I haven’t PMO’d in exactly 100 days. I won’t hide it, I am actually kind of proud of it, but I still have a couple things to say, partly to the new guys, but also to some of the “veterans”. To those of you who think this is stupid: It’s not. It really isn’t. You […]
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My 90 day post. I am 100% not the same person I was 90 days ago. Not that I am completely someone else, but that I am so polished as a person that you would not mistake me for who I was 90 day’s ago. This is akin to someone having a lump of dirt […]
Read More… from Age 18 – Every single aspect of my life is better.
Neuron. Author manuscript; available in PMC Dec 9, 2011. Published in final edited form as: Neuron. Dec 9, 2010; 68(5): 815–834. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2010.11.022 PMCID: PMC3032992 NIHMSID: NIHMS253484 Ethan S. Bromberg-Martin,1 Masayuki Matsumoto,1,2 and Okihide Hikosaka1 Author information ► Copyright and License information ► See other articles in PMC that cite the published article. Go to: […]
Read More… from Dopamine in motivational control: rewarding, aversive, and alerting (2010)
Curr Opin Neurobiol. Author manuscript; available in PMC Aug 1, 2014. Curr Opin Neurobiol. Aug 2013; 23(4): 639–648. Published online Feb 21, 2013. doi: 10.1016/j.conb.2013.01.002 PMCID: PMC3717294 NIHMSID: NIHMS449224 Nora D. Volkow,1 Gen-Jack Wang,2 Dardo Tomasi,2 and Ruben D. Baler1 Author information ► Copyright and License information ► The publisher’s final edited version of this […]
Read More… from Unbalanced Neuronal Circuits in Addiction (2013)
At the 2014 Summit for the Coalition to End Sexual Exploitation (CESE), Dr. Donald Hilton gave this keynote address. In it, he reviews much of the neuroscience literature to help the general public understand how pornography changes the brain. Dr. Hilton counters the notion that pornography addiction is not valid or widespread. VIDEO: Pornography Addiction: […]
There is concern in the UK over young people’s access to pornography: some want to block it, some want to see more vigilant age restrictions. Either way, the relationship that teenagers have with porn is rarely discussed with the nuance and patience it deserves. Today’s twenty-somethings are our lab rats: the first generation to go through puberty […]
This study examined the effects of sexual reward on DeltaFosB and the effects of DeltaFosB on sexual behavior and reward. The standard molecular changes known to occur with drug addiction were found to be the same as occur with sex. In other words, DeltaFosB evolved for sexual stimuli, yet drugs hijack this very same mechanism. […]
COMMENTS: Delta FosB is a marker for all addictions, both behavioral and chemical. As this molecule increases in the reward circuit so do addictive behaviors. It’s one of the molecules involved in neuroplastic changes. This experiment shows that it increases with sexual experience, similarly to how it does with drug addictions. In the experiment they […]
I’ve been masturbating since I was about 10 or 11 (couldn’t even ejaculate then). It was when I became a teenager that dial-up internet became available. I would remember masturbating to porn that would slowly download and I would wait about 3 minutes just for one picture to be completely seen on the screen. Soon […]
Horm Behav. Author manuscript; available in PMC May 1, 2012. Published in final edited form as: Horm Behav. May 2011; 59(5): 696–701. Published online Oct 26, 2010. doi: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2010.10.009 Charles T. Snowdon,1 Pamela L. Tannenbaum,2,3 Nancy J. Schultz-Darken,2 Toni E. Ziegler,2 and Craig F. Ferris4 Author information ► Copyright and License information ► The publisher’s […]
Read More… from Conditioned Sexual Arousal in a Nonhuman Primate (2011)