Studies suggesting that non-pedophilic porn users can escalate into child porn

There’s a fair amount of evidence that today’s porn is so stimulating that many users habituate to (grow bored with) whatever porn genre(s) they start with, and search for material they find more arousing. This tends to lead them to more extreme material because shock and anxiety increase arousal. As judgment is altered during an […]

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What drives users of child pornography: A criminologist says that almost anyone who lets his curiosity get the better of him could become an abuser (2019)

Jeremy Prichard | October 28, 2019 | Link to article Child pornography is exploding on the internet. Police and tech platforms are finding it hard to keep up. But finding a solution demands that we understand why people access this vicious kind of material in the first place. MercatorNet interviewed an academic expert on the […]

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Is my fetish porn-induced?

NOTE: This page contains multiple self-reports by people (some of whom are more politically correct than others), who concluded that their porn tastes influenced their sexual tastes after they quit porn and noticed their tastes reverting. These self-reports are taken from porn recovery forums. YBOP excerpts them pretty much as they are, and their authors’ […]

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Studies reporting findings consistent with escalation of porn use (tolerance), habituation to porn, and withdrawal symptoms

Introduction Compulsive porn users often describe escalation in their porn use that takes the form of greater time viewing or seeking out new genres of porn. New genres that induce shock, surprise, violation of expectations or even anxiety can function to increase sexual arousal, and in porn users whose response to stimuli is growing blunted […]

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