Psychologist and professor emeritus at Stanford University Phillip Zimbardo has made the warnings, which form a major part of his latest book, Man (Dis)Connected.

He said: "Our focus is on young men who play video games to excess, and do it in social isolation - they are alone in their room."

More at the link:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/porn-and-video-game-addiction-are-leading-to-masculinity-crisis-says-stanford-prison-experiment-psychologist-10238211.html

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"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."

Pfft, Noobs

Well I've never felt more manly.

In all seriousness I've read the article and am a bit perplexed by this "crisis" they refer to. It all seems rather extreme and it involves taking the extremist cases, too. I concede there's a problem surrounding the way some men view themselves and more importantly view women, but I'm not sure if this study is necessarily reflective of that.

psychology is a joke.

He's right you know. I challenge anyone here to prove him wrong without using anecdotal evidence.
Reminds me of 'Welcome to the NHK'.
Although I'm not so sure about this PIED he is referencing. Maybe they were training themselves in order to avoid getting awkward boners in class and it went too far haha.

To be clear, I agree with his underlying message. I wouldn't call it a crisis in masculinity; I would call it a crisis problem of social health.

What a bunch of nonesense, having a girlfriend can cause heavier masculinity crisis than porn and videogames lol

That's sexist

welcome to 2015. where everything offends someone, everything is bad for you, everything makes you a pussy, which of course saying that is offensive to somebody.

I still find porn as exciting as ever. You just have to look at the right videos, of course. Although I don't know if I'm particulary a good example since I have a unique taste when it comes to porn.

That being said, I do agree with one of his quotes:

"What I'm saying is - boys' brains are becoming digitally rewired."

This is nothing new, really. But the oversaturation of media consumption these days might change human behaviour and perception as far as I'm concerned. I don't see it as a masculinity crisis (Especially since, apparently, women can't have a femininity crisis under the same circumstances), but rather, as a sedentarism problem that eventually evolves into complete an utter apathy.

I also agree that there should be better sexual education in school. For starters, there is none in Spain, at all.

You and me, we need to talk. In private.