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pinkmooon 's review for:
Your Brain On Porn: Internet Pornography and the Emerging Science of Addiction
by Gary Wilson, Anthony Jack
A strange and interesting book, perhaps the prelude to a major looming addiction over my generation, like smoking was for generations before. The overall topic is more interesting than what's covered here -- I didn't like the over-reliance on anecdote and anonymous testimony as opposed to the strength of a singular author's engagement with the subject, but at least it was a breezy read. The self-help aspect of actually potentially ridding oneself from reliance on internet porn is also a bit strange to me. Maybe I'm just not so deep in the well in my own personal life, so to speak, but I found most of the anecdotes on the benefits of going porn-free bizarre and hyperbolic. I suppose freedom from genuine addiction would induce a kind of euphoria, but there was something a bit cultish about it too. Thankfully this isn't a book I needed to read, but it is thought-provoking and the subject is deserving of proper respect, study and ambiguous judgment -- not purely moralistic, as it is, for many, too late to take a moral offensive against porn. It is already saturated in society. Instead, its relation to sex must be frankly discussed for what it is and what that means about repression, sexual expression, freedom, inequality and so on.