This British Lord claimed that pornography shrinks your brain

A Conservative Peer told the House of Lords, during a debate this afternoon, that looking at pornography can shrink the brain.

Speaking in his capacity as "a doctor," Lord McColl cited a study by the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and the Psychiatric University Hospital Charité at St Hedwig Hospital to claim that "constant pornography consumption can reduce the size of parts of the brain."

It appears that Lord McColl may have not understood the study correctly, as one of its authors told the Telegraph last year that "it's not clear, for example, whether watching porn leads to brain changes or whether people born with certain brain types watch more porn."

This means that it's just as likely for people with a smaller striatum, the part of the brain that allegedly shrinks, to be just as attracted to pornography as it is for pornography to shape their brains.

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The Bishop opened the debate by expressing his distaste for "ugly, squalid, dirty sex."

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