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Boys’ brains on porn: Affect, addiction and cerebral subjectivity
Stockholm University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Child and Youth Studies.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-3605-8664
2023 (English)In: Posthumanism and the man question: Beyond anthropocentric masculinities / [ed] Ulf Mellström; Bob Pease, London: Routledge, 2023, p. 73-84Chapter in book (Refereed)
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This chapter explores the relationship between brain, media technology and young heteromasculinity by analyzing contemporary discussions about boys and pornography addiction. While concerns about these issues have been raised in many Western societies for some time, my starting point is recent debates in Sweden, where neuroscience has become a dominant way of framing pornography consumption. I further my discussion by analyzing Gary Wilson’s Your brain on porn, which has been influential to anti-pornography activists and young men desisting from pornography. Central to his claims about pornography addiction is plasticity, which presents the brain as becoming, but also reduces subjectivity and corporeality to mere brain processes. While pornography addiction discourse may make young men to passive recipients of mediated sex, constituting themselves as cerebral subjects also enables a neuro-based care of the self where they are encouraged to abstain from pornography.

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London: Routledge, 2023. p. 73-84
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Peace and Conflict Studies Other Social Sciences not elsewhere specified Gender Studies
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URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-216112DOI: 10.4324/9781003219613-8ISBN: 9781032113784 (print)ISBN: 9781032113760 (print)ISBN: 9781003219613 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-216112DiVA, id: diva2:1748815
Available from: 2023-04-04 Created: 2023-04-04 Last updated: 2025-02-20Bibliographically approved

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