Your Brain on Porn

There's an interesting website out there, "Your Brain on Porn".  What's neat about this website is that they look at internet pornography from an evolutionary perspective.  There are a lot of parallels with modern junk food: our bodies and brains aren't equipped for any type of "super-stimuli".

A troubling side effect of all this is an apparent link between excessive porn use and erectile dysfunction.  Just as real food isn't enough if a person is in the throes of junk food, a real person may not be enough compared to the fantasy images on the internet.

Unfortunately, I think this overall trend will get worse in the future, especially as younger people now are growing up with the internet.

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