Studies linking porn use or porn/sex addiction to sexual dysfunctions and poorer sexual and relationship satisfaction

Reality Check about Porn Addiction and sexual satisfaction Regardless of what you may read in some journalistic accounts, multiple studies reveal a link between porn use and sexual performance problems, relationship and sexual dissatisfaction, and reduced brain activation to sexual stimuli. Sexual satisfaction is so important in our lives. Let’s start with sexual dysfunctions. Studies […]

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After 10 years, I could feel PIED creeping in – After 50-60 days, PIED has disappeared

I’ve stayed 100 days porn free! I missed the actual day by 5 days, but still worth posting about. I started going pornfree mostly to stay sexually exclusive and monogamous to my girlfriend (not lusting after other women), so I wasn’t ever that concerned about benefits. I didn’t struggle with any psychological symptoms of porn […]

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Properties of the Problematic Pornography Consumption Scale (PPCS-18) in community and subclinical samples in China and Hungary (2020)

Addictive Behaviors Available online 31 July 2020, 106591 In Press, Journal Pre-proof LijunChena, XiaohuiLua, BeátaBőthe, XiaoliuJiang, ZsoltDemetrovics, Marc.N.Potenza Highlights PPCS-18 yielded strong psychometric properties among Chinese men. The network analytic approach corroborated the six factors of the PPCS-18. PPCS-18 demonstrated high generalizability across cultures. PPCS-18 demonstrated high generalizability across community and subclinical men. PPCS-18 may […]

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A psychometric approach to assessments of problematic use of online pornography and social networking sites based on the conceptualizations of internet gaming disorder (2020)

COMMENTS: Study validating a modified Gaming Addiction assessment for use a porn addiction questionnaire. A significant percentage subjects endorsed several criteria for addiction, including tolerance and escalation: 161 of the 700 subjects experienced tolerance – needing more porn or “more exciting” porn to achieve the same levels of excitement. Manuel Mennig, Sophia Tennie & Antonia Barke […]

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RealYourBrainOnPorn (@BrainOnPorn) tweets, page 2: Daniel Burgess, Nicole Prause & pro-porn allies collaborate on a twitter account to support the porn industry and to harass & defame anyone who speaks about porn’s negative effects

RealYBOP twitter (@BrainOnPorn) and www.realyourbrainonporn.com (registered by Daniel Burgess) were developed as tools by Nicole Prause to attack Your Brain on Porn, Gary Wilson, and anyone else who critiques the porn industry or points out the negative effects of porn use. Introduction This is page #2, documenting the second year of RealYBOP tweets. This page […]

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The Relationship Between Bullying Victimization and Depression in Adolescents: Multiple Mediating Effects of Internet Addiction and Sleep Quality (2020)

Psychol Health Med . 2020 Jun 1;1-11. doi: 10.1080/13548506.2020.1770814. Ruilin Cao  1 , Tingting Gao  1 , Hui Ren  1 , Yueyang Hu  1 , Zeying Qin  1 , Leilei Liang  1 , Songli Mei  1 Abstract Various studies have found that bullying victimization is an important factor affecting depression. However, few studies have explored the underlying mechanism of this effect. […]

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Association of Internet Addiction With Nonsuicidal Self-injury Among Adolescents in China (2020)

JAMA Netw Open . 2020 Jun 1;3(6):e206863. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.6863. Jie Tang  1   2 , Ying Ma  3 , Stephen P Lewis  4 , Ruoling Chen  2 , Angela Clifford  2 , Brooke A Ammerman  5 , Marufu Martin Gazimbi  6 , Adrian Byrne  7 , Yu Wu  8 , Xinchuan Lu  9 , Hongjuan Chang  10 , Chun Kang  10 , Henning Tiemeier  11   12 […]

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Exposure to sexually explicit media in early adolescence is related to risky sexual behavior in emerging adulthood (2020)

Abstract Background Sexually explicit media exposure during early adolescence has been found to be associated with risky sexual behavior. However, previous study suffered from methodological issue, such as selection bias. Furthermore, little is known about the effect of multi-modality sexually explicit media exposure on risky sexual behavior, and how this relationship can be applied to […]

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Treatments for internet addiction, sex addiction and compulsive buying: A meta-analysis (2020)

Journal of Behavioral Addictions Volume/Issue: Volume 9: Issue 1 Authors: Martina Goslar 1 , Max Leibetseder 1 , Hannah M. Muench 2 , Stefan G. Hofmann 3 and Anton-Rupert Laireiter 1 , 4 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1556/2006.2020.00005 Abstract Background and aims Internet addiction, sex addiction and compulsive buying are common behavioral problems, which share similarities with gambling […]

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