Behav. Sci. 2015, 5(3), 372-383; doi:10.3390/bs5030372 Kyle Faust 1,* and David Faust 1,2 1 Department of Psychology, University of Rhode Island, 10 Chafee Road, Kingston, RI 02881, USA; E-Mail: [email protected] 2 Alpert Medical School, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Brown University, Box G-A1, Providence, RI 02912, USA * Author to whom correspondence should be […]
Neuroimage Clin. 2015; 7: 506–517. Published online 2015 Jan 13. doi: 10.1016/j.nicl.2015.01.005 PMCID: PMC4338207 Arpana Gupta,a,b,c Emeran A. Mayer,a,b,c,d Claudia P. Sanmiguel,a,b,c John D. Van Horn,f Davis Woodworth,a,g Benjamin M. Ellingson,a,g Connor Fling,a Aubrey Love,a Kirsten Tillisch,a,b,c,e and Jennifer S. Labusa,b,c,* Author information ► Copyright and License information ► Go to: Abstract Background Alterations in […]
If you grew up on internet porn watching all kinds of porn and getting hooked on screen sex, you may not respond much to sex with a real person. This can cause massive confusion. Interestingly, those who quit internet porn often experience the return of their normal attractions, whatever they may be. In short, don’t […]
COMMENTS: The controversy section of this paper contains the following: There are a number of electrophysiological-based studies, by Prause’s group that provide some evidence that sexual desire, not hypersexuality, predicts self-regulation of sexual arousal [92]. These investigators suggest in other work that subjects reporting problems regulating their viewing of visual sexual stimuli (VSS) who also […]
PLoS One. 2015 Aug 5;10(8):e0134538. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0134538. Reed P1, Vile R1, Osborne LA2, Romano M3, Truzoli R3. Abstract Problematic internet use has been associated with a variety of psychological comorbidities, but it relationship with physical illness has not received the same degree of investigation. The current study surveyed 505 participants online, and asked about their […]
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Today’s high-intensity, no-holds-barred Internet porn has sex addiction therapists scrambling to stay current, and some are noting a curious trend. In the past, individuals suffering from porn addiction nearly always reported a history of trauma. That is, the porn-addicted client stumbled onto porn at some point and found that it soothed anxiety and other emotional […]
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Asian J Psychiatr. 2015 Jul 6. pii: S1876-2018(15)00158-6. doi: 10.1016/j.ajp.2015.06.019. Melchers M1, Li M2, Chen Y2, Zhang W2, Montag C3. Abstract As empathy has not been investigated in the context of problematic use of the Internet, we conducted a study to test for a potential link. In samples from China (N=438) and Germany (N=202), two […]
I was never a habitual PMOer (I never even really masturbated until I was very late in high school and even then it was very rare) but fell into a bit of a habit due to general human weakness. It was happening a few times a month, and at its worst once or twice a […]
Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 2014 Nov;38(11):2770-9. doi: 10.1111/acer.12555. Karkhanis AN1, Locke JL, McCool BA, Weiner JL, Jones SR. Abstract BACKGROUND: Early-life stress is associated with increased vulnerability to alcohol addiction. However, the neural substrates linking chronic childhood/adolescent stress and increased risk of alcohol addiction are not well understood. In the nucleus accumbens (NAc), dopamine (DA) […]
Behav Sci (Basel). 2015 Jul 28;5(3):341-352. Northrup JC1, Lapierre C2, Kirk J3, Rae C4. Abstract The Internet Process Addiction Test (IPAT) was created to screen for potential addictive behaviors that could be facilitated by the internet. The IPAT was created with the mindset that the term “Internet addiction” is structurally problematic, as the Internet is […]