This page is for journalists and other investigators who may have read assertions that Dr. Prause is a victim. NOTE: This page was originally written by the late Gary Wilson. However, the YBOP team has updated it a bit. Therefore the style and voice are uneven in places. Mere claims, no matter how vivid or […]
Tag: Propaganda
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 […]
British Thought Leaders – Mary Sharpe
Mary Sharpe from The Reward Foundation talks to @LeeAlanHall about the damage online porn does to health and relationships. She also tells how the multi-billion dollar porn industry suppresses research on these issues from reaching the public. They do this by using the famous ‘playbook’ PR tactics to create doubt about how porn can cause […]
The Pornography Industry’s Disinformation Campaign on Addiction Recovery Resources
There is a commonly held belief that if an author with an advanced degree publishes a paper in a peer-reviewed journal, the content contained within the paper is well-sourced, reliable, and written in the absence of bad faith or undisclosed conflicts of interest. Most academics operate by a strict set of ethical guidelines. Most scientists […]
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Smear campaign targeting YourBrainOnPorn.com and Gary Wilson examined in a peer-reviewed journal
YBOP and its late creator Gary Wilson have been long targeted with various deplatforming attempts and extensive defamation. A new journal article examines the 2019 “Mormon porn” smear campaign. However, that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Since Gary Wilson first created Your Brain on Porn in 2010, it provided a refreshing evidence-based perspective on […]
Slate Magazine Joins Illustrious List of Outlets Promoting Porn Industry Propaganda
Slate Magazine amplifies porn-industry-connected disinformation without even acknowledging glaring conflicts of interest in its sole professional informant According to Gallup polling, Americans are near a record low in trust in mainstream media—with only 7% of people in recent polls indicating a “great deal” of trust and confidence in the media (and 27% “a fair amount”)—compared […]
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Porn Playbook: Deny, Disinform and Defame (video)
YBOP COMMENTS A big part of the “porn playbook” is defamation and harassment of those who speak about the harms of porn or problems in the porn industry. The most egregious porn industry shill is sexologist and former academic Nicole Prause (mentioned in Gabe’s video). In 2013 former UCLA researcher Nicole Prause began openly […]
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Overcontrol in Pornography Research: Let it Go, Let it Go… (2021) by Paul J. Wright
Wright, P.J. Arch Sex Behav 50, 387–392 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-020-01902-9 “Let it go, let it go Can’t hold it back anymore Let it go, let it go Turn away and slam the door” (Elsa – Disney’s Frozen) The wisdom of Elsa’s self-admonition to let go of her attempts at overcontrol struck me as an important life-lesson […]
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Video: “Why Nicole Prause Filed DMCAs to Remove My Videos”, by Rebecca Watson (skepchick)
TRANSCRIPT OF THE VIDEO: This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Hello, YouTube. What a few weeks I’ve had! I’ve learned something very important recently: no one reads the description. You know, the doobly doo. So with that in mind, I’m going […]
Nicole Prause’s Unethical Harassment and Defamation of Gary Wilson and Others (Page 6)
Introduction Legal counsel advised us to create these pages, which document Nicole Prause’s extensive campaign targeting those who point out possible harms of porn use or issues in the porn industry. “Sunshine” protects the community Prause harasses by preserving facts and permitting visitors and journalists to understand the truth for themselves. Indeed, these pages have […]