Drug-induced stress responses and addiction risk and relapse (2019)

Neurobiol Stress. 2019 Feb; 10: 100148. Published online 2019 Feb 1. doi: 10.1016/j.ynstr.2019.100148 PMCID: PMC6430516 PMID: 30937354 Stephanie E. Wemm∗ and Rajita Sinha Abstract A number of studies have assessed the effects of psychoactive drugs on stress biology, the neuroadaptations resulting from chronic drug use on stress biology, and their effects on addiction risk and relapse. […]

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Excessive Consumption of Sugar: an Insatiable Drive for Reward (2019)

Curr Nutr Rep. 2019 Apr 3. doi: 10.1007/s13668-019-0270-5. Olszewski PK1,2, Wood EL2, Klockars A2, Levine AS3. Abstract PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Eating behavior provides energy to ensure proper functioning of the organism. Reward aids in seeking foods that bring energy and pleasant taste, whose consumption is safe. As evidenced by the obesity “epidemic” which largely stems […]

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Sexual behavior patterns in online sexually explicit materials: a network analysis (2019)

Zhou, Yanyan, Bryant Paul, Vincent Malic, and Jingyuan Yu. Quality & Quantity (2019): 1-19. Abstract Free online sexually explicit materials have become the major way for pornography viewers to consume pornographic materials. Most previous content analytic studies have focused on aggression and degradation behaviors in sexually explicit materials. Fewer studies have focused on the prevalence […]

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Op-ed: Who exactly is misrepresenting the science on pornography?

Introduction by YourBrainOnPorn.com I cannot tell you how many times the following “letter to editor” to a Salt Lake newspaper has been cited as “proof” porn use causes no problems and porn addiction doesn’t exist: Op-ed: Anti-porn school program misrepresents science. It’s often posted on social media (Quora, Twitter, Facebook) as evidence that YBOP, Fight […]

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Internet porn: the highly addictive narcotic emasculating young men through erectile dysfunction. Urologist Paul Church, Maureen Newberg LCSW (2019)

Link to full article March 29, 2019, (LifeSiteNews) — Young men are being robbed of their ability to enter into natural sexual relationships with women as frequent pornogrpahy viewing rewires their brains, undermining their ability to perform sexually. In a sense, males in their teens through their 30s are being inoculated against sex, against intimacy, against […]

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Current diagnostic procedures and interventions for Gaming Disorders: A Systematic Review (2019)

Front. Psychol., 27 March 2019 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00578 Sebastiano Costa1 and Daria J. Kuss2* 1Dipartimento di Psicologia, Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Caserta, Italy 2Department of Psychology, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, United Kingdom Background: Despite the growth in the number of studies on Gaming Disorders (GD), assessing the characteristics of clinical subjects is still […]

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A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Epidemiology of Risky Sexual Behaviors in College and University Students in Ethiopia, 2018 (2019)

Journal of Environmental and Public Health Volume 2019, Article ID 4852130, 8 pages https://doi.org/10.1155/2019/4852130 Tadele Amare ,1 Tebikew Yeneabat,2 and Yohannes Amare3 1Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine and Health Science, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia 2Department of Midwifery, College of Health Sciences, Debre Markos University, Debre Markos, Ethiopia 3Department of Internal Medicine, College of […]

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Determinants of the Pornography Exposure Effects on Junior and Senior High School Adolescence in Sanggau District, West Kalimantan (2019)

Indian Journal of Public Health Research & Development Year : 2019, Volume : 10, Issue : 3 First page : ( 941) Last page : ( 945) Print ISSN : 0976-0245. Online ISSN : 0976-5506. Article DOI : 10.5958/0976-5506.2019.00623.5 Suwarni Linda1,*, Abrori1, Widyanto Ronny1 1Universitas Muhammadiyah Pontianak, A. Yani Street, West Kalimantan, 78124 *Corresponding Author: Linda Suwarni, Departement of […]

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The true toll of porn: Girls who hate their bodies and young men who can’t perform in relationships – by a GP who’s seen the harm it does to teens (Daily Mail)

A doctor  reveals how girls as young as 15 have come to her about removing hair She says that teenagers don’t know how to refuse sexual advances from partners One male, 23, was unable to perform sexually after watching too much porn  Around 1.4mil children in the UK visited a pornographic website in just 1 […]

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