Risk or Release?: Porn Use Trajectories and the Accumulation of Sexual Partners (2018)

Rasmussen, Kyler R., and Alex Bierman. Social Currents (2018): 2329496518780929. Abstract A central question in the study of pornography consumption is whether consumption influences risky sexual behavior. In this research, we focus on one key aspect of risky sexual behavior, the accumulation of sexual partners. Using longitudinal latent class analysis of a nationally representative sample, […]

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Intermittent, extended access to preferred food leads to escalated food reinforcement and cyclic whole-body metabolism in rats: Sex differences and individual vulnerability (2018)

Physiol Behav. 2018 Aug 1;192:3-16. doi: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2018.04.001. Spierling SR1, Kreisler AD2, Williams CA2, Fang SY2, Pucci SN2, Kines KT2, Zorrilla EP3. Abstract Compulsive binge eating is a hallmark of binge eating disorder and bulimia nervosa and is implicated in some obesity cases. Eating disorders are sexually dimorphic, with females more often affected than males. Animal […]

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Intermittent, extended access to preferred food leads to escalated food reinforcement and cyclic whole-body metabolism in rats: Sex differences and individual vulnerability (2018)

Spierling SR1, Kreisler AD2, Williams CA2, Fang SY2, Pucci SN2, Kines KT2, Zorrilla EP3. Abstract Compulsive binge eating is a hallmark of binge eating disorder and bulimia nervosa and is implicated in some obesity cases. Eating disorders are sexually dimorphic, with females more often affected than males. Animal models of binge-like eating based on intermittent […]

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‘I see it everywhere’: young Australians unintended exposure to sexual content online (2018)

Larissa Lewis, Julie Mooney Somers, Rebecca Guy, Lucy Watchirs-Smith and S. Rachel Skinner Sexual Health – https://doi.org/10.1071/SH17132 Submitted: 1 August 2017  Accepted: 9 February 2018   Published online: 21 June 2018 Abstract Background: There are wide variations in the reported prevalence of exposure to sexual content online, but the literature tends not to distinguish between […]

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Longitudinal Changes in Neural Connectivity in Patients With Internet Gaming Disorder: A Resting-State EEG Coherence Study (2018)

Front Psychiatry. 2018 Jun 7;9:252. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00252. PMID: 29930524 PMCID: PMC5999751 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00252 Sunyoung Park1, Hyera Ryu1, Ji-Yoon Lee1, Aruem Choi1, Dai-Jin Kim2, Sung Nyun Kim3* and Jung-Seok Choi1,4* Aims: The present study investigated neural connectivity associated with treatment responses in patients with Internet gaming disorder (IGD) using resting-state electroencephalography (EEG) coherence analyses. Methods: We […]

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Studies demonstrating porn use or internet use “causing” negative effects or neurological changes

Is pornography use causing harm? COMMENTS: When confronted with hundreds of studies linking porn use to negative outcomes, a common tactic by pro-porn PhDs is to claim that “no causation has been demonstrated.” The reality is that when it comes to psychological and (many) medical studies, very little research reveals causation directly. For example, all […]

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Revisiting the Role of Impulsivity and Compulsivity in Problematic Sexual Behaviors (2018)

COMMENTS: In this new paper, top researchers ask whether internet porn problems should be categorized differently from other problematic sexual behaviors based on study results. They also suggest that porn problems may be better categorized as “addictions” rather than “impulse control disorders,” given the evidence supports both – but porn problems don’t fit in well […]

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Problematic Video Gaming in a Young Spanish Population: Association with Psychosocial Health (2018)

Cyberpsychol Behav Soc Netw. 2018 Jun;21(6):388-394. doi: 10.1089/cyber.2017.0599. Buiza-Aguado C1, Alonso-Canovas A2, Conde-Mateos C3, Buiza-Navarrete JJ1, Gentile D4. Abstract Problematic video gaming (PVG) is a concern for psychologists attending children and adolescents. Uniform diagnostic criteria are lacking, and risk factors are poorly understood. Internet gaming disorder (IGD) was included in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual […]

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Organic and psychogenic causes of sexual dysfunction in young men (2017)

COMMENTS: A 2017 “Narrative Review” on sexual dysfunction in young men which contains a section on porn-induced delayed ejaculation (reproduced below). Many porn users report that delayed ejaculation (difficulty climaxing during partnered sex) was a precursor to their erectile dysfunction. YBOP FAQ – Any suggestions for healing delayed ejaculation (DE) or anorgasmia? ————————————————————————— PDF OF […]

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Neurobiological Correlates in Internet Gaming Disorder: A Systematic Literature Review (2018)

Front Psychiatry. 2018; 9: 166. Published online 2018 May 8. doi:  10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00166 PMCID: PMC5952034 PMID: 29867599 Daria J. Kuss,* Halley M. Pontes, and Mark D. Griffiths Abstract Internet Gaming Disorder (IGD) is a potential mental disorder currently included in the third section of the latest (fifth) edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental […]

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