DOI: 10.1080/00224499.2016.1142496 L. Monique Warda* pages 560-577 Published online: 15 Mar 2016 Abstract Sexually objectifying portrayals of women are a frequent occurrence in mainstream media, raising questions about the potential impact of exposure to this content on others’ impressions of women and on women’s views of themselves. The goal of this review was to synthesize empirical […]
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Advances in Pharmacological Sciences Volume 2016 (2016), Article ID 7238679, 7 pages Isabel Cristina de Macedo,1,2,3 Joice Soares de Freitas,1,2,3 and Iraci Lucena da Silva Torres1,2 1Pharmacology of Pain and Neuromodulation Laboratory: Animal Models, Department of Pharmacology, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Institute of Basic Health Sciences, 90050-170 Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil 2Graduate […]
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I am 40, dentist from Serbia. I have been heavy internet porn user for last 10 years. Even though I am happily married, and have been very satisfied with my sex life, I’ve been addicted to porn, because it offered me variety, and I was rather porn addicted than unfaithful. I am sure I am […]
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The first generation of men who grew up with unlimited online porn sound the alarm Excerpt: A growing number of young men are convinced that their sexual responses have been sabotaged because their brains were virtually marinated in porn when they were adolescents. Their generation has consumed explicit content in quantities and varieties never before […]
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For ten years until the age of twenty I was a hardcore porn wanker. I’ve jacked off thousands and thousands and thousands of times. When I started as a boy of around ten I couldn’t even cum, I would orgasm but nothing would come out the end. That’s how young I was. Anyway, initially porn […]
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Dialogues Clin Neurosci. 2016 Mar; 18(1): 55–63. PMCID: PMC4826771 Language: English | Spanish | French Julie Goulet-Kennedy, BSc Julie Goulet-Kennedy, Centre interdisciplinaire de recherche en réadaptation et en intégration sociale. Centre de recherche de l’Institut universitaire en santé mentale de Québec; Faculté de médecine, Université Laval, Québec, Canada; Sara Labbe, MSc Sara Labbe, Centre […]
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The following abstracts related to porn use and sex addiction were taken from the 3rd International Conference on Behavioral Addictions March 14–16, 2016, and 4th International Conference on Behavioral Addictions February 20-22, 2017. Most abstracts presented are eventually published in peer-reviewed journals. Internet pornography addiction: Theoretical models, behavioral data, and neuroimaging findings MATTHIAS BRAND […]
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So for the whole nofap journey not a lot has happened I hadn’t had any luck with girls, sad times. When suddenly from day 89 out of nowhere I’m suddenly spoilt for choice. I made out with some girl I met out which rocketed my confidence and she’s now constantly messaging me. The same day […]
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I’m proud to say that after coming across this sub sometime in Feb 2014, I completed 2 years porn-free, as of April 10, 2016. I had been watching porn of various types since at least 1999, on 33kbps modems. The reason I got serious about stopping was that I realized that access to porn was […]
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Front Psychol. 2016 Mar 30;7:455. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00455. eCollection 2016. Turel O1, Bechara A2. Abstract BACKGROUND: Adults who present ADHD symptoms have an increased risk for vehicle accidents. One conceivable overlooked account for this association is the possibility that people with ADHD symptoms use rewarding technologies such as social networking sites (SNS) while driving, more than […]
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