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| 04-18-12 01:07pm - 4631 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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jberryl69 (0)
Disabled User  Posts: 1,000 Registered: Nov 27, '10 Location: neverland |
Porn May 'Shut Down' Part of Your Brain By Stephanie Pappas | LiveScience.com Watching pornography would seem to be a vision-intensive task. But new research finds that looking at erotic movies can actually quiet the part of the brain that processes visual stimuli. Most of the time, watching movies or conducting any other visual task sends extra blood flow to this brain region. Not so when the movies are explicit, the researchers found. Instead, the brain seems to shunt blood — and therefore energy — elsewhere, perhaps to regions of the brain responsible for sexual arousal. Turns out, the brain may not need to take in all the visual details of a sex scene, said study researcher Gert Holstege, a uroneurologist at the University of Groningen Medical Center in the Netherlands. "If you look, for example, at your computer and you have to write something or whatever, then you have to look specifically and carefully at what you're doing because if you don't, it means you make mistakes," Holstege told LiveScience. "But the moment you are watching explicit sexual movies, that's not necessary, because you know exactly what's going on. It's not important that the door is green or yellow." Anxiety vs. arousal The brain can either be anxious or aroused (or neither), Holstege said, but not both. During orgasm, he has found, activity in brain regions associated with anxiety plummets. This phenomenon may explain why women with low levels of sexual desire often have high levels of anxiety, Holstege said. It makes sense; if you're looking around, focusing on visual details, scanning for danger, it may not be so easy to focus on arousal, he said. [The Sex Quiz: Myths, Taboos and Bizarre Facts] "If you yourself are in a very dangerous situation, whatever the reason, you don't have sexual feelings, because you have to survive for yourself, not survive for the species," Holstege said. Brain-scan research had previously turned up hints that explicit sexual images might quiet a brain area called Brodmann's area 17, also called the primary visual cortex, a region that does the first processing of incoming visual information in the brain. The data was spotty, however, and no one had looked into the question in women's brains. As part of a broader series of brain-scanning studies, Holstege examined the primary visual cortexes of 12 healthy heterosexual premenopausal women. All of the women were on hormonal birth control, smoothing out any menstrual-cycle related changes in sexual desire or arousal. Each woman watched three videos while having her brain imaged by positron emission tomography, better known as a PET scan. These scans detect minute changes in radioactivity in the brain that correspond to the amount of blood flowing to any given region. Regions with more blood flowing to them are considered more active. One of the videos used in the study was a simple nature documentary about marine life in the Caribbean. The other two were selections from "women-friendly" pornographic movies, one depicting only foreplay and manual stimulation and the other depicting oral sex and vaginal intercourse. Earlier studies had shown that the higher-intensity video showing intercourse produced stronger physical arousal in women than the foreplay-focused movie clip. [6 Great Things Sex Can Do For You] Safe sex The scan results revealed that the high-intensity erotic video — and only the high-intensity erotic video — resulted in far less blood being sent to the primary visual cortex. The region is still active, just much less so. Usually, that effect is only seen when people are asked to conduct a nonvisual task, like remembering words, while also watching some sort of visual stimuli. To Holstege, those results suggest that the brain is focusing on sexual arousal as more important than visual processing during these erotic films. "You have to realize that the brain wants to spare as much energy as possible, so if some part of the brain is not necessary at a high level of functioning, it immediately goes down," Holstege said. The findings have implications for sexual dysfunction, Holstege said, as they paint a picture of the brain in which safety is paramount and anxiety is a libido-killer. "If you want to have sex, as a man, you need to produce a safe situation for the woman," Holstege said. "That is what you want, that is the most important thing." Holstege reported his results online April 10 in the Journal of Sexual Medicine. If it ain't grits, it must be a Yankee. If you're going to lay her head over the pool table and fuck her throat, get your fucking hand off her throat! | |
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| 04-18-12 02:57pm - 4631 days | #2 | |
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Capn (0)
Active User  Posts: 1,740 Registered: Sep 05, '09 Location: Near the Beer! |
So what about looking at stills then? Cap'n.  Admiral of the PU Hindenburg. 2009 PU AwardHilarious Post of the Year 2010 PU Award ( I would have preferred it to be Helpful Post of the Year for Guys who Hate 'Retail Therapy' ) :0/ Sanity is in the eye of the Beholder! | |
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| 04-18-12 04:55pm - 4631 days | #3 | |
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jberryl69 (0)
Disabled User Posts: 1,000 Registered: Nov 27, '10 Location: neverland |
Hey - I'm not saying anything - I just posted it - you'll have to ask the author. If it ain't grits, it must be a Yankee. If you're going to lay her head over the pool table and fuck her throat, get your fucking hand off her throat! | |
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| 04-19-12 01:56am - 4630 days | #4 | |
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graymane (0)
Suspended  Posts: 1,411 Registered: Feb 20, '10 Location: Virginia |
Plagierism, pure and simple. Better be lookin' over your shoulder for awhile Big Guy.  | |
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| 04-19-12 09:01am - 4630 days | #6 | |
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Ergo Proxy (0)
Active User  Posts: 52 Registered: Dec 22, '07 Location: Germany |
I don't see any groundbreaking new insights in this study. These facts have been known for ages. If they would have chosen me to be a referee I would have rejected this article as a whole. Some funny things about using anxiety for creating impotence  :http://adult.hypnoticwishes.com/cd/cd25.php All hail to the hypnotoad! Edited on Apr 19, 2012, 09:05am | |
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| 04-20-12 01:00pm - 4629 days | #7 | |
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Cybertoad (0)
Disabled User  Posts: 2,158 Registered: Jan 01, '08 Location: Wash |
LOL so does that mean if I keep doing it i'll go blind ?  Since 2007 | |
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| 04-20-12 02:03pm - 4629 days | #8 | |
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Drooler (0)
Disabled User  Posts: 1,831 Registered: Mar 11, '07 Location: USA |
The research doesn't show that part of the brain shuts down when viewing explicit sex. It says that that part of the brain -- the primary visual cortex -- becomes less active in terms of the blood flow to it. That's not a "shut down." I wanted something new, so I left England for New England. | |
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| 04-20-12 04:22pm - 4629 days | #9 | |
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jberryl69 (0)
Disabled User Posts: 1,000 Registered: Nov 27, '10 Location: neverland |
Well dammit, I didn't write the title either - a pure snatch from the author ... oh, wait a min., that might be taken wrong - meh, who gives a shit! If it ain't grits, it must be a Yankee. If you're going to lay her head over the pool table and fuck her throat, get your fucking hand off her throat! | |
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| 04-21-12 01:09am - 4628 days | #10 | |
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Ergo Proxy (0)
Active User Posts: 52 Registered: Dec 22, '07 Location: Germany |
"Catholic high school girls in trouble" from Kentucky Fried Movie, relevant to this thread is min. 1:41, but maybe watch the whole clip. What a classic, lol! Especially the scene with the dwarf whipping the girls and the cake throwing, lmfao! http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3930000348900501724 All hail to the hypnotoad! | |
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| 04-22-12 05:21am - 4627 days | #11 | |
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Drooler (0)
Disabled User Posts: 1,831 Registered: Mar 11, '07 Location: USA |
I figured it was from the original title, a little bit of sensationalistic distortion to grab (or is that snatch?) attention. Maybe the reason why the author choose that title was because nobody would give a shit otherwise. I wanted something new, so I left England for New England. | |
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| 04-22-12 07:57am - 4627 days | #12 | |
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Cybertoad (0)
Disabled User Posts: 2,158 Registered: Jan 01, '08 Location: Wash |
What did you say drooler ?  Since 2007 | |
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| 05-15-12 12:18pm - 4604 days | #13 | |
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Reveen (0)
Active User Posts: 96 Registered: Apr 06, '09 |
Well yeah, the blood probably has more important places to be going at the time  | |
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| 03-16-13 04:21pm - 4299 days | #14 | |
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Dracula (0)
Active User  Posts: 183 Registered: Jan 27, '13 Location: Romania |
Blood is always lacking somewhere. This article might explain a few things though, such as why I prefer sex upside down. My brain functions better during sex upside down.  A true neck-lover. | |
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| 03-16-13 06:01pm - 4298 days | #15 | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User  Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
^No I think that is because you are part bat. Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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| 03-16-13 07:59pm - 4298 days | #16 | |
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Dracula (0)
Active User Posts: 183 Registered: Jan 27, '13 Location: Romania |
LOL, very true! A true neck-lover. | |
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| 03-19-13 12:37pm - 4296 days | #17 | |
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Cybertoad (0)
Disabled User Posts: 2,158 Registered: Jan 01, '08 Location: Wash |
I got to hand it to you Drac, as user names go in a Porn Website forum yours has got to be the most unusual one I would see in here . It just seems so random, I am sure there is meaning for you using it. But seemed random and unusual. PS Thats a compliment  Since 2007 | |
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| 03-19-13 03:42pm - 4296 days | #18 | |
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Dracula (0)
Active User Posts: 183 Registered: Jan 27, '13 Location: Romania |
That's my sleeping side of the brain hard at work there, LOL. Proof positive that your brain does indeed go numb while watching porn!  Thanks for the compliment! A true neck-lover. | |
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| 03-19-13 04:48pm - 4296 days | #19 | |
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Drooler (0)
Disabled User Posts: 1,831 Registered: Mar 11, '07 Location: USA |
If porn shuts down part of your brain, what do we need it for? I mean, we still have television ... I wanted something new, so I left England for New England. | |
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| 03-19-13 07:32pm - 4295 days | #20 | |
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Dracula (0)
Active User Posts: 183 Registered: Jan 27, '13 Location: Romania |
There's the 64,000 question. Does watching TV shut down the entire brain and make the watcher a zombie then? A true neck-lover. | |
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