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 […]
COMMENTS: See the YBOP analysis Self-identification as a pornography addict: examining the roles of pornography use, religiousness, and moral incongruence (2019) Grubbs, Joshua B., Jennifer T. Grant, and Joel Engelman. Sexual Addiction & Compulsivity (2019) Abstract At present, the scientific community has not reached a consensus regarding whether or not people may be become addicted […]
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 […]
If you’re married and using porn, “You da man!” At least in your genes’ estimation. First, your wedding vows increase the chances that your joint offspring will have two caregivers, thus improving the survival odds of gene packets (kids) you are pretty certain are yours.
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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 […]
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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 […]
YBOP comments: In plain English, this research found (again) that religiosity is NOT associated with believing yourself to be a porn addict (“perceived pornography addiction”). This explodes the meme that Josh Grubbs worked for years to “sell” to the world, that believing oneself an addict is related to religious shame. Grubbs’s CPUI-9 studies and his […]
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Hello guys I’m 28, i want to describe my situation in first part, and in second part i will tell you about my recovery. 1st part: I have started to watch porn when I was 15 but at the same time I started having sex at the age of 18. The real problem occurred when […]
Link to original study – Online Porn Addiction: What We Know and What We Don’t—A Systematic Review (2019) Note – numerous other peer-reviewed papers agree that Prause et al., 2015 supports the porn addiction model: Peer-reviewed critiques of Prause et al., 2015 Excerpt critiquing Prause’s 2 EEG studies: Steele et al., 2013 & Prause et […]