Doctor warns excessive masturbation is behind the rise of an embarrassing male health problem – but how much is too much?

Original article Men who masturbate too frequently could find themselves becoming flops in the bedroom, a leading GP has warned. In moderation self-pleasure helps to reduce stress, improve sleep quality and mood, but it can become ‘an unhealthy habit’ and trigger a form of erectile dysfunction. ‘Overall, there’s no strict rule or guideline on how […]

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Professor Huberman speaks out about porn harms

Andrew Huberman PhD on porn

Excellent, informative podcast interview of Stanford neuroscience professor Andrew Huberman PhD by The Diary Of A CEO host. The material about porn begins here: 02:21:59 The Link Between Pornography And Dopamine Huberman explains the scientific basis of some of the harms most frequently reported by today’s porn users, including escalation, social anxiety, sexual dysfunction and […]

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Your Brain on Porn

Counselors praising YBOP book

They describe the book as a compassionate resource for anyone struggling with problematic porn use. They also mention the smear campaign against porn critics like Wilson and others by Big Porn’s “mafia.” The discussion refers to these peer-reviewed articles documenting the porn industry’s appalling attacks on Wilson, YBOP and others who point to evidence of […]

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J. of Nervous and Mental Disorders

Pornography Consumption and Cognitive-Affective Distress

Excerpts: These findings show that stress, anxiety, and depression are strongly related to pornography consumption and conflicting emotional experiences as well as identity problems significantly enhance vulnerability to addictive sexual behavior–related pornographic experiences…. Because of this process, it is possible that sensitized sexual arousal to Internet pornography may cause that sexual experience with a real […]

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Clarifying and extending our understanding of problematic pornography use through descriptions of the lived experience

Excerpts: Our findings shed new light on various sexual and non-sexual functional impairments related to PPU [problematic porn use] that have yet to be robustly examined in the existing literature. Our findings corroborate increasing evidence that many individuals with PPU experience tolerance and desensitisation effects, which can lead to escalating use [evidence of addiction]. [PPU […]

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