Religious People Use Less Porn and Are No More Likely to Believe They Are Addicted

Have you heard these claims a lot recently? Or perhaps even believed they are true? Religious populations have higher rates of porn use than their secular brethren, and lie about it. Religious porn users are not really addicted to porn; they only believe they are addicted because they are ashamed. Believing in porn addiction is […]

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Internet Addiction in Tibetan and Han Chinese middle school students: prevalence, demographics and quality of life (2018)

Psychiatry Research LiLua1DanDan Xuab1Huan-ZhongLiucd1LingZhange1Chee H.NgfGabor S.UngvarigFeng-RongAneYu-TaoXianga https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2018.07.005 Highlights Internet addiction (IA) is an emerging public health problem amongst young people, but no data exist in Tibetan middle school students. The overall prevalence of IA was 14.1%, with 15.9% in Tibetan students and 12.0% in Han students. Internet addiction was also associated with significant lower quality […]

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Systematic Review of Internet Dependency (2018)

https://wwjournals.com/index.php/ijsr/article/view/2959 Rosângela M. Müller, Vera Regina Levien, Elaine Pinto Albernaz Abstract Internet addiction is characterized as a compulsive-impulsive spectrum disorder and it has four components: excessive use, withdrawal, tolerance and negative repercussions. The objective of this study is to review the world literature regarding the prevalence of Internet addiction and to verify comorbidities associated with […]

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Hypersexual Disorder and Preoccupation With Internet Pornography (2001)

Hypersexual Disorder and Preoccupation With Internet Pornography Dan J. Stein, M.D., Ph.D.,Donald W. Black, M.D.,Nathan A. Shapira, M.D., Ph.D., andRobert L. Spitzer, M.D. Published Online: 1 Oct 2001 https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.158.10.1590 To protect patient anonymity, the case presented here includes features from two separate patients, and additional changes to details have been made to disguise identity. Case […]

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Simultaneous Monitoring of Hemodynamic Response in the Pre-Frontal Cortex and Genital Organ During Sexual Arousal Using Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (2018)

Comments: Porn addiction naysayers make the claim that viewing nature is no different neurologically than viewing porn. Of course this claim is nonsense – as this study shows. Evgenii Kim, MSc, Sungchul Kim, MSc, Phillips V. Zephaniah, MSc, Songhyun Lee, PhD, Eloise Anguluan, MSc, Kwangsung Park, MD, PhD, Jae Gwan Kim, PhD DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esxm.2018.05.001 Abstract […]

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