porn makes men crazy

[Kuya]

So says leading feminist writer

It is hard to ignore how many highly visible men in recent years (indeed, months) have behaved in sexually self-destructive ways. Some powerful men have long been sexually voracious; unlike today, though, they were far more discreet and generally used much better judgment in order to cover their tracks.

what basis does she have for saying this? has she studied the sexual behaviour of men regarding cheating and such throughout specific ages? from the 21st, 20th, 19th century?

Of course, the heightened technological ability nowadays to expose private behavior is part of the reason for this change. But that is precisely the point: so many of the men caught up in sex-tinged scandals of late have exposed themselves - sometimes literally - through their own willing embrace of text messages, Twitter, and other indiscreet media.

This is a nice hypothesis and is reasonable: men seem to be behaving more sexually "depraved" now a days because technology has made it easier to find out about their shenanegans. She hasn't come anywhere near proving that, but it's a nice proposition, right?

What is driving this weirdly disinhibited decision-making? Could the widespread availability and consumption of pornography in recent years actually be rewiring the male brain, affecting men's judgment about sex and causing them to have more difficulty controlling their impulses?

Whoa, what? How does she go from, men behave inappropiately sexually, to techology makes it easier to find them out, and concludes (in a question!) porn is making them sexual addicts? The sheer disconnect between the first two paragraphs and the third is astounding.

There is an increasing body of scientific evidence to support this idea. Six years ago, I wrote an essay called "The Porn Myth," which pointed out that therapists and sexual counselors were anecdotally connecting the rise in pornography consumption among young men with an increase in impotence and premature ejaculation among the same population. These were healthy young men who had no organic or psychological pathology that would disrupt normal sexual function.

The hypothesis among the experts was that pornography was progressively desensitising these men sexually. Indeed, hardcore pornography's effectiveness in achieving rapid desensitisation in subjects has led to its frequent use in training doctors and military teams to deal with very shocking or sensitive situations.

Given the desensitisation effect on most male subjects, researchers found that they quickly required higher levels of stimulation to achieve the same level of arousal. The experts I interviewed at the time were speculating that porn use was desensitising healthy young men to the erotic appeal of their own partners.

It seems that anecdotal evidence, hypothesis, and speculation isn't going to stop her from assuming her conclusion is true. She takes an anecdoctal link between pornografy and sexual impotency, picks up a hypothesis about it, and then presents you with a viable mechanism:

he addictive potential is also identical: just as gamblers and cocaine users can become compulsive, needing to gamble or snort more and more to get the same dopamine boost, so can men consuming pornography become hooked. As with these other reward triggers, after the dopamine burst wears off, the consumer feels a letdown - irritable, anxious, and longing for the next fix. (There is some new evidence, uncovered by Jim Pfaus at Concordia University in Canada, that desensitisation may be affecting women consumers of pornography as well.)

This dopamine effect explains why pornography tends to become more and more extreme over time: ordinary sexual images eventually lose their power, leading consumers to need images that break other taboos in other kinds of ways, in order to feel as good. Moreover, some men (and women) have a "dopamine hole" - their brains' reward systems are less efficient - making them more likely to become addicted to more extreme porn more easily.

And then your lizard brain starts to think that, by god! She's right!

Even though nothing was ever proven.

And that ladies and gentlemen, is how you manipulate science to serve your own conclusions.

[Rocl]

wait they use porn to train doctors?

[Charismatic]

Shit, why am I not a doctor?

[Mertron]

i just got through masturbating for the 5th time today and im too tired to read it

[Darkslitter]

I don't give enough of a shit.

now were into my area of porn expertise.