Study: Anal heterosex among ages 16-18 reveals climate of ‘coercion’ & influence of porn

Comments: From the study – “The main reasons given for young people having anal sex were that men wanted to copy what they saw in pornography, and that ‘it’s tighter’.” Other reasons described in the study for having anal sex were clearly derived from viewing porn. By Tom Jacobs  August 13, 2014 A new study […]

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Religion and Porn Addiction

Recently, there has been some buzz regarding the role of religion with regard to porn addiction. One study http://www.provenmen.org/2014pornsurvey/pornography-use-and-addiction/#addiction showed that men claiming to be Christian were twice as likely as non-Christians to think that they might be addicted to porn. Some commentators are quick to conclude that this is proof that porn addiction is a construct […]

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Watching porn can cause male sexual dysfunction. Urologists David B. Samadi & Muhammed Mirza (2014)

Can Watching Too Much Porn Really Lead to Erectile Dysfunction? Is there such a thing as watching too much porn?  Absolutely.  Too much of anything can turn into an addiction, and as everyone knows, addictions are hard to overcome.  There have been many relationships and even marriages that have been torn apart because one party […]

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Study: porn blamed for decreased sexual desire & increased sexual dysfunctions in teens, Dr. Carlo Foresta (2014)

Comments: The following (roughly) translated articles contain quotes and describe studies (in press) by Italian urology professor, President of the Italian Society of Reproductive Pathophysiology, and author of some 300 academic papers, Carlo Foresta. See this page for descriptions of the studies and his 90 page PDF of the lecture where he presented his results. […]

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How I Quit Porn in One Shot

Porn is a bad habit. Like any habit it can be eliminated. To be fair, I didn’t have an upbringing like most guys in this generation. My household was always lagging from a technology standpoint. I rarely played video games. I didn’t even get a cell phone until freshman year of high school. I relied […]

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(L) Why teenagers’ obsession with porn is creating a generation of 20-year-old virgins. The Telegraph – UK. (2014)

An early fixation with pornography can damage teenagers’ lives for years to come, experts say Teenagers were ogling breasts long before the internet was created. But there are now so many images to be gawped at – many of them much more accessible than ever before – that graphic pornography is becoming a normal part […]

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Brain Structure and Functional Connectivity Associated With Pornography Consumption: The Brain on Porn (2014)

COMMENTS Published in JAMA Psychiatry (May, 2014), this was the first brain-scan study on porn users. Researchers found several brain changes, and those changes correlated with the amount of porn was consumed. The subjects were moderate porn users, not classified as addicted. In this study, experts at Germany’s Max Planck Institute found: 1) Higher hours […]

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