COMMENTS: Study validating a modified Gaming Addiction assessment for use a porn addiction questionnaire. A significant percentage subjects endorsed several criteria for addiction, including tolerance and escalation: 161 of the 700 subjects experienced tolerance – needing more porn or “more exciting” porn to achieve the same levels of excitement. Manuel Mennig, Sophia Tennie & Antonia Barke […]
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Castro-Calvo, J., Gil-Llario, M. D., Giménez-García, C., Gil-Juliá, B., & Ballester-Arnal, R. (2020). Journal of Behavioral Addictions J Behav Addict – https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32554840 Abstract Background and aims Compulsive Sexual Behavior Disorder (CSBD) is characterized by a persistent failure to control intense and recurrent sexual impulses, urges, and/or thoughts, resulting in repetitive sexual behavior that causes a […]
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RealYBOP twitter (@BrainOnPorn) and www.realyourbrainonporn.com (registered by Daniel Burgess) were developed as tools by Nicole Prause to attack Your Brain on Porn, Gary Wilson, and anyone else who critiques the porn industry or points out the negative effects of porn use. Introduction This is page #2, documenting the second year of RealYBOP tweets. This page […]
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Sinke, C., J. Engel, M. Veit, U. Hartmann, T. Hillemacher, J. Kneer, and T. H. C. Kruger. NeuroImage: Clinical (2020): 102308. Highlights Pornographic pictures affect working memory performance in an n-back task. Patients with compulsive sexual behaviour show slowed reaction times when presented with pornographic distractors. Decrease of performance is related to pornography consumption in […]
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Aline Wéry, Natale Canale, Caroline Bell, Benoit Duvivier and Joël Billieux 07 May 2020, Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies https://doi.org/10.1002/hbe2.193 [full study] Abstract Several studies have shown that problematic use of online sexual activities (OSAs) can constitute a dysfunctional coping strategy that reflects a compensatory usage of the Internet. Yet, some specific risk factors—widely investigated in the field of […]
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Porn use was the most addictive internet application: “The prevalence of PIU was the highest in the adolescents who used the internet for pornography the most (19.6%), followed by gaming (9.3%) and internet community (8.4%)” “However, the odds ratio for PIU among those who used the internet mostly for pornography was the highest, which implicates […]
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May 8, 2019: Initial 17-page complaint by Hilton (selected screenshots below): Donald Hilton defamation lawsuit against Nicole R Prause (later moved to Federal Court, and amended). The court filings are here. Civil Case Info Sheet Exhibit A Exhibit B Exhibit C Exhibit D Exhibit E On July 24, 2019 Don Hilton amended his lawsuit to include: […]
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Journal of Behavioral Addictions Volume/Issue: Volume 9: Issue 1 Authors: Martina Goslar 1 , Max Leibetseder 1 , Hannah M. Muench 2 , Stefan G. Hofmann 3 and Anton-Rupert Laireiter 1 , 4 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1556/2006.2020.00005 Abstract Background and aims Internet addiction, sex addiction and compulsive buying are common behavioral problems, which share similarities with gambling […]
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David Ludden’s Psychology Today blog post claims to be about this Joshua Grubbs study: Moral incongruence and compulsive sexual behavior: Results from cross-sectional interactions and parallel growth curve analyses. Not surprisingly, Grubbs’s own abstract doesn’t accurately reflect the study’s actual findings: porn addiction correlates most strongly with porn use (not “moral disapproval” or “religiosity”). Grubbs […]
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I started regarding pornography as addictive after a friend, a physician’s assistant working in a urology clinic approached me with concern. He told me that several emerging adult men, ages 18-25, we’re coming into the clinic with problems associated with Erectile Dysfunction (ED). This is an unusual problem in this age range (link to original […]
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