Hello, junior high school friend! One of the problems that is quite dangerous for teenagers is the issue of pornography. Do you know what pornography is?
Law No. 44 of 2008 on Pornography states that pornography is an image, sketch, illustration, photograph, writing, sound, sound, moving image, animation, cartoon, conversation, gesture, or other form of message through various forms of communication media and/ or a public performance, which contains obscenity or sexual exploitation that violates the norms of decency in society.
Pornography can be a threat to teenagers because there are many negative impacts that can be caused. Starting from damage to brain cells, emotional and mental disorders, to loss of the future. Check out this article to find out more about it!
Brain damage in adolescents
The first impact of pornography addiction is brain damage. When viewing pornography, the body will release the hormone dopamine. So, the more often you view pornography, the dopamine will continue to come out until it floods the prefrontal cortex . The prefrontal cortex is one part of the brain that acts as the center of personality because it has executive functions.
When the prefrontal cortex is flooded with dopamine, the effects that arise can include difficulty distinguishing between good and bad, difficulty making decisions, lack of self-confidence, decreased imagination power, and also difficulty planning for the future. Addiction to viewing pornography can also lead to shrinkage of brain tissue which will gradually experience shrinkage and permanent damage.
Emotional disorders
If from a physical point of view, pornography can attack the brain, from a psychological point of view, pornography can cause emotional disturbances. Psychological impacts that occur when addicted to pornography include feelings of confusion because they are always looking for pornographic content or are easily angry and offended if their activities to access pornography are disturbed.
In addition, addiction to pornography can make it easy for sufferers to forget and also find it difficult to concentrate. People who are addicted to pornography are also more easily anxious for fear of having their secrets exposed so that they have difficulty interacting with family and friends.
The future is ruined
The latent danger of the ultimate pornography addiction is the ruin of the future. Someone who is addicted to pornography will find it difficult to stop the addictive behavior so that they ignore other useful things. It will lose the habit of living an orderly and orderly life.
A more threatening danger if addicted to pornography is the risk of being caught in free sex. Free sex certainly has a very bad impact, it can even damage the future. Not to mention if the sexual desire is getting higher then people with pornography can do reckless things such as sexual harassment to rape.
Middle school friends, pornography has a real impact on the physical and mental health of our teenagers. Therefore, as much as possible avoid pornography so that these effects do not happen to all of us. Hopefully this information is useful, junior high school friend!