PORN AND VIDEO GAMES ENGENDER MASCULINITY CRISIS IN BOYS, SAYS PSYCHOLOGIST.

A Stanford psychologist says that boys' brains are being "digitally rewired" and that online activity is causing the young to have erectile dysfunction.

I'm sorry if you're reading this at the wrong time of day, but we're going to be discussing porn-induced erectile dysfunction in the young.
Philip Zimbardo, a Stanford psychologist, believes that it's happening and it's a symptom of a crisis. He believes that the brains of young boys are becoming "digitally rewired" because of an excess commitment to online video games and porn.
Speaking to the BBC, Zimbardo said his research has uncovered something in those boys who are online up to 15 hours a day.

He described boys' altered brain function like this: "When I'm in class, I'll wish I was playing World of Warcraft. When I'm with a girl, I'll wish I was watching pornography, because I'll never get rejected."

He says that such a mindset has been created because of the Web's existence and the proliferation of particular entertainment sources on it. The particular young men who Zimbardo thinks most at risk are those who play games and watch porn in social isolation.

Zimbardo defines excessive porning and video gaming as more than five hours a day.
More than that, however, he regards the addiction and the rewiring of the brain as being a factor of not merely the number of hours, but the obvious changes in mindset. The psychological excitement of the Web is, for some young men, all there is.

Young men are taking less drugs, drinking less alcohol and being less violent than they used to be, so studies show. However, Zimbardo said: "They're not violent because they're alone in their room."




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