Introduction In this sex offender section, if you are concerned about the biased, but increasingly well publicized, views of pro-porn sexologists and their allies, we have news for you. For your convenience, a large team of Porn Science Deniers have now “outed” themselves as an exclusive club. You can find them proudly pictured here in […]
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Shingo Tanaka, John P. O’Doherty & Masamichi Sakagami Nature Communications volume 10, Article number: 3674 (2019) | Download Citation Abstract Midbrain dopamine neurons are known to encode reward prediction errors (RPE) used to update value predictions. Here, we examine whether RPE signals coded by midbrain dopamine neurons are modulated by the cost paid to obtain rewards, by recording […]
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Behav. Sci. 2019, 9(6), 62; https://doi.org/10.3390/bs9060062 Review Sergey Tereshchenko * and Edward Kasparov Research Institute of Medical Problems of the North, Federal Research Center “Krasnoyarsk Science Center of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences”, Krasnoyarsk 660022, Russia Abstract The sudden appearance and spread of Internet addiction in adolescent populations, in association with […]
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Neuropsychiatr Dis Treat. 2019 Mar 26;15:739-752. doi: 10.2147/NDT.S193357. ElSalhy M1,2, Miyazaki T1, Noda Y1, Nakajima S1, Nakayama H2, Mihara S2, Kitayuguchi T2, Higuchi S2, Muramatsu T1,2, Mimura M1. Abstract Backgrounds and aims: While the Internet became an indispensable component of our contemporary life, public and academic attention is also gathered to its negative impact, namely […]
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J Sex Res. 2016 May-Jun;53(4-5):509-31. doi: 10.1080/00224499.2016.1143441. Peter J1, Valkenburg PM1. Abstract The goal of this review was to systematize empirical research that was published in peer-reviewed English-language journals between 1995 and 2015 on the prevalence, predictors, and implications of adolescents’ use of pornography. This research showed that adolescents use pornography, but prevalence rates varied […]
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YBOP comments: Contains a section about “Compulsive sexual behaviour disorder”: Compulsive sexual behaviour disorder Compulsive sexual behaviour disorder is characterized by a persistent pattern of failure to control intense repetitive sexual impulses or urges, resulting in repetitive sexual behaviour over an extended period (e.g., six months or more) that causes marked distress or impairment in […]
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LINK TO FULL STUDY Clin. Med. 2019, 8(1), 91; doi:10.3390/jcm8010091 Rubén de Alarcón 1 , Javier I. de la Iglesia 1 , Nerea M. Casado 1 and Angel L. Montejo 1,2,* 1 Psychiatry Service, Hospital Clínico Universitario de Salamanca, Institute of Biomedical Research of Salamanca (IBSAL), 37007 Salamanca, Spain 2 University of Salamanca, EUEF, 37007 […]
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Link to abstract (which is also below) This paper is a misleading, irresponsible attempt to counter the 2010 Ana Bridges study on aggression in porn (“Aggression and sexual behavior in best-selling pornography videos: A content analysis update”), which found that 88% of the most popular porn films featured physical aggression against women. However, this study […]
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Link to original article Kevin Dickinson 14 February, 2019 According to Pornhub’s annual statistics, “hentai” and “cartoons” were among the most popular categories in 2018. Such pornography is a supernormal stimulus, an artificial object that triggers an animal’s instinctual response more intensely than natural analogs. Supernormal stimuli not only explain our heightened response to pornography, […]
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NOTE: This page contains multiple self-reports by people (some of whom are more politically correct than others), who concluded that their porn tastes influenced their sexual tastes after they quit porn and noticed their tastes reverting. These self-reports are taken from porn recovery forums. YBOP excerpts them pretty much as they are, and their authors’ […]
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