Hello friends,

There is a hidden yet ever present enemy silently destroying and putting to bondage our youths and old alike. This benign sickness has eaten deep in to the heart and minds of our society and the symptoms are projected in the thinking pattern, behaviors, and total meaningful output and quality of life of the victims.

This sickness is termed Addiction (I mean it in the negative term) and of all it categories, Masturbation and pornography ranks the number one most destructive. This is because it not only deals with the very mind and soul of the person, but it limits the person's productivity rates, blocks his ability to think accurately and so on and so forth. The fearful truth about this whole matter is that it is not gender restrictive meaning it exists both in the male and female world. It is so dangerous that it can't be easily detected on the person whereas it is eating the person's soul and killing the person in all totality. So what is masturbation and what is pornography?

Most people tend to use the words interchangeably but in the actual sense, they are two different words;

Pornography: is an material (films, magazines, pictures, online sites, etc) showing explicit depiction of sexual matter or erotic in nature.

So basically, pornography is watching or viewing nude or porn based materials which can be pictures, films or any other related materials.

While

Masturbation: is the manual erotic stimulation of the genitals or other erotic regions, often to orgam, either by yourself or a partner.

In a simple word, masturbation is stroking an erotic part of your body which may end in orgasm but not at all times.

Now, since we know the differences between this two terms, we can now focus on how to define which is the most dangerous and how to get out of it.

One can actually masturbate without necessarily watching porn and one can watch porn without Masturbating. Although, medically, they would say it is advisable for people to masturbate one or twice a week, but in the situation where you can't control yourself from have 'more' of it, then you have gotten addicted to it. Addiction happens in this way; you 'look' and 'do' it the first time and it feels good, then you think wow, that was lit. It happened again the second time with no hard feelings. Next time you do it again but this time around even though it felt good, you feel that is it wrong. Then you decide to put an end to it. Then again, the pressure to feel, watch and touch comes again. You shrug your shoulders and say 'oh well, one more time won't kill' then you do it. Now you feel bad after the act and wonder why you even did it in the first place. Then it keeps going like that and each moment it comes, you struggle to get out of it, but at the end you end up getting inside the very thing you have sworn never to do. Then after some times, you start noticing some changes in you, things that were not there in the first. Things that are evil or extreme in form. You now 'graduate' from 'normal' porn to another level, from 'normal'masturbation to 'having the real thing'. You sight, you think, you might even pray but over and over again, you keep seeing yourself in the mire. And the more you tried to get out, the more you sink. Finally, it changes the very person you are; the way you think and see things, the way you sleep, your work pattern, your general way of life and your relationship with others.

The next question is have heard is if these addiction have any medical implications. Of course it does! Look, a supposed medical practitioner may tell you masturbation is not really a bad thing and enumerate some advantages such as: making you more fresh and sleep well, but behind all these the disadvantages are far greater than the advantages. Infact a time will come when the addiction as gotten to the climax that the disadvantages will thoroughly cancel out the advantages, leaving you with pain, hopelessness and gloominess with frantical way of escape from the supposed good feeling.

Some medical implications of addiction masturbation and Pornography.

1. First and foremost is it drains you of need energy and vitality. After taking you to 'cloud nine', it dumps you to the pit of weakness and shame. You become very weak and energy deprive. Medically, ejaculation triggers the dopamine hormone in the hypothalamus which is a stress releasing hormone, but over secretion or continuous secretion of this hormone will lead to general weakness and energy deprivation.

2. It deprives you of good sleep and relax. Even though the dopamine released is supposed to cause yougo sleep and rest more, at it climax and excessive release, you start experiencing sleep disorder and ultimately insomnia.

3. Over ejaculation, over secretion of dopamine and reduction in the selinum level in man results to quick aging. This is a big problem. A person of early of late 20s may start looking like a person on late 30s or 40s. If you are Experiencing this stop this for a period of 3 to 4 weeks and see the difference. You will look into the mirror and will be happy to see your real face.

4. Loss of hair: Selinum is a very important element needed in the body of man so also is the hormone dopamine. An increase in ejaculation tends to reduce the level of Selinum and increase the secretion of dopamine which will inhibit the hormone for hair growth

   and and production. The end result is loss of hair in vital parts of the body such as the head, legs or any other parts of the body.

5. Reduction in fertility; even though it is not yet generally agreed upon in medicine, there is a possibility that increase in ejaculation will tend to reduce the fertility rate in man. Since the last part of the body to recover after any medical condition is the genital parts, over ejaculation and masturbation tends to affect the production of semen. Also since some proteins, hormone and vitamins are vital for the production of semen, over ejaculation tend to use up this vitamins and other materials leading shortage of these materials and invariably low sperm production leading to low sperm count.

6. BRAIN DAMAGE: This is the climax and the most dangerous effect of masturbation. The brain gets damaged not to make you mad or insane, instead it utters the way your brain operate and work. Dopamine is one of the very important hormone in the body as it triggers rest, sleep, relieve and pleasure. But when over secretion of this wonderful hormone is done, it tend to constantly shut down some important part of the brain like the cognisant, memorising and remembering parts. In other words, you tend to forget things very easy, memorising and commiting things to memory becomes an herculean task. You tend to remember things vaguely and can't think in the right way at the right time. Infact, you start thinking like another person since your own self is still being shut down or suppressed up there. What a dangerous and sad condition.

I'll stop here for now. In my next article, I will continue where I have stopped and also try to enumerate some way out of this addiction and the way to remain in a life free of addiction to Masturbation and pornography.

Obrigado friends, for reading this particular article. I hope you have found it extremely helpful. See you soon in the next chapter.