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), binge eating disorder (BED)], obesity, and food addiction (FA). Compulsivity is proposed to be […]
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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 […]
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Archives of Sexual Behavior February 2019, Volume 48, Issue 2, pp 455–460 | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10508-018-1277-5 Paul J. Wright This comment refers to the article available at https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-018-1248-x. In this Commentary, after providing a brief overview of my background and research interests in relation to the topics covered by Grubbs, Perry, Wilt, and Reid’s (2018) Pornography Problems Due to Moral […]
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J Behav Addict. 2019 Feb 11:1-13. doi: 10.1556/2006.8.2019.03. Zsidó AN1, Darnai G1,2,3, Inhóf O1, Perlaki G3,4,5, Orsi G3,4,5, Nagy SA3,4,5,6, Lábadi B1, Lénárd K1, Kovács N2,3, Dóczi T3,5, Janszky J2,3. Abstract BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Internet addiction is a non-substance-related addiction disorder with progressively growing prevalence. Internet addiction, like substance-related addictions, has been linked with high […]
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Physiol Behav. 2019 Jan 31;202:62-68. doi: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2019.01.022 Ruisoto P1, Contador I2. Abstract BACKGROUND: The high prevalence and burden to society of drug abuse and addiction is undisputed. However, its conceptualisation as a brain disease is controversial, and available interventions insufficient. Research on the role of stress in drug addiction may bridge positions and develop more […]
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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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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 […]
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Can Porn Make Your Mate Less Appealing?
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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