Porn Problems: Here Come the Women (2013)

Internet porn’s supernormal stimulation can blight women’s sex lives too A popular online Swedish news magazine recently reported that women are noticing their own version of “porn impotence,” (already reported in Swedish men). Says one woman, “I have wondered about the reason for my lack of interest in sex in-real-life. … I can definitely see […]

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Is Internet Pornography Causing Sexual Dysfunctions? A Review with Clinical Reports (2016)

Behav Sci (Basel). 2016 Sep; 6(3): 17. Published online 2016 Aug 5. doi:  10.3390/bs6030017 Brian Y. Park,1 Gary Wilson,2 Jonathan Berger,3 Matthew Christman,3 Bryn Reina,4 Frank Bishop,5 Warren P. Klam,4 and Andrew P. Doan4,5,*  Abstract Traditional factors that once explained men’s sexual difficulties appear insufficient to account for the sharp rise in erectile dysfunction, delayed […]

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Correcting Misunderstandings About Neuroscience and Problematic Sexual Behaviors (2017) by Don Hilton, MD

Neuroscience and PSBs In recent years, neuroscience discoveries about the reward system and human sexuality have shed new light on both problematic and healthy sexual behavior. As can be expected with any new paradigm, however, some doubtful neuroscience claims have also appeared in the media. As a neurosurgeon and the author of several papers on […]

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Subregions of the Anterior Cingulate Cortex Form Distinct Functional Connectivity Patterns in Young Males With Internet Gaming Disorder With Comorbid Depression (2018)

Subregions of the Anterior Cingulate Cortex Form Distinct Functional Connectivity Patterns in Young Males With Internet Gaming Disorder With Comorbid Depression (2018) Front Psychiatry. 2018 Aug 29;9:380. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00380. eCollection 2018. Lee D1,2, Lee J2, Namkoong K2,3, Jung YC2,3. Abstract Depression is one of the most common comorbid conditions in Internet Gaming Disorder (IGD). Although […]

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Internet gaming disorder in adolescence: Psychological characteristics of a clinical sample (2018)

J Behav Addict. 2018 Sep 28:1-12. doi: 10.1556/2006.7.2018.75. Torres-Rodríguez A1, Griffiths MD2, Carbonell X1, Oberst U1. Abstract BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Internet gaming disorder (IGD) has become a topic of increasing research interest since its inclusion in Section 3 of the DSM-5. Given the lack of clinical studies concerning IGD, exploring the characteristics of clinical samples […]

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Editorial: Neural Mechanisms Underlying Internet Gaming Disorder (2018)

Editorial ARTICLE Front. Psychiatry, 06 September 2018 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00404 Jin-Tao Zhang1* and Matthias Brand2* 1State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning and IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China 2Department of General Psychology: Cognition and Center for Behavioral Addiction Research (CeBAR), University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany Neural Mechanisms Underlying Internet Gaming […]

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The Relationship Among Online Sexually Explicit Material Exposure to, Desire for, and Participation in Rough Sex (2018)

Arch Sex Behav. 2018 Sep 18. doi: 10.1007/s10508-018-1290-8. Vogels EA1, O’Sullivan LF2. Abstract The broad accessibility of online sexually explicit material (SEM) exposes viewers to a wide scope of sexual behaviors. Social concern tends to be heightened over SEM that incorporates highly graphic, “rough” sex. This study assessed the associations among exposure to rough sex […]

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Debunking Justin Lehmiller’s “Is Erectile Dysfunction Really on the Rise in Young Men” (2018)

Introduction Justin Lehmiller, a regular paid contributor to Playboy Magazine, unconvincingly attempts to debunk the well documented rise in youthful erectile dysfunction with this April, 2018 blog post. Since it was published David Ley and Nicole Prause frequently tweet Lehmiller’s blog post as “proof” that youthful ED rates haven’t changed in the last 30 years. […]

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