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The Codification of Sex and the Problem with Sex Addiction

There is an old joke in psychological circles that a sex addict is someone who is having more sex than his therapist. If we accept that—as psychoanalysis claims—every joke contains…

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Gaming Disorder: The World Health Organisation Jumps the Shark

Earlier this year, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced plans to include gaming disorder—video gaming that interferes with other life responsibilities—in their International Classification of Diseases (ICD)—despite considerable controversy, including…

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Virtual Reality Will Spark a Twenty-First Century Decadent Movement

On 20 February, 2019, Jak Wilmot put on a VR headset and didn’t take it off for an entire week. He ate, slept, worked and played in VR, and even…

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12 min

Of Rats, Voles and Online Porn

Rats in a Skinner Box Rats wired up to electrodes, housed in an experimental Skinner box, continually press a button to give themselves powerful, pleasurable sensations. The rats go into…

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The Codification of Sex and the Problem with Sex Addiction

Gaming Disorder: The World Health Organisation Jumps the Shark

Virtual Reality Will Spark a Twenty-First Century Decadent Movement

Of Rats, Voles and Online Porn

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