Your Brain on Porn

Revised and updated in September 2018.

When high-speed internet became widely available a few years ago, growing numbers of people began to worry that their porn use was running out of control. Far from preparing them for fulfilling relationships, viewing an endless stream of porn videos led to unexpected symptoms. Perhaps most surprisingly, for the first time in history, erectile dysfunction was becoming a significant problem for young men. This led to one of the largest informal exp…