Dopamine and Addiction by Two Researchers
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Five-Month Update
So it’s been 5 months (or roughly 20 weeks) since I’ve last looked at porn. Here’s what’s been happening:
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Chapter Six: The Road to Excess (2008)
Have a look at “The Road to Excess,” Chapter Six from our book Cupid’s Poisoned Arrow: From Habit to Harmony in Sexual Relationships. It deals with porn recovery. Here’s the chapter summary, and a link to PDF of the entire chapter.
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Another Way to Make Love (2010)
Elude the Coolidge Effect with a forgotten approach to sex
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Can’t She/He See I Need Sex? (2010)
Beware the brain numbed to pleasure Are you gauging the value of your relationship by how often you have sex? Is your mate starting to react to your every gesture of affection as pressure to “get it on?” If so, you may be victims of a primitive brain mechanism that promises satisfaction—but delivers its opposite. […]
Staying in Love Monkey-Style (2010)
Why are pair-bonding tamarins and humans different from chimps? The Lazy Way to Stay in Love pointed out that humans are pair bonders, with the unique ability to strengthen their romantic bonds at will. We do so by employing a special range of subconscious signals, or “bonding behaviors” These behaviors (technically, attachment cues) include skin-to-skin […]
The Lazy Way to Stay in Love (2010)
How to Talk to Cupid (2010)
What signals are you sending your mate? Hit by Cupid’s arrow! It feels so good that you might seek a permanent bond, convinced that passion will keep you both quivering with ecstasy for a lifetime. Yet Cupid is a sneaky dude, or rather the biological agenda he personifies does not, in fact, promote enduring love. […]
Supersize Orgasms? (2010)
Is hammering the brain’s desire circuitry a good idea? A drug that makes you not only able but eager and willing isn’t going to remain the exclusive property of the severely impaired. As with Viagra, there will be extensive off-label use.—Julian Dibbell, The Observer The “orgasm pill” is back on track and chugging our way. […]
Are Pair Bonders More Vulnerable to Addiction? (2010)
Are brains that fall in love more sensitive?
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