Food for thought – males have been masturbating since Adam discovered he had a penis, and even primates do it. But the mass erectile dysfunction currently surfacing amoung young men has only ocurred since internet porn arrived. Porn is a far stronger and more potent addiction than masturbating by iteslf. Here is an article from […]
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I won’t reiterate much of what I previously wrote [below], but in a nutshell, I was taking the wrong turns in my life for the longest time ever. Initially I had no idea why, but I developed deep social-anxiety issues that I never noticed before. Personality-wise I crumbled into a shell. My grades slipped. (Okay, […]
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Are you there God Its me dopamine neuron September 30, 2013 · by Talia Lerner Dopamine neurons are some of the most studied, most sensationalized neurons out there. Lately, though, they’ve been going through a bit of an identity crisis. What is a dopamine neuron? Some interesting recent twists in dopamine research have definitively debunked […]
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Exclusive: Young boys are becoming so addicted to extreme internet porn that they now want help to stop watching it, according to a new study. A fifth of boys aged between 16 and 20 told the University of East London they were “dependent on porn as a stimulant for real sex”. The online sexual imagery […]
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I still can’t quite believe I’ve lasted this long. I last fapped on January 29th. I’ve had a lot of cool experiences this year (working for a television station, working for a newspaper, meeting new people). And it’s insane for me to think that this all happened after my last fap. I’m much more focused […]
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By ex-lads’ mag editor Martin Daubney, 25 September 2013 The moment I knew internet pornography had cast its dark shadow over the lives of millions of ordinary British teenagers will live with me for ever. I was sitting in the smart drama hall of a specialist sports college in the North of England with a […]
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J Neurosci. 2013 August 7; 33(32): 12982–12986. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5587-12.2013 PMCID: PMC3735881 Agnes Norbury,1,2 Sanjay Manohar,1,2 Robert D. Rogers,3 and Masud Husain1,2,4 Author information ► Article notes ► Copyright and License information ► Go to: Abstract Trait sensation-seeking, defined as a need for varied, complex, and intense sensations, represents a relatively underexplored hedonic drive in human […]
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Neuropsychopharmacology. 2011 January; 36(2): 402–410. Published online 2010 October 27. doi: 10.1038/npp.2010.170 PMCID: PMC3055672 Daniel Campbell-Meiklejohn,1,2 Judi Wakeley,3 Vanessa Herbert,4 Jennifer Cook,4,5 Paolo Scollo,6 Manaan Kar Ray,3 Sudhakar Selvaraj,3 Richard E Passingham,2 Phillip Cowen,3 and Robert D Rogers2,3,* Author information ► Article notes ► Copyright and License information ► This article has been cited by […]
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J Exp Anal Behav. 2010 May; 93(3): 313–328. doi: 10.1901/jeab.2010.93-313 PMCID: PMC2861872 Reza Habib and Mark R Dixon Author information ► Article notes ► Copyright and License information ► This article has been cited by other articles in PMC. Go to: Abstract The purpose of this translational study was twofold: (1) to contrast behavioral and […]
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Obesity (Silver Spring). 2011 Aug;19(8):1601-8. doi: 10.1038/oby.2011.27. Epub 2011 Feb 24. Wang GJ, Geliebter A, Volkow ND, Telang FW, Logan J, Jayne MC, Galanti K, Selig PA, Han H, Zhu W, Wong CT, Fowler JS. Source Medical Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York, USA. [email protected] Abstract Subjects with binge eating disorder (BED) regularly consume […]
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