Evolution has not prepared your brain for today’s Internet porn.
Your Brain on Porn Book
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In this important book, Gary Wilson correctly identifies the obsession with pornography as a fetish – using an inanimate object for sexual arousal/gratification – and discusses the biopsychosocial consequences that often result from compulsive use of pornography for sexual arousal. The book describes many examples of the “rebooting” process that is necessary for sexual functioning to heal. He also explains the changes in brain physiology when sexual addiction hijacks normal sexual behavior – including why recovery takes time.
~Reid Finlayson, MD, Medical Director, Vanderbilt Comprehensive Assessment Program, Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
For too long discussions about whether pornography is harmful and/or addictive have been dismissed by many sexologists as arbitrary moralistic infringement on First Amendment rights. It is now clear to anyone whose opinion on this issue is informed by current neuroscience models of reward leaning, and who therefore have an understanding of neuroplasticity, that natural rewards can become addictive in a neural modulating context.
Wilson has tapped into and opened a window into the experience of an emerging generation who have been taught that sex is pornography. They see the sexual world pornography portrays with its endless novelty, fake orgasms, and enhanced breasts as the sexual norm by which real females must be compared. As Naomi Wolf said, “Today, real naked women are just bad porn;” she was merely describing what Tinbergen had coined with the term “supernormal stimulus.”
Academic sexologists are finding it increasingly difficult to hide behind their veil of apologism and ignorance, and Gary Wilson’s vast knowledge and skillful presentation of the neurobiological literature is contributing to this unmasking. Even more critically, the first person voices in this book of those experiencing the negative effects of the pathological neuroplastic learning process pornography facilitates can no longer be silenced.
~Donald L. Hilton, Jr., MD, FAANS, University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio
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