YBOP Comments: This is one of our very first posts describing one of the unexpected benefits reported by former porn users. We are not saying that Internet porn is the primary cause of social anxiety in young men. No one knows what percentage of those with social anxiety disorder (SAD) have porn use as a […]
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Introduction Because this EEG study reported greater porn use related to less brain activation to vanilla porn it is listed as supporting the hypothesis that chronic porn use down regulates sexual arousal. Put simply, the more frequent porn users were bored by static images of ho-hum porn (its findings parallel Kuhn & Gallinat., 2014). These […]
UPDATE 2017: A new study (Fernandez et al., 2017) tested and analyzed the CPUI-9, a purported “perceived pornography addiction” questionnaire developed by Joshua Grubbs, and found that it couldn’t accurately assess “actual porn addiction” or “perceived porn addiction” (Do Cyber Pornography Use Inventory-9 Scores Reflect Actual Compulsivity in Internet Pornography Use? Exploring the Role of […]
To escape from porn addiction it is essential for porn users to understand why they can find porn more exciting than a real partner. UPDATES: For more information see the Porn & ED section. Over 75 studies linking porn use to less sexual and relationship satisfaction. At least 40 studies link porn use/sex addiction to […]
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UPDATES on DeltaFosB (ALSO WRITTEN ΔFosB) Porn/sex addiction? This page lists 41 neuroscience-based studies (MRI, fMRI, EEG, neuropsychological, hormonal). They provide strong support for the addiction model as their findings mirror the neurological findings reported in substance addiction studies. DeltaFosB is a key component. The real experts’ opinions on porn/sex addiction? This list contains 21 […]
Introduction: His correlations say one thing, but Joshua Grubbs says another The researcher who saddled humankind with “perceived pornography addiction” and claimed it somehow “functions very differently from other addictions,” has now turned his dexterity to porn-induced ED. Joshua Grubbs’s new paper claims there’s no epidemic of youthful ED, boldly concluding its abstract with: In […]
Front Psychiatry. 2018; 9: 545. Published online 2018 Nov 7. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00545 PMCID: PMC6234835 PMID: 30464748 David A. Wiss,1 Nicole Avena,2 and Pedro Rada3,* Abstract The obesity epidemic has been widely publicized in the media worldwide. Investigators at all levels have been looking for factors that have contributed to the development of this epidemic. Two major […]
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Introduction Nicole Prause touts yet another of her letters to the editor as “debunking” the existence of sex addiction and porn addiction (“Compulsive sexual behaviour disorder” in the upcoming ICD-11). Yet it does not. This 240-word opinion piece (Prause et al., 2017) cites zero studies to support its claims, providing only a single, easily refuted […]
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Very frequent internet porn use has familiar risks for many of today’s users. These include escalation to more extreme material, poorer sexual and relationship satisfaction and addiction. It may also include the gradual loss of attraction to real partners (as well as anorgasmia and unreliable erections). Less well known is the fact that intermittent use […]
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