David Ley is the author of The Myth of Sex Addiction, Ethical Porn for Dicks and Insatiable Wives: Women Who Stray and the Men Who Love Them about the joys of cuckoldry. He has written 30 or so blog posts attacking and dismissing NoFap, porn addiction, sex addiction, porn-induced sexual dysfunctions and porn’s effects on […]
Reality Check about Porn Addiction and sexual satisfaction Regardless of what you may read in some journalistic accounts, multiple studies reveal a link between porn use and sexual performance problems, relationship and sexual dissatisfaction, and reduced brain activation to sexual stimuli. Sexual satisfaction is so important in our lives. Let’s start with sexual dysfunctions. Studies […]
Dialogues Clin Neurosci. 2020 Jun; 22(2): 101–111. doi: 10.31887/DCNS.2020.22.2/mkorte PMCID: PMC7366944 PMID: 32699510 Martin Korte, PhD Abstract This overview will outline the current results of neuroscience research on the possible effects of digital media use on the human brain, cognition, and behavior. This is of importance due to the significant amount of time that individuals spend […]
As of today I’m 113 days clean. Haven’t posted here before, used to visit r/Nofap a lot in the past. I have struggled with PMO addiction for at least 10 years, I’m 27 now. In the struggle, I learned many lessons about myself and about perseverance. I finally made some serious headway by tackling my […]
COMMENTS: A review by addiction experts concludes that pornography-use disorder is a condition that may be diagnosed with the ICD-11 category “other specified disorders due to addictive behaviors”. In other words, compulsive porn use looks like other recognized behavioral addictions, which include gambling and gaming disorders. Excerpts from the paper: Note that we are not […]
Bőthe, Beáta, István Tóth-Király, Mark D. Griffiths, Marc N. Potenza, Gábor Orosz, and Zsolt Demetrovics. Addictive Behaviors (2020): 106603. Highlights PPU had positive, moderate links to sexual function problems in males and females. FPU had negative, weak links to sexual function problems in males and females. FPU and PPU should be discussed separately concerning its […]
Addictive Behaviors Available online 31 July 2020, 106591 In Press, Journal Pre-proof LijunChena, XiaohuiLua, BeátaBőthe, XiaoliuJiang, ZsoltDemetrovics, Marc.N.Potenza Highlights PPCS-18 yielded strong psychometric properties among Chinese men. The network analytic approach corroborated the six factors of the PPCS-18. PPCS-18 demonstrated high generalizability across cultures. PPCS-18 demonstrated high generalizability across community and subclinical men. PPCS-18 may […]
Kraus, S. W., Gola, M., Grubbs, J. B., Kowalewska, E., Hoff, R. A., Lew-Starowicz, M., Martino, S., Shirk, S. D., & Potenza, M. N. (2020).Validation of a Brief Pornography Screen across multiple samples, Journal of Behavioral Addictions J Behav Addict, . Abstract Background and Aims To address current gaps around screening for problematic pornography use […]
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Int J Environ Res Public Health . 2020 Jul 1;17(13):E4751. doi: 10.3390/ijerph17134751. Seung-Yup Lee 1 , Hae Kook Lee 2 , Jung-Seok Choi 3 , Soo-Young Bang 4 , Min-Hyeon Park 1 , Kyu-In Jung 1 , Yong-Sil Kweon 2 PMID: 32630338 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph17134751 Abstract The clinical course of problematic smartphone use (PSU) remains largely unknown due to a lack of […]
Introduction Is Nicole Prause Influenced by the Porn Industry? In 2013 former UCLA researcher Nicole Prause began openly harassing, libeling and cyberstalking Gary Wilson. (Prause has not been employed by an academic institution since January, 2015.) Within a short time she also began targeting others, including researchers, medical doctors, therapists, psychologists, a former UCLA colleague, […]
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