The technology revolution has made pornography generally accessible to everyone all over the world. 

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In Kenya,  the number of teens and youths accessing these sexually explicit content is on the rise, and it's very alarming.

In Kenya, there is no regulation to control access to this content. 

Here are three important things you should know that will make you stop watching pornography:

1. It's addictive

It may just start as a curiosity, the urge to know what happens in this type of content. 

What follows is the urge to try it, and because people don't talk about it openly,  you find a way to help yourself privately. 

Guess what follows? Masturbation, and that's what causes addiction. 

Once addiction creeps in, you will have to find a way of maintaining the habit without others noticing, and this will affect you in different ways.

2. It affects not only you but those close to you too

Once most people reach the level of addiction,  they may start to encourage themselves that after all,  they do it for themselves. 

The truth is, you will be affected psychologically and healthwise, which in turn will affect those close to you in one way or the other.

For instance, pornography gives you the idea that you will always get what you want sexually from your partner,  that sex is always perfect, and sex needs to be aggressive. 

The reality is very contrasting as in a healthy relationship, you advocate for your sexual needs and negotiate the difference that may come up respectfully. 

Because of this, you may feel your partner is not satisfying you and hence affecting the relationship.

Even as you drift away from other people to fulfil your needs, your social life may be affected.

3. You will never appreciate relationships

Pornography can have an effect of giving you an idea that immediate sexual gratification is more important than the relationship. 

Relationship entails a lot; sex is just a portion of the whole cake.

The isolation that pornography gives you won't help either. 

This is because you get used to masturbation which is an isolated sexual experience devoid of real love.

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