Your Brain On Porn: Internet Pornography and the Emerging Science of Addiction by Gary Wilson, Anthony Jack

3.99 AVERAGE

deepkiwireader's review

5.0
challenging informative inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing sad medium-paced

tokisuno's review

4.0
eyo porn is fucked LOL. not the actual content, but what it does to the brain. addiction is something i wanna read more into. i find it really interesting seeing how to brain works, and how our reward systems function. there are probably more people in your life with porn addiction than you can imagine and they don't even know it.

not giving it a 5 because i felt at some point i really just, felt grosses out hearing all the accounts of the dudes on reddit talking about their dicks and their sex life improving. sometimes it felt too graphic but it's a short read so i could handle it. if it was any longer i would have just dropped it LMAO.

asscanio's review against another edition

3.0
medium-paced

hudikatz's review

5.0
I am never going to watch porn again I think. He wrote this 8 years ago and I believe there has been more research, but he was radical for using crowd sourced data and REJECTING the double blind tests that would not work for this kind of research! His science is sound and when he lacks studies he explains that science is slow and it took decades to definitively prove cigarettes are bad and used porn as the next thing. It could be for some people, but porn is not a SOLUTION to mental problems it contributes (sometimes principally) to the PROBLEM.

koudiu's review

4.0
dark informative reflective medium-paced

glenjbowen's review

5.0
Absolute must read for adolescents. A perfect harmony of of Neuroscience in layman's terms for everyone with real life accounts of addicts as well as an occasional dive into behavioral patterns and addiction psychology. Sufficient background and scientific research to satisfy the research community!

kellieveltri's review

1.0
I was assigned this book in an online summer class by one of the least memorable professors I ever had. I assume I did not log it out of embarrassment, but as it came up in the recommendations of an even more deranged book, I would like to say that, by my memory, it was poorly written, wholly unacademic, and completely preposterous. I lost all of my remaining respect for the professor who assigned it simply by virtue of thinking that a self-help book was appropriate for a class called Pop Culture and American Politics.

lorrainelao's review

4.0
informative

diego_duguo's review

2.0
Jæja þá var ég að hluta til blekktur af titlinum. Vissulega fjallar bókin um klám á internetinu og hvað það gæti verið að gera við heilann þinn. En megnið af bókinni eru tilvísanir til nokkurskonar Reddit þráð, það er eitthvað súrt við það að byggja heila bók á reynslu sögum frá Reddit og öðrum þráðum.

Svo held ég sé góð regla að varast sjálfshjálpar/vísinda bækur sem byrja og enda á textabrot eftir Aristóteles. Mikið cringe.
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stephanieluxton's review

5.0
hopeful informative inspiring sad medium-paced
This book is about what we know so far, scientifically about the effects porn has on the brain and body - more specifically how it damages men's sexual function and mental health.

Although this book is geared towards men, I thought it would be interesting to read since society is ridiculously sex-positive right now and while I feel it's obvious that porn isn't beneficial to society, I was curious to go down the rabbit hole to learn why, specifically.

This book was scary. Way scarier than I anticipated. It is neat because it combines science with mass amount of anecdotal data from forums. While anecdotal evidence isn't the strongest evidence in the world, it is crazy how many people report similar experiences regarding how porn has damaged their sexual function, confidence, and relationships. The science parts are written in a way that's easy for anyone to understand.

I feel like this book has helped me understand society more and I wish this information was talked about more. 

Read this book!