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The Relationship Between Online Life and Sex
When the internet arrived in most of our lives, a lot of the things that were driving kind of depression, anxiety and addiction were already supercharged. I really think I spent a lot of time in an internet rehab center in Spokane in Washington when I was researching lost connections. They get all kinds of people there, but they're a disproportionate get young men are obsessed with multiplayer online role playing games like world of warcraft before it now. But they also got young men who were hugely obsessed with porn. And it really helped me to think about it because I thought in some ways the relationship between online life and life is a bit like the relationship between porn and sex, right?