Your Brain on Porn

This Your Brain on Porn site is maintained by a group effort that includes men who have recovered from internet-porn related problems and a retired anatomy, physiology & pathology teacher. You can contact YBOP admins here. Please do not ask YBOP admins questions specific to your situation. YBOP does not diagnose or provide medical or sexual […]

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Your Brain on Porn: How Internet Porn Affects the Brain (2015)

“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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Critique of “Perceived Addiction to Internet Pornography and Psychological Distress: Examining Relationships Concurrently and Over Time” (2015)

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 […]

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Transgression as addiction: religiosity and moral disapproval as predictors of perceived addiction to pornography (2015)

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 […]

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Study on young men: ED rates of 31%; low libido 37%, but, hey, it can’t be porn (critique of Landripet & Stulhofer, 2015)

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 […]

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