Rachel Hale

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The Excerpt · How early porn exposure is impacting young men · 31 Mar 2026 podcast

And then with Gen Z is when we saw a group come of age with this complete and utter access really at all times in their pocket.

And it was before parents know as much as they know now about phones and what we can access on them and the addictive elements of phones.

And so a lot of Gen Z young adults, men specifically, when we're talking about this piece, but we're able to get a cell phone early on and we're able to find products

porn early on because it coincided with the rise of popular social media sites before they had some of these built-in filters and restrictions.

I think these Gen Z men specifically came of age both with the unfettered phone access and accessing these social media sites, other online sites, before some of those built-in filters were there.

So first of all, we know that the brain is not fully developed until 25.

So any sort of, you know, chemical-inducing hit of dopamine that we would get through certain behaviors that trigger rewards in the brain can impact the brain differently at a younger age in combination with a behavior like

porn or substance abuse.

So porn in combination with masturbation, like alcohol or similar substances, can trigger the brain's reward system, which sends a release of dopamine, which can reinforce that behavior and over time create a loop.

And when we look long-term, that means that the brain's reward pathways

can be permanently altered and that can impact things like impulse control, pleasure and motivation and can also make it so that maybe someone who starts watching one specific type of porn now needs something that's either, you know, watching porn for longer or falling into like more intense specific categories of porn to satisfy those same reasons that they initially came to watch porn.

It is.

That's what the research shows.

It's absolutely an issue with women as well.

And there is stigma there.

What we know from looking at research and also anecdotally from what I found on these forums is that more men than women struggle with corn use.

If someone starts to view something at a younger age, it can have a really deep impact on the long-term way that they perceive relationships, sexual intimacy, and their views on women.

For many young men, this is their first way that they are introduced to what sex looks like, and they're seeing a very unrealistic portrayal of that.

And that can lead to having issues with infidelity, trust, other aspects in their relationship, in part because what they expect out of sex and relationships from watching porn might not line up with what their partner is actually able to give them on a day-to-day basis.

A lot of men really thought that what they were experiencing was normal and didn't realize that they needed help until they found some of these online forums and realized it's not normal to think about sex 24-7 and to have those thoughts constantly.

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