Researchers Prove Porn Can Make You Go Blind

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RESEARCHERS have proved what mothers have been telling their sons all along – erotic images can make you go blind.

A study by US psychologists found people shown erotic or gory images could not process what they were seeing immediately afterwards.
Researchers believe emotion-induced blindness could mean drivers simply do not see another car or pedestrian if they have just witnessed an "emotionally charged" scene.

The work, published in the Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, helps shed light on how motorists are affected by the use of sexy billboards.

It also found that some people were more prone to be affected by the phenomenon known as emotion-induced blindness.

Researchers from Vanderbilt University in Nashville and Yale University in Connecticut showed hundreds of images to volunteers.

Most of them were "neutral" scenes but a few showing violent or sexually provocative scenes were also included.
"We observed that people failed to detect visual images that appeared one-fifth of a second after emotional images, whereas they can detect those images with little problem after neutral images," researcher David Zald told New Scientist magazine.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,16278979-13762,00.html

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1. researchers prove blinking can make you go blind

researchers put images in front of volunteers and found that those who blinked could not process the images shown at any time while their eyes were closed. this was the case whether the duration of the eye closure was less than one tenth of a second or as long as a minute.

fortunately, the blindness is only temporary. most volunteers found their sight returned to normal shortly after opening their eyes.

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2. Is there an audio version of this story?

I can't see my monitor right now! LOL!

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3. no problem