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I’ve battled with the addiction to masturbation for the greater part of my life. I thought it was just a normal part of a growing man’s life until I started to lean on it when I felt lonely, anxious, and stressed.  It became my God. I’ve seen and witnessed first hand the damage this addiction can do to relationships, dreams, aspirations, and marriages. I wanted to share this research with whoever I can, to get them out of the same bondage I was in for more than a decade. With the help of the Holy Spirit and this  research, your freedom isn’t too far fetched.

 Masturbation Dependency

Excessive use and addiction to masturbation is normally traced to traumatic childhood events and or neglect in early years and is used as a false sense of pleasure and escape from those early years of turbulence.

Masturbation causes your brain to dump an unnatural amount of 40-50mg of dopamine

that is well over the amount 10mg produced from real life events. This overage tells your brain

that 10mgs is no longer enough, causing you to show up in the world less and lean on masturbation more.

 You Are Not Healthy!

Healthy men and women don’t feel the need to masturbate everyday or multiple times a day.

The need is more than sexual.

 Mental Effects
(The act of masturbating to fantasy or pornography detaches you from the actual feelings in your body which causes a decrease in activity of your frontal lobe (frontal lobe is the part of

your brain is in charge of movement, memory, thinking, self control, planning, and social skills.)

• Decrease in memory, motivation, focus,

desire to go to work, ability to plan and follow through.

• Social anxiety goes through the roof
• Health anxiety due to brain being

dysregulated.

• Increase in depression

 Physical Effects

• General malaise (just not feeling well)
• Erectile Dysfunction

People who masturbate will often choose to masturbate instead of sexual relations with

their partner or choose to masturbate instead of going out to look for a partner, becoming

complacent or content with self soothing.

Common lies that the Hijacker in your brain tells to get you back to depending on masturbation

“we need to masturbate again to feel ok”, “you are warding off prostate cancer.”

What Does the Word Say?

1 Corinthians 6:19 – Don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you,

who you have from God? You are not your own.

 1 Corinthians 6:18 – Flee sexual immorality! Every other sin a person commits is outside of the

body, but the person who is sexually immoral sins against his own body.

 1 Thessalonians 4:3 – For this is God’s will, your sanctification: that you keep away from sexual

immorality.3

 Galatians 5:19-21 – Now the works of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, moral impurity,

promiscuity, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambitions,

dissensions, factions, envy, drunkenness, carousing, and anything similar. I am warning you

about these things as I’ve warned you before, that those who practice such things will not inherit

the kingdom of God.

Author: Zion Brown

Research Credit: Dr. Trish Leigh