Study of 12,000 people says sexuality changes into adulthood — women’s preferences are more fluid over time (2019)

Gay, straight and bisexual may not begin to capture the changing nature of human sexuality. A new study, published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Sex Research, analyzed surveys from around 12,000 students, and found that substantial changes in attractions, partners, and sexual identity are common from late adolescence to the early 20s, and from there […]

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Online Porn Addiction: What We Know and What We Don’t—A Systematic Review (2019)

LINK TO FULL STUDY Clin. Med. 2019, 8(1), 91; doi:10.3390/jcm8010091 Rubén de Alarcón 1 , Javier I. de la Iglesia 1 , Nerea M. Casado 1 and Angel L. Montejo 1,2,* 1 Psychiatry Service, Hospital Clínico Universitario de Salamanca, Institute of Biomedical Research of Salamanca (IBSAL), 37007 Salamanca, Spain 2 University of Salamanca, EUEF, 37007 […]

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Pornography and Heterosexual Women’s Intimate Experiences with a Partner (2019)

J Womens Health (Larchmt). 2019 Apr 18. doi: 10.1089/jwh.2018.7006. Johnson JA1, Ezzell MB2, Bridges AJ3, Sun CF4. Abstract Background: Pornographic media characterized by discordant images of sexual pleasure and aggression are increasingly formulating young heterosexual women’s sexual scripts. Yet there has been little work done on the downstream role of pornography consumption; how does pornography […]

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NoFap founder Alexander Rhodes defamation lawsuit against Nicole Prause / Liberos

On October 23, 2019 Alexander Rhodes (founder of reddit/nofap and NoFap.com) filed a defamation lawsuit against Nicole R Prause and Liberos LLC. See the court docket here. Downloadable PDFs of the three primary court documents filed by Rhodes (screenshots below): Alex Rhodes defamation suit against Nicole Prause: The initial complaint – 15 pages. (screenshots of […]

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Relationships among impulsive, addictive and sexual tendencies and behaviours: a systematic review of experimental and prospective studies in humans (2019)

Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2019 Feb 18;374(1766):20180129. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2018.0129. Leeman RF1,2, Rowland BHP1, Gebru NM1, Potenza MN2,3,4,5. Abstract Impulsivity’s relationships to addictive and sexual behaviours raise questions regarding the extent impulsivity may constitute a vulnerability factor for subsequent addictive and sexual behaviours and/or results from each of these. Here, we systematically […]

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Drug-induced stress responses and addiction risk and relapse (2019)

Neurobiol Stress. 2019 Feb; 10: 100148. Published online 2019 Feb 1. doi: 10.1016/j.ynstr.2019.100148 PMCID: PMC6430516 PMID: 30937354 Stephanie E. Wemm∗ and Rajita Sinha Abstract A number of studies have assessed the effects of psychoactive drugs on stress biology, the neuroadaptations resulting from chronic drug use on stress biology, and their effects on addiction risk and relapse. […]

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Excessive Consumption of Sugar: an Insatiable Drive for Reward (2019)

Curr Nutr Rep. 2019 Apr 3. doi: 10.1007/s13668-019-0270-5. Olszewski PK1,2, Wood EL2, Klockars A2, Levine AS3. Abstract PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Eating behavior provides energy to ensure proper functioning of the organism. Reward aids in seeking foods that bring energy and pleasant taste, whose consumption is safe. As evidenced by the obesity “epidemic” which largely stems […]

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Sexual behavior patterns in online sexually explicit materials: a network analysis (2019)

Zhou, Yanyan, Bryant Paul, Vincent Malic, and Jingyuan Yu. Quality & Quantity (2019): 1-19. Abstract Free online sexually explicit materials have become the major way for pornography viewers to consume pornographic materials. Most previous content analytic studies have focused on aggression and degradation behaviors in sexually explicit materials. Fewer studies have focused on the prevalence […]

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Op-ed: Who exactly is misrepresenting the science on pornography?

Introduction by YourBrainOnPorn.com I cannot tell you how many times the following “letter to editor” to a Salt Lake newspaper has been cited as “proof” porn use causes no problems and porn addiction doesn’t exist: Op-ed: Anti-porn school program misrepresents science. It’s often posted on social media (Quora, Twitter, Facebook) as evidence that YBOP, Fight […]

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Internet porn: the highly addictive narcotic emasculating young men through erectile dysfunction. Urologist Paul Church, Maureen Newberg LCSW (2019)

Link to full article March 29, 2019, (LifeSiteNews) — Young men are being robbed of their ability to enter into natural sexual relationships with women as frequent pornogrpahy viewing rewires their brains, undermining their ability to perform sexually. In a sense, males in their teens through their 30s are being inoculated against sex, against intimacy, against […]

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