Todays episode features Gary Wilson who is the author of the book and website "Your Brain on Porn". This may not be a suitable podcast to listen to with little ones around but lets get the conversation started with adolescents and you'll see why in the conversation.
This episode contains a serious amount of talk about pornography and the issues associated with it for both men and women, though much of our talk this week centres on the recovery stories of men.
I really liked chatting to Gary, who is passionate about his views and the research and although we didn't always agree particularly on the topic of gaming disorder which crops up early on in our conversation the pornography addiction and erectile dysfunction topic is one that I often see in my work with young men. This is not a man only debate, however the evidence to date in research often focuses on this cohort so please be aware pornography use occurs in females too, though we didn't cover that here- thats for another episode.
One issue that we passionately did agree on was the need to educate parents, adolescents, teachers about how the adolescent brain works so that the pornography use can be understood in much more detail and interventions for overuse can be established.
Gary has a website that has lots of information and research on (I mean a lot!) so take your time and browse his site and have a read of his book.
www.yourbrainonporn.com
The book Your brain on Porn is available via his website
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