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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: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 10 2015, @08:31PM
Try using soap to clean [wikipedia.org] your dirty asshole.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 10 2015, @08:35PM
Well, yes, that's why having shit on one's dick was looked down upon in the past. Back then, it was known that fecal matter on one's penis could easy end up in one's food, which could cause intestinal worms. But these days, social justice advocates say that's not a problem. You can just take antibiotics to clear up the worms. So according to them, it's socially acceptable, and it's socially just, for a man to have defecate on his penis, and even his scrotum. It may even be considered his duty, as a true man, to engage in relations with other men.