Study Examines How Pornography Addicts’ Brains Differ from Healthy Controls
August 4, 2026
Researchers scanned the brains of porn addicts and compared them to healthy controls. Here’s what they found.
Researchers scanned the brains of porn addicts and compared them to healthy controls. Here’s what they found.
Researchers in Germany tested whether pornography hinders men’s ability to make good decision. Spoiler: It does.
A 12-year-old boy was playing Fortnite when the popular game connected him with a complete stranger. The stranger messaged him, offering to send him highly sought
Research has shown that pornography usage can disrupt one’s attention span, similar to the behavior of substance addicts.
Study shows pornography usage alters the brain in the same way substance addictions do.
Neural Substrates of Sexual Desire in Individuals with Problematic Hypersexual Behavior Ji-Woo Seok and Jin-Hun Sohn Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience 9, no. 321 (2015): 1–11
The 2025 Trafficking in Persons Report has been released by the State Department of the United States, and Marcel van der Watt (President and CEO
Haley McNamara (SVP at NCOSE) and Dani Pinter (SVP and Director of the Law Center at NCOSE) take a closer look at the impact that
Back in the 1960s, researchers conducted an experiment that conditioned male participants to become sexually aroused by a pair of black, knee-length women’s boots. Subjects
Lisa Thompson joins Haley McNamara to discuss the recent launch of a groundbreaking new report, Not a Fantasy: How the Pornography Industry Exploits Image-based Sexual
This study shows how the compulsive use of pornography leads to a taste for more novel, and sometimes violent, content.
Novelty, Conditioning and Attentional Bias to Sexual Rewards Paula Banca et al. Journal of Psychiatric Research 72, (2016): 91-101