Dr. Leonard Sax is an MD, PhD psychologist who has been practicing family medicine for over 35 years. He is worried about the disturbing trends he sees. According to Dr. Sax:
An American child is 14x more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD than a child in the United Kingdom
There are more kids on ADHD meds in Philadelphia than there are in all of France
And, perhaps most troubling:
Dr. Sax is now writing more Viagra prescriptions for men under 30 than he is for men over 40!
The reason for this last one? Pornography. That’s right - half of 18-to-30-year-old males who regularly watch porn experience erectile dysfunction. Yikes!
In today’s episode, Dr. Sax shares these and more insights from his books, Boys Adrift, Girls on the Edge, and The Collapse of Parenting: How We Hurt Our Kids When We Treat Them Like Grown-Ups. He explains how American parents are abdicating their authority much to their children’s peril and why the kids who turn out best are raised by parents who are both strict and loving.
We cover how porn and AI girlfriends are warping boys’ and young men’s brains and expectations, the Senate hearings on undisclosed pharmaceutical money at Harvard, why boys are demotivated at school, why 65% of young women have given up on finding a good man, and the one trait at age 11 that predicts health, wealth and happiness at 32.
FYI, we’re trying to keep the algorithms happy, so we’ve silenced some controversial words in this episode; most frequently—but certainly not the only one— is “porn.” No, I’m not a prude, but the algo gods can be persnickety.
Learn more about Dr. Sax on his website: LeonardSax.com
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