Prof Colin O’Gara says he receives several referrals per week for compulsive porn watching An increasing number of men are seeking treatment for an addiction to watching porn, which has resulted in “carnage” in their personal lives and relationships, a treatment service leader has said. Prof Colin O’Gara, head of addiction services at St John […]
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Excerpt: Greater pornography exposure was associated with significantly higher levels of sexually dominant behavior and higher levels of sexually dominant behavior were associated with significantly lower levels of partnered sexual satisfaction. Arch Sex Behav (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-025-03297-x Paul J. Wright, Debby Herbenick & Robert S. Tokunaga Abstract The World Association for Sexual Health has identified sexual satisfaction as an […]
In October this year, pornhub.com received 4.04 billion visits, placing the adult content site in the top 10 most visited websites globally – just below Wikipedia and Instagram, but comfortably above amazon.com, Whatsapp and X. Here in the UK, 82% of men watch porn regularly, while a third of British males say they first watched […]
If you walked past a primary school and saw boys passing bottles of whisky around, you’d snatch them away, march inside and demand to see the headteacher. Yet that’s effectively what’s been happening. The addictive substance, however, is pornography. It won’t leave users with a hangover but it will change them forever. And it has […]
You might not be using porn anymore, but are you still cheating yourself out of full recovery? Coach Noah Church covers the risks of turning to “porn adjacent” content or “porn substitutes.” […]
The UK government announced at the start of November plans to make pornography depicting strangulation or suffocation illegal. Kirsty Blake Knox looks at how it moved from porn to real lives and the dangers of strangulation Young people with limited sexual experience have a distorted view of what sex should look like after watching extreme […]
In the wake of Sam Altman’s announcement that Open AI isn’t the “morality police,” Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway discuss potential risks to minors. If Altman’s vision comes into effect minors will be able to access AI “companions” who will entice them with erotic suggests and images. Swisher and Galloway are very clear that some […]
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Need some encouragement to give up porn as your New Year’s resolution? Brooke Hazen describes your options clearly, and delivers a resounding pep talk. […]
Loneliness, porn’s next frontier, and the dream of endless masturbation Entire article in Harper’s Magazine by Daniel Kolitz [This article contains more than you will ever want to know about “gooning,” i.e., binge masturbation, alone or with online amigos. Here’s its conclusion:] … What are these gooners actually doing? Wasting hours each day consuming short-form […]
For strarters, i need to note that i do not have such a long streak without any relapse. Most that i did was 90 days totally clean, and it ended. I would like to talk about what to expect, what to not expect and give you some motivation.I have started Nofap in february of 2024, […]
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