White matter microstructural and Compulsive Sexual Behaviors Disorder – Diffusion Tensor Imaging study (2021)

COMMENT: New brain scan study comparing white matter of porn/sex addicts (CSBD) to controls reported significant differences between controls and CSB subjects: This is one of the first DTI studies assessing differences between patients with the Compulsive Sexual Behaviors Disorder and healthy controls. Our analysis has uncovered FA reductions in six regions of the brain […]

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Predicting Problematic Pornography Use among Male Returning US Veterans, Addictive Behaviors (2020)

YBOP COMMENTS: “Problematic Pornography Use” (porn addiction) was associated with cravings, depression, anxiety, PTSD, insomnia & higher frequency of use – but NOT religiosity. Cravings indicate “sensitization,” which is a key addiction-related brain change. In fact, the severity of cravings and frequency of porn use were the strongest predictors of PPU (porn addiction). Put simply, […]

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Nicole Prause’s Unethical Harassment and Defamation of Gary Wilson and Others (Page 4)

Introduction (as it appears on Page #1) Legal counsel advised us to create these pages, which document Nicole Prause’s extensive campaign targeting those who point out possible harms of porn use or issues in the porn industry. “Sunshine” protects the community Prause harasses by preserving facts and permitting visitors and journalists to understand the truth […]

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David Ley collaborates with porn industry giant xHamster to promote its websites and convince users that porn addiction and sex addiction are myths!

David Ley is the author of The Myth of Sex Addiction, Ethical Porn for Dicks and Insatiable Wives: Women Who Stray and the Men Who Love Them about the joys of cuckoldry. He has written 30 or so blog posts attacking and dismissing NoFap, porn addiction, sex addiction, porn-induced sexual dysfunctions and porn’s effects on […]

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Studies linking porn use or porn/sex addiction to sexual dysfunctions and poorer sexual and relationship satisfaction

Reality Check about Porn Addiction and sexual satisfaction Regardless of what you may read in some journalistic accounts, multiple studies reveal a link between porn use and sexual performance problems, relationship and sexual dissatisfaction, and reduced brain activation to sexual stimuli. Sexual satisfaction is so important in our lives. Let’s start with sexual dysfunctions. Studies […]

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Is Nicole Prause Influenced by the Porn Industry?

Introduction Is Nicole Prause Influenced by the Porn Industry? In 2013 former UCLA researcher Nicole Prause began openly harassing, libeling and cyberstalking Gary Wilson. (Prause has not been employed by an academic institution since January, 2015.) Within a short time she also began targeting others, including researchers, medical doctors, therapists, psychologists, a former UCLA colleague, […]

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Critique of claims surrounding Steele et al., 2013 (“Sexual Desire, not Hypersexuality, is Related to Neurophysiological Responses Elicited by Sexual Images”)

You can skip the history and go directly to our analysis. HISTORY OF THIS JULY, 2013 CRITIQUE This article was first published in July, 2013 as a reply blog post to a “Psychology Today” blog post featuring an interview with Dr. Nicole Prause, co-author of the EEG study discussed here. On March 6th, 2013, fellow Psychology […]

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Do Varying Levels of Exposure to Pornography and Violence Have an Effect on Non-Conscious Emotion in Men? (2020)

COMMENTS: Study contains a unique and interesting finding: Exposing low porn users to 10 rounds of 50 pornographic & 50 violent images artificially induced brain wave patterns mirroring frequent porn users. In the current study, low porn users’ brain activities elicited by unpleasant and violent images became more similar after increasing exposure to violent and […]

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