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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Introduction Nicole Prause touts yet another of her letters to the editor as “debunking” the existence of sex addiction and porn addiction (“Compulsive sexual behaviour disorder” in the upcoming ICD-11). Yet it does not. This 240-word opinion piece (Prause et al., 2017) cites zero studies to support its claims, providing only a single, easily refuted […]
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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 […]
Here are some real-life answers to the question “What does withdrawal from porn addiction look like?” We have contributions from guys going through the process and some thoughts from Gabe Deem. PDF with reports of “Withdrawal Symptoms“ Page with 17 studies reporting withdrawal symptoms in porn users. Listen to a radio show about porn-addiction withdrawal […]
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Donald S Crain, MD and Michael T Marshall, MD and John E Kehoe, MD:
“There appears to be a relationship between pornography use and sexual dysfunction in men who report a preference for masturbation to pornography rather than sexual intercourse.”
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