Studies linking porn use to sexual offending, sexual aggression, and sexual coercion

SECTION #1: Studies linking porn use to sexual offending, sexual aggression, and sexual coercion (listed by date of publication) Facilitating effects of erotica on aggression against women (1978) Rape fantasies as a function of exposure to violent sexual stimuli (1981) Sexual Experiences Survey: A research instrument investigating sexual aggression and victimization (1982) Pornography and Sexual […]

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Crosstalk Between Kappa Opioid and Dopamine Systems in Compulsive Behaviors (2020)

Front. Pharmacol., 18 February 2020 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fphar.2020.00057 Angélica del Pilar Escobar1, José Patricio Casanova2,3, María Estela Andrés4 and José Antonio Fuentealba5*† 1Centro Interdisciplinario de Neurociencias de Valparaíso, Faculty of Sciences, Universidad de Valparaíso, Valparaíso, Chile 2Departamento de Neurociencia, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile 3Núcleo Milenio NUMIND Biology of Neuropsychiatric Disorders, Universidad de […]

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Random access to palatable food stimulates similar addiction-like responses as a fixed schedule, but only a fixed schedule elicits anticipatory activation (2020)

Sci Rep. 2019 Dec 3;9(1):18223. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-54540-0. Muñoz-Escobar G1, Guerrero-Vargas NN1, Escobar C2. Abstract Restricted intermittent food access to palatable food (PF) induces addiction-like behaviors and plastic changes in corticolimbic brain areas. Intermittent access protocols normally schedule PF to a fixed time, enabling animals to predict the arrival of PF. Because outside the laboratory the […]

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What We Know About Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (2020)

Harv Rev Psychiatry. 2020 Mar/Apr;28(2):107-112. doi: 10.1097/HRP.0000000000000247. Chen A1, Mari S, Grech S, Levitt J. Abstract The fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders defines internet gaming disorder without differentiating games from their respective genres, such as first-person shooter versus real-time strategy versus online gaming. Our review of the literature on […]

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Motivational pathways underlying the onset and maintenance of viewing child pornography on the Internet (2020)

YBOP COMMENTS: New study reports large percentage of child porn (CP) users have no sexual interest in children. It was only after years of viewing adult porn, resulting in habituation to new genre after new genre, that porn users eventually sought more extreme material and genres, eventually escalating into CP. Researchers point to the nature […]

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Erectile Dysfunction: A Review of Comprehensive Treatment Options for Optimal Outcome (2019)

February 16, 2019 Source: Journal of Restorative Medicine, Volume 8, Number 1, 16 February 2019 Author: Retzler, Kathryn ABSTRACT Erectile dysfunction (ED) is common with aging. Formerly ED treatment was offered mainly by urologists, but the approval and widespread use of phosphodiesterase inhibitors has enabled primary care clinicians to provide targeted ED treatment. Although large, […]

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