Eating with our eyes: From visual hunger to digital satiation (2018)

Brain and Cognition Volume 110, December 2016, Pages 53-63   CharlesSpencea KatsunoriOkajimab Adrian DavidCheokc OliviaPetitc CharlesMichela https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandc.2015.08.006 Highlights •Brain and visual system development intimately linked to acquisition of food. •Dramatic physiological and neurophysiological changes seen in response to food images. •There is a danger that our growing exposure to beautifully presented images of food having […]

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Analysis of “Data do not support sex as addictive” (Prause et al., 2017)

Introduction Nicole Prause touts yet another of her letters to the editor as “debunking” the existence of sex addiction and porn addiction (“Compulsive sexual behaviour disorder” in the upcoming ICD-11). Yet it does not. This 240-word opinion piece (Prause et al., 2017) cites zero studies to support its claims, providing only a single, easily refuted […]

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Why is intermittent use (long abstinence with binges) an addiction risk?

Very frequent internet porn use has familiar risks for many of today’s users. These include escalation to more extreme material, poorer sexual and relationship satisfaction and addiction. It may also include the gradual loss of attraction to real partners (as well as anorgasmia and unreliable erections). Less well known is the fact that intermittent use […]

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Age 27 – After 8 years of trying, I’ve hit 30 days for the first time ever. This is what I’ve done differently this time.

I’m 27. I’ve been trying nofap since I was 20. Never made it past 25 days and even that was an ALMIGHTY struggle. I have failed in every single way possible. I have failed in spectacular, often depressing, manners. And I believe I have it cracked. I have hit 30 days and I’ve now, somehow, […]

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