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 […]
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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