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Your Brain On Porn: Internet Pornography and the Emerging Science of Addiction
by Gary Wilson, Anthony Jack
"High speed internet porn is the new smoking" - this quote represents the gist of this book. Currently, the landscape of opinions on internet pornography looks a lot like that of 'Tobacco Wars' in mid-20 century - there are some opponents, but the majority are either indifferent or are actively using it for 'nothing can go wrong'.
The book attempts to educate about the harmful effects of extensive internet porn by correlating the porn usage with overstimulated and therefore 'broken' brain reward circuitry and plethora of anecdotal evidence from various Reddit threads. One of the core concepts outlined in the book is 'rebooting your brain' - abstaining from internet pornography until you notice positive change, all sprinkled with anecdotal cases of forum/Reddit users and generic advice on how to reinforce the abstinence from internet pornography.
Ok read, worth your time, though citing too many reddit threads over and over again in every part of the book and anecdotal nature of evidence have somewhat put me off. Still this could be a great beginning into conducting formal, extensive and long-term studies on effects of internet porn.
Day 10 of no porn challenge concluded, reboot commencing, will see for myself.
The book attempts to educate about the harmful effects of extensive internet porn by correlating the porn usage with overstimulated and therefore 'broken' brain reward circuitry and plethora of anecdotal evidence from various Reddit threads. One of the core concepts outlined in the book is 'rebooting your brain' - abstaining from internet pornography until you notice positive change, all sprinkled with anecdotal cases of forum/Reddit users and generic advice on how to reinforce the abstinence from internet pornography.
Ok read, worth your time, though citing too many reddit threads over and over again in every part of the book and anecdotal nature of evidence have somewhat put me off. Still this could be a great beginning into conducting formal, extensive and long-term studies on effects of internet porn.
Day 10 of no porn challenge concluded, reboot commencing, will see for myself.