Front. Psychol., 19 February 2019 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00310 Matthew Evan Sprong1*, Mark D. Griffiths2, Daniel Perry Lloyd3, Erina Paul4 and Frank D. Buono3 1School of Interdisciplinary Health Professions, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, United States 2Psychology, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, United Kingdom 3Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States 4Center […]
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Minerva Pediatr. 2019 Feb 13. doi: 10.23736/S0026-4946.19.05367-2. Principi N1, Magnoni P1, Grimoldi L1, Carnevali D1, Cavazzana L1, Pellai A2. Abstract BACKGROUND: Nowadays adolescents and children are more and more exposed to sexually explicit internet material (SEIM), but most parents and healthcare professionals neglect this issue. The aim of the present study is to evaluate the […]
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Archives of Sexual Behavior February 2019, Volume 48, Issue 2, pp 417–423 | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10508-018-1293-5 Matthias Brand, Stephanie Antons, Elisa Wegmann, Marc N. Potenza This comment refers to the article available at https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-018-1248-x. Introduction The Target Article by Grubbs, Perry, Wilt, and Reid (2018) addresses an important and timely topic regarding problems that individuals may experience related to pornography use. Grubbs et […]
Read More… from Theoretical Assumptions on Pornography Problems Due to Moral Incongruence and Mechanisms of Addictive or Compulsive Use of Pornography: Are the Two “Conditions” as Theoretically Distinct as Suggested? (Analysis of the Grubbs moral incongruence model)
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10508-018-1294-4 Archives of Sexual Behavior February 2019, Volume 48, Issue 2, pp 449–453 | Brian J. Willoughby This comment refers to the article available at https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-018-1248-x. While the viewing of sexually explicit content is by no means a new phenomenon, the digital age and availability of online pornography has led to a surge in scholarship seeking to understand […]
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Front Psychiatry. 2019; 10: 3. Published online 2019 Jan 22. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00003 PMCID: PMC6349748 PMID: 30723426 Jung-Seok Choi,1,2,* Daniel Luke King,3 and Young-Chul Jung4 Some classes of behaviors, including gambling, Internet gaming, and sexual behaviors, may lead to compulsive engagement for a minority of individuals. In extreme cases where individuals may feel unable to control these […]
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Introduction The 4-page Nicole Prause commentary can be found here. It’s one of several commentaries (mostly by Prause allies, such as David Ley, Taylor Kohut and Sam Perry) on the following paper: An Organizational Framework for Sexual Media’s Influence on Short-Term Versus Long-Term Sexual Quality (Leonhardt et al., 2018). These commenters don’t care for Leonhardt […]
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UPDATE 2017: A new study (Fernandez et al., 2017) tested and analyzed the CPUI-9, a purported “perceived pornography addiction” questionnaire developed by Joshua Grubbs, and found that it couldn’t accurately assess “actual porn addiction” or “perceived porn addiction” (Do Cyber Pornography Use Inventory-9 Scores Reflect Actual Compulsivity in Internet Pornography Use? Exploring the Role of […]
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YBOP comments: In plain English, this research found (again) that religiosity is NOT associated with believing yourself to be a porn addict (“perceived pornography addiction”). This explodes the meme that Josh Grubbs worked for years to “sell” to the world, that believing oneself an addict is related to religious shame. Grubbs’s CPUI-9 studies and his […]
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Asian J Psychiatr. 2019 Jan 24;40:30-38. doi: 10.1016/j.ajp.2019.01.009. Jamir L1, Duggal M1, Nehra R2, Singh P3, Grover S4. Abstract OBJECTIVE: Penetration of mobile technology is rapidly rising. Excessive use leads to Technology addiction, which often start early in adolescence. The purpose of the present study was to assess Technology addiction and its correlates among school […]
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J Clin Med. 2019 Jan 30;8(2). pii: E157. doi: 10.3390/jcm8020157. Engel J1, Veit M2, Sinke C3, Heitland I4, Kneer J5, Hillemacher T6,7, Hartmann U8, Kruger THC9. Abstract Problems arising from hypersexual behavior are often seen in clinical settings. We aimed to extend the knowledge about the clinical characteristics of individuals with hypersexual disorder (HD). A […]
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