The new breed of sex addicts – who don’t have sex Rising numbers of young people are addicted to porn online, but scared of making real physical contact. Andy Jones reports By Andy Jones 9 February 2020 The new breed of sex addicts have become hooked on porn and masturbation – but do not feel […]
61-page PDF of the BBFC Research Report Excerpt from the BBFC page: This research was commissioned by the BBFC to provide context to the current online pornography landscape, as well as explore young people’s interactions with, and attitudes towards, pornography. The method was designed to qualitatively and quantitatively explore what children and parents think about […]
By Madeleine Kearns February 6, 2020 – Original article Excerpt: Big Tobacco lost because it was denying science, at a huge social cost. Big Porn is following the same path. It is busy commissioning its own sex research and promising “ethical porn.” But outside the Twittersphere and the conservative-media world, the resistance is being led […]
Elena Martellozzo, Andrew Monaghan , Julia Davidson, … First Published February 2, 2020 https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244019899462 Abstract This article considers data from a large empirical study of nearly 1,100 U.K. adolescents aged 11 to 16 (in a mixed methods three-stage sample) and provides an overview of their experiences of online adult pornography. The article investigates how seeing […]
Pro-porn activists often assert porn addiction is a myth on the theory that compulsive porn users do not experience either tolerance (habituation, escalation) or withdrawal symptoms. Not so. In fact, not only do porn users and clinicians report both tolerance and withdrawal, over 60 studies report findings consistent with escalation of porn use (tolerance), habituation […]
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6-minute video by journalist Diana Davison, who authored The Post Millennial expose’ on Nicole Prause. The Diana Davison video provided a link to the timeline of events chronicling Prause’s nearly 7-year campaign of harassment, defamation, threats, and false accusations called “VSS Academic War Timeline.” Update – Prause got the timeline removed. Hmm… Related – Victims of […]
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Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2020, 17(2), 488; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17020488 by Lijun Chen * and Xiaoliu Jiang Department of Psychology, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350108, China Received: 12 November 2019 / Accepted: 10 January 2020 / Published: 12 January 2020 Abstract The primary aim of this study was to compare […]
I am so incredibly done with this sick and twisted addiction rewiring my brain into someone I don’t want to be. My desire for porn has been ramping up again and with that comes the more and more extreme videos. Fixating and obsessing and compulsively watching women being treated horribly, then telling my brain that […]
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Michael Winterdahl, Ove Noer, Dariusz Orlowski, Anna C. Schacht, Steen Jakobsen, Aage K. O. Alstrup, Albert Gjedde & Anne M. Landau Scientific Reports volume 9, Article number: 16918 (2019) Abstract Excessive sucrose consumption elicits addiction-like craving that may underpin the obesity epidemic. Opioids and dopamine mediate the rewarding effects of drugs of abuse, and of natural rewards from […]
View article by Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry They say the first step is admitting you have a problem. I think many readers of this article will respond with outrage, and many will see it says things they already knew to be true—and I think these two groups will largely overlap. The most powerful obstacle to confronting a […]
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