Is Joshua Grubbs pulling the wool over our eyes with his “perceived porn addiction” research?

UPDATE 2017: A new study (Fernandez et al., 2017) tested and analyzed the CPUI-9, a purported “perceived pornography addiction” questionnaire developed by Joshua Grubbs, and found that it couldn’t accurately assess “actual porn addiction” or “perceived porn addiction” (Do Cyber Pornography Use Inventory-9 Scores Reflect Actual Compulsivity in Internet Pornography Use? Exploring the Role of […]

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Same but Different: A Clinical Characterization of Men with Hypersexual Disorder in the Sex@Brain Study (2019)

J Clin Med. 2019 Jan 30;8(2). pii: E157. doi: 10.3390/jcm8020157. Engel J1, Veit M2, Sinke C3, Heitland I4, Kneer J5, Hillemacher T6,7, Hartmann U8, Kruger THC9. Abstract Problems arising from hypersexual behavior are often seen in clinical settings. We aimed to extend the knowledge about the clinical characteristics of individuals with hypersexual disorder (HD). A […]

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Age 28 – I had tuned my brain specifically to shemale porn. I’m over 90 days sober now, and I can imagine going back.

Hey all. Want to share my story in case anyone else has gone through anything similar & hope it can give someone who reads it hope. I’m in my late 20s. Started experimenting with porn as an early teen. I’d say I have a good 15 years of thinking I need the dopamine that porn […]

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Age 21 – Depression cured, I feel like a kid again. Social anxiety cured. Heightened senses. I have motivation to get things done

I was very happy and outgoing as a kid. I never knew what went wrong at the age of 12-13. I started to be quiet, unhappy and numbed. I was like this all the way until a few months ago. My personality changed at the same time I discovered fapping and I had been doing […]

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I spent 4 years of my life in the dark – Now my brain fog is gone and my erections are back

I start by telling you that as a child I was very shy. One of those children always attached to the family and who never left much from home, not even with friends. I never felt excluded, but when everyone did something, let’s say, I thought about it many times and then in the majority […]

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Age 24 – PIED gone

Just turned 24. I didn’t realize notice my symptoms until I broke up with my girlfriend of 3yrs a couple years back. It almost felt like I completely forgot how to talk to girls. I played football at my university so I got a decent amount of attention just from that, but it mostly just […]

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Critique of “Is Pornography Use Related to Erectile Functioning? Results From Cross-Sectional and Latent Growth Curve Analyses” (2019)

Introduction: His correlations say one thing, but Joshua Grubbs says another The researcher who saddled humankind with “perceived pornography addiction” and claimed it somehow “functions very differently from other addictions,” has now turned his dexterity to porn-induced ED. Joshua Grubbs’s new paper claims there’s no epidemic of youthful ED, boldly concluding its abstract with: In […]

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