Motivational pathways underlying the onset and maintenance of viewing child pornography on the Internet (2020)

YBOP COMMENTS: New study reports large percentage of child porn (CP) users have no sexual interest in children. It was only after years of viewing adult porn, resulting in habituation to new genre after new genre, that porn users eventually sought more extreme material and genres, eventually escalating into CP. Researchers point to the nature […]

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Why Pornography is So Powerfully Addictive, by Thomas G. Kimball, PhD, LMFT (2020)

I started regarding pornography as addictive after a friend, a physician’s assistant working in a urology clinic approached me with concern. He told me that several emerging adult men, ages 18-25, we’re coming into the clinic with problems associated with Erectile Dysfunction (ED). This is an unusual problem in this age range (link to original […]

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Age 27 – I’ve tried way too many sex acts that I never, never, never would have without porn. Adultery makes less sense too.

27m. I’m not sure I’ve ever gone longer than 10 days without porn since I was a preteen, but here I am! I’m not sure if I would have qualified as an addict, so maybe this sub can shed some light. I have never tried a porn free challenge. I watched for about 5-10 minutes […]

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