Comment: Visitors who are interested in the current state of the research on CSBD/PPU will appreciate this thorough account of the current research. There’s much work still to be done. It’s essential that problematic online porn use gets carved out of CSBD, that is, not lumped in with partnered sex and treated as an impulse-control disorder. […]
People who exhibit certain negative personality traits tend to spend more time consuming violent pornography and engaging in problematic online sexual behaviors. This pattern suggests a reinforcing cycle where people drawn to aggressive content may further normalize their own antisocial tendencies. These results were recently published in the journal Sexual Health & Compulsivity. The internet […]
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Story at a Glance: •Modern children’s content (especially fast-paced YouTube shows like CoComelon) is engineered to maximize watch time through rapid cuts and constant dopamine triggers, creating addictive patterns in toddlers that lead to overstimulation, irritability, and severe tantrums, and when screens are removed. •This deliberate design exploits the brain’s orienting response, rewiring developing nervous […]
As parents struggle to know how to protect their children from the dangers of social media, leading psychologist Jonathan Haidt urged moms and dads to set rules about their kids not using their devices in their bedroom. “The really bad stuff happens when a child has their own touch screen device in the bedroom,” Haidt […]
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Evidence continues to emerge that children are being subjected to pornography at increasingly younger ages, due mostly to accidental exposure on social media sites that do not enforce restrictions on user-posted pornography. A startling report published in August by the Office of the Children’s Commissioner in the United Kingdom surveyed 1,020 teenagers and young adults […]
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Porn addiction has affected nearly 1 in 10 Americans, according to recent data from AddictionResource.net. While 7 percent of all U.S. adults who consume porn who consume porn say they are addicted, the figures differ by gender: approximately 11 percent of men and 3 percent of women self-report an addiction. Why It Matters Porn addiction […]
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Excerpts: About a quarter of men and 12% of women reported probable PPU [Problematic Porn Use]. The main purpose of this study was to examine the association between PPU and psychopathological symptoms (i.e., depression, anxiety, loneliness), and their interactions with sexual behavior frequencies (i.e., masturbation and pornography use). [Finally!] In addition to analyses focusing on […]
Excerpt: Greater pornography exposure was associated with significantly higher levels of sexually dominant behavior and higher levels of sexually dominant behavior were associated with significantly lower levels of partnered sexual satisfaction. Arch Sex Behav (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-025-03297-x Paul J. Wright, Debby Herbenick & Robert S. Tokunaga Abstract The World Association for Sexual Health has identified sexual satisfaction as an […]
The UK government announced at the start of November plans to make pornography depicting strangulation or suffocation illegal. Kirsty Blake Knox looks at how it moved from porn to real lives and the dangers of strangulation Young people with limited sexual experience have a distorted view of what sex should look like after watching extreme […]
Excerpt: Depictions of aggression in the most viewed videos have not been stable over time, with rates of aggression nearly tripling between the first and last decades of the analysis. Journal of Sex Research Eran Shor, Xuanchi Liu, 2025 Oct 9:1-13. doi: 10.1080/00224499.2025.2565660. Abstract Over the last two decades, a large body of literature has […]