1 Year – Increased confidence. Surge in energy. Increased social skills. Enjoyment of the little things in life.

I don’t really know in what end to begin when writing this post but I will try to make it as cut-and-clear as possible without having to write pages of boring and mundane reading: Last Sunday, an entire year had finally passed on my NoFap-Journey and I must admit that I am very proud of […]

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Porn, Masturbation and Mojo: A Neuroscience Perspective (2012)

Ex-porn users usually get their mojo back. Why? Not long ago, a guy explained to his fellow forum members: Around 2008/2009, people started surfacing on the Internet who were freaked out that they had erectile dysfunction during sex, but at the same time could get a solid erection to varying degrees of extreme porn with […]

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The components of the adolescent brain and its unique sensitivity to sexually explicit material (2019)

Link to abstract – J Adolesc. 2019 Feb 9;72:10-13. doi: 10.1016/j.adolescence.2019.01.006. Brown JA1, Wisco JJ2. Abstract INTRODUCTION: The focus of this brief literature review is to explore whether there is a relationship between the unique anatomical and physiological paradigms of the adolescent brain and an increased sensitivity to sexually explicit material. METHODS: The EBSCO Research […]

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Comparison of the Video Game Functional Assessment-Revised (VGFA-R) and Internet Gaming Disorder Test (2019)

Front. Psychol., 19 February 2019 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00310 Matthew Evan Sprong1*, Mark D. Griffiths2, Daniel Perry Lloyd3, Erina Paul4 and Frank D. Buono3 1School of Interdisciplinary Health Professions, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, United States 2Psychology, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, United Kingdom 3Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States 4Center […]

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The Cognitive Drivers of Compulsive Eating Behavior (2019)

Abstract Compulsivity is a central feature of obsessive-compulsive and addictive disorders, which share considerable overlap with excessive eating in terms of repetitive behavior despite negative consequences. Excessive eating behavior is characteristic of several eating-related conditions, including eating disorders [bulimia nervosa (BN), binge eating disorder (BED)], obesity, and food addiction (FA). Compulsivity is proposed to be […]

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Was the Cowardly Lion Just Masturbating With Porn Too Much? (2010)

YBOP Comments: This is one of our very first posts describing one of the unexpected benefits reported by former porn users. We are not saying that Internet porn is the primary cause of social anxiety in young men. No one knows what percentage of those with social anxiety disorder (SAD) have porn use as a […]

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Stuck in the Porn Box (2018). (Analysis of the Grubbs moral incongruence model)

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10508-018-1294-4 Archives of Sexual Behavior February 2019, Volume 48, Issue 2, pp 449–453 | Brian J. Willoughby This comment refers to the article available at  https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-018-1248-x. While the viewing of sexually explicit content is by no means a new phenomenon, the digital age and availability of online pornography has led to a surge in scholarship seeking to understand […]

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Dysregulated Pornography Use and the Possibility of a Unipathway Approach (2018). (Analysis of the Grubbs moral incongruence model)

Archives of Sexual Behavior February 2019, Volume 48, Issue 2, pp 455–460 | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10508-018-1277-5 Paul J. Wright This comment refers to the article available at  https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-018-1248-x. In this Commentary, after providing a brief overview of my background and research interests in relation to the topics covered by Grubbs, Perry, Wilt, and Reid’s (2018) Pornography Problems Due to Moral […]

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Editorial: Neurobiological Perspectives in Behavioral Addiction (2019)

Front Psychiatry. 2019; 10: 3. Published online 2019 Jan 22. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00003 PMCID: PMC6349748 PMID: 30723426 Jung-Seok Choi,1,2,* Daniel Luke King,3 and Young-Chul Jung4 Some classes of behaviors, including gambling, Internet gaming, and sexual behaviors, may lead to compulsive engagement for a minority of individuals. In extreme cases where individuals may feel unable to control these […]

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