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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: 2) by cubancigar11 on Monday May 11 2015, @06:08AM
If you literally define rape as one person penetrating another person, men are going to come-up more often as rapists. Replace the word 'rape' with 'coercive sex', and suddenly it is not the men but women, who are the biggest perpetrators. 'Are you man enough?'
(Score: 1) by kurenai.tsubasa on Tuesday May 12 2015, @01:44AM
Bingo.
Also I'd like to invent something called Dworkin's Law if something else hasn't already been named after her. Call all acts of penetration rape, and you've just accused a good segment of the lesbian population of rape.