{"id":54580,"date":"2013-03-27T09:41:39","date_gmt":"2013-03-27T14:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=54580"},"modified":"2013-03-27T01:11:45","modified_gmt":"2013-03-27T06:11:45","slug":"your-brain-on-porn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2013\/03\/27\/your-brain-on-porn\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Brain on Porn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this short video, Mitchell Moffit and Gregory Brown of AsapSCIENCE discuss the neurological processes behind porn addiction. High levels of porn consumption, they argue, can create a feedback loop that molds sexual desires and behaviors.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"500\" height=\"315\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/1Ya67aLaaCc?hl=en_US&amp;version=3\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Looking at porn, then, doesn&#8217;t just reflect a person&#8217;s existing desires and preferences; it&#8217;s a mechanism for creating new ones or channeling them in particular directions. This is the problem critics such as <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/07\/06\/cindy-gallop-on-the-way-porn-is-shaping-our-sex-lives\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cindy Gallop<\/a> see with the narrow, unrealistic (and often violently misogynistic) set of messages about sexuality that porn offers us.<\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em>Gwen Sharp is an associate professor of sociology at Nevada State College. You can follow her on Twitter at @gwensharpnv.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this short video, Mitchell Moffit and Gregory Brown of AsapSCIENCE discuss the neurological processes behind porn addiction. High levels of porn consumption, they argue, can create a feedback loop that molds sexual desires and behaviors. Looking at porn, then, doesn&#8217;t just reflect a person&#8217;s existing desires and preferences; it&#8217;s a mechanism for creating new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[675,120,291],"class_list":["post-54580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-psychology","tag-sex","tag-sex-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54581,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54580\/revisions\/54581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}