In essence all YBOP’s articles can be classified as debate for the existence of Internet porn addiction and porn-induced problems. However, the following articles were written as a response to Psychology Today blog posts, questionable studies or as updates on the relevant advances in addiction medicine. Also see – Questionable & Misleading Studies Gary Wilson […]
COMMENTS: Sexual exhaustion is rats is marked by multiple brain changes that take at least 4 days to reverse. At the same time, full recovery of sexual activity (number of copulations and ejaculations) takes 15 days. This researcher believes, as we do, that sexual satiation is a mechanisms to prevent over-stimulation of the reward circuitry. From […]
Both sexual anorexia and sex addiction can co-exist. In his most recent post, Dr. Ley confides that he’s bit worried “that scientists and researchers and theorists are agreeing that sex addiction is real.” He thinks politics are at play, but gives no reason why addiction researchers, the same ones who haven’t yet studied the brains […]
Read More… from Exclusion of Internet Porn Addiction Makes No Biological Sense (2012)
Have our brains evolved to handle the hyperstimulation of today’s Internet enticements? Gary Wilson discusses the disturbing symptoms showing up in some heavy Internet users, the surprising reversal of those symptoms, and the science behind these phenomena. Empirical support for “The Great Porn Experiment” (2012) For comprehensive support for the claims presented in each slide […]
Read More… from The Great Porn Experiment – Given at TEDx (March, 2012)
Curious about Internet porn? Ask an addiction specialist. Spoiler alert: We’re in favor of free speech, aren’t working to ban porn, and have little tolerance for Santorum’s politics. Nor are we religious. That said, it’s good that Ricky baby moved the Internet porn addiction debate into the spotlight. There are important new developments in the […]
Read More… from Politics, Porn and Addiction Neuroscience (2012)
Can you get addicted to ice cream? Maybe, study shows By Brian Alexander Sure, Stephen Colbert’s Americone Dream tastes so good it’s addictive, but is it, you know, addictive? Could Ben and Jerry, Häagen Dazs, or Blue Bell really be pushers of a substance akin to nicotine? Baskin-Robbins-as-crack-house might seem ridiculous, and the idea that […]
Day 0 Today, I decided to quit masturbating to porn. I will never watch internet porn again. The only source of sexual stimulation will be the partners of my choice. I have long suspected that there was a correlation between the erectile dysfunction I have been experiencing and my consumption of internet porn. However, I […]
Read More… from Age 27 – ED: I finally had great sex. It. Was. Awesome!
Summaries of the latest research papers on video gaming addiction. I created a sperate summary list for “Internet Addiction studies“. As with food and gambling addiction, brain studies reveal the same major changes as seen in drugs (hypofrontality, desensitization, sensitization). Altered regional cerebral glucose metabolism in internet game overusers: a 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography study. CNS Spectr. 2010 Mar;15(3):159-66. […]
This page contains short internet addiction summaries of the latest research on Internet Addiction (As of 2020 we are no longer adding studies to this current page: see this page for all Internet addiction studies). Other studies involving Internet Gaming Addiction (IGD) can be found here. Internet addiction brain studies have already confirmed the presence […]
Did addiction politics leave us stranded on a slippery slope? Ever wonder why the brains of pathological gamblers, food addicts and video-game addicts have been studied, yet no one has studied the brains of porn addicts? We’ve certainly wondered—especially as one often hears the claim that the absence of studies is “proof” that porn addiction/sex […]
Read More… from The Wages of Sexual-Addiction Politics (2011)