COMMENTS: A narrative review (full paper here). The two main tables summarizing this review: March–April, 2020 Volume 34, Issue 2, Pages 191–199 Gail Hornor, DNP, CPNP, SANE-P,Correspondence information about the author DNP, CPNP, SANE-P Gail Hornor Email the author DNP, CPNP, SANE-P Gail Hornor DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pedhc.2019.10.001 Introduction Children and adolescents are growing up in a digital […]
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Pro-porn activists often assert porn addiction is a myth on the theory that compulsive porn users do not experience either tolerance (habituation, escalation) or withdrawal symptoms. Not so. In fact, not only do porn users and clinicians report both tolerance and withdrawal, over 60 studies report findings consistent with escalation of porn use (tolerance), habituation […]
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Said a recovering porn user:
I knew I was more than I appeared to be. More knowledgeable, funnier, more socially intelligent. I had all of these skills, but I couldn’t use them. It was like driving a Ferrari and being stuck in 1st gear.
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In this section we look at the studies linking porn use or porn addiction to sexual dysfunctions and lower arousal. The first 6 studies linking porn use or porn addiction to sexual dysfunctions and lower arousal demonstrate causation. The participants eliminated porn use and healed chronic sexual dysfunctions: 1) Is Internet Pornography Causing Sexual Dysfunctions? A […]
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Neurosci Biobehav Rev. 2019 Jun 24. pii: S0149-7634(19)30370-7. doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2019.06.032. Brand M1, Wegmann E2, Stark R3, Müller A4, Wölfling K5, Robbins TW6, Potenza MN7. Highlights Addictive behaviors are linked to cue-reactivity and craving Addictive behaviors are associated with diminished inhibitory control Habitual behaviors are developed in the process of addictive behaviors An imbalance between fronto-striatal […]
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Introduction In various comments, articles and tweets Nicole Prause has claimed that not only did Prause et al., 2015 falsify “a core tenet of the addiction model, the cue reactivity biomarker,” but that “a series of behavioral studies replicated by independent laboratories [falsify] other predictions of the addiction model.” Prause cites her 2016 “Letter to […]
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LINK TO FULL STUDY Clin. Med. 2019, 8(1), 91; doi:10.3390/jcm8010091 Rubén de Alarcón 1 , Javier I. de la Iglesia 1 , Nerea M. Casado 1 and Angel L. Montejo 1,2,* 1 Psychiatry Service, Hospital Clínico Universitario de Salamanca, Institute of Biomedical Research of Salamanca (IBSAL), 37007 Salamanca, Spain 2 University of Salamanca, EUEF, 37007 […]
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Introduction by YourBrainOnPorn.com I cannot tell you how many times the following “letter to editor” to a Salt Lake newspaper has been cited as “proof” porn use causes no problems and porn addiction doesn’t exist: Op-ed: Anti-porn school program misrepresents science. It’s often posted on social media (Quora, Twitter, Facebook) as evidence that YBOP, Fight […]
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Here’s Gary Wilson’s back & forth with a young author about oxytocin and porn use. He repeated the claim in his book that oxytocin “bonds the user to porn.” FIRST COMMENT BY GARY Finally, I guess it doesn’t matter, but even though I have the greatest respect for ______ , I was sorry to see […]
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Ex-porn users usually get their mojo back. Why? Not long ago, a guy explained to his fellow forum members: Around 2008/2009, people started surfacing on the Internet who were freaked out that they had erectile dysfunction during sex, but at the same time could get a solid erection to varying degrees of extreme porn with […]
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