Hi Everyone, I wrote on here a few months back when I first learned about my husbands porn addiction and I wanted to give a brief update on his journey to recovery. (He would do it but he acknowledges that Reddit among other social media sites are a trigger). He has successfully reached his 90 […]
Link to original article Kevin Dickinson 14 February, 2019 According to Pornhub’s annual statistics, “hentai” and “cartoons” were among the most popular categories in 2018. Such pornography is a supernormal stimulus, an artificial object that triggers an animal’s instinctual response more intensely than natural analogs. Supernormal stimuli not only explain our heightened response to pornography, […]
NOTE: This page contains multiple self-reports by people (some of whom are more politically correct than others), who concluded that their porn tastes influenced their sexual tastes after they quit porn and noticed their tastes reverting. These self-reports are taken from porn recovery forums. YBOP excerpts them pretty much as they are, and their authors’ […]
Kneer, Jonas, Viola Borchardt, Christian Kärgel, Christopher Sinke, Claudia Massau, Gilian Tenbergen, Jorge Ponseti et al. “Diminished fronto-limbic functional connectivity in child sexual offenders.” Journal of psychiatric research 108 (2019): 48-56. Abstract Background Child sexual abuse and neglect have been related to an increased risk for the development of a wide range of behavioral, psychological, […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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