Tweeting about pornography/screen/internet addiction, w/ focus on research, recovery, and public health. A retweet is not necessarily an endorsement.
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Happy Thanksgiving everybody! We feel thankful today for the gift of sobriety and for the countless kind souls who have supported our recovery. Stay sane and grateful today folks.
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Hi Everyone. If this site goes down, you we will be moving to Mastodon. Will post our handle soon, but if we don't get it done in time, come find us there.
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Important new work on treating compulsive sexual behavior disorder (CSBD).
The World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry guidelines on the assessment and pharmacological treatment of compulsive sexual behaviour disorder tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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This includes struggling with compulsive porn use and other #behavioraladdiction.
Asking for help is a normal part of life. You should never feel like you have to take on the world 🌎 alone. If you are concerned that you or a friend may be dealing with mental health issues, there are resources available to help: mentalhealth.gov/
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This is intriguing. Would your porn use drop if someone neutral (not a significant other) gave you feedback about your time on adult sites?
My latest paper with Dr. Michael Auer examines the impact of personalized feedback on expenditure among online gamblers. Free download at: bit.ly/3g2RjGj @PsychologyNTU @NTUNews @BPSCyberPsych @NTUSocSciences @DrMichaelAuer @ntu_research
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The online world offers diverse risks for people susceptible to behavioral #addiction. For many who struggle, it's not the content (porn, gaming, gambling, etc.) so much as the all-consuming process — feeling one with or lost in the screen— that is the "drug".
Sports betting is associated with symptoms of gambling disorder, according to a new study, which means this is a risky behavior – perhaps similar to alcohol use or other forms of gambling, like playing slot machines #sportsbettingtwitter bit.ly/3zD0yU6
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Turkish study: Rather than simply dictating rules for internet use, "it is more beneficial [for parents] to decide together with the adolescent how and how much the adolescent should use the internet, and to teach and encourage him or her to use the internet consciously."
#Internetaddiction #parentalattitude #adolescent Investigating the Association Between Adolescent Internet Addiction and Parental Attitudes
bit.ly/3flx06N
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Paying for content doesn't necessarily make it more private, folks.
You’ve probably heard the line “when you don’t pay for the product, you are the product.”
But these days, even when you pay big bucks to your internet provider, your data is often being spied on and profited from. This week’s newsletter:
themarkup.org/newsletter/hel…
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Good example of how the official recognition of compulsive sexual behavior disorder (CSBD) in ICD-11 has opened new avenues of promising research. Here, CSBD and binge eating disorders (BED) found to share commonalities and to occur together (comorbidity), especially in men.
Both binge eating disorders and compulsive sexual behaviors share same pathophysiological mechanisms, leading to common comorbid conditions specially among men
Screen for both
#sexmed22 @SMSNA_ORG
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Translation: issues like binge eating and problem porn use can go together, especially in guys. If you fit that profile, help is available. #YouAreNotAlone
A perspective anyone in recovery can embrace.
The importance of breakdowns themarginalian.org/2021/10/1…
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*Essential* listening: @FrankLuntz's #FridaysWithFrank featuring @HumaneTech_ @tristanharris & Daniel Schmachtenberger discussing the existential threat social media & exponential tech pose to democracy & open society.
humanetech.com/podcast/bonus…
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As to which...
nitter.gq/newscientist/status/14…
Deepfake tools that mimic a particular individual's voice from just a few snippets of audio are good enough to fool both humans and voice recognition systems. bit.ly/3p8Jt07
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Not necessarily surprising findings, but worth noting just the same as we begin to absorb the impact of the pandemic on how we relate to the internet.
COVID-19 pandemic impact on internet use behaviors | PRBM @DovePress dovepress.com/how-has-the-co…
Gary Wilson @YourBrainonPorn inspired millions of men and women worldwide to think critically about the risks of internet porn use. He was kind, generous, and tireless in his advocacy. A happy warrior in the truest sense. We mourn his passing.
yourbrainonporn.com/gary-wil…
Sensible and straightfoward. It's this sort of analytical thinking about internet porn that, hopefully, will lead the current college generation to greater self-awareness in consuming digital media.
dailyuw.com/wellness/article… via @thedaily
Important reminder about your essentially non-existent digital privacy while using Incognito mode, from the student journalists at @QUChronicle. In particular, check out the link to the study about data sharing by online #porn sites.
quchronicle.com/?p=73197
Here's the linked study, which was in preprint in 2019.
"Our analysis of 22,484 pornography websites indicated that 93% leak user data to a third party."
arxiv.org/pdf/1907.06520.pdf
Mixed feelings about this @irishexaminer piece. Some valid insight about the dangers of porn serving as a default form of sex ed, for example. But also flat-out wrong in uncritically quoting a therapist who denies links between porn and addiction.
irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/…
Reposting this @TheAtlantic article from 2017, reminding you on this #EarthDay2021 that internet porn has a MASSIVE environmental footprint, and that tackling your problem porn use doesn't just help you, it also helps the planet. Win win!
theatlantic.com/technology/a…
Feeling grateful today for @terrycrews opening up about his struggles with porn. His example will give so many men and women the courage to tackle their own addictions.
menshealth.com.au/terry-crew…