Gary’s TEDx talk – “The Great Porn Experiment” (2012)<br><span class="short_text" lang="it"><span class="hps">Captions also available for other languages, including Arabic,</span></span><span id="result_box" class="short_text" lang="ko"><span class="hps">한국의, </span></span><span id="result_box" class="short_text" lang="pt"><span class="hps">Português, </span></span><span id="result_box" class="short_text" lang="es"><span class="hps">Czech, </span></span>Deutsch, Dutch, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvVVvXSkMeQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Estonian</a>, French, Greek, <span id="result_box" class="short_text" lang="iw"><span class="hps">עברית</span></span>, <span id="result_box" class="short_text" lang="pl"><span class="hps">Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Persian, Polski, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish and Turkish</span></span>. <span id="result_box" class="short_text" lang="es"><span class="hps"> To see them, </span></span>click on the ‘YouTube’ logo to watch on YOUTube. Then, when you get there, click on “CC” for captions (bottom right of screen). <em>Ver YBOP series in <span id="result_box" class="short_text" lang="es"><span class="hps">Español.</span></span></em> Make <a href="http://www.ted.com/pages/translation_quick_start" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">captions in your own language</a>! See – <a href="https://www.yourbrainonporn.com/about/your-brain-on-porn-in-the-news/garys-tedx-talk-the-great-porn-experiment-2012/transcript-of-the-great-porn-experiment-tedx-glasgow-2012/">Transcript of “The Great Porn Experiment” – TEDx Glasgow (2012)</a>.</p><h4 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-comprehensive-empirical-support-for-the-great-porn-experiment-2012"><strong>Comprehensive empirical support for “The Great Porn Experiment” (2012)</strong></h4><ul><li class="first collapsed"><strong><a href="https://www.yourbrainonporn.com/videos/the-great-porn-experiment-given-at-tedx-march-2012/empirical-support-for-the-great-porn-experiment-tedx-glasgow-2012-page-2/">Empirical support for “The Great Porn Experiment” – TEDx Glasgow (2012): Slides 1-17</a></strong></li><li class="leaf"><a href="https://www.yourbrainonporn.com/videos/the-great-porn-experiment-given-at-tedx-march-2012/empirical-support-for-the-great-porn-experiment-tedx-glasgow-2012-page-2/"><strong>Empirical support for “The Great Porn Experiment” – TEDx Glasgow (2012): Slides 18-35</strong></a></li></ul><p>It’s important to note that <em>The Great Porn Experiment</em> was completed and sent to TEDx in December 2011, while the talk was given in March, 2012. This TEDx talk was a direct response to Philip Zimbardo’s “<a href="https://www.ted.com/talks/philip_zimbardo_the_demise_of_guys"><em>Demise of Guys</em></a>” TED talk, which the Glasgow audience viewed just prior to the talk.</p><p>Since December 2011, a large body of supporting research and clinical evidence has arrived to support <em>The Great Porn Experiment’s </em>three primary assertions, which were:</p><ol><li>Internet porn can cause sexual dysfunctions;</li><li>Internet porn use can lead to the 3 major addiction-related brain changes identified in substance addictions; and</li><li>Internet porn use may exacerbate certain mental and emotional conditions (concentration problems, social anxiety, depression, etc.).</li></ol><p>The following is a <strong>short summary</strong> of empirical and clinical evidence supporting claims made in <em>The Great Porn Experiment</em> (See the above 2 pages for slide-by-slide support).</p><h4 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-1-internet-porn-use-can-cause-sexual-dysfunctions">1) <u>Internet porn use can cause sexual dysfunctions: </u></h4><ul><li>See this list of <a title="Studies linking porn use or porn/sex addiction to sexual dysfunctions, lower arousal to sexual stimuli, and lower sexual satisfaction" href="https://www.yourbrainonporn.com/book/studies-linking-porn-use-or-porn-sex-addiction-to-sexual-dysfunctions-lower-arousal-and-lower-sexual-relationship-satisfaction/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">over 40 studies linking porn use/sex addiction to sexual problems and lower arousal to sexual stimuli</a>. The <u>first 7 studies in the list suggest causation</u>, as participants eliminated porn use and healed chronic sexual dysfunctions.</li><li>I co-authored the following 2016 review of the literature on porn-induced sexual dysfunctions with 7 US Navy Doctors. It is a review, and contains extensive empirical support for porn-induced ED, as well as a discussion of recent studies revealing a nearly 1000% rise in youthful erectile dysfunction: <a title="Is Internet Pornography Causing Sexual Dysfunctions? A Review with Clinical Reports (2016)" href="http://www.mdpi.com/2076-328X/6/3/17/htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Is Internet Pornography Causing Sexual Dysfunctions? A Review with Clinical Reports (2016).</a></li><li>See this list of <a title="Studies reporting correlations between porn use and less sexual or relationship satisfaction" href="https://www.yourbrainonporn.com/book/studies-linking-porn-use-or-porn-sex-addiction-to-sexual-dysfunctions-lower-arousal-and-lower-sexual-relationship-satisfaction/#less" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">over 75 studies linking porn use to less sexual and relationship satisfaction</a>.</li><li>In addition to the above studies, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180803091124/https://www.yourbrainonporn.com/porn-induced-ed-media" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">this page contains articles, videos, and podcasts by over 130 experts (urology professors, urologists, psychiatrists, psychologists, sexologists, MDs)</a> who acknowledge and have successfully treated porn-induced ED and porn-induced loss of sexual desire.</li><li>Also see some 3,000 documented accounts of men recovering from porn-induced sexual problems among the recovery accounts on (or linked to from) these three pages: (1) <a title="rebooting accounts" href="https://www.yourbrainonporn.com/rebooting-accounts-page-1/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Rebooting Accounts Page 1</a>, (2) <a href="https://www.yourbrainonporn.com/rebooting-accounts/rebooting-accounts-page-2/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Rebooting Accounts Page 2</a>, (3) <a href="https://www.yourbrainonporn.com/book/rebooting-accounts-page-3/">Rebooting Accounts Page 3.</a> The following eight pages contain shorter stories describing recovery from porn-induced sexual dysfunctions: <a href="https://www.yourbrainonporn.com/porn-induced-sexual-dysfunctions/ed-recovery-stories-1/">1</a>, <a href="https://www.yourbrainonporn.com/porn-induced-sexual-dysfunctions/ed-recovery-stories-2/">2</a>, <a href="https://www.yourbrainonporn.com/porn-induced-sexual-dysfunctions/ed-recovery-stories-3/">3</a>, <a href="https://www.yourbrainonporn.com/ed-recovery-stories-4">4</a>, <a href="https://www.yourbrainonporn.com/ed-recovery-stories-5">5</a>, <a href="https://www.yourbrainonporn.com/ed-recovery-stories-6">6</a>, <a href="https://www.yourbrainonporn.com/ed-recovery-stories-7">7</a>, <a href="https://www.yourbrainonporn.com/ed-recovery-stories-8">8</a>.</li></ul><h4 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-2-internet-porn-use-can-lead-to-the-3-major-addiction-related-brain-changes-identified-in-substance-addictions">2) <u>Internet porn use can lead to the 3 major addiction-related brain changes identified in substance addictions:</u></h4><p><em>The Great Porn Experiment</em> listed ten internet addiction “brain studies,” which supported my thesis that internet addiction (and internet addiction sub-types such as gaming and porn) exists and involves the same fundamental mechanisms and brain changes as other addictions. This field of study is growing exponentially. As of 2017, there are some 370 internet addiction “brain studies.” All of them report neurological findings and brain changes in internet addicts consistent with the addiction model (the list of <a href="https://www.yourbrainonporn.com/relevant-research-and-articles-about-the-studies/internet-video-game-addiction/internet-addiction-studies-summaries/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Internet addiction “brain studies”)</a>. In addition, the design of several internet addiction studies supports the claim that internet use is <em>causing </em>(in some) symptoms such as depression, ADHD, anxiety, etc. The list of such studies: <a href="https://www.yourbrainonporn.com/relevant-research-and-articles-about-the-studies/internet-video-game-addiction/studies-demonstrating-porn-use-or-internet-use-causing-negative-effects-or-neurological-changes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Studies demonstrating Internet use & porn use <em>causing </em>symptoms & brain changes</a>.</p><h5 class="wp-block-heading">Brain changes</h5><p><em>The Great Porn Experiment</em> described three major brain changes that occur with porn addiction: (1) Sensitization, (2) Desensitization, and (3) Dysfunctional prefrontal circuits (hypofrontality). Since March, 2012, much neurological research on porn users and porn addicts has been published. All three of these brain changes have been identified among the <a title="Brain Studies on Porn Users" href="https://www.yourbrainonporn.com/relevant-research-and-articles-about-the-studies/brain-studies-on-porn-users-sex-addicts/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">54 neuroscience-based studies on frequent porn users and sex addicts</a>:</p><ul><li>Studies reporting sensitization (cue-reactivity & cravings) in porn users/sex addicts: <a title="Cambridge Study: Internet porn addiction mirrors drug addiction (2014)" href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4094516/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">1,</a> <a title="Enhanced Attentional Bias towards Sexually Explicit Cues in Individuals with and without Compulsive Sexual Behaviours (2014)" href="https://www.yourbrainonporn.com/book/enhanced-attentional-bias-towards-sexually-explicit-cues-in-individuals-with-and-without-compulsive-sexual-behaviours-2014/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">2,</a> <a title="Novelty, conditioning and attentional bias to sexual rewards (2015)" href="https://medicalxpress.com/news/2015-11-online-porn-sex-addicts-desire.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">3,</a> <a title="Analysis of "Sexual Desire, Not Hypersexuality, Is Related To Neurophysiological Responses Elicited by Sexual Images (2013)"" href="https://www.yourbrainonporn.com/book/analysis-of-sexual-desire-not-hypersexuality-is-related-to-neurophysiological-responses-elicited-by-sexual-images-steele-et-al-2013/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">4</a>, <a title="Empirical Evidence and Theoretical Considerations on Factors Contributing to Cybersex Addiction From a Cognitive-Behavioral View (2014)" href="http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10720162.2014.970722?journalCode=usac20" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">5,</a> <a title="Watching pornographic pictures on the Internet: role of sexual arousal ratings and psychological-psychiatric symptoms for using Internet sex sites excessively (2014)" href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21117979" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">6,</a> <a title="Pornographic picture processing interferes with working memory performance (2013) " href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23167900" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">7,</a> <a title="Cybersex addiction: Experienced sexual arousal when watching pornography and not real-life sexual contacts makes the difference (2013) " href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26165929" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">8</a>, <a title="Cybersex addiction in heterosexual female users of internet pornography can be explained by gratification hypothesis (2014) " href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25080011" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">9</a>, <a title="Implicit associations in cybersex addiction: Adaption of an Implicit Association Test with pornographic pictures (2015)" href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26026385" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">10</a>, <a title="Symptoms of cybersex addiction can be linked to both approaching and avoiding pornographic stimuli: results from an analog sample of regular cybersex users (2015) " href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4441125/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">11</a>, <a title="Getting stuck with pornography? Overuse or neglect of cybersex cues in a multitasking situation is related to symptoms of cybersex addiction (2015) " href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4394849/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">12</a>, <a title="Sexual Excitability and Dysfunctional Coping Determine Cybersex Addiction in Homosexual Males (2015)" href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26374928" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">13</a>, <a title="Altered Appetitive Conditioning and Neural Connectivity in Subjects With Compulsive Sexual Behavior (2016)" href="http://www.jsm.jsexmed.org/article/S1743-6095%2816%2900111-9/fulltext" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">14</a>, <a title="Subjective Craving for Pornography and Associative Learning Predict Tendencies Towards Cybersex Addiction in a Sample of Regular Cybersex Users. 2016" href="http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10720162.2016.1151390?journalCode=usac20" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">15</a>, <a title="Compulsivity across the pathological misuse of drug and non-drug rewards (2016)" href="http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnbeh.2016.00154/abstract" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">16</a>, <a title="Exploring the Relationship between Sexual Compulsivity and Attentional Bias to Sex-Related Words in a Cohort of Sexually Active Individuals (2016)" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230128184957/https://core.ac.uk/reader/76978270" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">17</a>, <a title="Can Pornography be Addictive? An fMRI Study of Men Seeking Treatment for Problematic Pornography Use (2017)" href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28409565" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">18</a>, <a title="Mood changes after watching pornography on the Internet are linked to tendencies towards Internet-pornography-viewing disorder (2017)" href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352853216300499" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">19</a>, <a title="Predictors for (Problematic) Use of Internet Sexually Explicit Material: Role of Trait Sexual Motivation and Implicit Approach Tendencies Towards Sexually Explicit Material" href="http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10720162.2017.1329042" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">20</a>, <a title="Tendencies toward Internet-pornography-use disorder: Differences in men and women regarding attentional biases to pornographic stimuli (2018)" href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30203692">21</a>,<a title="Trait and state impulsivity in males with tendency towards Internet-pornography-use disorder (2018)" href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0306460317304859?via%3Dihub"> 22</a>, <a title="Facets of impulsivity and related aspects differentiate among recreational and unregulated use of Internet pornography (2019)" href="https://akademiai.com/doi/10.1556/2006.8.2019.22">23</a>, <a href="https://akademiai.com/doi/10.1556/2006.8.2019.31">24</a>, <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0306460319315394?via%3Dihub">25</a>, <a title="Sexual cues alter working memory performance and brain processing in men with compulsive sexual behavior (2020)" href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213158220301455">26</a>, <a title="Subjective reward value of visual sexual stimuli is coded in human striatum and orbitofrontal cortex (2020)" href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166432820304915">27</a>.</li><li>Studies reporting desensitization or habituation (resulting in tolerance) in porn users/sex addicts: <a title="Brain Structure and Functional Connectivity Associated With Pornography Consumption: The Brain on Porn (2014)" href="https://www.yourbrainonporn.com/book/brain-structure-and-functional-connectivity-associated-with-pornography-consumption-the-brain-on-porn-2014/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">1,</a> <a href="https://www.yourbrainonporn.com/relevant-research-and-articles-about-the-studies/critiques-of-questionable-debunking-propaganda-pieces/analysis-of-modulation-of-late-positive-potentials-by-sexual-images-in-problem-users-and-controls-inconsistent-with-porn-addiction-prause-et-al-2015/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">2</a>, <a title="Novelty, conditioning and attentional bias to sexual rewards (2015)" href="https://www.yourbrainonporn.com/book/novelty-conditioning-and-attentional-bias-to-sexual-rewards-2015/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">3</a>, <a title="Conscious and Non-Conscious Measures of Emotion: Do They Vary with Frequency of Pornography Use?" href="http://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/7/5/493/htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">4</a>, <a title="Neural Substrates of Sexual Desire in Individuals with Problematic Hypersexual Behavior (2015)" href="https://www.yourbrainonporn.com/book/neural-substrates-of-sexual-desire-in-individuals-with-problematic-hypersexual-behavior-2015/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">5</a>, <a title="Exploring the Relationship between Sexual Compulsivity and Attentional Bias to Sex-Related Words in a Cohort of Sexually Active Individuals (2016)" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230128184957/https://core.ac.uk/reader/76978270" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">6</a>, <a title="Inhibitory control and problematic Internet-pornography use – The important balancing role of the insula (2020)" href="https://akjournals.com/view/journals/2006/9/1/article-p58.xml">7</a>, <a title="Approach bias for erotic stimuli among heterosexual female college students who use pornography- 2020" href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0306460319315394?via%3Dihub">8</a>.</li><li>Research studies reporting poorer executive functioning (hypofrontality) or altered prefrontal activity in porn users/sex addicts: <a title="Brain Structure and Functional Connectivity Associated With Pornography Consumption: The Brain on Porn (2014)" href="https://www.yourbrainonporn.com/book/brain-structure-and-functional-connectivity-associated-with-pornography-consumption-the-brain-on-porn-2014/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">1,</a> <a title="Trading Later Rewards for Current Pleasure: Pornography Consumption and Delay Discounting (2015)" href="https://www.yourbrainonporn.com/book/trading-later-rewards-for-current-pleasure-pornography-consumption-and-delay-discounting-2015/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">2</a>, <a title="Pornographic picture processing interferes with working memory performance (2013) " href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23167900" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">3,</a> <a title="Sexual Picture Processing Interferes with Decision-Making Under Ambiguity (2013) " href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23733155" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">4,</a> <a title="Neural Substrates of Sexual Desire in Individuals with Problematic Hypersexual Behavior (2015)" href="https://www.yourbrainonporn.com/book/neural-substrates-of-sexual-desire-in-individuals-with-problematic-hypersexual-behavior-2015/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">5</a>, <a title="Altered Appetitive Conditioning and Neural Connectivity in Subjects With Compulsive Sexual Behavior (2016)" href="http://www.jsm.jsexmed.org/article/S1743-6095%2816%2900111-9/fulltext" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">6</a>, <a title="Preliminary investigation of the impulsive and neuroanatomical characteristics of compulsive sexual behavior (2009)" href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2789480/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">7</a>, <a title="Compulsive sexual behavior: Prefrontal and limbic volume and interactions (2016)" href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hbm.23447/full" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">8</a>, <a title="Executive Functioning of Sexually Compulsive and Non-Sexually Compulsive Men Before and After Watching an Erotic Video (2017)" href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1743609516311213" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">9</a>, <a title="Problematic sexual behavior in young adults: Associations across clinical, behavioral, and neurocognitive variables (2016)" href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5330407/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">10</a>, <a title="Exposure to Sexual Stimuli Induces Greater Discounting Leading to Increased Involvement in Cyber Delinquency Among Men (2017)" href="http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/cyber.2016.0582" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">11</a>, <a title="Self-reported differences on measures of executive function and hypersexual behavior in a patient and community sample of men." href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20199204" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">12</a>, <a title="Getting stuck with pornography? Overuse or neglect of cybersex cues in a multitasking situation is related to symptoms of cybersex addiction (2015) " href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4394849/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">13</a>, <a title="Gray matter deficits and altered resting-state connectivity in the superior temporal gyrus among individuals with problematic hypersexual behavior (2018) " href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29421186">14</a>, <a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00460/full">15</a>, <a title="Facets of impulsivity and related aspects differentiate among recreational and unregulated use of Internet pornography (2019)" href="https://akademiai.com/doi/10.1556/2006.8.2019.22">16</a>, <a href="https://psyarxiv.com/qyem5/">17</a>, <a title="Sexual cues alter working memory performance and brain processing in men with compulsive sexual behavior (2020)" href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213158220301455">18</a>, <a title="Event-related potentials in a two-choice oddball task of impaired behavioral inhibitory control among males with tendencies towards cybersex addiction (2020) " href="https://akjournals.com/view/journals/2006/9/3/article-p785.xml#B23">19</a>.</li></ul><p>The <a title="Brain Studies on Porn Users" href="https://www.yourbrainonporn.com/book/brain-studies-on-porn-users-sex-addicts/#brain" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">54 neuroscience-based studies</a> (MRI, fMRI, EEG, neuropsychological, hormonal) provide strong support for the addiction model, as do the <a title="Brain Studies on Porn Users" href="https://www.yourbrainonporn.com/book/brain-studies-on-porn-users-sex-addicts/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">30 recent literature reviews & commentaries</a> by some of the top neuroscientists in the world.</p><h5 class="wp-block-heading">Escalation or Habituation</h5><p>I also described escalation or habituation in my TEDx talk (which can be an indication of addiction). With porn users, tolerance/habituation leads to boredom with current genre or type of porn: greater stimulation is often achieved by escalating to new or more extreme genres of porn. While a tremendous amount of clinical and anecdotal evidence exists for tolerance leading to escalation in porn users, are there any studies? Employing various indirect methods, <a title="Studies Find Escalation (and Habituation) in Porn Users" href="https://www.yourbrainonporn.com/book/studies-find-escalation-and-habituation-in-porn-users-tolerance/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">over 45 studies</a> have reported findings consistent with habituation to “regular porn” or escalation into more extreme and unusual genres.</p><p>Finally, it wasn’t until 2017 that research teams asked internet-porn users <em>directly</em> about withdrawal symptoms. As of 2020 there are <a href="https://www.yourbrainonporn.com/relevant-research-and-articles-about-the-studies/porn-use-sex-addiction-studies/studies-reporting-withdrawal-symptoms-in-porn-users/">13 studies reporting withdrawal symptoms in porn users</a>.</p><h5 class="wp-block-heading">Is porn addition real?</h5><p>What about neurological studies that debunk porn addiction? There are none. While the lead author of <a title="Analysis of "Modulation of late positive potentials by sexual images in problem users and controls inconsistent with porn addiction" (Prause et al., 2015)" href="https://www.yourbrainonporn.com/book/analysis-of-modulation-of-late-positive-potentials-by-sexual-images-in-problem-users-and-controls-inconsistent-with-porn-addiction-prause-et-al-2015/"><em>Prause et al.,</em> 2015</a> claimed her lone EEG study falsified pornography addiction, nine peer-reviewed papers disagree: <a href="https://www.yourbrainonporn.com/relevant-research-and-articles-about-the-studies/critiques-of-questionable-debunking-propaganda-pieces/peer-reviewed-critiques-of-prause-et-al-2015/">Peer-reviewed critiques of <em>Prause et al</em>., 2015</a> The neuroscientists on these 10 papers state that <em>Prause et al</em>. actually found desensitization/habituation (consistent with the development of addiction), as <em>less</em> brain activation to vanilla porn (pictures) was related to <em>greater </em>porn use. Unbelievably, the <em>Prause et al</em>. team boldly claimed to have falsified the porn addiction model with a single paragraph taken from this <a title="Prause et al. (2015) the latest falsification of addiction predictions." href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27318185">2016 “letter to the editor.”</a> In reality the Prause letter falsified nothing, as this extensive critique reveals: <a href="https://www.yourbrainonporn.com/relevant-research-and-articles-about-the-studies/critiques-of-questionable-debunking-propaganda-pieces/debunking-the-debunker-critique-of-letter-to-the-editor-prause-et-al-2015-the-latest-falsification-of-addiction-predictions/"><em>Letter to the editor “Prause et al. (2015) the latest falsification of addiction predictions”</em> (2016)</a>.</p><p>But ‘porn addiction’ isn’t in the APA’s <em>DSM-5</em>, right? When the APA last updated the manual in 2013 (<em>DSM-5)</em>, it didn’t formally consider “internet porn addiction,” opting instead to debate “hypersexual disorder.” The latter umbrella term for problematic sexual behavior was recommended for inclusion by the <em>DSM-5’s</em> own Sexuality Work Group after years of review. However, in an eleventh-hour “star chamber” session (according to a Work Group member), other <em>DSM-5</em> officials unilaterally rejected hypersexuality, <a title="Addiction Beyond Substances—What's Up with the DSM? 2017" href="http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10720162.2017.1306468" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">citing reasons that have been described as illogical</a>.</p><p>Just prior to the <em>DSM-5’s</em> publication in 2013, Thomas Insel, then Director of the National Institute of Mental Health, <a title="National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH): DSM is flawed and outdated." href="https://www.yourbrainonporn.com/book/national-institute-of-mental-health-nimh-dsm-is-flawed-and-outdated/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">warned that it was time for the mental health field to stop relying on the DSM</a>. Its “<em>weakness is its lack of validity</em>,” he explained, and “<em>we cannot succeed if we use DSM categories as the “gold standard.</em>” He added, “<em>That is why NIMH will be re-orienting its research away from DSM categorie</em>s.” In other words, the NIMH planned to stop funding research based on DSM labels (and their absence).</p><h5 class="wp-block-heading">American Association of Addiction Medicine</h5><p>Major medical organizations are moving ahead of the APA. The <a title="ASAM website - New Definition" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190629190608/https://www.asam.org/advocacy/find-a-policy-statement/view-policy-statement/public-policy-statements/2011/12/15/the-definition-of-addiction" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">American Society of Addiction Medicine</a> (ASAM) hammered what should have been the final nail in the porn-addiction debate coffin in August, 2011, a few months before I prepared my TEDx talk. Top addiction experts at ASAM released their <a title="American Society for Addiction Medicine: Definition of Addiction - Long Version. (2011)" href="https://www.yourbrainonporn.com/miscellaneous-resources/the-american-society-for-addiction-medicine-new-definition-of-addiction-august-2011/american-society-for-addiction-medicine-definition-of-addiction-long-version-2011/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">carefully crafted definition of addiction</a>. The new definition <u>makes some of the major points</u> I made in my talk. Foremost, behavioral addictions affect the brain in the same fundamental ways as drugs do. In other words, <em>addiction is essentially one disease (condition), not many</em>. ASAM explicitly stated that <a title="Toss Your Textbooks: Docs Redefine Sexual Behavior Addictions" href="https://www.yourbrainonporn.com/toss-your-textbooks-docs-redefine-sexual-behavior-addictions" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">sexual behavior addiction exists</a> and must necessarily be caused by the same fundamental brain changes found in substance addictions.</p><p>The World Health Organization appears poised to set right the APA’s excessive caution. The next edition of its diagnostic manual, the <em>ICD-11,</em> is due to receive final approval in 2019. The <a title="CSB - ICD-11" href="https://icd.who.int/browse11/l-m/en#/http%3a%2f%2fid.who.int%2ficd%2fentity%2f1630268048">new ICD-11 includes a diagnosis for “Compulsive sexual behavior disorder,”</a> which is suitable for diagnosing what most people think of as “porn addiction.” Hopefully the DSM will fall in line.</p><h4 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-3-internet-porn-use-may-exacerbate-certain-mental-and-emotional-conditions"><u>3) Internet porn use may exacerbate certain mental and emotional conditions</u></h4><p><em>The Great Porn Experiment</em> described “The Other Porn Experiment” in which young men who eliminated porn use reported remission of emotional and cognitive problems. TGPE also described “arousal addiction” (internet addiction and its subtypes) exacerbating or causing symptoms such as brain fog, concentration problem, generalized anxiety, depression and social anxiety. 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