Talk:Internet sex addiction

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Dead as a doornail but internet wisdom prevails over published scientific consensus[edit]

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/women-who-stray/201808/science-stopped-believing-in-porn-addiction-you-should-too ref: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-018-1248-x

I suspect eventually this will be viewed akin to gay conversion therapy.

"Websites and advocacy groups that promote and encourage identification as porn addicts are doing harm to their followers, and can become like the hucksters promoting naturopathic treatment despite federal medical groups identifying such treatments as ineffective and potentially harmful. Ultimately, all should be held accountable for their inaccurate, outdated, and exploitative actions." So ya. Do with that what you will. Gripdamage (talk) 19:56, 26 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Moving content from "Internet addiction" for further vetting[edit]

I'm moving content from Internet addiction to here for further vetting. I leave it to those watching this page to determine what content, if any, should be added to the current article.

Compulsive sexual behaviour disorder (problematic Internet pornography use)[edit]

Universally accepted diagnostic criteria do not exist for pornography addiction or problematic Internet pornography viewing.[1] Pornography addiction is often defined operationally by the frequency of pornography viewing and negative consequences.[2] The only diagnostic criteria for a behavioral addiction in the current Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders are for pathological gambling, and they are similar to those for substance abuse and dependence, such as preoccupation with the behavior, diminished ability to control the behavior, tolerance, withdrawal, and adverse psychosocial consequences. Diagnostic criteria have been proposed for other behavioral addictions, and these are usually also based on established diagnoses for substance abuse and dependence.[3]

A proposed diagnosis for hypersexual disorder includes pornography as a subtype of this disorder. It included such criteria as time consumed by sexual activity interfering with obligations, repetitive engagement in sexual activity in response to stress, repeated failed attempts to reduce these behaviors, and distress or impairment of life functioning.[4] A study on problematic Internet pornography viewing used the criteria of viewing Internet pornography more than three times a week during some weeks, and viewing causing difficulty in general life functioning.[1]

According to the American Society of Addiction Medicine, some psychological and behavioral changes characteristic of addiction brain changes include addictive cravings, impulsiveness, weakened executive function, desensitization, and dysphoria.[5] BOLD fMRI results have shown that individuals diagnosed with compulsive sexual behavior (CSB) show enhanced cue reactivity in brain regions associated traditionally with drug-cue reactivity.[6][7] These regions include the amygdala and the ventral striatum.[6][7] Men without CSB who had a long history of viewing pornography exhibited a less intense response to pornographic images in the left ventral putamen, possibly suggestive of desensitization.[6] ASAMs position is inconsistent with the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors, and Therapists, who cite lack of strong evidence for such classification, describing ASAM as not informed by "accurate human sexuality knowledge".[8]

Neuropsychopharmacological and psychological research on pornography addiction conducted between 2015 and 2021 have concluded that most studies have been focused entirely or almost exclusively on men in anonymous settings, and the findings are contradicting.[7] Some researchers support the idea that pornography addiction qualifies as a form of behavioral addiction into the umbrella construct of hypersexual behavior and/or a subset of compulsive sexual behavior (CSB),[citation needed] and should be treated as such, whereas others have detected the increased activation of ventral striatal reactivity in men for cues predicting erotic but not monetary rewards and cues signaling erotic pictures, therefore suggesting similarities between pornography addiction and conventional addiction disorders.[7]

Some clinicians and support organizations recommend voluntary use of Internet content-control software, internet monitoring, or both, to manage problematic online pornography use.[9][10][11] Sex researcher Alvin Cooper and colleagues suggested several reasons for using filters as a therapeutic measure, including curbing accessibility that facilitates problematic behavior and encouraging clients to develop coping and relapse prevention strategies.[9] Cognitive therapist Mary Anne Layden suggested that filters may be useful in maintaining environmental control.[11] Internet behavior researcher David Delmonico stated that, despite their limitations, filters may serve as a "frontline of protection."[10]

Despite the fact that pornography is being highly spuriously[12] indicted as a public health crisis in the United States and elsewhere,[13][14] with problematic Internet and online pornography use reported to constitute an increasing burden in public mental health since the 2000s, psychopathological models and diagnostic criteria have lacked consensus, and the body of evidence on the effectiveness of therapeutic approaches is still scarce.[citation needed] The ideas supporting the "crisis" have been described as pseudoscientific.[15]

Nowa (talk) 17:30, 19 February 2024 (UTC) [reply]

References

  1. ^ a b Twohig MP, Crosby JM (September 2010). "Acceptance and commitment therapy as a treatment for problematic internet pornography viewing". Behavior Therapy. 41 (3): 285–295. doi:10.1016/j.beth.2009.06.002. PMID 20569778.
  2. ^ Duffy A, Dawson DL, das Nair R (May 2016). "Pornography Addiction in Adults: A Systematic Review of Definitions and Reported Impact" (PDF). The Journal of Sexual Medicine. 13 (5): 760–777. doi:10.1016/j.jsxm.2016.03.002. PMID 27114191.
  3. ^ Grant JE, Potenza MN, Weinstein A, Gorelick DA (September 2010). "Introduction to behavioral addictions". The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse. 36 (5): 233–241. doi:10.3109/00952990.2010.491884. PMC 3164585. PMID 20560821.
  4. ^ Kafka MP (April 2010). "Hypersexual disorder: a proposed diagnosis for DSM-V". Archives of Sexual Behavior. 39 (2): 377–400. doi:10.1007/s10508-009-9574-7. PMID 19937105. S2CID 2190694.
  5. ^ "ASAM Definition of Addiction". 19 April 2011. Archived from the original on 26 April 2017. Retrieved 7 November 2016.
  6. ^ a b c Kraus SW, Voon V, Potenza MN (December 2016). "Should compulsive sexual behavior be considered an addiction?". Addiction. 111 (12): 2097–2106. doi:10.1111/add.13297. PMC 4990495. PMID 26893127. S2CID 11261106.
  7. ^ a b c d Gola M, Wordecha M, Sescousse G, Lew-Starowicz M, Kossowski B, Wypych M, et al. (September 2017). "Can Pornography be Addictive? An fMRI Study of Men Seeking Treatment for Problematic Pornography Use" (PDF). Neuropsychopharmacology. 42 (10). Springer Nature: 2021–2031. doi:10.1038/npp.2017.78. eISSN 1740-634X. OCLC 815994337. PMC 5561346. PMID 28409565. S2CID 13759729. Archived (PDF) from the original on 20 March 2019. Retrieved 1 August 2021.
  8. ^ "AASECT Position on Sex Addiction". April 2018. Retrieved 25 April 2019. AASECT 1) does not find sufficient empirical evidence to support the classification of sex addiction or porn addiction as a mental health disorder, and 2) does not find the sexual addiction training and treatment methods and educational pedagogies to be adequately informed by accurate human sexuality knowledge.
  9. ^ a b Cooper A, Putnam DE, Planchon LA, Boies SC (1999). "Online sexual compulsivity: Getting tangled in the net". Sexual Addiction & Compulsivity. 6 (2): 79–104. doi:10.1080/10720169908400182.
  10. ^ a b Delmonico DL (1997). "Cybersex: High tech sex addiction". Sexual Addiction & Compulsivity. 4 (2): 159–167. doi:10.1080/10720169708400139.
  11. ^ a b Layden MA (September 2005). "Cyber Sex Addiction" (PDF). Advances in Cognitive Therapy: 1–2, 4–5.[permanent dead link]
  12. ^ Rothman, Emily F. (2021). Pornography and Public Health. Oxford University Press. p. 2. ISBN 978-0-19-007549-1. Retrieved 31 May 2022. The professional public health community is not behind the recent push to declare pornography a public health crisis.
  13. ^ Nelson KM, Rothman EF (February 2020). Morabia A (ed.). "Should Public Health Professionals Consider Pornography a Public Health Crisis?". American Journal of Public Health. 110 (2). American Public Health Association: 151–153. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2019.305498. PMC 6951382. PMID 31913670. S2CID 210121251.
  14. ^ Rothman EF (2021). "Pornography as a US Public Health Problem". Pornography and Public Health. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 1–15. doi:10.1093/oso/9780190075477.003.0001. ISBN 9780190075477. LCCN 2021013439.
  15. ^ de Jong, David C.; Faulkenberry, Rachel S.; Konda, Olivia; Joyner, Berkley (2023). "Masturbation". Encyclopedia of Mental Health. Elsevier. pp. 369–378. doi:10.1016/b978-0-323-91497-0.00075-8. ISBN 9780323914987.
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