Dr. Nicole Prause
@NicoleRPrause
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Scientist (bioinformatic programmer and psychophysiologist) studying primary rewards related to mental health at UCLA. Photo credit: Andrew Fulton
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Dad: "I'm a Mormon and a conservative Republican and we don't do gay" ...
Voice: "he's accused of going on a mass shooting" ...
Dad: "shit, no excuse to be doing that, I'm just glad he's not gay"
The Colorado shooter’s dad on finding out his son murdered people: “They started telling me about the incident, a shooting... And then I go on to find out it’s a gay bar. I got scared, ‘Shit, is he gay?’ And he’s not gay, so I said, phew… I am a conservative Republican.” (
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Drone bee (behind) endophallus ruptures and he dies seconds after mating with the queen.
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As an academic who is regularly contacted by media about the science of pornography, this does not happen. If you have science, you cite it.
I see no science cited in her puff piece, but I have serious concerns about the manosphere anti-porn groups she has promoted repeatedly.
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I signed an open letter with hundreds of experts on intimate partner violence objecting to the abuse of Amber Heard on social media, including by law firms filing defamation claims to silence persons, almost always women, who report abuse.
#ExpertsForAmber
#IStandwithAmberHeard
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A guy told me with a completely straight face that they choke women (new partners) without asking and "they all love it".
They do not.
What is likely happening when you choke a woman during sex without consent?
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New review describes Morality in Media (NCOSE) as the not-so-secret rich, religious organization attacking vulnerable communities in the USA (making the USA uniquely violent towards sex workers) and making themselves rich.
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Anti-porn groups planned to DDOS porn websites, then did it and posted as the websites came down, taking full credit.
Not once or twice...
Dozens of times.
This is criminal.
And it is in our research under review.
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I won the largest financial judgement allowed by the court against an attorney for an anti-porn group. He solicited and disseminated my current physical address (stalking) and engaged in defamation per se, causing serious damages.
Details to follow.
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NCOSE argued that removing porn from the Internet is *more important than child trafficking*. These latest claims are just new spin, not real.
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New paper "Violence on Reddit support forums unique to r/NoFap" is at "Deviant Behavior". We found NoFap has followers engaged in real murders, NoFap posts are remarkably violent, and the violence is supported by followers.
@tandfonline
@drdavidley
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In the last 48 hours I was doxxed and received numerous rape threats from NoFap followers. My male co-author was not targeted, just me, as usual.
Many were in response to posting our recent science about violence on the r/NoFap platform.
Please share:
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Another evangelical leader Mike Bickle accused of "decades" of sexual abuse, credited with launching the anti-porn "Exodus Cry", that started
#traffickinghub
Peer-reviewed science has tracked the collaborations among these anti-porn and anti-LGBT hate groups.
Mike Bickle, leader of International house of prayer (IHOP) has been credibly accused of sexual abuse spanning several decades.
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Anti-porn "science" in legislation mainly comes from
@YourBrainOnPorn
owned by Mary Sharpe and Darryl Mead of The Reward Foundation and Syngery Explorers.
They preached for "The Karezza Institute" that orgasm and vibrators are bad, sending "Christ Oil" to the "optic thalamus".
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Don't ever choke someone without discussing it with them in detail first.
(Strongly) Consider not actually choking at all, but rather just making the gesture and she can hold her breath if she likes.
What you're doing?
It's assault.
Law enforcement should hear about it.
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This is completely false. There is no evidence that sex education produces "dopamine" that causes pornography viewing in youth, much less a non-existent "addiction", which the World Health Organization has clearly stated is not supported
Minnesota State Sen. Glenn Gruenhagen (R) speaks against sex education in schools, saying it produces dopamine in small children and therefore causes addiction.
"You're producing addiction to pornography, and some of those young boys will turn into human sexual predators."
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A common myth is that sex/porn is addictive because those with substance use disorders also experience more "sex addiction".
New study finds no evidence to support this in SUDs sample (n=173).
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Periodic reminder: there are still no longitudinal (or other causal) data showing that porn causes long-term changes in the brain, much less changes that are harmful.
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The entire country is waking up to the security nightmare of church anti-porn apps
Mike Johnson's porn "monitoring" remarks spark national security concerns
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Age verification defeated.
Age verification is just a back door method to eliminate access to pornography for adults by religious groups. There is no science showing that it reduces access by youth.
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1) Some women will like it and tell you.
2) Some will have a moment of panic, not sure what is happening, and be scared.
3) Some will panic, & fake pleasure in hopes you will not kill them.
4) Eventually, someone is going to lose it in terror in your grip
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Anti-porn groups make money, in part, by denigrating porn performers as less than human. We documented their fantasies of killing and engaging in criminal acts against them online about 100X other "support" groups
The Ethics of Erotic Videos in Academia. A delightful interview with
@SexyHappyCouple
about being porn stars with PhDs. I’m genuinely appreciative of opportunity to spend time with them.
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Age verification for accessing pornography does not, and has never, worked for limiting youth access:
even though anti-porn, religious groups like The Reward Foundation were paid around 100,000£ for years to claim they do as unregistered lobbyists.
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Treated for "porn addiction"?
It isn't a diagnosis. What is your "therapist" actually doing?
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@AshleyGWinter
Yep, my dad is a pediatrician, and we could never going anywhere growing up without families wanting to love on him.
And if you can wait to phone the on-call about your kiddos poop until after dinner time, your ped's family thanks you. 🤣
Congrats!
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If your therapist is offering to treat your recovered memories from the "Secret Space Program", they are probably about to lose their license to practice.
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Squirrels masturbate after sex. The most dominant squirrels (scoring closer to 1) masturbate the most. The more partners, the more they masturbate.
Why?
Scientists think it is a form of genital grooming, like urinating post-sex, keeping everything running!
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A group that renamed itself anti-trafficking (from "Morality in Media") was caught promoting a business whose leader is now facing *many* sex trafficking charges.
They did a volte-face hoping no one would notice.
They run a "pornharms" website that claims to promote science.
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Tim Ballard in "anti-sex-trafficking" Operation Underground Railroad appears to have falsified his credentials.
We are investigating fraudulent credential claims in the "Your Brain On Porn" group, which appear primarily academic. Not surprising.
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Pornhub took a very German approach to prevent sexual offenses, referring those who search for child content to care.
Data suggest it worked as a search deterrent.
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I spoke to the main Swedish science news outlet about the failure to support claimed harms of pornography
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The porn pseudoscience that actual scientists deal with daily covered in
@QueerMajority
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@DrSprankle
“Objections to porn are no longer reliant on religious morality or feminist ideology arguments, but anti-porn crusaders now make bold claims about how porn causes brain damage and will break your penis" -
@DrSprankle
|
@TheBowieCat
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Alexander Rhodes of
@NoFap
sent dozens of emails and posted on Reddit that "PornHub" authored our violence paper.
This is false and defamatory.
It was dismissed by the journal as having no evidence.
NoFap is known for creating such false conspiracies:
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Pornhub received 0 notices of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) in 2023 from NCMEC.
It surprised me when I first saw it, because all these people are claiming PornHub is such a "crime scene". Most platforms have some that sneak on they have to pull!
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New paper describes how the youth-porn-panic reflects longstanding cultural discomforts with youth developing sexuality. The use of the "addiction" term appears to primarily be political, rather than science, based.
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Utah passes anti-porn bill, and searches for VPN (to continue to access porn by appearing to be accessing from a different state) jumps on Google.
Blocks have never worked.
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@mikestabile
Covenant Eyes, developed by a Catholic priest Matt Fradd, ads appear widely on anti-porn and anti-masturbation websites, and originally wrote "Your Brain On Porn" book now marketed by another anti-porn org.
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Texas has a law that websites must make false scientific claims about pornography.
Texas had to fabricate claims involving my and my colleague's scientific publications to write it.
My latest on
@Medium
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First-amendment folks will know what "government blocking VPN traffic" means. This acknowledges that age-verification never did work, VPN was always the easy work-around (and yes, youth know how to set them up). They have to violate the law to stop the workaround.
The head of the Age Verification Providers Association is now calling for governments to track and block VPN traffic, a hallmark of authoritarian regimes.
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The fake brain image is circulating again. Vote for the community note to help keep fake neuroscience off X
This is the actual origin of the fake image
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Masturbation: Not a treatment for suicidality, but also not not a treatment for suicidality.
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There is no evidence that porn "causes the hypersexualization" of minors and brain damage. This is the classic fear of developing sexuality in youth, who do not start their first sexual thought at age 18 and no brain damage has ever been demonstrated.
What a waste of privacy.
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I woke up to pings that an anti-porn activist was misrepresenting my science. She asked people to attack me because Twitter (not me) automatically added a warning about this fake brain image to false claims she wanted to spread...and she did not know how Twitter works.
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They argue NCOSE relied on false conspiracy beliefs to push their narratives that "big tech" is involved in covering up non-existent crime waves they then legislate must be stopped.
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The scholars highlight intentional, fraudulent representations from NCOSE for the purpose of forcing their moral beliefs on others.
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Our study (accepted, awaiting publication) connects Exodus Cry's
#TraffickHub
campaign to violent online posts, made on forums where mass murderers have been verified. I believe the data will show these anti-porn groups rely on intimidation/violence rather than argument/reason.
Mike Bickle, a founding father of anti-porn org Exodus Cry, has stepped away from his ministry after sexual misconduct allegations. The media’s silence is deafening
#commentary
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A youth on NoFap describes wanting to "die" because he believes he has "relapsed" and harmed himself by masturbating. No support is offered on the supposed "support" forum.
Our study documented such suicidal ideation caused by a false intervention
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This image is regularly posted by anti-porn extremists who profit by claiming to "Reboot" your brain through porn abstinence. It was posted again this weekend.
It is fake:
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Ever wonder why they attack scientists so viciously?
This is patently false; it has never been demonstrated. Medical disinformation is being used to justify legislative attacks on free speech in Texas.
Our study directly addresses how they fabricated these claims...under review.
Texas becomes the latest state to pass an antiporn bill, requiring not only invasive age-verification, but that all sites post a pseudoscientific warning about porn from the Texas Health and Human Services Department.
We will fight it and we will win.
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Instead of being reported to law enforcement, Brand was signing absurd "purity pledges" in a "sex addiction" treatment center.
There is *zero* empirical support for such pledges.
How long did these centers potentially hide/prolong sex abuse?
Brand self-described as a "sex addict" now may be better characterized as a sex offender. Scientists gave done all we can to warn the public about making this error; don't give abusers cover!
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I asked if a neuroscience society could verify whether an anti-porn leader was a member (she had zero neuro background, but claimed membership).
They verified she had been, and they had changed their admissions to keep people like her out.
They're even faking being scientists.
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The "new normal" of anti-science aggression in the US. I gave talks with guards when the death and rape threats from Gary Wilson's Your Brain On Porn group were the worst. I still have security measures that change with the venue. If the public had any idea what these folks do...
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What is the relationship of porn viewing/masturbation to relationship quality? It appears dependent on partner's knowledge: only when done in secret do associations with porn/masturbation appear negative.
...and when is porn/masturbation done secretly...
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@AshleyGWinter
This attitude by some physicians and therapists is awful. In our science we explicitly comment on this harmful assumption that people are not getting anything psychologically useful from this type of sex.
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A large part of the anti-porn movement in the USA and Scotland is actually led by "karezza" practitioners, a practice that has been described as Buddhist that preaches to avoid all orgasms forever to cure everything.
I wonder if this history would make an interesting paper?
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Platforms like "OnlyFans" are not only sexual, but also can offer an experience of connection linked to better health
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The blackout is under way at
@Reddit
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The for-profit anti-porn subreddits are all still up.
Remember who cares about their money and their users.
A large
@Reddit
protest due to removing app access and features for their users appears widely supported with a shut down including many "porn" subreddits...and zero anti-porn subreddits.
Who cares about their users?
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The more adolescents view pornography over time, the lower their belief that it depicts realistic sex acts (non-significant, notably, but decreased).
It appears experience with porn might improve understanding of its role as entertainment.
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New science shows how "No Nut November" (aka NNN aka NoFap November) actually likely started, and its likely impact on public health
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While there are many experts writing about renewed anti-LGBT hate that might have sparked this attack, I study one source: anti-porn groups. They think viewing gay porn as an "escalation" and offer to "treat" you by returning you to heterosexuality.
That is conversion therapy
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The clinician I reported, who retaliated by lying in four states about the complaint, has lost her license. She also lost her only board certification:Certified Sex Addiction Therapist.
She now "helps" people recover memories of their sexual abuse by space aliens as a coach.
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New peer-reviewed report finds banning sex work is associated with an increase in sex crimes.
"the ban boosted rapes by around 62.4%"
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Karezza is a profoundly sex-shaming religion. This is the group that created "Your Brain on Porn" and "The Reward Foundation".
It is not mysterious why they are promoting hatred of the pornography industry; they seem to hate all sexual expression.
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The doxxing, misogyny, and anti-semitism towards the journalist who covered NoFap's and
@YourBrainOnPorn
link to hate groups continues.
Our peer-reviewed science covering the violent threats unique to NoFap resulted in similar threats:
Thanks to the journalists who face anti-sex violence, misogyny, and anti-semitism to help science communication.
Lisa Hagen is, naturally, being smeared with misogyny for covering scientific concerns *about misogyny* in NoFap online forums.
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Intrasexual competition: As Ms. New Zealand fainted in a beauty pageant the women around her mostly continued to smile and ignore her. This appears also in pornography debates, where women who are religious, overwhelmingly white, denigrate female sex workers as "less pure".
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So a study just showed "porn" processing is actually the same as the depression bias.
Given that there is still zero discriminant validity with depression, can we finally just call it what it is: depression misdiagnosed?
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Texas sued for policies making completely false scientific claims about the effects of pornography.
🚨 FSC and a host of legal adult businesses have just filed suit over Texas unconstitutional age-verification mandate. In addition, requires sites to post a slew of pseudoscientific and unsupported warnings about porn.
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Regardless of your political orientation, it is important to consider sex trafficking claims carefully. They are sometimes misrepresented for profit or political gain. This victim spoke clearly about the misuse of her story.
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How are we a decade into "sex addiction" claims and still no evidence it exists?
Come to my
@MakeSocietySafe
plenary! I will describe the data that would be required to claim this as a new disease, and why published data suggest that those requirement can never be met.
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NoFap is now widely replicated in science as an "extreme misogynist" manosphere group.
Their new Discord is no better.
- calls OnlyFans "whores"
- fantasizing about killing women who "tempt" them relapse
@PaulaHall_psych
still sends her clients to NoFap in Therapy Today article
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I have verified that a private investigative firm was illegally hired by an anti-porn extremist group to track me across multiple states, now in violation of my CA address protections, and CCPA/CPRA.
I have legal working it already, but if you know PI's in PA or Ohio, please DM.
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The anti-porn,anti-LGBT software used by the speaker is a privacy concern, but we also have no evidence of its clinical efficacy.
@washingtonpost
In fact, abstinence is associated with more symptoms of depression, anxiety, and ED.
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"Pornography addiction" licensed mental health counselor in Utah sentenced to 60 years with her business partner for child abuse
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Just got back FOIAs.
A major anti-porn "influencer" definitely faked a PhD and faked employment history as a neuroscientist at a major university.
Now is alway the question: how to warn the public?
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Wow, a PORN addiction made him murder his wife?!
The story never actually discusses porn anywhere, but spends half the article on an extra-pair coupling.
#SavedYouAClick
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I spoke to
@NPR
about a very sketchy porn panic film that appears to fabricate scientific conclusions I have never seen published anywhere:
The filmmaker was a well-known conspiracy theorist, which is common in anti-porn rhetoric
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New study reports "Claims of a strong relationship between pornography use and sexual dysfunction are generally unfounded, both by the findings of studies and/or by misinterpretations of them."
Mediation appears to be the rule, if any direct relationship.
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There is a fake study being circulated claiming that anti-masturbation Reboots "cure" all "sexual dysfunctions" in 14% of people (and improved them in 46%).
This has never been published.
These data have never been reviewed.
This is a serious, false medical claim.
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@AshleyGWinter
But have you discovered cinnamon toast? You ALWAYS have cinnamon toast at home. 😈
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