Who are gynandromorphophilic men? Characterizing men with sexual interest in transgender women (2015)

Comments: Men who become attracted to transgender (colloquially, shemale) porn/partners are typically heterosexual in their identification and arousal patterns–that is, typically not homosexual or even bisexual. The researchers are unable to speculate why this taste develops, but many internet porn users ascribe this fetish to heavy internet porn use and the search for something more […]

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Insulin enhances striatal dopamine release by activating cholinergic interneurons and thereby signals reward (2015)

  Melissa A. Stouffer, Catherine A. Woods, Jyoti C. Patel, Christian R. Lee, Paul Witkovsky, Li Bao, Robert P. Machold, Kymry T. Jones, Soledad Cabeza de Vaca, Maarten E. A. Reith, Kenneth D. Carr & Margaret E. Rice Affiliations Contributions Corresponding author Nature Communications 6, Article number: 8543 doi:10.1038/ncomms9543 Received    02 June 2015 Accepted […]

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Trading Later Rewards for Current Pleasure: Pornography Consumption and Delay Discounting (2015)

Comments: This paper (abstract below) contains two longitudinal studies examining the effects of Internet porn on “delay discounting.” Delay discounting happens when people choose ten dollars right now rather than 20 dollars in a week. It’s the inability to delay immediate gratification for a more valuable reward in the future. Think of the famous Stanford […]

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Age 29 – Started seeing success through NoFap and developed a sex addiction instead

I entered into a positive set of habits at the beginning of the year, nofap, a religiously attended body building routine, healthy diet 24/7, reduced drinking, the whole lot. This set of habits, meant that I became more confident with women due to their change of attitude towards me, so making up for lost time, […]

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DeltaFosB mediates epigenetic desensitization of the c-fos gene after chronic amphetamine exposure (2008)

Published in final edited form as: J Neurosci. 2008 Jul 16; 28(29): 7344–7349. doi:  10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1043-08.2008 PMCID: PMC2610249 NIHMSID: NIHMS66599 William Renthal,1 Tiffany L. Carle,1 Ian Maze,1 Herbert E. Covington, III,1 Hoang-Trang Truong,1 Imran Alibhai,1 Arvind Kumar,1 Rusty L. Montgomery,2 Eric N. Olson,2 and Eric J. Nestler1,* Go to: Abstract The molecular mechanisms underlying the transition […]

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