Education for kids about porn is vital, because streaming porn will be with us as long as the internet is around. However, educators must teach pupils how brain plasticity works. Too often one reads in the media that educators should focus on: distinguishing “good porn” from “bad porn,” or reducing the problem to “the need […]
A tenth of 12 to 13-year-olds fear they are “addicted” to pornography, an NSPCC ChildLine survey has concluded. Watch video of girl talking about influence of porn in an assault when she was 13 One in five of nearly 700 youngsters surveyed said they had seen pornographic images that had shocked or upset them, researchers […]
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J Behav Addict. 2015 Mar 1;4(1):14-21. doi: 10.1556/JBA.4.2015.1.5. Schiebener J1, Laier C1, Brand M2. FULL TEXT PDF Abstract Background and aims Some individuals consume cybersex contents, such as pornographic material, in an addictive manner, which leads to severe negative consequences in private life or work. One mechanism leading to negative consequences may be reduced executive […]
After not watching Porn for about 6 months now, and not fapping for about three, here are some observations and lessons I have for the prospective (or current) nofapper. Bear in mind: I am a 16 year old kid – at the peak of adolescent horniness – and if I can do it, so can […]
They say everyone remembers their first time and I certainly remember mine. It was the summer of 1992, with a beautiful blonde girl. Well actually, now I think about it, there were probably four or five girls. And there were a couple of men as well, one of whom I distinctly recall having a handlebar […]
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Front Psychiatry. 2014 Jul 17;5:83. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2014.00083. eCollection 2014. Lijffijt M1, Hu K2, Swann AC3. Marijn Lijffijt,1,* Kesong Hu,2 and Alan C. Swann1,3 This article has been cited by other articles in PMC. Go to: Abstract Childhood trauma and post-childhood chronic/repeated stress could increase the risk of a substance use disorder by affecting five stages […]
Curr Opin Neurobiol. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2014 Aug 1. Published in final edited form as: Curr Opin Neurobiol. 2013 Aug; 23(4): 632–638. Published online 2013 Feb 8. doi: 10.1016/j.conb.2013.01.018 PMCID: PMC3670974 NIHMSID: NIHMS439661 Xavier Noël,a Damien Brevers,b and Antoine Becharab Author information ► Copyright and License information ► The publisher’s final edited version […]
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J Psychiatry Neurosci. 2014 May; 39(3): 149–169. doi: 10.1503/jpn.130052 PMCID: PMC3997601 Maartje Luijten, PhD, Marise W.J. Machielsen, MD, Dick J. Veltman, MD, PhD, Robert Hester, PhD, Lieuwe de Haan, MD, PhD, and Ingmar H.A. Franken, PhD Author information ► Article notes ► Copyright and License information ► This article has been cited by other articles […]
Despite all the porn, we may be moving towards a romantic renaissance. Recently I caught up with a wonderful friend whose company I adore because he is so damn honest. As usual, over a few drinks, we made each other laugh, talked politics and then moved on to deeper issues like how are you really? […]
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Front Hum Neurosci. 2015; 9: 40. Published online 2015 Feb 5. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2015.00040 Robert C. Lorenz,1,2,† Tobias Gleich,1,† Jürgen Gallinat,1,3 and Simone Kühn4,* Author information ► Article notes ► Copyright and License information ► Go to: Abstract Video games contain elaborate reinforcement and reward schedules that have the potential to maximize motivation. Neuroimaging studies suggest […]
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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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