Porn-Induced Headaches...is this what I have to look forward to?

For those of you who don’t have boys with DD’s you may not know I’ve been repeatedly warned about our kiddos, computers and porn.  We may not talk about it, but I for one  worry the day …this possibility pops into reality.  I’ll never forget the time my little man at age 9 – the computer wiz he is – was typing his favorite things into the web browser,  ABC’s and Animals. I turned to see he had stumbled onto a bestiality website!!!! I leaped across the room in a panic to shut off the computer. I've yet to erase the image from my mind…can’t imagine what he thought…LOL.  My little man has yet to intentionally seek out porn, but according to this study, if he begins complaining of headaches I may have to add ibuprofen & acetaminophen to his medication regimen….OMG.

Man Plagued by Porn-Induced Headaches

By KATIE MOISSE (@katiemoisse)

June 29, 2012

A man plagued by porn-induced headaches has to take painkillers 30 minutes before watching the X-rated movies, according to a case study. a The unnamed "unmarried male software professional," 24, complained of "severe, exploding" headaches that developed gradually and peaked 10 minutes into the sexy scenes.

"Progressively, he started to refrain from viewing videos as a means of avoiding headaches," researchers from Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University in New Delhi, India, wrote in the case study published in the June issue of Archives of Sexual Behavior.

The cause of the man's ill-timed headaches, triggered only by porn and not by sex or masturbation, is unclear.

"This guy is interesting because he's just watching porn and not actually having sex," said Dawn Buse, associate professor of neurology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and director of behavioral medicine at theMontefiore Headache Center in New York. "But he probably still gets aroused and excited, which may be even worse than having sex because there's no release."

Buse said about 1 percent of the population -- mostly males -- get headaches associated with sexual activity. But even arousal can cause changes in muscle tension, nerve sensitivity and blood flow in the brain that boost the perception of pain, she said.

"It makes sense," she said. "There's definitely blood pumping through his head and his body."

Like exercise-induced headaches, sex headaches are nothing more than a nuisance, easily negated with non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, Buse said. But in rare cases, the pain can signal something more serious, like a brain tumor or an aneurysm.

"If someone has a stiff neck, dizziness or confusion along with the pain, they should talk to a doctor," Buse said.

The man, ready to abandon his porn-watching ways, was instead advised to take 400 milligrams of ibuprofen and 500 milligrams of acetaminophen 30 minutes in advance, to which, according to the study, "he reported significant pain relief."