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posted by cmn32480 on Sunday May 10 2015, @08:07PM   Printer-friendly
from the we-all-might-be-in-trouble dept.

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?

 
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  • (Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 11 2015, @07:02PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 11 2015, @07:02PM (#181585)

    Veered right off into young, angry male land near the end there, didn't ya?

    Ouch, the shaming tactics right off the bat. Not even trying to conceal the SJW act are we?

    It makes me wonder if the anger one feels at being unattractive due to poor character often gets routed into misogyny.

    Holy crap, how did this bs get modded +5? It's completely justified to feel anger in the face of injustice. Just because you personally don't see it doesn't mean it's not real or prevalent.

    would I have fallen into some bitter trap of resentment.

    Man, that SJW rhetoric. When you can't make an argument, shame your opponent with passive-aggressive attitude!

    At a certain point I realized I was attracting shitty people and figured out how to improve things.

    Well, when a straight man gets into a poor relationship, he can be saddled with 18 years of child support, even if he took every step to prevent it [mommyish.com]. And don't even think about actually fighting for custody, this is the first advise that any divorce lawyer will give you.
    This is the kind of problems men are talking about, not the fact that some relationship ended on a shitty note.

    Whether I've 'found the one' or not, looking back it was clear how easy it was to blame others rather than look within.

    Projecting much? Just because you were whiny doesn't mean that someone else speaking about their problems is.

    Maybe it isn't wise to make so much of the gender wars.

    There are no such thing as gender wars, just a movement to grant females excessive legal and social privileges and the pushback against it. Most women don't willingly support the former, the vast majority are indifferent, and some even oppose it. Calling it "gender wars" is a nice way to polarize the issue in order to drive home the narrative that anyone who fights against injustice done to men must be some kind of misogynist asshole.

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