Pornography as we now know it, that is broadband internet pornography, is a product of the sexual revolution, so it is a relatively recent phenomenon. Its consumption is condemned by a wide swathe of the moral spectrum, from religious traditionalists to feminists, and in fact many writers in the so-called manosphere recommend against men viewing […]
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Any of you who are serious fapstronauts starting to discover that weird trends are happening inside you? That you’re starting to act more like a man than a female? You’re becoming less listening and Stewart Smalley and more Aragorn? Here’s where my weird stuff comes in. All my life I’ve felt like a woman inside. […]
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It’s been termed a social experiment — a whole generation growing up with free and easy access to online pornography. Those behind a symposium at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights on Monday morning call it an abject failure. Beyond Borders is presenting Generation XXX: The Pornification of our Children along with its media awards […]
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Monday, 27 October 2014 Author / Source: Dr Wrishi Raphael These days it is impossible to find a teenager belonging to a middle class family without a smart phone or a tablet; therefore without access to portable high speed internet. While a vast majority of parents are totally unaware of the potential dangers of the […]
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Nutrients. 2014 Oct 22;6(10):4591-4609. Segni MD1, Patrono E2, Patella L3, Puglisi-Allegra S4, Ventura R5. Abstract Eating disorders are multifactorial conditions that can involve a combination of genetic, metabolic, environmental, and behavioral factors. Studies in humans and laboratory animals show that eating can also be regulated by factors unrelated to metabolic control. Several studies suggest a […]
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Young men are finding that addiction to hardcore videos is harming their physical ability to have real sex. Gary Wilson explains how science and online discussion groups are helping them to quit In 2007, something strange happened on the internet. I know, something strange is always happening on the internet. But this wasn’t a viral […]
Read More… from London Times feature by Gary Wilson – “A cure for porn addicts who have lost that loving feeling”
It wasn’t that long ago that the world’s eager young wankers could happily jerk themselves into a state of exhaustion without a care in the world. But for some time now there’s been a growing level of consciousness of something that should probably have been quite obvious to anyone whose blood hadn’t all been redirected […]
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Comments: The long-awaited Voon study highlighted in the UK documentary “Porn on the Brain” is finally out. As expected, Cambridge University researchers found that compulsive porn users react to porn cues in the same way that drug addicts react to drug cues. But there’s more. Compulsive porn users craved porn (greater wanting), but did not […]
Read More… from Neural Correlates of Sexual Cue Reactivity in Individuals with and without Compulsive Sexual Behaviours (2014)
Updates: Many more neurological studies. This page lists over 50 neuroscience-based studies (MRI, fMRI, EEG, neuropsychological, hormonal) providing strong support for the addiction model. This list contains 30 recent literature reviews & commentaries by some of the top neuroscientists in the world, supporting the porn addiction model. (This dated paper was not a literature review […]
Read More… from Cambridge University Study: Internet porn addiction mirrors drug addiction (Voon et al., 2014)
PLoS One. 2014 Mar 14;9(3):e91506. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0091506. eCollection 2014. S Kühn,1,2,3,* A Romanowski,2 C Schilling,2 R Lorenz,2 C Mörsen,2 N Seiferth,2 T Banaschewski,4 A Barbot,5 G J Barker,6 C Büchel,7 P J Conrod,6 J W Dalley,8,9 H Flor,10 H Garavan,11 B Ittermann,3 K Mann,12 J-L Martinot,13,14 T Paus,15,16,17 M Rietschel,18 M N Smolka,19,20 A Ströhle,1 […]
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