Pornography Addiction: Seeking Novelty Until Desensitized
November 25, 2024
This study shows how the compulsive use of pornography leads to a taste for more novel, and sometimes violent, content.
This study shows how the compulsive use of pornography leads to a taste for more novel, and sometimes violent, content.
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How a little girl’s love for Disney’s “Frozen” could lead her to hardcore pornography.
Research shows that in recent decades the increase in women’s pornography use has been dramatic.
As technology advances, sex traffickers adopt and adapt new online capabilities to target and exploit victims and create “market” opportunities.
Without those who choose to buy other people for sex, there would be no prostitution and no sex trafficking.
Scientists have been able to identify several addiction-related brain changes in individuals who feel their pornography use has gotten out of control.
Classification of compulsive sexual behavior as an addictive disorder might benefit clinicians, researchers, and suffering individuals.
A review of popular theory of addiction explaining why people with behavioral addictions persist despite negative consequences.
Sharing findings from and NCOSE Research Institute commentary on Simone Kühn and Jürgen Gallinat in JAMA Psychiatry 71, no. 7 (2014).
Sharing findings from and NCOSE Research Institute commentary on Valerie Voon in PLoS ONE 9, no. 7 (2014).
Sharing findings from and NCOSE Research Institute commentary on Meghan Donovan in Dignity: A Journal of Analysis of Exploitation and Violence (2021).