猥瑣的人注意了:看色情片致腦殘
Watching pornography may shrink the brain and dull responses to sexual stimulation, researchers have suggested.
據《每日電訊報》報道，調查顯示觀看色情電影可能使大腦收縮，並對性刺激反應遲鈍。Scientists have found for the first time that regularly viewing sexual images could be physically harmful.
科學家首次發現，定期地觀看性圖片會對生理有損害。Researchers from the Max Planck Institute in Berlin found that a part of the brain which activates when people feel motivated or rewarded, shrinks and works less efficiently.
柏林馬普研究所的調查者發現，當人們感到激動或者受到獎賞時，腦的一部分運動會收縮並且效率低下。
So people who watch a lot of porn are likely to need increasingly graphic material to achieve the same sexual stimulation.
所以看過很多色情音頻視頻的人很容易需要比原來更多的形象的感官刺激來達到同樣的性刺激。For the study, Dr Kuhn and her colleague Jurgen Gallinat from Charite University, also in Berlin, recruited 64 healthy men between the ages of 21 and 45 years and asked them questions about their porn-watching habits.
研究中，庫恩博士和他來自柏林查理特大學的同事尤根，徵集了64位年紀在21到45歲的健康男士，問他們關於觀看色情片的問題。They also took images of the men’s brains to measure volume and to see how their brains reacted to pornographic pictures.
他們還給這些人的大腦拍了照片，測量大腦容量，觀察大腦受到色情圖片刺激時的反應。They found noticeable differences in the men who abstained compared with those who regularly accessed sexual videos or images.
同經常定期地看色情影像的男人比，在擁有自制力的人身上，他們看到了顯著的差別。However other researchers claimed that pornography in moderation was probably not damaging.
然而，有一些調查者聲稱有節制的觀看色情影像不會對大腦產生損害。“Everything is going to be bad in excess and it’s probably not terrible in moderation, ” Dr Gregory Tau of the Columbia University
“任何事過度的做都是有害的，有節制地做可能不算太糟，”哥倫比亞大學的格雷戈裏博士說。Dr Tau, who was not involved with the study, agreed that more research should be done in this area and that longer studies would be need to find out if porn leads to brain changes.
格雷戈裏博士沒有參與這項調查，他認爲爲了以後能夠證明色情損害大腦應該做更多的調查。“It is possible that there are individuals with a certain kind of brain that are more susceptible to these kinds of behaviors, ” he said.
“可能存在天生對這些東西敏感的大腦，”他說。The study was published in JAMA Psychiatry.
這項研究發表在《美國醫學會雜誌—精神病學》上。
