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-Transcriber: Maciek Sterkowicz Reviewer: Capa Girl
-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 experiments ever unconsciously conducted.
-Nearly every young guy with an 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 the researchers switch to porn
-the guys hadn't seen before.
-What happened? Their erections and 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 ewe.
-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 mate or image.
-Eventually the ram will tire
-but as long as the guy can keep clicking
-he can keep going and so will his dopamine.
-With internet porn a guy can see more hot babes in 10 minutes
-than his ancestors could see in several lifetimes.
-The problem is he has a hunter-gather brain.
-A heavy user brain rewires itself to this genetic bonanza
-so it carefully becomes associated with this porn harem.
-Such behaviours that are associated with this are being alone,
-voyeurism, clicking, searching, multiple tabs
-fast-forwarding, constant novelty, shock and surprise.
-As one young guy once asked:
-Are we the first generation to masturbate left handed?
-Now, real sex, in contrast, is courtship, touching,
-being touched, smells, pheromones, emotional connection,
-interaction with a real person.
-Now, what happens when our guy finally gets with a real mate.
-Well, researchers don't know much about the effects
-of Internet porn for several reasons.
-In 2009, when Lajeunesse tried to study porn'’s impact
-he couldn't find any college age males who weren't using it.
-So the first serious dilemma is that studies have no control groups.
-Now, this creates a huge blind spot.
-Imagine if all guys started smoking at age 10
-and there were no groups that didn't.
-We would think that lung cancer is normal for all guys.
-Undaunted by his lack of non-users Lajeunesse asked 20 male students:
-Is Internet porn affecting you or your attitude towards women?
-They answered, "No, I don't think so."
-But they've been using it for about a decade then
-pretty much non-stop.
-This is like asking a fish what it thinks about water?
-Which bring us to a second problem.
-Researchers haven't asked porn users about the symptoms
-Zimbardo described in "The Demise of Guys."
-Arousal addiction symptoms are easily mistaken
-for such things as ADHD, social anxiety, depression,
-concentration problems, performance anxiety,
-OCD and a host of others.
-Now, healthcare providers often assume that these conditions are primary
-perhaps the cause of addiction but never really the result of an addiction.
-As a consequence they often medicate these guys
-without really inquiring about if they have an Internet addiction.
-Guys never realise that they could overcome these
-symptoms simply by changing their behaviour.
-Now, the third problem is it's hard to believe that
-sexual activity can cause addiction because sex is healthy.
-But Internet porn is not sex.
-Internet porn is as different from real sex
-as today’s video games are from checkers.
-Watching the screen full of naked body parts
-won't automatically protect one from arousal addiction.
-In this Dutch study - here's the title -
-they found that in fact of all activities on the Internet
-porn has the most potential to become addictive.
-Here's why.
-This ancient programme, the reward circuit,
-evolved to drive us towards natural rewards
-such as sex, bonding and food.
-As a consequence extreme versions of natural rewards
-have a unique ability to capture us.
-For example: high-calorie foods or hot novel babes
-give us extra dopamine.
-Too much dopamine though can override our natural satiation mechanisms.
-For example: give rats unlimited access
-to junk food and almost all of them will binge to obesity.
-This is also why 4 out of 5 Americans are overweight
-and about half of those are obese.
-That is addicted to food.
-Now, in contrast to natural rewards, drugs such as
-cocaine or alcohol only hook about 10% of users
-whether they are rats or humans.
-This binge mechanism for food or sex was once an evolutionary advantage.
-In essence, it is getting it while the getting is good.
-Now, you can think of wolves packing away 20 pound of meat per kill
-or it's mating season and you're the alpha male.
-What if mating season never ends?
-All those hits of dopamine can tell your brain to do two things.
-First they say, "Man, you've hit the evolutionary jackpot."
-Second, they kick in a molecular switch called Delta-FosB.
-I know it is a fancy word, but dopamine kicks in Delta-FosB
-and that starts to accumulate in the brain's reward circuit.
-Now, with excess chronic consumption of drugs or natural rewards,
-this build up a Delta-FosB starts to alter the brain
-and promotes the cycle of binging and craving.
-If the binging continues the Delta-FosB builds up
-and it can lead to brain changes seen in all addicts.
-So the dominos are excess consumption
-excess dopamine, Delta-FosB, brain changes.
-One of the first changes is a numbed pleasure response.
-It kicks in, and so everyday pleasures really don't satisfy a porn addict.
-At the same time other physical changes in the brain
-make the brain hyper-reactive to porn.
-Everything else in the porn user's life is sort of boring,
-but porn is super exciting.
-Finally his willpower erodes as his frontal cortex changes.
-I can't emphasize this enough.
-All addictions share these same brain changes
-and the same molecular switch that kicks them in - Delta-FosB.
-Now scientists have used brain scans to measure
-these changes in drug addicts.
-Up-here these scans show a reduced pleasure response in drug addicts.
-These and several other changes have also been seen in gambling addicts,
-food addicts, very recently in video game addicts
-and now in internet addicts.
-I apologize for filling up the slide with brain studies.
-Just notice the dates.
-But I want you to know that they exist.
-So far all brain research points only in one direction.
-Constant novelty at the click can cause addiction.
-We know this because when scientist examined
-former Internet addicts they found
-that these brain changes were reversing themselves.
-Unfortunately, none of these studies isolate porn users,
-but they do include them.
-Here's the game changer.
-At last we have a group of guys who are no longer using Internet porn.
-That's right! Heavy users are voluntarily giving it up by the thousands.
-These guys are the missing control group in the great porn experiment.
-They're showing experts what changing one single variable can do.
-I call it "The Resurrection of Guys" as opposed to "the Demise of Guys."
-Now, before I continue probably you wanna know
-why any porn loving guy in his right mind would give it up.
-Two words: erectile dysfunction.
-Internet porn is killing young men's sexual performance.
-Now, Zimbardo said young guys are flaming out with women,
-this survey by Italian neurologists confirms
-what we have witnessed over the last few years.
-Sexual enhancement drugs often stop working for these guys,
-if they ever did,
-because the problem isn’'t below the belt where viagra works.
-Nor is their problem really psychological.
-It's due to physical changes in the brain.
-Those addiction related changes.
-Their numb brains are sending weaker and weaker signals to their bananas.
-(Laughter)
-As doctor Foresta says, "It starts with lower reactions to porn sites.
-Then there is a general drop in libido,
-and in the end it becomes impossible to get an erection.
-There are 3 take-aways from this.
-First, Foresta is describing a classic addiction process -
-gradual desensitization.
-Second, Internet porn is qualitatively different from Playboy.
-Widespread youthful ED has never been seen before.
-And finally ED is often the only symptom that gets these guys' attention.
-The question is what less obvious symptoms are they missing?
-Most don't figure that out until after they quit.
-Here's a guy in his late 20s.
-"I've been to psychologists and psychiatrists for the last 8 years...
-have been diagnosed with depression, severe social anxiety,
-severe memory impairment and a few others.
-Have tried Fexer, Ritalin, Xanax, Paxil
-dropped out at two different colleges, been fired twice,
-used pot to calm my social anxiety.
-I've been approached by quite a few women
-I guess due to my looks and status
-but they quickly flew away due to my incredible weirdness.
-I've been a hardcore porn addict since age 14.
-For the last 2 years I've been experimenting
-and finally realised that porn was an issue.
-I stopped it completely 2 months ago.
-It has been very difficult but so far incredibly worth it.
-I've since quit my remaining medication.
-My anxiety is nonexistent.
-My memory and focus are sharper than they've ever been.
-I feel like a huge "chick magnet" and my ED is gone too.
-I seriously think I had a rebirth, a second chance at life."
-This is why pockets of guys are peering all over the web - body building sites,
-sports sites, pickup artists sites - wherever men congregate.
-In essence, they are seeking a neurochemical rebirth.
-Here's a group on reddit.com who call themselves "Fapstronauts."
-Fapping is slang for solo sex,
-but what they really mean is giving up porn.
-They've added about 2,000 members since I captured this picture a month ago.
-This movement to unhook from porn is growing rapidly.
-In fact, groups are springing up all across the web and in Europe too.
-But there is a bizarre fly in the ointment.
-Guys in the early 20s aren't regaining
-their erectile health as quickly as older guys.
-How can a 50-year-old get his mojo back quicker then a 20-something?
-The answer, even though older guys have been using porn a whole lot longer
-they didn't start on today’'s Internet porn.
-Now, we know this is a key variable because
-the older guys didn'’t start having sexual problems
-until after they got high-speed Internet. (Laughter)
-Now, today'’s young teens start on high-speed Internet
-when their brains are at their peak
-of dopamine production and neuroplasticity.
-This is also when they are the most vulnerable to addiction,
-but there is another risk.
-By adulthood teens strengthen heavily used circuits
-and prune back unused ones.
-So, by age 22 or so a guy's sexual taste can be like deep ruts in his brain.
-This can cause panic if a guy has escalated to extreme porn
-or porn that no longer matches his sexual orientation.
-Fortunately brains are plastic
-so his taste can revert once he quits porn.
-As a guy returns to normal sensitivity
-his brain looks around for the rewards it evolved to see
-such as friendly interaction and of course real mates.
-Here's one more example of what we hear everyday,
-"I feel like the next Sir Isaac Newton or Leonardo da Vinci.
-Since I quit a month ago, I've literally:
-started a business, taken up piano, been studying French every day,
-been programming, drawing, writing, started managing my finances
-and I have more awesome ideas than I know what to do with.
-My confidence is sky-high.
-I already feel like I can talk to any girl!
-I am the same guy who took 2,5 extra years to graduate from college
-because of procrastination and depression."
-I'll conclude with a wish:
-I'd like to see Zimbardo's guys
-who are wiping out and their caregivers and the experts
-listen to the thousands of men who are teaching us
-about arousal addiction by escaping it.
-Thanks for listening.
-(Applause)

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