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 […]
World Psychiatry. 2019 Jun;18(2):119-129. doi: 10.1002/wps.20617. Firth J1,2,3, Torous J4, Stubbs B5,6, Firth JA7,8, Steiner GZ1,9, Smith L10, Alvarez-Jimenez M3,11, Gleeson J3,12, Vancampfort D13,14, Armitage CJ2,15,16, Sarris J1,17. Abstract The impact of the Internet across multiple aspects of modern society is clear. However, the influence that it may have on our brain structure and functioning […]
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J Behav Addict. 2019 May 13:1-7. doi: 10.1556/2006.8.2019.23. Fuss J1, Briken P1, Stein DJ2,3, Lochner C2,3. Abstract BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Compulsive sexual behavior disorder (CSBD) will be included in ICD-11 as an impulse-control disorder. CSBD also shares clinical features with obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders (OCSDs) and behavioral addictions. There has been relatively little systematic investigation of […]
Arch Sex Behav. 2014 May; 43(4): 669–683. Published online 2014 Feb 21. doi: 10.1007/s10508-014-0261-y PMCID: PMC4011938 NIHMSID: NIHMS569370 PMID: 24558123 John E. Pachankis,1,2 H. Jonathon Rendina,2,3 Ana Ventuneac,2 Christian Grov,2,4,5 and Jeffrey T. Parsons2,3,5,6,7 Abstract Cognitive appraisals about sex may represent an important component of the maintenance and treatment of hypersexuality, but they are not currently […]
Jeroen Vaes, Giulia Cristoforetti, Daniela Ruzzante, Carlotta Cogoni & Veronica Mazza Scientific Reports volume 9, Article number: 6699 (2019) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-42928-x Abstract Objectification – reducing a someone to a something – represents a powerful and potentially damaging way in which we can see and treat others. Women are often victims of processes of objectification that occur whenever […]
Gay, straight and bisexual may not begin to capture the changing nature of human sexuality. A new study, published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Sex Research, analyzed surveys from around 12,000 students, and found that substantial changes in attractions, partners, and sexual identity are common from late adolescence to the early 20s, and from there […]
LINK TO FULL STUDY Clin. Med. 2019, 8(1), 91; doi:10.3390/jcm8010091 Rubén de Alarcón 1 , Javier I. de la Iglesia 1 , Nerea M. Casado 1 and Angel L. Montejo 1,2,* 1 Psychiatry Service, Hospital Clínico Universitario de Salamanca, Institute of Biomedical Research of Salamanca (IBSAL), 37007 Salamanca, Spain 2 University of Salamanca, EUEF, 37007 […]
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J Womens Health (Larchmt). 2019 Apr 18. doi: 10.1089/jwh.2018.7006. Johnson JA1, Ezzell MB2, Bridges AJ3, Sun CF4. Abstract Background: Pornographic media characterized by discordant images of sexual pleasure and aggression are increasingly formulating young heterosexual women’s sexual scripts. Yet there has been little work done on the downstream role of pornography consumption; how does pornography […]
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On October 23, 2019 Alexander Rhodes (founder of reddit/nofap and NoFap.com) filed a defamation lawsuit against Nicole R Prause and Liberos LLC. See the court docket here. Downloadable PDFs of the three primary court documents filed by Rhodes (screenshots below): Alex Rhodes defamation suit against Nicole Prause: The initial complaint – 15 pages. (screenshots of […]
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Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2019 Feb 18;374(1766):20180129. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2018.0129. Leeman RF1,2, Rowland BHP1, Gebru NM1, Potenza MN2,3,4,5. Abstract Impulsivity’s relationships to addictive and sexual behaviours raise questions regarding the extent impulsivity may constitute a vulnerability factor for subsequent addictive and sexual behaviours and/or results from each of these. Here, we systematically […]