LINK TO ARTICLE by Greg Wilford Nearly half of Japanese people are entering their 30s without any sexual experience, according to new research. The country is facing a steep population decline as a growing number of youngsters abstain from sex and avoid romantic relationships. Some men claimed they “find women scary” as a poll found […]
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BMC Psychiatry. 2017 May 30;17(1):201. doi: 10.1186/s12888-017-1364-5. Yong RKF1,2, Inoue A3,4, Kawakami N4. Abstract BACKGROUND: Prolonged Internet use is often associated with reduced social involvement and comorbid psychopathologies, including depression, anxiety, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Asian countries where Internet access is widely available have high reported levels of Internet addiction. As Internet use has […]
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders Ryuhei SoEmail author Kazunori Makino Masaki Fujiwara Tomoya Hirota Kozo Ohcho Shin Ikeda Shouko Tsubouchi Masatoshi Inagaki So, R., Makino, K., Fujiwara, M. et al. J Autism Dev Disord (2017). doi:10.1007/s10803-017-3148-7 Abstract Extant literature suggests that autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are risk factors for internet addiction (IA). The present cross-sectional study explored […]
Psychology, Crime & Law Volume 1, 1994 – Issue 1 Ken-Ichi Ohbuchi , Tatsuhiko Ikeda & Goya Takeuchi Pages 71-81 | Published online: 04 Jan 2008 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10683169408411937 Abstract In order to examine the effects of pornography on beliefs in rape myths among Japanese men, the subjects’ beliefs were measured before and after exposure to home […]
Journal of Intercultural Communication Research Volume 40, 2011 – Issue 2 Kikuko Omori , Yan Bing Zhang , Mike Allen , Hiroshi Ota & Makiko Imamura Pages 93-110 | Published online: 09 Jun 2011 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17475759.2011.581031 Abstract The present study examined Japanese college students’ ( N = 476) use of sexually explicit material (SEM) and associations with […]
Psychiatry Clin Neurosci. 2016 Aug 30. doi: 10.1111/pcn.12454. Tateno M1,2, Teo AR3,4,5, Shirasaka T6, Tayama M7,8, Watabe M9, Kato TA10,11. Abstract AIM: Internet addiction (IA), also referred to as Internet use disorder, is a serious problem all over the world, especially in Asian countries. Severe IA in students may be linked to academic failure, attention-deficit […]
Cyberpsychol Behav Soc Netw. 2016 Sep;19(9):557-61. doi: 10.1089/cyber.2016.0182. Morioka H1, Itani O2, Osaki Y3, Higuchi S4, Jike M1, Kaneita Y2, Kanda H5, Nakagome S1, Ohida T1. Abstract The aim of this study was to clarify the association between smoking and problematic Internet use (PIU), such as Internet addiction (IA) and excessive Internet use (EIU), among […]
Tokyo (CNN)When I was a young, single woman in Japan in the 1980s, the economy was red hot and so was the dating scene. Cool girls weren’t ashamed of losing their virginity before marriage. Watch video Of course for me personally, losing my virginity was a big deal. But socially, it was no biggie. It […]
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Int J Adolesc Med Health. 2014 Nov 21. pii: /j/ijamh.ahead-of-print/ijamh-2014-0030/ijamh-2014-0030.xml. doi: 10.1515/ijamh-2014-0030. Hirao K. Abstract Background: Internet addiction (IA) is a common disorder among adolescents throughout most of the industrialized world. The purpose of this study was to compare mental states between Japanese undergraduates with IA and those without IA. Methods: In a cross-sectional survey, […]
Comments: Normally we only publish rebooting accounts about the effcets of porn. I’m assuming this one involved porn use. The actual Japanese “study” on NoFap There was a joke about a (non-existent) Japanese study which suggested that fapping improves your memory. Well, I found a real Japanese fellow Fapstronaut documenting his personal findings. Here is […]