Debunking the debunker: Critique of letter to the editor “Prause et al. (2015) the latest falsification of addiction predictions”

Introduction In various comments, articles and tweets Nicole Prause has claimed that not only did Prause et al., 2015 falsify “a core tenet of the addiction model, the cue reactivity biomarker,” but that “a series of behavioral studies replicated by independent laboratories [falsify] other predictions of the addiction model.” Prause cites her 2016 “Letter to […]

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The Role of Maladaptive Cognitions in Hypersexuality among Highly Sexually Active Gay and Bisexual Men (2014)

Arch Sex Behav. 2014 May; 43(4): 669–683. Published online 2014 Feb 21. doi: 10.1007/s10508-014-0261-y PMCID: PMC4011938 NIHMSID: NIHMS569370 PMID: 24558123 John E. Pachankis,1,2 H. Jonathon Rendina,2,3 Ana Ventuneac,2 Christian Grov,2,4,5 and Jeffrey T. Parsons2,3,5,6,7 Abstract Cognitive appraisals about sex may represent an important component of the maintenance and treatment of hypersexuality, but they are not currently […]

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Age 27 – Healing my porn addiction and working for a Human Trafficking organization

I used to go into bathrooms, look at porn, and turn the volume up so people could hear it, just because I was that fucked up in the head. Fuck that shit. Porn is a goddamned cancer and it warps peoples minds, desensitizes them, normalizes all sorts of depraved and unhealthy behavior. It promotes violence […]

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Coercive and problematic use of online sexual material and sexual behavior among university students in northern Mexico (2019)

Valdez-Montero, Carolina, Raquel A. Benavides-Torres, Dora Julia Onofre-Rodríguez, Lubia Castillo-Arcos, and Mario Enrique Gámez-Medina. Sexual Addiction & Compulsivity (2019): 1-13. Abstract The purpose of this study was to determine the coercive and problematic use of sexual online material related to the sexual behavior of university students in two cities in Northern Mexico. The design that […]

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Age 30 – I’m like a teenager again, and my wife is no longer a sexual object to fulfill my perverted fantasies wired by pornography

This recovery story was written in response to the following question Post –  My husband has a porn/sex addiction and I don’t know how to help him. I feel lost in this and hopeless. Not sure if this is the place to post and my husband might be somewhere on this group, but I don’t […]

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