Excerpts: “Pornography can become an addiction and watching too much of it has been shown to damage deep relationships.” “The rate at which young people are going without sex has been steadily rising.” As many as four in ten young adults are in the midst of a year-long dry spell when it comes to sex. […]
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Cureus Mehmood Qadri H, Waheed A, Munawar A, et al. (January 12, 2023), Cureus 15(1): e33703. doi:10.7759/cureus.33703 Excerpts: A sharp increase in the prevalence of erectile dysfunction (ED) and low sexual desire was observed in men under 40. In a study conducted in 1999, ED and low sexual desire rate was 5%, respectively. By 2011, […]
Rates of porn addiction, sex addiction or compulsive sexual behaviour disorder in the general population are gradually being revealed by ongoing research. Pornography: A Concealed Behavior with Serious Consequences (2023) [Data from n=1022 participants of the Rhode Island Young Adult Survey] 6.2% met the criteria for addiction. Odds of pornography use were 5 times higher […]
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Daily Mail (UK) By David Barrett Children are committing violent sexual acts after watching online pornography, a report warns today. Young people are imitating abusive and demeaning sexual acts depicted in internet videos, research by the Children’s Commissioner for England found. Some have been subjected to sexual degradation at the hands of other youngsters, including […]
Liberal journalist and author Louise Perry explains why society should treat Big Porn just like Big Tobacco, given its profit-motive and its adverse effects on sexuality and society. This video is a 6-minute version. […]
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Treatment programme to be offered by clinic amid sharp rise in number of people seeking help [From The Evening Standard By Daniel Keane] The first ever pilot study for the treatment of porn addiction has received ethical approval, as society deals with a sharp rise in the number of people seeking medical help for the […]
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Journal of Psychosexual Health (full article) Volume 5, Issue 1, https://doi.org/10.1177/2631831823115398 Himani Adarsh and Swapnajeet Sahoo Excerpts: Pornography can excite the brain’s reward system, which can lead to severe brain alterations akin to those found in drug addictions. Compulsive sexual behaviors are also linked to early pornography exposure. More pornography usage in adolescents is associated with […]
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YBOP COMMENTS A big part of the “porn playbook” is defamation and harassment of those who speak about the harms of porn or problems in the porn industry. The most egregious porn industry shill is sexologist and former academic Nicole Prause (mentioned in Gabe’s video). In 2013 former UCLA researcher Nicole Prause began openly […]
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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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