Front Psychiatry. 2013; 4: 44. Published online 2013 Jun 3. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2013.00044 PMCID: PMC3669800 Pierre Trifilieff1,2 and Diana Martinez1,* Author information ► Article notes ► Copyright and License information ► This article has been cited by other articles in PMC. Go to: Abstract Cocaine addiction is accompanied by a decrease in striatal dopamine signaling, […]
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Front Psychol. 2015; 6: 653. Published online 2015 May 22. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00653 Jan Snagowski1 and Matthias Brand1,2,* Abstract There is no consensus regarding the phenomenology, classification, and diagnostic criteria of cybersex addiction. Some approaches point toward similarities to substance dependencies for which approach/avoidance tendencies are crucial mechanisms. Several researchers have argued that within an addiction-related […]
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By PornHelp.org We have written about the public “debate” over sex and pornography addiction, and have been especially critical of news stories that attempt to reduce complex issues into simplistic headlines. Intentionally or not, news articles blaring “Porn/Sex Addiction Isn’t Real” perpetuate the stigma of problematic sexual behavior. They confuse people in pain who want […]
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Brain Imaging Behav. 2016 Dec 14. Du X1, Yang Y2, Gao P3, Qi X1, Du G3, Zhang Y1, Li X4, Zhang Q5. Abstract Behavioral studies have demonstrated visual attention bias and working memory deficits in individuals with internet gaming disorder (IGD). Neuroimaging studies demonstrated that individuals with IGD presented abnormalities in brain structures and functions […]
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I’m a smart and disciplined guy. I believe in learning from the mistakes of others. I know that I swing into the extremes of things (oh doing magic tricks are cool… so I’ll spend all my time learning magic tricks). I was warned about tobacco and alcohol. I’ve never tried either because I knew that […]
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It’s this Empowering, Loving, Liberating energy that i have now, I still can’t believe it. And the strangest part is when I started nofap, I was VERY skeptical, which in a way worked in my favor because I DIDN’T EXPECT ANYTHING. I thought it was nonsense. But it’s these feelings all mixed together and it […]
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I’m ______, born in 2000, and I’ve been here since September 9, 2014. I discovered masturbation at a young age, but when I got introduced to pornography in 2013, it started to cause problems. I won’t say too much, I’ve already written down some very important things for myself which I will put below. Why […]
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I suppose I’ll preface with a little background. Skip ahead if you’d like. I’ve masturbated since I can remember. I found softcore porn in my dad’s room when I was very young and found very hardcore stuff on the computer shortly thereafter. My impressionable young brain was hooked. I started developing fetishes before even hitting […]
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The American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT) has released what they themselves are hailing as a “historic position statement” on porn and sex addiction. At the center of the statement is an assertion that the organization “does not find sufficient empirical evidence to support the classification of sex addiction or porn addiction as a […]
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COMMENTS: This new study (abstract below) is being touted as a “failed replication” of a highly cited 1989 experiment, thus proving that porn use has little effect of intimate relationships. First, it’s absurd to claim that experimental studies can demonstrate if porn viewing really causes negative relationship effects.” Experiments where college-aged guys view a few […]
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