Is Porn Really Addictive?
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Here are the 37 neuroscience based studies I referenced.
Here are the multiple peer-reviewed papers which criticize Nicole Prause's conclusions, finding them instead consistent with the effects of addiction.
- Neuroscience of Internet Pornography Addiction: A Review and Update (2015)
- Decreased LPP for sexual images in problematic pornography users may be consistent with addiction models. Everything depends on the model (2016)
- Neurobiology of Compulsive Sexual Behavior: Emerging Science (2016)
- Should compulsive sexual behavior be considered an addiction? (2016)
- Is Internet Pornography Causing Sexual Dysfunctions? A Review with Clinical Reports (2016)
Peer-reviewed papers have also discredited her claims in the press about porn made in an earlier study that she co-authored. Steele et al., 2013:
- ‘High Desire’, or ‘Merely’ An Addiction? A Response to Steele et al. (2014), by Donald L. Hilton, Jr., MD
- Neural Correlates of Sexual Cue Reactivity in Individuals with and without Compulsive Sexual Behaviours (2014), by Valerie Voon,Thomas B. Mole, Paula Banca, Laura Porter, Laurel Morris, Simon Mitchell, Tatyana R. Lapa, Judy Karr, Neil A. Harrison, Marc N. Potenza, and Michael Irvine
- Neuroscience of Internet Pornography Addiction: A Review and Update (2015), by Todd Love, Christian Laier, Matthias Brand, Linda Hatch & Raju Hajela
- Is Internet Pornography Causing Sexual Dysfunctions? A Review with Clinical Reports (2016)
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