How about trusting addiction neuroscientists and peer-reviewed papers? Before I address many of the claims within the Pfaus article (link to the Pfaus article), it must be noted that Jim Pfaus omitted the 52 neuroscience-based studies (and 27 reviews of the literature and commentaries) on porn users published in the last few years. So far, […]
The first generation of men who grew up with unlimited online porn sound the alarm Excerpt: A growing number of young men are convinced that their sexual responses have been sabotaged because their brains were virtually marinated in porn when they were adolescents. Their generation has consumed explicit content in quantities and varieties never before […]
Dialogues Clin Neurosci. 2016 Mar; 18(1): 55–63. PMCID: PMC4826771 Language: English | Spanish | French Julie Goulet-Kennedy, BSc Julie Goulet-Kennedy, Centre interdisciplinaire de recherche en réadaptation et en intégration sociale. Centre de recherche de l’Institut universitaire en santé mentale de Québec; Faculté de médecine, Université Laval, Québec, Canada; Sara Labbe, MSc Sara Labbe, Centre […]
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The following abstracts related to porn use and sex addiction were taken from the 3rd International Conference on Behavioral Addictions March 14–16, 2016, and 4th International Conference on Behavioral Addictions February 20-22, 2017. Most abstracts presented are eventually published in peer-reviewed journals. Internet pornography addiction: Theoretical models, behavioral data, and neuroimaging findings MATTHIAS BRAND […]
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Updates: Multiple studies link porn use to poorer cognitive outcomes. See this list: Studies linking porn use to poorer mental-emotional health & poorer cognitive outcomes. Studies reporting poorer executive functioning (hypofrontality) or altered prefrontal activity in porn users/sex addicts: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16. […]
Front Psychol. 2016 Mar 30;7:455. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00455. eCollection 2016. Turel O1, Bechara A2. Abstract BACKGROUND: Adults who present ADHD symptoms have an increased risk for vehicle accidents. One conceivable overlooked account for this association is the possibility that people with ADHD symptoms use rewarding technologies such as social networking sites (SNS) while driving, more than […]
1Philipps-University, Marburg, Germany *Corresponding author: Franziska Jeromin; Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Philipps-University, Gutenbergstraße 18, 35032 Marburg, Germany; Phone: +49-6421-2824055; E-mail: [email protected] , Nele NyenhuisRelated information 2Paracelsus-Roswitha-Klinik, Bad Gandersheim, Germany , Antonia BarkeRelated information 1Philipps-University, Marburg, Germany *Corresponding author: Franziska Jeromin; Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Philipps-University, Gutenbergstraße 18, 35032 Marburg, Germany; Phone: […]
COMMENTS: Study suggests that general escalation through porn genres may lead to using child porn (or at least underage porn such as teen porn). From the discussion: “Hence, for all three constructs there seem to be substantial independent links to child pornography consumption. In the literature several explanations for child pornography consumption are discussed. The […]
Curr Behav Neurosci Rep. 2016; 3: 49–57. Published online 2016 Feb 20. doi: 10.1007/s40473-016-0068-3 PMCID: PMC4769313 L. S. Morris and V. Voon Abstract Cognitive constructs provide conceptual frameworks for transpathological characterization and improved phenotyping of apparently disparate psychiatric groups. This dimensional approach can be applied to the examination of individuals with behavioral addictions, for example, […]
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Front. Behav. Neurosci., 23 March 2016 | http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2016.00054 Paul M. Klenowski1, Masroor R. Shariff1, Arnauld Belmer1, Matthew J. Fogarty2, Erica W. H. Mu2, Mark C. Bellingham2 and Selena E. Bartlett1* 1Translational Research Institute and Institute for Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, Australia 2School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Queensland, […]
A David and Goliath battle involving a billion-dollar pornography website: "The book relates how, through investigative journalism, Mickelwait discovered that one of the world’s biggest websites was knowingly profiting from sex trafficking, and reveals her subsequent fight to
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