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The Independent reports:
Psychologist and professor emeritus at Stanford University Phillip Zimbardo (who led the team of researchers who conducted the Stanford Prison Experiment) has made the warnings, which form a major part of his latest book, Man (Dis)Connected.
Zimbardo says (in this TED talk) there is a "crisis" amongst young men, a high number of whom are experiencing a "new form of addiction" to excessive use of pornography and video games. Citing the research he and his team conducted for the book, he says: "It begins to change brain function. It begins to change the reward centre of the brain, and produces a kind of excitement and addiction."
An article from Psychology Today, however, argues that there are no demonstrable scientific links between porn consumption and the disputed phenomenon called 'Porn-Induced Erectile Dysfunction.'
Could this problem be manifesting itself as the rise of the Hikikomori?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 10 2015, @08:18PM
I'm unclear as to what 'Porn-Induced Erectile Dysfunction' is.
Does this mean that the penis does not get hard at all?
Or does the penis get hard, but it swiftly loses its hardness?
Or does the penis get moderately hard, but still bendable in the middle?
This is very confusing terminology.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 10 2015, @08:28PM
http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/you-can-fap-or-fuck-but-not-both-842 [vice.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 10 2015, @08:30PM
Can you find another source, please?
I once hurt my genitals with the vice in my garage, and now I'm very sensitive to that word. I can't bear to look at their site after what happened to my manhood.
Do you have a reference from the New York Times or the Washington Post, perhaps?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 10 2015, @08:32PM
http://yourbrainonporn.com/ [yourbrainonporn.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 10 2015, @08:52PM
Looks like a propaganda site that would cherry-pick studies it agrees with to 'prove' its point and ignore scientific consensus and the quality of the studies it is citing. Things like this rely on highly subjective 'science' to dupe people into thinking what they say holds any validity.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 10 2015, @08:55PM
Are you saying it's a gewg_-style, bias-ridden, agenda-pushing, fear-mongering site?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 10 2015, @09:16PM
A link to a Breitbart page would surely solve the problem.
-- gewg_
(Score: 3, Insightful) by darkfeline on Sunday May 10 2015, @11:46PM
Maybe if you used more porn you wouldn't have ended up using the vice?
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 11 2015, @08:20AM
Excellent article. I feel better now. I get myself off at least once a day with no sex performance or fertility issues (don't ask). After learning about this the worst I can think is that it is a shame my gf will not watch porn as it really gets her in the mood... but.. she thinks it is degrading and dirty.
Oh well. Private viewing for me and bondice rippers for her it is.
And no blowjobs.
No cunny for her now either. Not since she described a blowjob as dirty and point blank refused to ever do me. I blew her for 5 years. 5. Oh well.
Any other articles of interest? Something about females having less sex due to sexual perception perhaps?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 12 2015, @12:45PM
5 years one way and abject refusal? Throw that one back; she's broken.