Gary Wilson author of the best-selling book, Your Brain on Porn, and Wendy Maltz, coauthor of The Porn Trap, compare notes and have a lively radio discussion about today’s Internet porn. They detail how today’s porn is different from porn of the past and why it can so easily create the kinds of problems it does for some users and their intimate partners.
This information-rich 23-minute conversation was first aired on Gary’s KSKQ Ashland, Oregon Community Supported radio show, “Your Brain in the Cybersex Jungle” on October 23, 2012. The central theme of Gary’s show is addressing how internet pornography impacts young men, their experiences, and the science behind what they are experiencing.
In this friendly discussion, Gary and Wendy discuss:
- How yesterday’s porn was hard and today’s porn is hard to get away from
- How today’s porn can blunt sexual development and intimacy
- How intimate partners feel they have to sexually compete with porn
- How porn slowly shapes people’s sexual ideas and desires
- Why porn sex is the worst training possible for being in a satisfying long-term relationship
- Why porn can be seen as a form of sexual abuse
- Serious sexual problems caused by porn
- How giving up porn can lift depression, anxiety, and social problems
- The vulnerability of an adolescent’s brain to harmful sexual learning
- How the knowledge about the impact of porn has not caught up with the early introduction of the product
- The steps to take to get out of porn, develop better relationships, and make positive changes
- How it is possible to relearn sex and approach it in new, healthy ways
Listen to Episode 6, here
Gary and Wendy continue their discussion of porn, exploring what is involved in quitting porn and overcoming porn-related problems in Episode 11 of his radio show. You can find more information and access that show, here
You can find more information about Gary’s work on his website, www.yourbrainonporn.com. While his work lives on, sadly, Gary passed away in May 2021.
