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Masturbation Can Cause Brain Damage
Well, cant wait to hear the perspectives on this one. According to medical science the brain release dopamine in the brain during sexual stimulation, this is what gives the High of sex. This high can create, addiction just like any other drug. And just like any other drug is prone to abuse and damage. Psychologically and emotionally.
 Calvin  16 Aug 2008 07:12
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Yes, it damages it in a good way so that all there is is love sweet love ;-)
masturbation therefore serves Society well, by getting everyone primed and ready for a REAL relationship, and this talk about failure to thrive - I meant Bond - is bogus! When you are madly in love with someone very special you bond like there is no tomorrow. Do not believe everything you hear, and think for yourself. That is what your brain is for.
 
 sylverwyld  06 Nov 2008 17:59
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Several points: 1. Leave it to some guy way back to mistake his hand for a vagina. LOL 2. Ejaculation is not the same as orgasm. When you or I masturbate, I would refer to this as ejaculation and not having orgasm. Perhaps there is a different array of neurotransmitters released between the two experiences and therefore, they would result in different brain states. I'm not sure this has been studied? 3.Addiction is a psychological diagnosis, not a physical one. Not everyone who masturbates, uses pornography, etc. Becomes addicted.
4. Studies have shown that when women masturbate regularly or have multiple casual sex partners, their level of oxytocin (bonding hormone) gradually diminishes over time with each sexual experience. Thus, females who have multiple casual sex partners, or masturbate frequently, have more difficulty bonding to a given individual down the road. 4. Men are more adversely affected than they realize by masturbation.
 
 charlee  06 Nov 2008 17:45
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It can the way I do it.
 
 Jahwobble  24 Sep 2008 14:58
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 haha, banging head on table or something.
by  Specter87
 06 Nov 2008 16:57
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When the brain gets too much dopamine activity it will start to block dopamine access to the recptacles.

This causes loss of pleasure sensations that would have been there during normal circumstances and can cause depression.

(Discovery Channel) on how the brain reacts to pleasure and heightened sensations for an extended period of time.
 
 Calvin  17 Aug 2008 06:45
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 what a way to go!
;-)
by  sylverwyld
 06 Nov 2008 17:54
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I should be a vegetable by now.
 
 finsch  15 Nov 2008 22:32
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 Thanks for sharing....
by  SlyOne
 15 Nov 2008 22:39
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Brain damage is perhaps the wrong term. A physical compulsion to masturbate frequently better describes it.
 
 chaew  06 Nov 2008 17:06
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It's actually healthy to masturbate (in moderation). Some doctors even prescribe it (I'm not kidding).
 
 Specter87  06 Nov 2008 16:58
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 Evreything in moderation.
Some doctors reccomend having sex to help induce labour naturally.
by  SlyOne
 06 Nov 2008 17:01
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If that were true, then sexual activity would also
cause brain damage. Which would mean that all sexually active people would be damaging their brain each time they were sexually stimulated.... Utter nonsense.
 
 SlyOne  06 Nov 2008 16:53
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Changes in the structure and activity of the brain are constantly occuring in response to our behavior and environment. These changes do not reflect the typical definition of brain damage.

However, you often see the term "brain damage" used in reference to these functional changes. If a drug increases synapses and increases the number of dendretic spines, is that good or bad? If the drug is cocaine, it's bad. If the drug is produced by a pharmacological company and desi9gned to aid Alzheimer's it's good.

So cocaine addiction causes brain damage, and Metamemoral enhances brain function.
 
 Lynn  17 Aug 2008 07:01
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 ForAndAgainst website is a powerful brain-stimulant, and is therefore, so good for us. Drink up, Johnny ;-)
by  sylverwyld
 06 Nov 2008 17:56
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This has got to be the most Ignorant debate ever in the history of debate.
Absolutely moronic in the extreme.

I therefore disagree ;-)
 
 Scorpion  16 Aug 2008 19:31
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 I wonder if the questions we choose to answer reflect who we are.

by  Calvin
 17 Aug 2008 00:51
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Then stop doing it. It's causing you to make inane posts like this and many others.
 
 K9  16 Aug 2008 16:57
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 That is really funny!
by  Balance_92
 16 Aug 2008 17:17
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Your statement is stereotypical. Your basically saying that anything that can cause a addiction and is capable of abuse is bad for you. I could also say that anything can kill you in someway or the other abused or not. You didn't state how it caused brain damage or why it does.
 
 Smito  16 Aug 2008 16:46
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 Yes I did, read again....
by  Calvin
 16 Aug 2008 18:08
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Ha, only if you hit your head against the wall while you're doing it.

The problem with this dopamine theory is it would be triggered by any sex - not just masturbation - so even a married couple having sex every day should logically be getting just as dumb just as fast as a masturbator. Frankly sex is natural and getting a high from it's release isn't really any different from getting a high from working out. It's actually quite good for you.
 
 Grenache  16 Aug 2008 12:14
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 I am not going out my way to agree with Grenache here, but it does not make sense that to say that masturbatory orgasm has a different chemical basis than intercourse-sex does.
The end result is always the same result: you come.
That is just a factual statement, without prejudice.
So yes, I do agree with Grenache on this one, on the basis of Reason.
by  Scorpion
 16 Aug 2008 20:15
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If masturbation can give a man brain damage, soon there will be a dawning of a dark and dull age as of all men will completely loose all intelligence and society will cease to continue.
 
 verum  16 Aug 2008 07:20
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 LOLOL

by  Calvin
 16 Aug 2008 07:33
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