“Internet porn can’t be causing problems for users because porn has been around forever. If it didn’t harm us then, it won’t harm us now.”
Sounds logical but, in fact, this reasoning is faulty. Times have changed—and so have porn and the way porn is delivered to our brains.
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Read More… from “How I Recovered from Porn-related Erectile Dysfunction” (2010)
My sexual experiences in college were horrifying… total inability to have any kind of erection while making out, etc., very low libido. I didn’t know what was wrong with me but I knew it wasn’t good. I was aware of being completely unable to relax my PC muscles when I would be with a girl. […]
I’m not pretending to be an expert or anything, but I’ve been dealing with this for quite a while and I’m making decent progress with it.
After a bad sexual experience (my first since my porn addiction) I didn’t feel a lot of arousal with a woman as well (she was a lot older than me, like your experience) and I started thinking: “Maybe I am gay?” This was foolish, as I’m not sexually excited by men, nor do I have an intense urge to love or have sex with them, but the whole point of HOCD is to make you worry and obsess.
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The Journal of Neuroscience, 1 June 2011, 31(22): 7960-7966; doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1006-11.2011
Yan Liu1,*, Kimberly A. Young1,*, J. Thomas Curtis2, Brandon J. Aragona3, and Zuoxin Wang1
+ Author Affiliations
1.1Department of Psychology, Program in Neuroscience, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306,
2.2Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, Center for Health Sciences, Oklahoma State University, Tulsa Oklahoma 74107, and
3.3Department of Psychology, Program in Neuroscience, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109
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COMMENTS: Prairie voles form pair bonds. Only a few mammals are socially monogamous like the voles. The ability to form pair bonds is dependent on neural circuits and neurochemicals. A species either has the brain mechanisms to pair bond, or it doesn’t. It’s not a learned behavior. Most humans can pair bond, so as a […]
Read More… from (L) Love and Addiction: Voles in Love Just Say No To Speed (2011)
Reid, et al are certainly correct that not all compulsive porn users are the same. In fact, I’m sure Hilton and Watts would agree that there are porn users with serious issues, such as AIDS or mental illness, who benefit from counseling and medication. We see a few of them on our forum, too. We also agree that it is not helpful to those recovering to imply they have permanent brain damage, although it’s doubtful this was Hilton and Watt’s intent in explaining the relevance of hypofrontality research.
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Read More… from Gary Wilson’s comment on Rebuttal by Reid, et al
Finally, the American Society of Addiction Medicine has acted, since the DSM would not. The Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders work group for the upcoming Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) is currently discussing whether to demote the proposed “Hypersexual Disorder” (which addresses compulsive porn use, among other behaviors) from Sexual Dysfunctions to […]
Read More… from DSM-5 Attempts to Sweep Porn Addiction Under the Rug (2011)
Article from Montreal Gazette
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There’s no simplistic answer for this, as everyone is different. However, there are some typical signposts: