Reprod Health. 2015 Sep 14;12:86. doi: 10.1186/s12978-015-0068-x. Habesha T1, Aderaw Z2, Lakew S3. Abstract BACKGROUND: According to the 2007 Ethiopian census, youths aged 15-24 years were more than 15.2 million which contributes to 20.6% of the whole population. These very large and productive groups of the population are exposed to various sexual and reproductive health […]
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Addiction. 2015 Oct 9. doi: 10.1111/add.13192. Baggio S1, Dupuis M2, Studer J3, Spilka S4, Daeppen JB2, Simon O5, Berchtold A1,6, Gmel G3,7,8,9. Abstract BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Evidence-based and reliable measures of addictive disorders are needed in general population-based assessments. One study suggested that heavy use over time (UOT) should be used instead of self-reported addiction […]
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PLoS One. 2015 Oct 2;10(10):e0139337. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0139337. Ching SM1, Yee A2, Ramachandran V3, Sazlly Lim SM4, Wan Sulaiman WA4, Foo YL4, Hoo FK4. Abstract INTRODUCTION: This study was initiated to determine the psychometric properties of the Smart Phone Addiction Scale (SAS) by translating and validating this scale into the Malay language (SAS-M), which is the […]
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UPDATE 2016: A much more comprehensive analysis of Joshua Grubbs’s claims and studies can be found here – Is Grubbs pulling the wool over our eyes with his “perceived porn addiction” research? (2016) UPDATE 2017: A new study (Fernandez et al., 2017) tested and analyzed the CPUI-9, a purported “perceived pornography addiction” questionnaire developed by […]
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I couldn’t get it up. It had nothing to do with my girlfriend at all. She was beautiful and sexy, but once it came time to get down to business, well, I wasn’t firing on all cylinders. And I was way too young for this shit. Yea, waaaay to young for this to be happening. Like, […]
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LINK TO STUDY Delia Fuhrmann Lisa J. Knoll Sarah-Jayne Blakemore Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, WCIN 3AR, London, UK Publication stage: In Press Corrected Proof DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2015.07.008 ARTICLE – Adolescent brain may be especially sensitive to new memories, social stress, and drug use September 23, 2015 Adolescence, like infancy, has been […]
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This article cites a lot of shaky research, but it’s likely its author recognizes that youthful internet porn use is indeed having an effect on sexual and fetish tastes. Hardcore, abundant and free: what is online pornography doing to sexual tastes—and youngsters’ minds? IN 2003 Peter Morley-Souter, a British teenager whose hobby was drawing comic […]
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Sultan Qaboos Univ Med J. 2015 Aug;15(3):e357-63. doi: 10.18295/squmj.2015.15.03.009. Epub 2015 Aug 24. Masters K1. Abstract OBJECTIVES: Addiction to social networking sites (SNSs) is an international issue with numerous methods of measurement. The impact of such addictions among health science students is of particular concern. This study aimed to measure SNS addiction rates among health […]
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Int J Biol Sci. 2015; 11(10): 1150–1159. Published online 2015 Aug 1. doi: 10.7150/ijbs.12044 PMCID: PMC4551751 Jin Young Kim,1 Jong-Ho Lee,1,✉ Doyun Kim,1,2 Soung-Min Kim,1 JaeHyung Koo,2 and Jeong Won Jahng1,✉ Author information ► Article notes ► Copyright and License information ► Go to: Abstract This study examined the effects of highly palatable food during […]
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Watching Pornographic Pictures on the Internet: Role of Sexual Arousal Ratings and Psychological-Psychiatric Symptoms for Using Internet Sex Sites Excessively (2011) Results indicate that self-reported problems in daily life linked to online sexual activities were predicted by subjective sexual arousal ratings of the pornographic material, global severity of psychological symptoms, and the number of sex […]
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