Translations of Your Brain on Porn

Translations of Your Brain on Porn are now available in Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Turkish, German, Dutch, Hungarian, Arabic, Hindi, Tamil, Malayāḷaṁ and Telugu. Click on a book cover to visit the publisher’s website for all these translations and learn more about the book and its availability in different formats. If you are a publisher […]

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Pornography and its impact on the sexual health of men (2021)

Kirby, M. (2021),  Trends Urology & Men Health, 12: 6-10. Abstract Increased internet access has been accompanied by increased numbers of adolescent and adult men viewing online pornography, and there is growing concern about how this may affect their sexual development, sexual function, mental health and intimate relationships. This paper briefly reviews men’s relationship with […]

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Paul Wright, PhD Calls Out Porn Researchers’ Questionable Tactics (2021)

Paul Wright PhD is a highly regarded, prolific pornography researcher. Apparently, he’s tired – as are many others in this field – of the deceptive tactics employed by some of the notoriously agenda-driven sexology researchers in the field (and their biased refereeing of papers). He highlights two of their stratagems in separate Letters to the […]

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Documenting Patterns of Intimidation, Bullying and Defamation: Towards Public Accountability for the Actions of Dr. Nicole Prause (by anonymous)

We recently discovered this 27-page account of Nicole Prause’s unethical behaviors and tactics. The author is writing anonymously (presumably from fear of retribution). From the content, it appears the document is a few years old; a whole lot more malicious behavior has occurred in the last 2 years. Unlike the overwhelming Prause pages (page 1, […]

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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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Critique of claims surrounding Steele et al., 2013 (“Sexual Desire, not Hypersexuality, is Related to Neurophysiological Responses Elicited by Sexual Images”)

You can skip the history and go directly to our analysis. HISTORY OF THIS JULY, 2013 CRITIQUE This article was first published in July, 2013 as a reply blog post to a “Psychology Today” blog post featuring an interview with Dr. Nicole Prause, co-author of the EEG study discussed here. On March 6th, 2013, fellow Psychology […]

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Debunking the realyourbrainonporn (scienceofarousal.com) “Sex Offender Section”: The actual state of the research on porn use and sexual aggression, coercion & violence

Introduction In this sex offender section, if you are concerned about the biased, but increasingly well publicized, views of pro-porn sexologists and their allies, we have news for you. For your convenience, a large team of Porn Science Deniers have now “outed” themselves as an exclusive club. You can find them proudly pictured here in […]

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