Brain scans find porn addiction

[Prunepicker]

Please, this article doesn't reveal that anyone is born with a porn
addiction.

From The Sunday Times
COMPULSIVE users of pornography show the same signs of addiction
in their brain activity as alcoholics or drug addicts, a study has
revealed.

In the first research of its kind, scans showed that a central portion
of the brain which is stimulated in drug or alcohol addicts also “lit up”
when compulsive pornography users watched explicit material.
There was no such effect in the brains of people who were not
habitual users of porn.

[OKCisOK4me]

So basically, this study wasn't conducted in the Middle East, but maybe more like the middle east portion of the United States? Cause I've heard coal country in West Virginia is pretty boring these days...

[RadicalModerate]

. . . And, in related news: Porn scans find brain addiction.
(but it is a very small subset of the overall porn industry and has, like, maybe 3 Google hits. film at 11.)

[venture]

So basically, this study wasn't conducted in the Middle East, but maybe more like the middle east portion of the United States? Cause I've heard coal country in West Virginia is pretty boring these days...

Well I guess you could argue anywhere south of the Mason-Dixon line has too much time on their hands.



And in other news...
Study finds it will snow this winter somewhere.

[RadicalModerate]

And in other news...
Study finds it will snow this winter somewhere.

P'shaw . . . Thet ain't nuthin' but a edgeecated guess.
(crank up the hype a little fer cryin' out loud. geez. otherwise you'll never hit Big Time Meteryology.)

This just in: The shocking recent revelations involving Brain Scans and Porn Addiction involved a typo.
The headline should have read: Brain scams find porn addition proofreaders celebrate a small victory
(allegedly it's all a marketing ploy by the makers of brain scanning machines to generate business. like at hospitals and the state fair)

[OKCisOK4me]

That is an awesome map!

[RadicalModerate]

I can see Utah being a Bastion of Virtue, but OHIO? VIRGINIA?
(and whut the heck is "anita queen" (nevada)????)

[venture]

That is an awesome map!

Some numbers behind it...top 14 states in porn usage. A lot of addicts in the South.

[Mel]

Well I guess you could argue anywhere south of the Mason-Dixon line has too much time on their hands.



And in other news...
Study finds it will snow this winter somewhere.

I'm a bit frazzled by the fact I had to google a couple of these phrases.

[bchris02]

Its ironic that so many people get married at 19 because it's the good Christian thing to do, then end up with a porn addiction which leads to adultery which leads to divorce by age 24. Then the process starts all over again.

I also find it strange that the non-Bible Belt states seem to have a lower rate of porn addition. I wonder why that is?

[kevinpate]

... (and whut the heck is "anita queen" (nevada)????)

Per google, a Czech porn star.
I had guessed, wrongly it turns out, the reference might be a vegas or reno based drag queen or a semi-famous resident of a legal brothel with her own line of visual material.

[RadicalModerate]

Thanks, Kevin! Although "Anita Queen" is apparently a relatively tame subject (compared to some) I'd still hate to have her stuck in my Google Search history. =)

"Erase? Delete? Homeland Security and The NSA laugh at those words and don't even know the meaning of them . . . =)

[Bunty]

I also find it strange that the non-Bible Belt states seem to have a lower rate of porn addition. I wonder why that is?

They probably find it easier in their culture to experience the real thing and so don't need porn as much.

[Just the facts]

Its ironic that so many people get married at 19 because it's the good Christian thing to do, then end up with a porn addiction which leads to adultery which leads to divorce by age 24. Then the process starts all over again.

I also find it strange that the non-Bible Belt states seem to have a lower rate of porn addition. I wonder why that is?

I think you mis-read the legend. The color represent the duration of the visit, not the number of visits. Let's just say the people in the NE seem to be a little 'quicker' than others. Mississippi takes longer because they are looking for a relative.

[kevinpate]

... Mississippi takes longer because they are [on dialup modems]... .

fixed that fer ya. they know where their kin's sites are, favorites and all that.

[OKCisOK4me]

There definitely are a lot of D-I-Yers in Mississippi.

[Prunepicker]

I find it peculiar that people are more concerned with demographics and
promoting self-appointed superiority than the problem of pornography.

If only we'd put that much time into finding a solution instead of building
ourselves up.

Puke.

[venture]

I think you mis-read the legend. The color represent the duration of the visit, not the number of visits. Let's just say the people in the NE seem to be a little 'quicker' than others. Mississippi takes longer because they are looking for a relative.

Okay...that made me LOL. Well done sir.

[RadicalModerate]

I guess the "folks" up there in Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire--on account o' likin' "Compilations" so much--are the only ones still worthy of the moniker "Yankees" . . .

However, the fondness of "folks" in the Boston/Mass. area for "Creampie" does not surprise me.

[zookeeper]

As for the article, it's just more fMRI bulls&^*%. It's like looking at the clouds, they get research money and see whatever they want to see. The brain "lighting up" at this and that is being shot down left and right. Outing these studies is all the rage now. Here's one good book: Brainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience and the Amazon suggestions will point you to many more. The truth is we know about as much about the brain as we did ten years ago. Neuroscience is at a standstill and at war with the Philosophers of the Mind as to even basic understandings of what the brain's true role really is. Fact: people are doing just fine with half their brain missing (radical removal for tumors, etc.) It has nothing to do with one side "over compensating" either. The brain is just something we know so very little about. And when we think we do discover something knew, it's often shot down with months. So many mysteries.

[kevinpate]

Prune, what would you suggest? Greater and tighter restrictions? More severe punishments for viewers, makers, one handed typists and the webmasters who run their cc information monthly? Sounds a bit like the Prohibition era and booze. Didn't work out so well.

Kiddie porn and teen porn and any human trafficking or coerced activity that goes along with it? I gots no problems with reopening hell holes like the older cells at OSP (or worse spots) and cramming sleazeballs in four deep in spaces designed for one or two and just leaving them. If honking big rats end up well fed, I'll find a way to ease my mind over any guilt that may crop up.

Suzie or Freddie adult wants to voluntarily operate a house, or just a webcam, involving activities in the bedroom, shower, kitchen, etc., and consenting adult guys or gals want to spend their discretionary funds to join or watch Suzie, Freddie and/or consenting friends ... I'm not going to be in that cc list, but I don't really care if others choose to do so.

[Midtowner]

What I see from this study is correlation.

There's not a bit of causation.

--to be expected from the scientifically illiterate.

[sacolton]

Who doesn't like creampies?

[RadicalModerate]

Who doesn't like creampies?

Although no creampies were harmed in the making of this commercial,
I'll bet that Sara Lee creampies are, like, the Anita Queens of Dessert.

Did you know that, while everybody doesn't like something, nobody doesn't like Sara Lee?
Her creampies are so good that they are obscene.

[Just the facts]

What I see from this study is correlation.

There's not a bit of causation.

--to be expected from the scientifically illiterate.

I don't think the study was trying to prove causation. It was just saying that porn produced the same brain activity as known addictions, probably with the goal of defining porn as an addiction so the 'sufferers' can qualify to ADA protection (like when caught viewing porn at work) or for government disability money.