course={Philosophy and Ethics of Computer and Information Sciences}]
\section{Introduction}
-Man, animal, machine: differences and overlap's. The living being as a machine:
-this image has been verypopular in different hist orical periods and is still
-present today, even reinforced by computer technology (``the brain as a
-computer''). At the same time, all kinds of criteria have been (and still are)
-sought in order to separate man from the rest of the world (the natural and the
-artificial one). Using in sights from computer science, philosophy and ethics,
-try to sketch a general vision of how man, animal, and machine relate to each
-other.
+Ever since the dawn of human beings we have been prone to addictions.
+Genetically the body has been evolved to indulge itself into seemingly scarcely
+available activities. It seems that this behaviour is wired into every animal
+thus also including humans. In the 1954 Olds and Milner took a different turn
+on the classic Skinner experiments in which a \emph{Skinner Box} is used to
+train animals on exerting certain behaviour. Olds and Milner made a system in
+which rats could press a button to stimulate parts of the brain that express
+pleasure\cite{olds1954positive}. The results were horrific, rats would press
+the button over $6000$ times per hour. In later experiments it was found that
+rats would starve, ignore females and even endure pain via electrical shocks
+just to give them self pleasure. Moreover, years later, very controversial
+experiments have taken place resembling the Olds and Milner experiments with a
+human individual with strikingly similar results\cite{Moan1972septal}.
+Luckily for animals this kind of hyper stimulation is not readily available at
+the press of a button. When this would be the case it can have detrimental
+effects on the society since primary needs are neglected. However, a new type
+of overstimulating has appeared in the society over the course of the
+digital revolution of our society. Stimuli that where scarce in the early days
+are now abundant and people can lavishly stimulate themselves with them by the
+press of a button. These stimuli arise from the connectivity that came with the
+internet. Never have there been times where consuming visual sexual stimuli was
+possible in such high quantities and with such variance in the material.
+
+Numerous researchers and research groups have devoted their research onto the
+physical consequences of such hyper stimulation. However, studies are showing
+mixed results on these matters. Some studies show a correlation between for
+example erectile dysfunction and pornographic material
+consumption\cite{klein2015erectile} while other do not show significant
+results\cite{landripet2015pornography}. A recent survey from Park et
+al.\cite{park2016internet} shows that not so much a physical change is
+happening in the brain that causes these problems but also a psychological and
+societal problem.
+
+A couple of years ago there was a popular science article written with the
+catchy title: \emph{Your brain on porn}\cite{wilson2014your}. This already this
+gave the rise to very active online communities that try to suppress their own
+behaviour regarding the consumption of pornography. From within these
+communities\footnote{e.g.~\url{reddit.com/r/nofap}} a lot of anekdotal
+evidence arises that not consuming is very good for the general sexual health
+being. In short this means that it is no longer a question of what happens to
+your \emph{brain} on porn but even more so what happens to \emph{society} on
+porn.
\section{Research question}
+%This leads to the following research question.
+%\begin{itemize}
+% \item\emph{How does the increase of consuming visual sexual stimuli via the
+% internet change the society.}
+%\end{itemize}
+%
+%Which in turn can be split up in to the following subquestions.
+%
+%\begin{itemize}
+% \item\emph{Does society's view on sexuality change due to the change in
+% consumption of sexual visual stimuli.}
+% \item\emph{Does the view on actual sexual intercourse and relations change
+% because of the changes in availability of sexual visual stimuli}
+%\end{itemize}
+
\section{Answer}
\section{Conclusion}
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