Analysis of the Joshua Grubbs study: “Self-identification as a pornography addict: examining the roles of pornography use, religiousness, and moral incongruence (Grubbs et al., 2019) Contrary to spin, this is the first Joshua Grubbs study to correlate any variable with “believing oneself to be porn addict” In the last few years Dr. Joshua Grubbs has […]
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 […]
Introduction Because this EEG study reported greater porn use related to less brain activation to vanilla porn it is listed as supporting the hypothesis that chronic porn use down regulates sexual arousal. Put simply, the more frequent porn users were bored by static images of ho-hum porn (its findings parallel Kuhn & Gallinat., 2014). These […]
Introduction The 4-page Nicole Prause commentary can be found here. It’s one of several commentaries (mostly by Prause allies, such as David Ley, Taylor Kohut and Sam Perry) on the following paper: An Organizational Framework for Sexual Media’s Influence on Short-Term Versus Long-Term Sexual Quality (Leonhardt et al., 2018). These commenters don’t care for Leonhardt […]
Read More… from Critique of Nicole Prause’s “Porn Is for Masturbation” (2019)
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 […]
Front Behav Neurosci. 2019 Jan 17;12:338. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2018.00338. Kakoschke N1, Aarts E2, Verdejo-García A1. 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), […]
Read More… from The Cognitive Drivers of Compulsive Eating Behavior (2019)
Eur J Psychotraumatol. 2019 Jan 14;10(1):1565031. doi: 10.1080/20008198.2018.1565031. Kircaburun K1, Griffiths MD2, Billieux J3. Abstract in English, Chinese, Spanish Internet gaming disorder (IGD) has been related to a wide range of detrimental psychological and health consequences. The purpose of the present pilot study was to test the direct and indirect relationships between IGD and emotional […]
International Journal of the Sociology of Leisure, pp 1–25 Maki Hirayama First Online: 24 January 2019 Abstract In Japan more young people became sexually inactive in 2000s, especially since around 2005.On the other hand, Internet and digital technology were spread in the same period. In this paper, five phases of Internet and digital technology are investigated […]
I’ve been addicted since 15, Started fighting Since 18. I’m now 24 and here’s a summary of what worked for me: • At 17 yo, for the 1st time in my life, I was sweet on a girl, I couldn’t betray her with porn so for 7 days I stayed away from porn until she […]
LINK – 15 observations/tips/pieces of advice from ~8 years of my pornfree journey by seatint As a follow up to my 5 month post, I want to share what I’ve learned and what has worked for me so far to maintain long term success. Just because you have an urge or did x y or […]
Read More… from 15 observations/tips/pieces of advice from ~8 years of my pornfree journey