Porn makes you blind

welsh

welsh

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Well, apparently it's not masturbation that does it.

Masturbation leads to-
Sweaty and hairy palms, yes.
Madness- maybe
Blindness no.

But God! Don't let it be Porno that leads to blindness!

Say it ain't so!

Cor blimey

Aug 18th 2005
From The Economist print edition

Gory and erotic images can affect your vision

IT'S true. Pornography can make you blind. Look at a smutty picture and, according to research by Steven Most, of Yale University, and his colleagues, you will suffer from a temporary condition known as emotion-induced blindness.
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NO!!!!!
IT Can't be!

This is almost like biblical revenge!

Dr Most made this discovery while studying the rubbernecking effect (when people slow down to stare at a car accident). Rubbernecking represents a serious lapse of attention to the road, but he wondered if the initial reaction to such gory scenes could cause smaller lapses. The answer is, it does. What he found was that when people look at gory images—and also erotic ones—they fail to process what they see immediately afterwards. This period of blindness lasts between two-tenths and eight-tenths of a second. That is long enough for a driver transfixed by an erotic advert on a billboard to cause an accident.
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Wait a second- two tenths to 8/10th of a second?
Does this correlate with the temporary blindness during orgasm?

The researchers conducted two experiments. In the first, the results of which will be published in next month's Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, the experimental subjects were shown a sequence of images. Some of these images were gory (violent injuries and mutilated bodies) while others were photographs of landscapes and buildings—things thought to be emotionally neutral. The subjects were asked to watch out for a picture that had been rotated, without being told what was in it. Between the horror picture and this target were two to eight neutral pictures. The closer the grim picture was to the target, the less likely the subjects were to spot the target. When the gory pictures were substituted by erotic ones, the outcome was the same.
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Damn! There is a relationship between sex and violence (and not just violent sex).

Dr Most thinks that the explanation for this temporary blindness is that there is an information-processing bottleneck in the brain when it is presented with important stimuli. When the human brain was evolving, such stimuli would not have been two-dimensional images. They would, rather, have been part of the real world. Gory scenes would have had survival value (ie, “am I going to be next?”), while erotic ones would have had reproductive value. Paying attention to the landscape would have been a distraction.
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Getting back to the primal drives- survival and perpetuation.

In the age of photography, though, it is the image that is the distraction, and if the distracted individual is travelling at speed in a car, such distraction could be fatal. So the team carried out a second series of experiments, still unpublished, that were intended to discover whether their subjects could override this emotion-induced temporary blindness by using what they rather grandiloquently called an “attentional strategy” (ie, focusing harder on the target image). This was arranged by asking the subjects to find not any rotated photo, but a rotated photo of a building, in the array of images. The fact that they had to pay attention to both content and orientation meant they focused harder. As the researchers had expected, in this version of the experiment subjects were, on average, better at spotting the target image.
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But can you condition yourself to porn? If you see enough, does it become blase?

But that average concealed some interesting differences that depended on a subject's personality. The researchers knew from previous studies that the more neurotic someone is, the worse he is at controlling his attention, so they decided to see how a measure of neuroses known as the harm-avoidance scale correlated with their results. The harm-avoidance scale is a measure of a person's reaction to negative or frightening stimuli. They found that the lower a subject's score on this scale was, the more successful he was at detecting the target. This information might be useful when considering the reliability of witnesses to crimes.
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I wonder of Catholics are more prone to this kind of blindness.
 
welsh said:
I wonder of Catholics are more prone to this kind of blindness.
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I'd give you the answer if only I could read those invisible black letters on black background you've just written...

...where are you, anyway?
 
So if you look at two porn pictures a second, you will turn blind for as long as you do so? Oh noes!
 
And the army will start experimenting in techniques of blinding the enemy combatants with projecting a rapidly changing slideshow of porn mixed with goatse on the sky.

"SWEET JESUS MY EYES! THE HORROR!"
 
man... with 100gb of porn i'm gonna be sooooo blind!
and with all thoses violents video games i have i'm gonna turn completely psycho and kill people!

the blind psycho killer!

and GTA san andreas is DANGEROUS!! because it has both sex and violence!! OMG!! :roll:
 
it's all a conspiracy by christians to get us to stop watching porn! DON'T LISTEN TO THE LIES!!
 
Perhaps this is why no one can take their eyes of a series such as Elfen Lied, which has copious amounts of "extreme graphic violence" and rather large amounts of nudity (well, and the fact that it is a good, if sometimes bizarre, show; it is hardly mindless).
 
Joachim said:
it's all a conspiracy by christians to get us to stop watching porn! DON'T LISTEN TO THE LIES!!
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Of course it is. People can have babies without having sex! (Jeesus anyone?)

But why would I care? Due to christians animals can?t go to heaven (no hell either! WOOHOO!), so I can watch porn and DO PORN! WUNDEBAH! Who cares about eyesight! When you can still feel... getting a blowjob doesn?t require you being able to see anything...you might even get luckier when you can?t discriminate between sexes or lifeform... :P
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