Thoughtful academic essay by experienced therapist. Good description of the less obvious risks. Entire article here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00797308.2020.1859283
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Comment: This study on sexual conditioning in quail shows that males can be sexually conditioned to a substitute for a real sexual partner (a terry cloth object). Interestingly, those who copulate (i.e., “show a consummatory response”) using the object continue to find it arousing, whether or not they have access to regular sexual opportunities with real females.
The conditioned approach behavior of male quail [who copulated with the object] did not show much, if any, decline during the course of extinction trials whether or not the males received access to a female in their home cages during the extinction phase.
Similarly, many men who condition their sexual arousal to ar
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This is in a top sexology journal: "The Pornography “Rebooting” Experience: A Qualitative Analysis of Abstinence Journals on an Online Pornography Abstinence Forum"
Full study: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10508-020-01858-w
This thread points out some of its highlights: https://twitter.com/YourBrainOnPorn/status/1347027361175257089
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https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3751640
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Excerpts:
Sheath is seeing what he believes is a dangerous cultural shift in the profile of offenders, brought about by the enormous change that increasingly extreme pornography is having on the developing teenage mind.
“With our cohort of men there are two groups. The first is older men whose sexual education and awakening came before the internet. They will have in the main learned about sex with another person who gives feedbac
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