How to Downplay the Harms of Pornography, in 4 Simple Steps (by Jacob Hess, Ph.D.)

Are you – or someone you love – getting tired of all this talk about porn being so harmful? Rather than having to worry about making serious personal or public changes, wouldn’t it be nice to stop worrying about this all together? Thankfully, a small handful of authors have been coming up with some compelling […]

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Age 27 – From porn addiction to gender identity problems & PIED to redemption: my story

I’ve been a lurker here for some time, and I wanted to share my story with you guys, mainly because I’ve had to keep it to myself all this time (for reasons that’ll become clear) and talking about it might help me. Also, probably should serve as a cautionary tale, because my degenerate ways led […]

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Dismantling the “group position” paper opposing porn and sex addiction (November, 2017)

Introduction In early November, 2017 three non-profit kink organizations (Center for Positive Sexuality, National Coalition for Sexual Freedom, and The Alternative Sexualities Health Research Alliance) released a group position paper “opposing the addiction model in relation to frequent sexual behavior and pornography viewing.” The groups’ press release, Position statement opposing sex/porn addiction model, explained their […]

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Age 35 – I still haven pangs of anxiety now and then, but now it’s just stemming from my porn addiction

On Sunday I will have gone 60 days without porn, and 18 days without masturbating and I haven’t felt this good in a long time. I just wanted to tell my story about quitting porn, what it has done to me and how far I’ve come now. I am not sure when it started, but […]

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How to recognize biased articles: They cite Prause et al., 2015 (falsely claiming it debunks porn addiction), while omitting over 50 neurological studies supporting porn addiction

Introduction A number of articles and interviews have attempted to push-back at the TIME article (“Porn and the Threat to Virility”) and the Utah resolution declaring internet porn a public health problem. What might be a few “dead giveaways” that such an article is nothing more than a propaganda piece? Psychologists David Ley and/or Nicole […]

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