16: Dr. William Struthers: How Porn Fries Your Brain

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🗓️ 28 March 2017

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

It’s safe to call Dr. Bill Struthers a brainiac. He holds a doctorate in from the University of Chicago and his research employ the use of stereotaxic surgery, immunochemistry, and behavioral manipulations to investigate gene expression in the cingulate cortex and basal ganglia. He is also a visiting scholar in science and religion at Oxford University.

His academic credentials, however, have had no effect on his ability to talk to the average layman about how pornography hijacks the male brain. In this interview, Dr. Struthers talks about the findings contained in his book Wired for Intimacy: How Pornography Hijacks the Male Brain.

Because we are embodied beings, viewing pornography changes how the brain works, how we form memories and make attachments. He exposes false assumptions about, and casts a vision for, a redeemed masculinity, while showing the science behind compulsive porn use and how to break free.

BOOKS RECOMMENDED IN THIS EPISODE

Wired for Intimacy: How Pornography Hijacks the Male Brain by Dr. William Struthers

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1:07.0	Hi and welcome back to the Patrick Coffin Show. This is the second part of our four-part series on pornography and its discontents on the Patrick Coffin Show.
1:12.8	Today's guest is Dr. William Struthers.
1:14.9	He is a professor of psychology at Wheaton College
1:17.4	and the author of a book.
1:18.5	I highly recommend we'll be talking about it in a moment.
1:20.7	It's called Wired for Intimacy,
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