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Examining Correlates of Problematic Internet Pornography Use Among University Students

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2016 in Journal of Behavioral Addictions, Vol. 5(2), pp. 179–191

KEY FINDINGS
  • Pornography addiction was found to be linked to depression and anxiety.
  • Addictive use of pornography was found to be linked to other substance addictions and behavioral addictions such as alcohol, cannabis, gambling and video game use.
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Ventral Striatum Activity When Watching Preferred Pornographic Pictures is Correlated With Symptoms of Internet Pornography Addiction

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2016 in Neuroimage, Vol 129, pp. 224-232

KEY FINDINGS
  • The results of this study support the role for the ventral striatum in processing reward anticipation and gratification linked to subjectively preferred pornographic material - these patterns may contribute to a neural explanation of why individuals with certain preferences and sexual fantasies are at-risk for losing their control over Internet pornography consumption.
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Altered Appetitive Conditioning and Neural Connectivity in Subjects With Compulsive Sexual Behavior

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2016 in The Journal of Sexual Medicine, Vol. 13 (4), pp. 627-636

KEY FINDINGS
  • This study found that neural correlates of appetitive conditioning and neural connectivity are altered in patients with compulsive sexual behavior and that these are a marker for impaired emotion regulation.
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Adolescents and Pornography: A Review of 20 Years of Research

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2016 in Journal of Sex Research, Vol. 53(4-5), pp. 509-531

KEY FINDINGS
  • This review article examines 20 years of research and concludes that pornography use among adolescents is associated with more permissive sexual attitudes and behaviors.
  • This study also found that pornography is related to the occurrence of more sexual aggression.
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Novelty, Conditioning and Attentional Bias to Sexual Rewards

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2016 in Journal of Psychiatric Research, Vol. 72, pp. 91-101

KEY FINDINGS
  • This study shows that compulsive sexual behavior individuals have a dysfunctional enhanced preference for sexual novelty possibly mediated by greater cingulate habituation along with a generalized enhancement of conditioning to rewards.
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Neural Substrates of Sexual Desire in Individuals with Problematic Hypersexual Behavior

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2015 in Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, Vol. 9, pp. 321

KEY FINDINGS
  • Consistent with the findings of brain imaging studies of substance and behavior addiction, this study found that individuals with the behavioral characteristics of problematic hypersexual behaviors have enhanced desire exhibited altered activation in the prefrontal cortex and subcortical regions.
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“Without Porn… I Wouldn’t Know Half the Things I Know Now”: A Qualitative Study of Pornography Use Among a Sample of Urban, Low-Income, Black and Hispanic Youth

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2015 in Journal of Sex Research

KEY FINDINGS
  • This qualitative look into how teenagers understand and use pornography found that they tend to report that pornography is a normal part of their lives, that they use porn to learn about sex, and that they can feel pressured to imitate or create porn during their sexual encounters.
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