Rebooting/Porn Use FAQs

Welcome to our FAQ page. If you have a question, ask it below. (After registering, click on “Add new comment.”) The answers are based on years of hard-won wisdom shared by recovering users, whose comments are sometimes included along with relevant research. Most questions have multiple links (porn user accounts & advice, and articles).

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Is Nicole Prause Influenced by the Porn Industry?

Introduction Is Nicole Prause Influenced by the Porn Industry? In 2013 former UCLA researcher Nicole Prause began openly harassing, libeling and cyberstalking Gary Wilson. (Prause has not been employed by an academic institution since January, 2015.) Within a short time she also began targeting others, including researchers, medical doctors, therapists, psychologists, a former UCLA colleague, […]

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Critiques of Questionable & Misleading Studies; Debunking Propaganda Pieces

Introduction This section of the site provides critiques of studies and commentaries about which YBOP and others have serious reservations. In some, the methodology raises concerns. In others, the conclusions appear inadequately supported. And, in others, the title or terminology used is misleading given the actual study results. Some grossly misrepresent the real findings. Others […]

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Debunking the debunker: Critique of letter to the editor “Prause et al. (2015) the latest falsification of addiction predictions”

Introduction In various comments, articles and tweets Nicole Prause has claimed that not only did Prause et al., 2015 falsify “a core tenet of the addiction model, the cue reactivity biomarker,” but that “a series of behavioral studies replicated by independent laboratories [falsify] other predictions of the addiction model.” Prause cites her 2016 “Letter to […]

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Is Joshua Grubbs pulling the wool over our eyes with his “perceived porn addiction” research?

UPDATE 2017: A new study (Fernandez et al., 2017) tested and analyzed the CPUI-9, a purported “perceived pornography addiction” questionnaire developed by Joshua Grubbs, and found that it couldn’t accurately assess “actual porn addiction” or “perceived porn addiction” (Do Cyber Pornography Use Inventory-9 Scores Reflect Actual Compulsivity in Internet Pornography Use? Exploring the Role of […]

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Same but Different: A Clinical Characterization of Men with Hypersexual Disorder in the Sex@Brain Study (2019)

J Clin Med. 2019 Jan 30;8(2). pii: E157. doi: 10.3390/jcm8020157. Engel J1, Veit M2, Sinke C3, Heitland I4, Kneer J5, Hillemacher T6,7, Hartmann U8, Kruger THC9. Abstract Problems arising from hypersexual behavior are often seen in clinical settings. We aimed to extend the knowledge about the clinical characteristics of individuals with hypersexual disorder (HD). A […]

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Debunking Kris Taylor’s “A Few Hard Truths about Porn and Erectile Dysfunction”

Introduction I was surprised and somewhat baffled by grad student Kris Taylor’s recent VICE article on porn use and sexual dysfunctions. In his article Taylor not only misrepresented the content of a 2016 review of literature I co-authored with 7 US navy doctors, he chose to omit over 40 studies linking porn use to sexual […]

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Is Internet Pornography Causing Sexual Dysfunctions? A Review with Clinical Reports (2016)

Behav Sci (Basel). 2016 Sep; 6(3): 17. Published online 2016 Aug 5. doi:  10.3390/bs6030017 Brian Y. Park,1 Gary Wilson,2 Jonathan Berger,3 Matthew Christman,3 Bryn Reina,4 Frank Bishop,5 Warren P. Klam,4 and Andrew P. Doan4,5,*  Abstract Traditional factors that once explained men’s sexual difficulties appear insufficient to account for the sharp rise in erectile dysfunction, delayed […]

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