Journal of Family Violence February 2010, Volume 25, Issue 2, pp 141-148 John A. Hunter, Aurelio Jose Figueredo, Neil M. Malamuth Download PDF (169 KB) View Article Abstract Path analysis was used to assess the contribution of four exogenous developmental variables (sexual abuse, physical abuse, exposure to violence, exposure to pornography—each occurring prior to age […]
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Comments: It’s interesting that asking for volunteers to give their opinions on porn use is “science”, yet access to the remarks of tens of thousands of anonymous porn users who quit porn and report benefits is anecdotal evidence, and not worthy of consideration. Scand J Caring Sci. 2006 Dec;20(4):386-93. Häggström-Nordin E, Sandberg J, […]
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PDF – FULL STUDY Arch Sex Behav. 2007 Aug;36(4):588-98. Lam CB, Chan DK. Source Department of Psychology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China. Abstract This study examined the prevalence of online pornography viewing and its psychosocial correlates among a sample of young Chinese men in Hong Kong. A total of 229 participants […]
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Michael Flood doi: 10.1177/1440783307073934 Journal of Sociology March 2007 vol. 43 no. 1 45-60 Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University Abstract Youth in Australia are routinely exposed to sexually explicit images. Among 16- and 17-year-olds, three-quarters of boys and one-tenth of girls have ever watched an X-rated movie. Three-quarters of […]
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J Marital Fam Ther. 2008 Oct;34(4):431-44. doi: 10.1111/j.1752-0606.2008.00086.x. PDF – FULL STUDY Delmonico DL, Griffin EJ. Source Duquesne University, School of Education, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania 15236, USA. [email protected] Abstract Adolescents who use the Internet regularly (the “e-teen”) present a new set of challenges for marriage and family therapists. This article introduces marriage and family therapists […]
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Author: Coopersmith, Jonathan Source: History and Technology, Volume 22, Number 1, Number 1/March 2006 , pp. 1-25(25) Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group Abstract: Pornography has historically been closely connected with the rise of communication technologies, often providing male customers the justification to become early adopters. In recent decades, the digitalization of data, […]
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Experience, not childhood or genes, configures individual reward-circuit wiring “Intriguingly, the pleasure centre and the behaviour it guides are sculpted mostly by life experiences rather than by our genes. This challenges previous assumptions that dopamine function could be straightforwardly inherited.” —Paul Stokes, MD, PhD Our reward center (or circuitry) is shaped primarily by experience. This […]
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Front Mol Neurosci. 2012; 5: 99. Published online 2012 November 12.. doi: 10.3389/fnmol.2012.00099 PMCID: PMC3495339 Heather B. Madsen,1,† Robyn M. Brown,1,*† and Andrew J. Lawrence1,2 Author information ► Article notes ► Copyright and License information ► Go to: Abstract Drug addiction is a chronic, relapsing brain disorder which consists of compulsive patterns of drug-seeking and […]
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COMMENTS: Note the Internet addiction percentages for The Netherlands or Norway – from 1-5%. For hong Kong it was 17%, for Korea it was 30% for ages 10-30, and higher for males 10-19. Why the huge discrepancies? The European countries used phone surveys heavily skewed to adults, and elderly that never use the internet. Psychiatry […]
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Our current list of Internet addiction brain studies. Without exception, all studies have found addiction-related brain changes in Internet addicts. This review of the literature makes a compelling argument for Internet porn addiction as a sub-type of Internet addiction Neuroscience of Internet Pornography Addiction: A Review and Update (2015). The review also critiques two recent […]
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