Update (July, 2017): Co-author Brian Willoughby exposes how David Ley spun & misrepresented his study in Ley’s Psychology Today blog post “Religious Conflict Makes Porn Bad for Relationships“: Thinking in Black and White: A Response to the Claim that Religiosity Cause the Harms of Pornography. ———————————————————————————————— Article The “perceived pornography addiction” meme continues to infect […]
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Link to TV segment (April 06, 2017). The 3-minute segment featured Gabe Deem, Dr. Donald Hilton, and AASECT certified sex therapist Emily Deayla, MA. My first concern is with the segment’s headline: “Self-proclaimed porn addict hopes to make porn harder to access” Two objections to this headline: 1) It spins Gabe’s porn addiction as “self-proclaimed”, […]
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Update: Studies Finding Escalation (and Habituation) in Porn Users YBOP FAQ: Is my fetish porn-induced? It’s time to distinguish ‘sexual orientation’ from reversible ‘sexual tastes’ “The bulk of scientific evidence currently favors the view that the origins for most sexual desires are not cultural but innate.” —Leon F. Seltzer Such statements mislead people that all […]
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Psychopharmacology (Berl). Author manuscript; available in PMC 2010 Jun 5. Published in final edited form as: Psychopharmacology (Berl). 2007 Nov; 194(4): 537–544. Published online 2007 Jul 13. doi: 10.1007/s00213-007-0868-y PMCID: PMC2881196 NIHMSID: NIHMS205439 Jeffrey W. Grimm, Meghan Manaois, Dan Osincup, Barbara Wells, and Carl Buse Abstract Rationale Cue-induced craving precedes drug relapse and contributes to […]
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Physiol Behav. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2012 Jul 25. Published in final edited form as: Physiol Behav. 2011 Jul 25; 104(1): 87–97. Published online 2011 May 1. doi: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2011.04.041 PMCID: PMC3132131 NIHMSID: NIHMS295966 Rebecca L Cowin,1 Nicole M. Avena,2,3 and Mary M. Boggiano4 Abstract Research has focused on understanding how overeating can affect brain […]
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Nutrition Reviews Volume 73, Issue 5 Pp. 296 – 307 Miguel Alonso-Alonso, Stephen C. Woods, Marcia Pelchat, Patricia Sue Grigson, Eric Stice, Sadaf Farooqi, Chor San Khoo, Richard D. Mattes, Gary K. Beauchamp DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/nutrit/nuv002 First published online: 9 April 2015 Abstract This article reviews current research and cross-disciplinary perspectives on the neuroscience of food […]
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Sci Rep. 2016 Nov 23;6:37126. doi: 10.1038/srep37126. De Ridder D1, Manning P2, Leong SL1, Ross S2, Vanneste S3. Abstract Homeostasis is the basis of modern medicine and allostasis, a further elaboration of homeostasis, has been defined as stability through change, which was later modified to predictive reference resetting. It has been suggested that pleasure is […]
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Understand your partner’s porn challenge and how you can help You have no particular objection to porn, but you love your partner and he has decided to give up Internet porn after using heavily for years. Here are 5 ways you can support his effort: 1. Understand why he’s quitting For your partner, porn isn’t […]
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