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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, @09:28PM
Women have all the X chromosomes needed to produce more women
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/1431489.stm [bbc.co.uk]
No man needed
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 11 2015, @12:43AM
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Very nearly in the future, men will have all they need to reproduce without women, even if it takes a womb implant. Humanity will have to face fun questions like whether either gender is needed at all, and more generally, what is the best number of genders, as well as the best gender ratio. This discussion will happen alongside the debate over whether humans should be free agents in some sense, versus ant-like creatures programmed to obey a distributed consciousness of a corporation or a state. ~Anonymous 0x9932FE2729B1D963
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(Score: 2, Interesting) by canopic jug on Monday May 11 2015, @07:45AM
Women have all the X chromosomes needed to produce more women
Next stop, parthenogenesis.
For the time being they can just buy small quantities of sperm a la carte. It's becoming increasingly common. If the woman has no social skills or time for even a boyfriend, not even to find a donor and a turkey baster, she can just browse through the clinic's catalog and pick one out. However, both are probably more work than going to the computing center late on a Friday night and picking one out. I recall one woman complaining about having to do that when she got desperate enough, she felt bad about using the computing center's denizens like that because it was, to put it mildly, not difficult. But it does require a modicum of interaction. Leafing through a catalog doesn't need to follow anyone's schedule but the buyer's. I know another that tried that route. It did work out better than another I knew who just picked a random slobs from a bar and keeping them around only until the job is done. Aside from the health risks, the kid ended up looking very much like that last random slob.
Money is not free speech. Elections should not be auctions.