Porn, sexual conditioning and the adolescent brain (show #17)

Gary Wilson discusses highspeed porn, sexual conditioning, the adolescent brain and some fascinating experiments that reveal how easy it is to recondition sexual preferences.

Listen to February 19, 2013 radio show “Your Brain in the Cybersex Jungle”

Sources for this show –

• Can You Trust Your Johnson?
• ‘Straight Men, Gay Porn’ and Other Brain Map Mysteries
• Are Sexual Tastes Immutable?
• Did porn warp me forever? (Salon.com)
• Why Shouldn’t Johnny Watch Porn If He Likes?
• Young Porn Users Need Longer To Recover Their Mojo
• Study: Who, What, Where, When (and Maybe Even Why)? How the Experience of Sexual Reward Connects Sexual Desire, Preference, and Performance (2012)
• DeltaFosB in The Nucleus Accumbens is Critical For Reinforcing Effects of Sexual Reward. (2010)
• Neuroplasticity in the Mesolimbic System Induced by Natural Reward and Subsequent Reward Abstinence. (2010)
• Prevalence and pharmacological factors associated with impulse-control disorder symptoms in patients with Parkinson disease (2012).