Thursday, January 9, 2020

Wired For Intimacy How Pornography Hijacks The Male Brain

Wired for Intimacy: How Pornography Hijacks the Male Brain is a book that was written by William Struthers. Struthers is a professor of psychology at Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois. He teaches courses on the subjects of behavioral neuroscience, addictions within men, and biological bases of behavior. The student has read the book in its entirety. Description of Book Wired for Intimacy: How Pornography Hijacks the Male Brain looks into the consequences of pornography upon the male brain. The author does not deny the fact that porn has effects on both males and females, but men are primarily the ones that consume the product. The consumption has had a major impact on the way men look at women. Many authors and scholars present pornography as a spiritual matter, but Struthers thinks the matter at hand is also a physical problem. â€Å"Pornography is also a physical matter, rooted in the biological intricacies of our sexual desire.† (15) The purpose of the book is to look into the physical impact of porn. The book is broken into two different sections. The first section looks at the male brain on porn. It opens this section by attempting to defend porn. As seen within the book this is no easy matter for a number of reasons. Regardless of the definition the negative impact of porn cannot be denied. Pornography has lasting effects on the brain and prevents men from seeing woman in the way they should be viewed. When a man views a picture of a naked the woman the image does

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