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That sounds very scientific, do you have some sources like peer reviewed and reproducable studies from credible universities?
I was going mostly off how I've delt with addictive behavours in my life and how casualised therapists like Healthy Gamer explain how dopamine works.
It's also worth noting that this user also posted about lacking motivation to even play video games at this point, which if they're using masterbation as an easy dopamine crutch it could explain where there motivation to do anything else is going.
But yeah, I didn't prepare academic level citations for my lemmy post I made during a lull at work.
The most relevant to this discussion would be around "porn-induced erectile dysfunction". If you Google that phrase, you will find lots of studies and results.
So you're making shit up, gotcha
EDIT : "Google it lol" isn't a citation. It's right up there with "it came to me in a dream"
That's an entirely different problem to the issues with dopamine the other guy is talking about.
While I agree that it's not exactly the same, there is a lot of overlap. It's also more complicated than the OP presented.
Since everyone here is refusing to do even a basic search, here is one on the first page of Google results.
The word dopamine appears 54 times in this article, and overall seems to agree with the OP.
Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5039517/