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: 2) by Magic Oddball on Monday May 11 2015, @02:18AM
(I was going to adulterate the old USA cotton jingle in the subject line, but couldn't think of a good replacement for "the fabric of our lives" that would fit. Boo.)
Anyway... Most other women I know don't explicitly like the taste of semen, though there are dietary changes a guy can make to improve it [columbia.edu]. Most also don't explicitly dislike it if the man has been keeping himself properly clean down there — I learned in my first relationship that if a circumcised guy doesn't actively take his hands and wash it with soap, the outside will smell a bit like a urinal and his jizz will end up a little urine-flavored.**
Though I admit that my automatic thought on the matter is: take him far enough into your mouth, and you won't taste much of anything.
As far as getting it on our chests or hair, that's not too surprising: it's gloppy stuff that is messy (hard to fully remove) when fresh and unpleasantly stiff when dried. The few guys I've been close enough to ask said they didn't like the sensation, either, but I don't know how common that is.
**To be fair in turn, about 15 years ago, a regular at a Usenet newsgroup informed us that he didn't like cunnilingus because his wife/1st partner never washed her genitals (IIRC he said she stunk of dead fish down there) and had him convinced that's the norm for girls/women in general. That he put his face anywhere *near* that is so above & beyond the call of (theoretical) duty is kind of mind-boggling.
(Score: 3, Informative) by cafebabe on Monday May 11 2015, @11:19PM
There is a bash.org quote on this topic [bash.org].
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