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“How Internet Porn Affects the Brain” is a 2015 updated version of the original YBOP 6-part series. A Polish translation of this presentation Supporting materials for this presentation Current state of the research Porn/sex addiction? This page lists 55 neuroscience-based studies (MRI, fMRI, EEG, neuropsychological, hormonal). All provide strong support for the addiction model as […]
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In 2014 Your Brain on Porn made a video on PIED – Porn-Induced Erectile Dysfunction. This page sets out the science behind our video. Anatomy & physiology teacher Gary Wilson explains the physiology of erections, how overstimulation via today’s Internet porn can create erectile dysfunction (even in young men), and how others have recovered. For […]
COMMENTS: While this paper is only a brief summation, it contains a few key observations on emerging science. For example, it states that both Prause et al., 2015 and Kuhn & Gallinat, 2014 report a similar finding: greater porn use correlating with greater habituation to porn. Both studies reported lower brain activation in response to […]
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UPDATE 2016: A much more comprehensive analysis of Joshua Grubbs’s claims and studies can be found here – Is Grubbs pulling the wool over our eyes with his “perceived porn addiction” research? (2016) UPDATE 2017: A new study (Fernandez et al., 2017) tested and analyzed the CPUI-9, a purported “perceived pornography addiction” questionnaire developed by […]
This article cites a lot of shaky research, but it’s likely its author recognizes that youthful internet porn use is indeed having an effect on sexual and fetish tastes. Hardcore, abundant and free: what is online pornography doing to sexual tastes—and youngsters’ minds? IN 2003 Peter Morley-Souter, a British teenager whose hobby was drawing comic […]
US News reported that “Condoms Don’t Prevent Erection, Study Says: New Research puts to rest an old, out-dated theory.” The spin and misinformation are strong in this one! We can hear the condom manufacturers now, talking with the Kinsey folk (who did the study) saying, “Men think condoms cause ED. How can we get something […]
This more recent and extensive critique supersedes everything written below – Is Grubbs pulling the wool over our eyes with his “perceived porn addiction” research? (2016) SHOCKING & VERY RELEVANT UPDATE: The two primary authors publishing CPUI-9 and Moral Incongruence studies (Joshua Grubbs and Samuel Perry) confirmed their agenda-driven bias when both formally joined allies […]
UPDATE 1: Peer-reviewed criticism of this paper – Comment on: Is Pornography Use Associated with Sexual Difficulties and Dysfunctions among Younger Heterosexual Men? by Gert Martin Hald, PhD UPDATE 2015: Landripet & Stulhofer’s paper omitted three significant correlations they presented to a European conference (excerpts from their abstract): Reporting a preference for specific pornographic genres […]
Sexual Medicine Open Access has just published a paper coauthored by Nicole Prause and Jim Pfaus entitled “Viewing Sexual Stimuli Associated with Greater Sexual Responsiveness, Not Erectile Dysfunction.”[i] This was not a study on porn users complaining of unexplained erectile dysfunction (ED), and, despite the study’s title, no penile responses or erections were measured in […]
Hilarious pep talk by Youtuber Denmo: "5 Ways P*rn Destroys Your Brain" t.co/NAaRb0giLZ
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