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“What Is A ‘Pornosexual?’ The New Sexual Orientation For Those Who Watch Porn, And Shun Real Sex” (Medical Daily)

Sex is one of the most expressive forms of intimacy between two people. You strip yourself naked, both physically and emotionally, and expose your deepest parts. Yet, when the bond with a partner breaks, you’re left vulnerable in bed, and may turn to porn — not for love, but for pure sexual gratification. Using porn to […]

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Critique of: “Damaged Goods: Perception of Pornography Addiction as a Mediator Between Religiosity and Relationship Anxiety Surrounding Pornography Use” (Leonhardt, Willoughby, & Young-Petersen 2017)

Update (July, 2017): Co-author Brian Willoughby exposes how David Ley spun & misrepresented his study in Ley’s Psychology Today blog post “Religious Conflict Makes Porn Bad for Relationships“: Thinking in Black and White: A Response to the Claim that Religiosity Cause the Harms of Pornography. ———————————————————————————————— Article The “perceived pornography addiction” meme continues to infect […]

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ED and HOCD: It’s hard to say what has been more effective in helping me; the medicine or the no-fap.

I was never really a porn user in the traditional sense. I would look at porn, sure, but what I really was addicted to was erotic roleplay. Since high school, I took pleasure in going online and becoming someone else, living out sexual fantasies through the magic of partnered creative writing. For awhile, maybe, this […]

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“Nothing Adds Up in Dubious Study: Youthful Subjects’ ED Left Unexplained” by Gabe Deem

UPDATE: June 11, 2015: A peer-reviewed critique of Prause & Pfaus 2015, by Richard A. Isenberg MD UPDATE: June, 2015: A critique of the Prause & Pfaus response to Richard Isenberg’s letter UPDATE: August 5, 2016: Peer-reviewed paper by US Navy doctors – Is Internet Pornography Causing Sexual Dysfunctions? A Review with Clinical Reports (2016) […]

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