Comments: This article emphasizes that dopamine equates with ‘wanting,’ which can be separated from ‘liking.’ Reward is not just dopamine. It appears that dopamine is not really the reward molecule; rather it is the craving neurotransmitter. This is why someone with an addiction can crave the drug, or porn, but not really like it. This […]
Read More… from (L) Simple Pleasures: Liking vs. Wanting, by Kent Berridge (2004)
YBOP Comments: This article emphasizes that dopamine equates with ‘wanting,’ which can be separated from ‘liking.’ Reward is not just dopamine. It appears that dopamine is not really the reward molecule; rather it is the craving neurotransmitter. This is why someone with an addiction can crave the drug, or porn, but not really like it. […]
Read More… from (L) Simple Pleasures: Liking vs. Wanting, by Kent Berridge (2004)
A team of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute has found that a specific stress hormone, the corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF), is key to the development and maintenance of alcohol dependence in animal models. 
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Read More… from (L) Stress Hormone CRF Key to Development of Alcohol Dependence (2010)
Morality lies not where we think it does This post is about morality, but not about a particular moral agenda. It’s about how your inner compass works. Whatever your moral code, if you or your loved ones occasionally do things that violate it, read on. Moral decisions (including sexual ones) do not invoke a specific […]
Read More… from Sex and Morality: A Debate Between Competing Neurons (2011, updated research list)
Contains both the lay article and the study below
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Read More… from (L) Prairie Voles: The Social Drinkers of the Rodent World (2010)
YBOP Comments: The concept of behavioral addictions is controversial to some therapists and sexologists. However, it is becoming clear to researchers that behavioral addictions cause brain changes that mirror drug addictions. This has to be, as all a drug can do is amplify or inhibit a normal physiological mechanism. Addiction mechanisms are already in the […]
Read More… from Introduction to Behavioral Addictions (2010)
This FAQ is now obsolete as the world’s most widely used medical diagnostic manual, The International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11), contains a new diagnosis suitable for porn addiction and cybersex addiction: “Compulsive Sexual Behavior Disorder.” The current state of the scientific research supports the existence of porn addiction and porn-induced sexual dysfunctions. For example, a […]
Read More… from There are no scientific studies that say porn is addictive, right?
COMMENTS: If you don’t feel like reading the abstracts below, or searching Medline for the rest of the studies, this is the bottom line:
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Read More… from Testosterone Research versus Testosterone Myths
There’s a lot of confusing information on the web involving the relationships between testosterone and orgasm, masturbation, and erectile dysfunction. The true picture of how orgasm affects neurochemicals and hormones is only beginning to unfold, and definitely more complex than mere testosterone. […]
Read More… from Any connection between orgasm, abstinence, and testosterone levels?
Although this section is named “Porn Use & Sex Addiction Studies,” Internet porn addiction is not really sex addiction (see Porn Addiction Is Not Sex Addiction–And Why It Matters). Internet porn addiction is considered by many experts to be a subset of internet addiction. YBOP has created several lists of porn studies. An (L) in […]