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Summary of “Your Brain On Porn” by Gary Wilson
How porn cannibalizes your brain and destroys society.
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Your Brain On Porn is a book written by Gary Wilson, an anatomy teacher. While doing research about him, I found out that…he had died in 2021.
I can’t deny I felt something.
I read Your Brain On Porn initially at the end of 2015. Then I quit porn. Then I went back. Then I quit. Then I went back a year ago. And it has gotten out of control these past two weeks.
So I thought I’d read the book again and this time, summarize it.
Porn is bad. It rewires your brain and makes you lose taste for all of the nice things in life. There are a bunch of physical and psychological side effects that follow.
I have a friend, who, let’s put it nicely, is into quite a few conspiracy theories. One of them says that the alpha males of this world spread porn to make all of the other males beta, so as to decrease competition.
Not gonna lie, it’s an interesting theory.
When you look at the effects of porn on people that consume it AND on people that work in it, you wonder why they send you to jail for smoking weed but porn is completely free to produce and consume.
