Gary Wilson, the author of Your Brain On Porn, TED talks on The Great Porn Experiment ….
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Gary Wilson – Author, Your Brain On Porn
Inspired by the last talker, I’m going to have a little song about Internet porn. No, just kidding.
The widespread use of Internet porn is one of the fastest moving most global experiment ever unconsciously conducted. Nearly every young guy with Internet access becomes an eager test subject.
Canadian researcher Simon Lajeunesse found that most boys seek pornography by age 10. Driven by a brain that is suddenly fascinated by sex. Now, users perceive Internet porn as far more compelling than porn of the past. Why is that? Unending novelty.
In this Australian experiment, it’s not mere nudity but novelty that gets arousals skyrocketing. Subjects watch 22 porn displays. See that spike? That’s where searchers switch to porn the guys hadn’t seen before.
What happened? The erections in their brains fired up. Why all the excitement? Mother nature likes to keep a male fertilizing willing females as long as any new ones are around.
In that top line the ram, he needs more and more time to make with the same old you. But if you keep switching females — the bottom line — well she’s not the same. He can get the job done in 2 minutes flat and keep going until he’s utterly exhausted. This is known as the Coolidge effect.
Without the Coolidge effect there would be no Internet porn. This old mammalian program the Coolidge effect perceives each novel female on a guy’s screen as a genetic opportunity. To keep a guy fertilizing the screen his brain releases the “go get it” neurochemical dopamine for each novel made or image. Eventually the ram will tire but as long as the guy can keep clicking he can keep going as so will his dopamine.
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