“Interesting factoid: I just did some calculations… Assuming an average of an hour and half a day of pornography from age 12 to 27, means I’ve watched roughly A YEAR of porn. Quite possibly significantly more. I’ve been off here and there but had my share of 6+ hour days.” […]
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COMMENTS: This review is full of important addiction concepts and findings.The 2 main points – when sugar is given intermittently:
(1) rats it consume it like they would addictive drugs,
(2) the rats behavior and brains undergo changes that mimic substance abuse.
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COMMENTS: According to this paper, bingeing rats are a good model for human addictions – both behavioral and chemical. Feeding rats really yummy food on intermittent schedules encourages bingeing behavior. Study on the brains of these bingeing rats reveals the neurobiology of addiction for humans.
Full Study: Bingeing Rats: A Model of Intermittent Excessive Behavior?
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COMMENTS: This study demonstrates sensitization in lean adolescents at risk for obesity (parents are obese). Sensitization means that their reward circuitry releases more dopamine when exposed to food cues than their “normal” counterparts.
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It may not make you go blind, but Italian scientists have identified a worrying side-effect of watching too much pornography.
Researchers said Thursday that young men who indulge in “excessive consumption” of Internet porn gradually become immune to explicit images, the ANSA news agency reported.
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Cortisol Secretion Patterns In Addiction And Addiction Risk
William R. Lovallo*
Int J Psychophysiol. 2006 March; 59(3): 195–202.
William R. Lovallo, Behavioral Sciences Laboratories (151A), Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 921 NE 13th Street, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 73104, United States;
* Tel.: +1 405 270 0501×3124; fax: +1 405 290 1839. E-mail address: [email protected]
Abstract
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Getting help for issues related to excessive porn use is a fine idea. However, many therapists have no conception of how addictive today’s hyperstimulating Internet porn is. Many were trained when static, softcore Playboy was porn, and before the recent brain science that is helping to explain the close parallels between extremely stimulating substances and […]
COMMENTS: Basic premise is that addictions hijacks the pair bonding mechanisms shared by the reward circuitry. Porn addiction therefore likely affects the pair-bonding mechanisms in our brains.
Amphetamine Reward In The Monogamous Prairie Vole
Neurosci Lett. 2007 May 17; 418(2): 190–194.
Published online 2007 March 14. doi: 10.1016/j.neulet.2007.03.019.
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COMMENT: Stress can increase vulnerability to addiction. 
Chronic Stress, Drug Use, and Vulnerability to Addiction
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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/02668734.2024.2347614
Brief report: private pleasures and the damage done: asking the unasked question about consumption of online pornography’s risks, health care givers should routinely ask patients about pornography use and explain why it matters.
Professor Lemma argues
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