This recovery story was written in response to the following question Post – My husband has a porn/sex addiction and I don’t know how to help him. I feel lost in this and hopeless. Not sure if this is the place to post and my husband might be somewhere on this group, but I don’t […]
If you’re married and using porn, “You da man!” At least in your genes’ estimation. First, your wedding vows increase the chances that your joint offspring will have two caregivers, thus improving the survival odds of gene packets (kids) you are pretty certain are yours.
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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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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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Brain Behav. 2019 Jan 31:e01218. doi: 10.1002/brb3.1218. Wang H1, Sun Y1, Lv J1, Bo S1. Abstract OBJECTIVES: Internet addiction (IA) has been associated with widespread brain alterations. Functional connectivity (FC) and network analysis results related to IA are inconsistent between studies, and how network hubs change is not known. The aim of this study was […]
Front Behav Neurosci. 2019 Jan 17;12:338. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2018.00338. Kakoschke N1, Aarts E2, Verdejo-García A1. Abstract Compulsivity is a central feature of obsessive-compulsive and addictive disorders, which share considerable overlap with excessive eating in terms of repetitive behavior despite negative consequences. Excessive eating behavior is characteristic of several eating-related conditions, including eating disorders [bulimia nervosa (BN), […]
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International Journal of the Sociology of Leisure, pp 1–25 Maki Hirayama First Online: 24 January 2019 Abstract In Japan more young people became sexually inactive in 2000s, especially since around 2005.On the other hand, Internet and digital technology were spread in the same period. In this paper, five phases of Internet and digital technology are investigated […]
LINK – 15 observations/tips/pieces of advice from ~8 years of my pornfree journey by seatint As a follow up to my 5 month post, I want to share what I’ve learned and what has worked for me so far to maintain long term success. Just because you have an urge or did x y or […]
Read More… from 15 observations/tips/pieces of advice from ~8 years of my pornfree journey
Article about the study – http://time.com/5514539/screen-time-children-brain/ Original Investigation January 28, 2019 Sheri Madigan, PhD1,2; Dillon Browne, PhD3; Nicole Racine, PhD1,2; et al Camille Mori, BA1,2; Suzanne Tough, PhD2 Author Affiliations Article Information JAMA Pediatr. Published online January 28, 2019. doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2018.5056 Key Points Question Is increased screen time associated with poor performance on children’s developmental screening tests? Findings In this cohort study of early childhood development in […]
Dana M. Small, Alexandra G. DiFeliceantonio Science 25 Jan 2019: Vol. 363, Issue 6425, pp. 346-347 DOI: 10.1126/science.aav0556 Signals that convey nutritional information from the gut to the brain regulate food reinforcement and food choice (1–4). Specifically, although central neural computations execute choice, the gut nervous system communicates information about the nutritional outcomes of choices […]