Does “forced abstinence” from gaming lead to pornography use? Insight from the April 2018 crash of Fortnite’s servers

In April 2018, the servers of the popular video game “Fortnite” crashed for 24 hr. During this period, Pornhub (a popular pornographic website) analyzed trends in pornography access, finding that: (a) the percentage of gamers accessing Pornhub increased by 10% and (b) the searches of pornographic vi...

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Autores principales: Castro-Calvo, Jesús, Ballester-Arnal, Rafael, Potenza, Marc N., King, Daniel L., Billieux, Joël
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Akadémiai Kiadó 2018
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Letter to the Editor
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6426371/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30203695
http://dx.doi.org/10.1556/2006.7.2018.78
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description In April 2018, the servers of the popular video game “Fortnite” crashed for 24 hr. During this period, Pornhub (a popular pornographic website) analyzed trends in pornography access, finding that: (a) the percentage of gamers accessing Pornhub increased by 10% and (b) the searches of pornographic videos using the key term “Fortnite” increased by 60%. In this letter, we discuss these observations in the context of ongoing debate regarding the validity of “withdrawal” when applied to problematic involvement in video gaming and the potential use of pornography as a “compensation behavior” during the periods of “forced abstinence” from gaming.
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spelling pubmed-64263712019-04-24 Does “forced abstinence” from gaming lead to pornography use? Insight from the April 2018 crash of Fortnite’s servers Castro-Calvo, Jesús Ballester-Arnal, Rafael Potenza, Marc N. King, Daniel L. Billieux, Joël J Behav Addict Letter to the Editor In April 2018, the servers of the popular video game “Fortnite” crashed for 24 hr. During this period, Pornhub (a popular pornographic website) analyzed trends in pornography access, finding that: (a) the percentage of gamers accessing Pornhub increased by 10% and (b) the searches of pornographic videos using the key term “Fortnite” increased by 60%. In this letter, we discuss these observations in the context of ongoing debate regarding the validity of “withdrawal” when applied to problematic involvement in video gaming and the potential use of pornography as a “compensation behavior” during the periods of “forced abstinence” from gaming. Akadémiai Kiadó 2018-09-10 2018-09 /pmc/articles/PMC6426371/ /pubmed/30203695 http://dx.doi.org/10.1556/2006.7.2018.78 Text en © 2018 The Author(s) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium for non-commercial purposes, provided the original author and source are credited, a link to the CC License is provided, and changes – if any – are indicated.
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