playing with something that we have accidentally cued to make us act like it is vital. If that monster also has the backing of massive finance that knows these primeval systems are easy to tap into, then we are up against a powerful monster indeed. (Throw in stuff from essay).