Archives of Sexual Behavior Letter to the Editor by Paul J. Wright · Robert S. Tokunaga · Debby Herbenick Received: 15 July 2024 / Revised: 3 October 2024 / Accepted: 21 November 2024 In this scholarly analysis, experts Wright, Tokunaga and Herbenick point out the weaknesses in a recent Romanian paper, which claimed that porn […]
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Excerpts: Pornography predicts adolescent sexual behavior more significantly than internet addiction. Adolescents tend to imitate what they see because of the peculiarity of their stage in human development. Abraham UWAOMA & Hammed, ADEOYE (PhD) ,Christiana UWAOMA, Babcock University Journal of Education, 10(1), 15–2`3. (2024) https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14292313 Abstract The study was designed to examine internet addiction and […]
A Skeptical Look at NPR’s Dismissive Answer [Note: this article is a year old. We were so disgusted by NPR’s shoddy journalism (using as its source a close ally of the porn industry’s “Free Speech Coalition”) as well as its treachery in willfully ignoring key facts of which it was repeatedly informed, that we didn’t […]
Laila Mickelwait is the author of “Takedown: Inside the Fight to Shut Down Pornhub for Child Abuse, Rape, and Sex Trafficking”. At around 1 hour and 38:50 minutes she and Theo discuss PIED (porn induced erectile dysfunction) and the damage porn does to some relationships. Listen here Thanks to Mickelwait’s efforts, Visa, MC and Discover […]
Have you been sidetracked by porn, online dating and social media? If so, you may find this discussion worthwhile. Of course, the next step is to take steps toward real connection with other humans. How can you shift away from being online toward time with real people? […]
Comment: Well thought out, evidence-based article about the impact of today’s porn. also addresses recovery strategies. Quite long, so get comfortable before reading. With the rise of the digital age, porn has never been more accessible. It’s found on TVs, computers, tablets and smartphones. Within seconds, you could be watching porn right now. And unlike […]
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This government poster summarizes some of the research that has revealed risks to adolescents from porn use. The adverse impact of porn on adolescents and their sexuality includes such things as: unrealistic sexual expectations, normalizing sexual violence, engaging in riskier sex, compromising their privacy on the internet, affecting their sexual satisfaction by encouraging sex that […]
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Sex Res Soc Policy Seyed Aghamiri, F., Luetz, J.M. & Hills, K. T.(2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13178-024-01043-x Abstract Introduction There has been an upsurge of research articles in the last two decades about sexual addiction (SA) and compulsive sexual behaviour (CSB). In the literature, SA/CSB is mainly presented as comparable to other behavioural addictions and similarly involves a […]
Excerpt: This longitudinal study from Germany showed that both male and female university students who watched more pornography were more likely to hold sexual scripts for consensual sex that put them at a greater risk for sexual aggression and vulnerability to sexual victimization, such as engaging in casual sex, alcohol use, and the ambiguous communication […]
This video about the treatment of women in porn is tough to listen to, and not for the faint of heart. However, the evidence is growing that, notwithstanding porn-industry propaganda, women in porn generally do not feel “empowered.” Rather they typically experience a variety of severe harms, on a par with torture victims. […]