I'm going to go and Howdy folks, folks, good morning. This is another edition of the Palos Solution

podcast, Rob Wolf with you. Today I have a very interesting fellow that I think folks will find incredibly

fascinating the topic that he has written about. This is Gary Wilson.

He is the author of the recently released book your brain on porn and

also he is the presenter in the wildly popular YouTube TEDx video, The Great Porn Experiment.

Gary, how are you doing?

I'm doing great, how are you?

Fantastic.

I am, hopefully this isn't misinterpreted, but I am incredibly excited to talk to you today.

So, Gary, give folks a little bit of your background and in general, like I was just chatting with you a moment ago and you seem to have a fantastic

background in anatomy, physiology and clearly some evolutionary biology leanings.

Tell folks a little bit about that and then let's talk about how you

you started looking at porn and its effects on on behavior and even some

physical physiological manifestations like a rectal dysfunction.

Yeah, well I taught anatomy and physiology for years, human pathology at various

schools and about 13, 14 years ago I met my wife and that's where all this trouble began is that we began writing articles about the neurobiology, mating, bonding, sex, orgasm, the effects of that on the brain.

She published some books on it.

She had a website and it had a forum.

And on the website, there were lots of articles

about sex and bonding and have the word

ejaculation, dopamine, addiction in these because the same part of the

brain that governs sex, mating and bonding also is involved with addiction.

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