Men who play video games “in excess” and watch online porn are facing what has been called a masculinity crisis, according to a leading US psychologist.
For those who think online video games and porn are passive online activities that have no real consequences in the real world, take heed.
Psychologist Philip Zimbardo interviewed 20,000 young people in the United States, 75 percent of them male, and found that excessive, solitary playing of video games and watching porn is seriously damaging the social development of young men.
“Our focus is on young men who play video games to excess, and do it in social isolation – they are alone in their room,” Zimbardo, who just released a book on the subject, entitled“Man (Dis)Connected,” told the BBC in an interview.
“Now, with freely available pornography – which is unique in history – they are combining playing video games, and as a break, watching on average, two hours of pornography a week.”
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Note: Section 2 of he SPCS Constitution states that one of its objectives is:
2. (d) To focus attention on the harmful nature and consequences of sexual promiscuity, obscenity, pornography, violence, fraud, dishonesty in business, exploitation, abuse of alcohol and drugs, and other forms of moral corruption, for the purpose of moral and spiritual improvement. [Emphasis added]
See: www.spcs.org.nz/objectives/
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