Dr. Alok Kanojia
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And I think this is what a lot of these young men who failure to thrive, like I had one patient who was 31 years old, struggled with addiction, dropout.
Two years later, not only is he finishing therapy school, he's becoming a therapist.
So he's supporting himself, making about 150K a year.
He's also writing a dystopian novel.
Two years later, he messaged me it had been published.
Right.
And it's like understanding why he behaved the way that he did.
And the more that you understand how the system works, then you can make minor adjustments and you can make it work.
A car is really hard to move if you're not driving it and you don't know how to turn it on.
I think the majority of people report no problems from watching pornography.
So, you know, some people will say it's healthy.
I don't know that it's healthy or not.
I think it's like the way that you use it, just like any other addictive substance.
So I don't think it is all bad.
That being said, there are a couple of things that are really problematic.
The first is that pornography is getting more neuroscientifically engaging.
Here's the scariest like statistic about addiction.
So 5% of people under the age of 30 had erectile dysfunction, maybe like 20, 30 years ago.
That number has climbed to like 20%.
And a lot of that erectile dysfunction, if you define what erectile dysfunction is, it is inability to maintain an erection through the completion of the sexual act.