The publication of Your Brain on Porn is a landmark in our attempts to understand, and remain balanced in, a world where addiction is big business. In a voice that is generous and humane, he also offers advice for those who want to stop using internet pornography. Wilson, who also runs the Your Brain On Porn website, has been instrumental in promulgating the idea that porn is a public health issue. In Your Brain on Porn Gary Wilson draws on both first-person accounts and research findings. In Your Brain on Porn Wilson provides a concise introduction to the phenomenon of internet porn addiction that draws on both first-person accounts and the findings of cognitive neuroscience. This reward circuitry comprises a complex. And now a growing body of research in neuroscience is confirming what these pioneers have discovered for themselves - internet pornography can be seriously addictive and damaging. The threat that internet pornography poses can be traced to the effects it has on the reward circuitry of the brain. Gary Wilson, Your Brain On Porn: Internet Pornography and the Emerging Science of Addiction. Gary Wilson has listened to the stories of those who have tried giving up internet porn and related them to an account of how the reward system of the brain interacts with its environment. Many of them reported startling changes, from improved concentration and elevated mood to a greater capacity for real-life intimacy. Tens of thousands of people have tried abstaining from sexually stimulating material in a process they call 'rebooting'.

This led to one of the largest informal experiments in the history of science. Perhaps most surprisingly, for the first time in history erectile dysfunction was becoming a significant problem for young men. Far from preparing them for fulfilling relationships, viewing an endless stream of porn videos led to unexpected symptoms.

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.

Your Brain On Porn by Gary Wilson