TJ Power

It's more of a shared experience. More of a shared experience. And even if you end up drinking on your own, it's going to become quite obvious to other people that you're now drinking on your own and so on. You can't hide it.

It's more of a shared experience. More of a shared experience. And even if you end up drinking on your own, it's going to become quite obvious to other people that you're now drinking on your own and so on. You can't hide it.

Whereas pornography is very easy to hide. And therefore, when I, a number of years ago, maybe...

Whereas pornography is very easy to hide. And therefore, when I, a number of years ago, maybe...

four years ago or so i started thinking okay i've got to get dialed in on the dopamine i need to like come off alcohol and for me like that was the necessary step because i couldn't manage alcohol and then it was like really think about the food think about all these different steps and then pornography was this one whereby i'd be able to come off it for a period of time but there'd always be that like temptation to re-engage with that behavior and it is like a challenging conversation to have pornography i feel like society isn't really considering it

four years ago or so i started thinking okay i've got to get dialed in on the dopamine i need to like come off alcohol and for me like that was the necessary step because i couldn't manage alcohol and then it was like really think about the food think about all these different steps and then pornography was this one whereby i'd be able to come off it for a period of time but there'd always be that like temptation to re-engage with that behavior and it is like a challenging conversation to have pornography i feel like society isn't really considering it

But in terms of the elevation in dopamine, it's absolutely insane. And in order to understand that, you only have to think about how much pleasure you experience and how rapidly you experience that pleasure when you engage with it. And then you know how big of a deal it is.

But in terms of the elevation in dopamine, it's absolutely insane. And in order to understand that, you only have to think about how much pleasure you experience and how rapidly you experience that pleasure when you engage with it. And then you know how big of a deal it is.

And when you compare, say, scrolling your Instagram reels to pornography, you'll notice you feel much more pleasurable during the pornography because of the hyper dopamine stimulation. So where alcohol, social media, porn, they've all been challenging to come away from, I would say, yeah, porn is probably the most difficult. Yeah.

And when you compare, say, scrolling your Instagram reels to pornography, you'll notice you feel much more pleasurable during the pornography because of the hyper dopamine stimulation. So where alcohol, social media, porn, they've all been challenging to come away from, I would say, yeah, porn is probably the most difficult. Yeah.

I think it's interesting this because I also wasn't someone that was like a super porn addict in terms of like, it's not like someone that would be like engaging with it all day, every day and stuff like that. I was someone that just grew up as a teenager and that was just like an option of like, oh yeah, you can watch porn. So that's like a thing you can do.

I think it's interesting this because I also wasn't someone that was like a super porn addict in terms of like, it's not like someone that would be like engaging with it all day, every day and stuff like that. I was someone that just grew up as a teenager and that was just like an option of like, oh yeah, you can watch porn. So that's like a thing you can do.

And then if I was ever engaging with the behavior of masturbation, it would be always accompanied by porn because I just thought that's the given thing. When you look at, would it be... more of a dopaminergic stimulation than social media and alcohol, I think you always have to go into like a deeper philosophical spiritual idea of

And then if I was ever engaging with the behavior of masturbation, it would be always accompanied by porn because I just thought that's the given thing. When you look at, would it be... more of a dopaminergic stimulation than social media and alcohol, I think you always have to go into like a deeper philosophical spiritual idea of

what is porn tapping into from a human innate desire point of view and where humans would have really sought after social connection. That was like fundamental to our survival with social media and alcohol being kind of modern versions of social connection. They're both driven by our pursuit of interacting with other humans.

what is porn tapping into from a human innate desire point of view and where humans would have really sought after social connection. That was like fundamental to our survival with social media and alcohol being kind of modern versions of social connection. They're both driven by our pursuit of interacting with other humans.

Pornography is really tapping into the desire to procreate and there's nothing stronger in a human than the desire to procreate. So I do think it's tapping even deeper into that instinctive driver within us.

Pornography is really tapping into the desire to procreate and there's nothing stronger in a human than the desire to procreate. So I do think it's tapping even deeper into that instinctive driver within us.

What I basically believe the brain evolved to do throughout these like hundreds of thousands of years was simply discover the process of survival and how it can be optimized, which is a given. Like obviously we've managed to survive to this point and survival is important. When you look specifically at dopamine, like why is it really living within our brain?

What I basically believe the brain evolved to do throughout these like hundreds of thousands of years was simply discover the process of survival and how it can be optimized, which is a given. Like obviously we've managed to survive to this point and survival is important. When you look specifically at dopamine, like why is it really living within our brain?