Porn and the Threat to Virility (TIME Magazine cover story for the April 11, 2016 issue)

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The first generation of men who grew up with unlimited online porn sound the alarm

Excerpt: A growing number of young men are convinced that their sexual responses have been sabotaged because their brains were virtually marinated in porn when they were adolescents. Their generation has consumed explicit content in quantities and varieties never before possible, on devices designed to deliver content swiftly and privately, all at an age when their brains were more plastic–more prone to permanent change–than in later life. These young men feel like unwitting guinea pigs in a largely unmonitored decade-long experiment in sexual conditioning. The results of the experiment, they claim, are literally a downer. Read the full article for only $2.99 online

This story appears in the April 11, 2016 issue of TIME.