How is addiction created?
In life, when we succeed in reaching a goal that we have set for ourselves, there is a sense of satisfaction that is created within us. Without anyone saying “congratulations” to us, we feel proud of ourselves. Don’t we?
When an individual eats, there is some satisfaction, especially after being hungry for a while. It is the same feeling as a person who takes water to quench his thirst under the scorching sun. When people have sex, they also feel a certain satisfaction.
This sense of satisfaction that this individual feels comes from the brain, which releases dopamine (a substance that associates the sensation of pleasure with behaviors essential to survival).
In every activity that man performs here on earth, there is what is called a reward threshold, below which he is not satisfied and above which he is satisfied. To understand this notion, let’s take the example of a student who, since kindergarten, gets only 70% or more. His reward threshold is therefore set at 70, without him realizing it. That is why the day he gets less than 70% he will not be satisfied, -
-because for him, the only percentage he can be satisfied with is 70–.
The same thing happens to someone who watches pornography and masturbates. How does it happen?
By the way, because of the ultra-euphoric sensations it produces in the viewer, pornography triggers an elevated production of dopamine, which will considerably raise the reward threshold. As I’ve already told you, below this reward threshold the individual will always feel dissatisfied. And since no other activity can give him sensations as strong as pornography and satisfaction such as masturbation, the individual will always want to return to it because it will be the only way to satisfy himself by reaching his reward threshold. He will go back again and again, until he becomes totally dependent on it. That is why he will not be able to get rid of it so easily.
I think that this scientific explanation has been very clear, but the problem is this; a person who is given only this scientific explanation, will seek at all costs another explanation from science to get out of this addiction. This is why some people go to see psychologists, sex therapists, etc., to find a solution. What they do not know is that the problem of addiction to pornography and masturbation goes beyond the scientific and reaches the spiritual. This is the case with addiction to all kinds of drugs.
In the case of pornography and masturbation, I will therefore relate this scientific explanation, within the limits of the revelation given to me by the Lord, to spiritual realities so that you understand that in the shadow of dopamine, which creates a level of satisfaction below which one is not satisfied, there are impure spirits that come to attach themselves to this natural functioning of the human body.