The following is YBOP’s response to David Ley’s Psychology Today blog post “We Must Rely on Good Science in Porn Debate (2016).” Ley’s post is his response to Philip Zimbardo’s Psychology Today blog post “Is Porn Good For Us or Bad For Us?” (2016). While Ley’s title says we must rely on “good science,” it […]
“The grueling, mysterious initiation one endures but never speaks of” “Flatlines… they are like being at a bottom of well and thinking you have no hope of getting out…. then one day just waking up and being out. So try and enjoy the peace and quiet of flatlines is my advice.” Our blog post Young […]
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I was alerted to Ley’s comment and asked to respond directly on this thread: The David Ley comment (posted January 30, 2016). Since my response was blocked, I decided to post an easier to read version on YBOP. Before I address David Ley’s claims it must be noted that he consistently fails to mention the […]
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Citation: Translational Psychiatry (2016) 6, e721; doi:10.1038/tp.2015.215 Published online 26 January 2016 M Park1, J-S Choi1,2, S M Park1, J-Y Lee1,2, H Y Jung1,2, B K Sohn1,2, S N Kim2, D J Kim3 and J S Kwon2 1Department of Psychiatry, SMG-SNU Boramae Medical Center, Seoul, Republic of Korea 2Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea 3Department of […]
In 2014 Your Brain on Porn made a video on PIED – Porn-Induced Erectile Dysfunction. This page sets out the science behind our video. Anatomy & physiology teacher Gary Wilson explains the physiology of erections, how overstimulation via today’s Internet porn can create erectile dysfunction (even in young men), and how others have recovered. For […]
Original article. In recent months a small cadre of clinicians has leveled an ongoing criticism against the sex addiction treatment field, mostly arguing that all sex addiction treatment specialists are moralistic, ultra-conservative, narrow-minded therapists who unnecessarily pathologize their clients’ behaviors. Why these critics choose to attack sex addiction treatment clinicians in this way is not […]
Are we waxing away the line between adults and children? At present, our culture both underestimates the power of erotic cues and misinterprets their significance. That is, sexual cues are presumed harmless because sexual tastes are thought to be hardwired whatever one views. Two circular assumptions follow from this faulty premise: First, we assume that […]
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Neuropsychopharmacology. 2015 Nov 10. doi: 10.1038/npp.2015.340. Mick I1, Myers J1, Ramos AC1,2, Stokes PR1,3, Erritzoe D1, Colasanti A1,3,4, Gunn RN1,4, Rabiner EA4,5, Searle GE4, Waldman AD6, Parkin MC7, Brailsford AD7, Galduróz JC2, Bowden-Jones H8, Clark L9, Nutt DJ1, Lingford-Hughes AR1. Abstract Pathological gambling is a psychiatric disorder and the first recognized behavioral addiction, with similarities […]
Behav Neurosci. 2015 Jun; 129(3): 300–308. doi: 10.1037/bne0000059 PMCID: PMC4450884 Rebecca D. Burwell, Editor Nichola M. Brydges,1,2,* Megan C. Holmes,1 Anjanette P. Harris,1 Rudolf N. Cardinal,3,4,5 and Jeremy Hall6,7 1Centre for Cardiovascular Science, The University of Edinburgh 2Neuroscience and Mental Health Research Institute, Cardiff University School of Medicine 3Behavioral and Clinical Neuroscience Institute, Department […]
PLoS One. 2010; 5(7): e11592. Published online 2010 Jul 28. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0011592 Lauriane Cantin,#¤a Magalie Lenoir,#¤b Eric Augier,# Nathalie Vanhille,# Sarah Dubreucq,¤c Fuschia Serre,¤d Caroline Vouillac, and Serge H. Ahmed* Kenji Hashimoto, Editor Author information ► Article notes ► Copyright and License information ► This article has been cited by other articles in PMC. Go […]