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Psychologist: Porn and Video Game Addiction Are Leading To 'Masculinity Crisis'
HughPickens.com writes: Philip Zimbardo is a prominent psychologist from Stanford, most notable for leading the notorious Stanford prison experiment. He has published new research findings based on the lives of 20,000 young men, and his conclusion is stark: there is a developing "masculinity crisis" caused by addiction to video games and pornography. "Our focus is on young men who play video games to excess, and do it in social isolation — they are alone in their room," says Zimbardo. "It begins to change brain function. It begins to change the reward center of the brain, and produces a kind of excitement and addiction. What I'm saying is — boys' brains are becoming digitally rewired."
As an example, Zimbardo uses this quote from one young man: "When I'm in class, I'll wish I was playing World of Warcraft. When I'm with a girl, I'll wish I was watching pornography, because I'll never get rejected." Zimbardo doesn't think there's a specific time threshold at which playing video games goes from being acceptable to excessive. He says it varies by individual, and is more based on a "psychological change in mindset." To fight the problem, he suggest families need to track how much time is being spent on video games compared to other activities. "He also called for better sex education in schools — which should focus not only on biology and safety, but also on emotions, physical contact and romantic relationships."
As an example, Zimbardo uses this quote from one young man: "When I'm in class, I'll wish I was playing World of Warcraft. When I'm with a girl, I'll wish I was watching pornography, because I'll never get rejected." Zimbardo doesn't think there's a specific time threshold at which playing video games goes from being acceptable to excessive. He says it varies by individual, and is more based on a "psychological change in mindset." To fight the problem, he suggest families need to track how much time is being spent on video games compared to other activities. "He also called for better sex education in schools — which should focus not only on biology and safety, but also on emotions, physical contact and romantic relationships."
That, and the free market. TFS puts it in plain sight: "I wish i was watching porn because I'll never get rejected [by porn]". So, suffering a male suitor shortage, women will lower their standards and rejection rates will go down. This will push more men back into old fashioned fornication. See, Adam Smith can really solve anything.
Did you read the rest of the sentence about what should be *added* to sex education?
Full quote: "He also called for better sex education in schools — which should focus not only on biology and safety, but also on emotions, physical contact and romantic relationships."
Read this story a day ago, and also this solid criticism on its bullshittiness.
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even ignoring epigenetics, behaviors are absolutely patterned and conditioned by parents.
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They will never experience the pleasure of fathering children but they will also never experience the nightmare of life after divorce...becoming a 4 day a month visitor to their own children...having all their money above absolute minimum subsistence confiscated no matter how much they make. Addiction is never a good thing but based on my past and recent experience, this isn't all bad. If I am not being clear enough, if you are not already married and/or with children, don't do it. The laws in every state and really in all of the western world to screw you as a man once you sign a marriage license and especially after you have children. Once you are married with children your wife owns you. If she is unhappy with the marriage, she can walk away with the kids and be made whole at your expense leaving you to pick up the shattered remnants of your life with no hope of a future at least until the kids turn 18...think about working an additional part time job for at least a decade making one quarter of what I make at my regular job (web application development) for the next decade and then some. That's the reality of marriage and children for the majority of men in America as most marriages will desolve within 10 years and over 70% of divorces are initiated by women. Don't get me wrong when I say this...I love all three of my kids...but I wish I would have known what I know now before marriage and children. There is no doubt that I would have stayed single and had a vasectomy. It is the only option to insure that a man stays in control of his own life. For all you single guys out there, this is the absolute best advice you will receive for a very long time. Nothing has ever impacted my life and my future more than my divorce.
No, the golden rule is: if you have the gold, you make the rules.
Circumcision is child abuse.
It got modded up because the readers on Slashdot do not want to hear that porn and or video games have any downside.
Of course they forget that free access to addictive substances has been shown in study after study to cause problems.
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They don't treat the guys they meet well either - ever played a MOBA game? You'll get constant accusations of being a noob, and have various curses thrown at you until your standard of play is what they demand. Of course, I've seldom seen actual advice on how to play better, which would be far more productive.
No, not entirely if you read some more modern research on behavioral science. Behaviors are patterned by multiple input sources and feedback mechanisms, including: genetics (inherited traits), religion, societal norms of their country of residence or their heritage, direct training (e.g., etiquette classes), trauma (e.g., car accident, sexual assault, physical abuse) and social interactions with people from different cultural and experiential backgrounds, among others.
In essence it's our experiences along with inheritance that model our behavior, whether that be at home or not.
No, the ferocity of the wife's divorce lawyer is much more dependent on the ferocity of the divorcing wife, be she the offending party or not.
He is not a scientist, he is a psychologist.
I was pretty literally told that at my college orientation - 10 minutes after it was pointed out that campus security was entirely handled by local police with arrest powers, and orders to enforce campus policies, we were taken to the dorms and it was casually mentioned that the university policy on sexual consent allowed the female partner to revoke consent retroactively, and one had to get verbal permission every time some new kind or level of intimacy was reached during a sexual encounter.
Standards were relaxed twice in my last two years, but I sure wasn’t interested in dating on-campus - any time I had any passing interest, I flashed back to the dorms, and the interest quickly passed.