Now

  Now, with the Internet and an endless proliferation of images, boys and men experience sensory overload. Not just the increasing frequency of contacts with relative strangers (any one of which represents, in the Palaeolithic brain, a possible chance of a sexual encounter) but with every advertisement, every soft-porn scene in a film, right through to pole dancing, the hard-core porn potentially streaming down every iPhone, and the Tinder-style dating apps – sexual stimulation and encounters proliferate and are completely disengaged from relationships. In this context, addiction/compulsion hard to avoid.