Interesting Articles
- Can Pornography Use Become An Actual Brain Addiction? (2011)
- ‘Clearly a big problem:’ Nova Scotia, internet porn and our mental health
- ‘I’m 31 and a virgin because I’m addicted to porn’ (BBC)
- ‘My addiction to porn and escorts cost me thousands’ (Martin Daubney interviews young man)
- ‘The Last Thing Isolated People Need’ (The National Review)
- “A user’s manual” (The Economist)
- “Australia’s porn problem” (ABC)
- “Constant cravings: is addiction on the rise?” (Guardian, UK)
- “Correcting Misunderstandings About Neuroscience and Problematic Sexual Behaviors”
- “Hooked on porn: Prepare for a tsunami of damaged people” (NZ Herald)
- “How online porn is warping boys’ behaviour with girls”
- “I had to learn to find my girlfriend sexy”
- “Inside the Community of Men Who Have Given Up Porn” (Independent, UK)
- “Masturbation, Recovery and Sexual Health” (Jordan Green, SASH)
- “No sex please, we’re British”: Alain de Botton essay on UK sex survey
- “NZ Youth and Porn report reveals teens struggling to cut back” (NZ Herald)
- “Porn and the Threat to Virility” (TIME Magazine)
- “Porn is bad!” (The Week)
- “Porn poison is ruining men but there is hope”
- “Pornography Addiction” by Rogue Health and Fitness
- “Rebecca was eight years old when she went looking for porn” (ABC – Australia)
- “The Anatomy of a Lazy News Article About Porn, In Four Parts” (Pornhelp.org)
- “The Millennial Men Who Don’t Enjoy Porn”
- “UK Porn Is About to Change in a Way You’re Not Going to Like” (VICE)
- “What Happens When Children Watch Porn”, by Addiction.com
- “What Is A ‘Pornosexual?’ The New Sexual Orientation For Those Who Watch Porn, And Shun Real Sex” (Medical Daily)
- “Why porn addiction can ruin your sex life for good”
- “Your Brain on Porn and Other Sexual Images” (Scientific American)
- 1/4 of Japanese Men Ages 30 to 34 Are Still Virgins (2012)
- 7 Men Addicted To Porn Share How Their Addiction Has Made Their Lives & Dating Go For A Toss
- A Science-Based Case for Ending the Porn Epidemic
- Addicted to Porn: Compulsion, Shame, and Anxiety (The Fix)
- An Interview with a Guy Who Didn’t Masturbate or Have Sex for 100 Days (VICE)
- An interview with Jennifer Johnson on how pornography influences and harms sexual behavior
- Are our kids becoming Internet porn addicts? (2012)
- Are You Skin Hungry?
- Are you watching too much porn? The risks of online sex addiction and how to avoid it (UK)
- Bonding Behaviors Among Pair-Bonding Crows
- Bulletproof Executive interviews Geoffrey Miller (author of “The Mating Mind”)
- Care about the earth? Quit online porn!
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- Children and the culture of pornography: ‘Boys will ask you every day until you say yes’
- Courage to Quit: How I’m Outgrowing Pornography and Waking Up to My True Self (GoodMenProject)
- Decoding AASECT’s “Position on Sex Addiction”
- Did porn warp me forever? (Salon.com)
- Do religious people consume more porn?
- Easy access to online porn is ‘damaging’ men’s health, says NHS therapist (BBC)
- French women tuning in to porn, study says
- Generation Porn, How The Internet Shapes Youth Sexuality
- Graphic pornography is making teen boys ‘impotent’ and leading to violent and selfish sex acts (Australia)
- Have you heard a rumor that porn addiction has been “debunked?” (podcast and article)
- He’s Just Not That Into Anyone
- Here & Now on NPR (radio): “How One Man Recovered From His Internet Pornography Addiction”
- Hooked on porn, turned off sex (Independent – UK)
- How free online porn warped the minds of today’s twentysomethings (Sunday Times, UK)
- How giving up porn could help your sex life (GayTimes UK)
- How porn addiction destroys your brain and why you must fix it IMMEDIATELY
- How Porn Wrecks Relationships, by Pat Barone
- How Science Is Unlocking the Secrets of Addiction (National Geographic)
- How Technology is Like Bug Sex: Supernormal Stimuli
- How to Downplay the Harms of Pornography, in 4 Simple Steps (by Jacob Hess, Ph.D.)
- How to educate our youth about pornography addiction and dangers (Irish Examiner)
- I tried VR porn, and we are F**KED (NaughtyNomad.com)
- If you haven’t signed up for the NoFap Academy Newsletter, do it!
- Inside the community of men who have given up porn (2017)
- Internet addiction, PIED and practical tips for unhooking (podcast)
- Internet porn is an experiment in dehumanization
- Is Porn Addiction the “New Normal?”
- Is porn killing your sex life? (New York Post)
- Is pornography driving men crazy? by Naomi Wolf
- Is Your Brain Truly Ready for Junk Food, Porn, or the Internet?
- It Was a Mistake to Let Kids Onto Social Media Sites. Here’s What to Do Now. (NYT, 2022)
- Man Deletes His 18 Terrabyte Porn collection to Help Overcome Addiction (Independent)
- Men on pornography ‘Where’s the harm if I’m feeling lonely?’ (The Times, UK)
- Middle-aged virgins: Why so many Japanese stay chaste
- No Sex, Please, We’re Young Japanese Men (2011)
- Number Of People Seeking Treatment For Porn Addiction Skyrockets (LadBible)
- On Crossdreaming and Addiction to Pornography
- Online Pornography’s Effects, and a New Way to Fight Them: Wall Street Journal
- PIED: Why watch porn maybe not so healthy for you (German)
- Porn addiction rampant, says neuroscientist
- Porn addiction: Silenced by stigma (Interview)
- Porn Derails Deep Relationship Instincts
- Porn drives climate change
- Porn is ruining our love lives and making old men of our teenagers (Telegraph – UK)
- Porn not only messes with young men’s minds, but their bodies too (The Guardian)
- Porn survey 2019: how internet pornography is changing the way we have sex (The Sunday Times)
- Porn-induced erectile dysfunction on The Butterfly Effect (Jon Ronson)
- Porn: Many Teens Watch It, and Two Reasons That’s a Problem (HuffPost)
- Pornography And Autogynephilia In The Narratives Of Adult Transgender Males
- Rising numbers of young people are addicted to porn online, but scared of making real physical contact (2020)
- Score! Dopamine! Repeat! Or Not
- Sex Addiction Deniers: What Makes Them So Mad? (2012)
- Sex and depression: In the brain, if not the mind
- Six Recent Innovations in Porn and Erotica: The Internet now offers sexual turn-ons that reality simply can’t match.
- So Here’s How Porn Hurts Your Brain (podcast)
- That’s one horny chimp! Primate found to be addicted to porn (2013)
- The atheist who warned the world about porn addiction (Deseret News, 2022)
- The conversation we’re not having about porn (Washington Post)
- The danger of porn goes beyond just sex – it normalises unchecked desire (The Guardian)
- The Diseases We Share with Our Animals, including Reptiles (2012)
- The Great Internet Porn-Off
- The new digital addiction (Dr. Nick Baylis)
- The Physiological and Psychological Effects of Modern Day Pornography (2013)
- The psychology of sexual development: is action against porn necessary? (Wired – UK)
- The Question Sex Addiction Critics Don’t Want You to Ask, by Stefanie Carnes PhD, LMFT
- The Revealing Backstory to the AASECT Position Statement on Sex/Porn Addiction
- The Rocky History of Sex Addiction in Public Awareness
- The schoolyard addiction of extreme porn, The Times, London
- The Seductive Pull of Screens That You Might Not Know About
- The share of Americans not having sex has reached a record high (Washington Post)
- The true toll of porn: Girls who hate their bodies and young men who can’t perform in relationships – by a GP who’s seen the harm it does to teens (Daily Mail)
- This Was Already A Bad Week, and Then (pornhelp.org blog post about Pornhub’s hypocrisy)
- Top 4 Arguments for Porn Use: Are They Valid? (L. Hatch PhD)
- True Story: My Ex-Boyfriend Was A Porn Addict
- Try giving up porn for Lent – it changed my life (International Business Times)
- Vanilla sex is OUT, porn addiction is IN: Disturbing survey reveals how porn is damaging our relationships
- Watching Pornography Rewires the Brain to a More Juvenile State. by Rachel Anne Barr, PhD student, neuroscience, Université Laval
- What Do Porn and Snickers Have in Common? By Sherry Pagoto, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Medicine
- Why is it so Damn Hard to Change?
- Why is the word “addiction” so controversial? (2020)
- Why Men Should Give Up Porn: Advice from 10 Red Pill Bloggers
- Why Most Men Aren’t Man Enough to Handle Web Porn
- Why Some People Resist Relationship Infidelity Better Than Others (2011)
- Why women like me are banning themselves from wanking to porn (gal-dem)
- Does life online give you ‘popcorn brain’? (2011)
- 100 Benefits of Quitting Porn Addiction
- How Porn Destroys Lives – Interview with Pamela Paul