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Nicole Prause

@nicolerprause.bsky.social
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UCLA bioinformatics, Dept of Medicine Sexual Psychophysiologist Licensed Psychologist Peer-reviewed publications here www.researchgate.net/profile/Nicole…

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Matthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
On this day in 1933, Nazis raided the Magnus Hirschfeld library in Berlin. The world’s greatest collection of LGBTQ books and scientific papers were looted and later burned, erasing decades of research into sexuality and gender identity. ‘Where they burn books, in the end they will burn humans too’.
Photo showing the burning of the books looted from the Magnus Hirschfeld library.
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Nicole Prause @nicolerprause.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
We are officially halfway through (n=50 of 100) our male orgasm physiology study! If you can get to Los Angeles and are stuggling with post-orgasmic illness syndrome, please consider (paid) volunteering: t.co/chqgV0uZEW
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Nicole Prause @nicolerprause.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
I had a blast talking to Irreverent Health about orgasm physiology, post-orgasmic illness syndrome, and orgasmic meditation. youtu.be/3roEIStCcFI
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IH 230- Nicole Prause & Study of Orgasms
YouTube video by Irreverent Health
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
WELP fortune.com/2026/03/18/h...
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404 Media @404media.co · 10/03/2026
Quittr, an app that promises to help men stop watching porn, leaked intimate data on hundreds of thousands of its users, and lied about its security issues, 404 Media can now reveal. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Story by @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social: www.404media.co/viral-quittr...
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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
1908: the Lancet, one of the most respected scientific journals, calls for 18 age limit on reading in bed amidst a moral panic surrounding children becoming "addicted" to novels, which were "designed to keep kids hooked" and destroy their attention/mental health
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Nicole Prause @nicolerprause.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Judge blocks Trump admin from rescinding health grants to Democratic-led states www.npr.org/2026/02/13/n...
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Judge blocks Trump admin from rescinding health grants to Democratic-led states
The ruling temporarily blocks the Trump Administration from cutting $600 million in public health grants that had already been allocated to four Democratic-led states.
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Nicole Prause @nicolerprause.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
They used our 3D prints and tried to replicate/extend our penis size data in street interviews! Points for creativity youtube.com/watch?v=khAX... youtube.com/watch?v=jGfc... So weird seeing someone else holding our blue models 😂
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I Asked 20 Women To Pick The Perfect Penis Size
YouTube video by Baseem
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Nicole Prause @nicolerprause.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Huh. That's weird.
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Inara O'Neill -✨ B.C. based 6'3" Irish Goddess-next-door @inaraoneill.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
This is basically a cool clinical phd @nicolerprause.bsky.social who runs a sex neurology lab giving a verbal systematic review of what research has actually been done about what sex actually looks like in your nervous system with a lot of weird MRI situations 🔥♥️🤓 open.spotify.com/episode/4cNk...
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Your Brain On... Sex
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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
it's hard to explain how horrible and dangerous this app and the people who made it are but I tried: www.404media.co/app-for-quit...
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App for Quitting Porn Leaked Users' Masturbation Habits
Hundreds of thousands of users told the app intimate details about their sexual urges, which are now exposed.
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Nicole Prause @nicolerprause.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
After a series of violent threats last week on NoFap Discord, now calls to "Destroy Mindgeek". They don't even know who they're referring to, but they want violence. This is why science on violence in NoFap remains important:this is not self-help & not for youth. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Nicole Prause @nicolerprause.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
This might be the most beautiful temperature plot to date in our male orgasm study. It is very rare to have a human body responding in such a clear pattern! The first jump is when manual stimulation starts (~1,100).
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
This line graph illustrates the percentage change in agency staff levels from the previous year for nine major U.S. federal scientific and health organizations between the fiscal years 2016 and 2025. The agencies tracked include the CDC, Department of Energy, EPA, FDA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, and NSF. For the majority of the timeline between 2016 and 2023, the agencies show relatively stable fluctuations, generally staying within a range of +5% to -5% change per year. However, there is a dramatic and uniform plummet starting in the 2024–25 period. Every agency depicted shows a sharp downward trajectory, with staffing losses ranging from approximately -15% to over -25%. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows the most significant decline, dropping to roughly -26%, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows the least severe but still substantial drop at approximately -15%.
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Nicole Prause @nicolerprause.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
NoFap Discord: "we need to unite and commit a violent attack against pornstars and the porn industry through vandalism, murder etc as a form of rebellion [...] ive been planning a violent attack for a little bit now, if you are interested in talking about then message me or here" 1/3
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Nicole Prause @nicolerprause.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Tis the season to...spin misgoyny about scientists on Discord? The NoFap Discord apparently spent Christmas going after me as a "scientist girl" who is "addicted" to porn. Mods left it up. Our latest paper covers some of these attacks against scientists, especially women.
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Nicole Prause @nicolerprause.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Laila Haddad Mickelwait of "TraffickingHub" gives herself another huge raise without an increase in hours, along with her friend and COO, still illegally hiding their board members from the IRS. Vast majority of money? Spent on publicity, not helping anyone. "Justice Defense Fund"
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Nicole Prause @nicolerprause.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
"Sex therapies that harm", updated, teaching today! We have new data on certified sex addiction therapists (CSAT) making poorer diagnostic decisions and data showing how false porn conspiracies cause harm in NoFap. Therapies are not only innocuous or helpful, they can harm!
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Nicole Prause @nicolerprause.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
I worked with a UK crew (Zandland) on this new documentary "Inside Gooning: The Secret World of Porn Addiction" in which we review why porn is not considered addictive scientifically, and what may actually be happening with one man involved in gooning (extended masturbation).
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Inside Gooning: The Secret World of Porn Addiction
YouTube video by ZANDLAND™
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Nicole Prause @nicolerprause.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Yep, that's a weiner dog pacing my Turkey Trot 5K. 😂
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Nicole Prause @nicolerprause.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
I am loving these data. n=42! More evidence of male sexual flushing.
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Nicole Prause @nicolerprause.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
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Nicole Prause @nicolerprause.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
I got tired of reading this fake statistic that strangulation during sex was the "second leading cause of stroke in young women". It's not. medium.com/@nicole.prau...
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Is “strangulation” really the second cause of stroke in young women?
Here we go again
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Nicole Prause @nicolerprause.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Get continuing education from my updated seminar "Sex therapies that harm, masturbation and new diagnoses" on December 6, 2025. It is a combination of two past seminars about (1) "interventions" that actually hurt clients and (2) masturbation data. modernsextherapyinstitutes.com/product/sex-...
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STAT @statnews.com · 14/10/2025
Protecting the nation’s public health demands data, whether it be new measles cases, a surge in ER visits, or shifting patterns in obesity. The most recent job cuts at the CDC threaten the mostly unseen foundation of that research enterprise. www.statnews.com/2025/10/14/c...
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CDC team running top survey on health and nutrition is laid off
NHANES has collected data on eating patterns, diabetes and other common diseases for decades. The CDC team that runs it has been fired.
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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
JFC. Ron DeHaas, founder of the Christian antiporn app Covenant Eyes, has stepped down from NCOSE after his 38-year old son was charged with sexual abuse of a child. Covenant Eyes is the app used by House Speaker Mike Johnson and his son to monitor each other's internet behavior.
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Covenant Eyes Cofounder Helps Post Bond for Adult Stepson, Who Is Charged With Felony Child Sex Abuse
In August, Thomas Wideman, an adult stepson of Covenant Eyes cofounder Ron DeHaas, was arrested during a CSAM sting operation.
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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Discord confirms that government IDs used for age-verification were compromised in a hack with a vendor. Who could have predicted? Oh, right.
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Discord users suffer the first high-profile age-verification hack – and it's unlikely to be the last
Critics of age verification laws warned this was inevitable
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Nicole Prause @nicolerprause.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
New paper “Your Seed is Your Life Force”: Masculinities of Spirituality and Entrepreneurialism in NoFap Lifestyle Gurus on YouTube Covers NoFap as mainly to make focus on making money, less of a health practice journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Nicole Prause @nicolerprause.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
A colleague shared this scholarship on the harms of the NoFap Army being presented from Sweden!
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Nicole Prause @nicolerprause.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
We know several anti-porn "doctors" offering fraudulent cures to young men. If you want an idea for how difficult it is to hold frauds like this accountable, follow the story of "Dr." Makis, who has had numerous complaints filed against him for years to try to stop his grift. cpsa.ca/news/stateme...
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Statement: William (Viliam) Makis not licensed to practise medicine in Alberta (updated) - College of Physicians & Surgeons of Alberta | CPSA
Update, posted on Sept. 25, 2025 (original statement below): At a hearing held on Aug. 15, 2025, CPSA was granted an interim injunction against Mr. Makis by Alberta’s Court of King’s Bench. Under the ...
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Elizabeth Nolan Brown @enbrown.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
The most insane “anti-porn” bill I’ve seen yet The “Anticorruption of Public Morals Act” would criminalize visual, audio, or written depictions of “sex acts,” with language broad enough to ban distribution of When Harry Met Sally & romance novels .. and that's not even the worst of it 🧵
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Michigan anti-porn would criminalize ASMR, written erotica, and even nonsexual depictions of trans people
Under the law, transgender people writing about their gender identity online could face 20 years in prison and a $100,000 fine.
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Nicole Prause @nicolerprause.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Data show youth know how to use VPNs. The idea that the surge in VPN use to evade porn blocks is limited to adults is ridiculous.
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Timmons Roberts @timmonsroberts.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up. NYT just covered it. 1/n www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
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Law Firm Pressures Brown University to Erase Research on Anti-Wind Groups
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Nicole Prause @nicolerprause.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Men are tending to *slow* their reaction time to the persistent vigilance task after O (n=25, despite outliers). It is unusual to see performance decrement on repeated tasks in a lab, but it sure looked like they got a little *too* relaxed post-O!
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Nicole Prause @nicolerprause.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
We are 25% of the way through study recruitment! Time to get these ejaculate samples in the mail...
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Bluesky @bsky.app · 22/08/2025
Unfortunately, Bluesky is unavailable in Mississippi right now, due to a new state law that requires age verification for all users. While intended for child safety, we think this law poses broader challenges & creates significant barriers that limit free speech & harm smaller platforms like ours.
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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Australia's age-verification regulation appears to be unravelling. Members of a government committee claim AV companies are wildly overstating the accuracy of their tech and unwilling or unable to prove they're deleting personal information post- verification. Several members have quit in protest.
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Key stakeholders in Australia’s social media age assurance trial frozen out amid media leaks and resignations
Trial’s advisory board may not see the final report until communications minister releases it in the coming weeks
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Nicole Prause @nicolerprause.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Now n=23 into data collection into what (I believe will be) the largest lab study of male orgasm!
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Nicole Prause @nicolerprause.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
We also had a ~5000 word complaint demanding the retraction of our paper for purely political reasons. It also was filled with false and defamatory claims. This is just the latest way to attack scientists. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Our publisher stood against their egregious threats.
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Violence on Reddit Support Forums Unique to r/NoFap
Masturbation abstinence practices have returned to the USA in the form of semen retention communities. Followers on one of these male, anti-masturbation forums, “NoFap,” on Reddit (denoted “r/NoFap...
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Nicole Prause @nicolerprause.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
New paper accepted! "One in Four Transplant Hepatologists in the United States Screen Positive for Unhealthy Alcohol Use" Details to come...
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The Dissenter @thedissenteryt.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
New episode (1126), with Dr. Nicole Prause. We talk about pornography, NoFap, and orgasm. #Psychology #neuroscience #Science YouTube: youtu.be/SHUhmiCYQlA Podcast: bit.ly/4f5nWx8
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#1126 Nicole Prause: Pornography, NoFap, and Orgasm
YouTube video by The Dissenter
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Nicole Prause @nicolerprause.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
The red tubing is going to be helpful in minding kinks in our anal measure, but it does give a certain Christmas-like appearance to the lab.
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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Reddit has now blocked r/NoFap in the UK over the Online Safety Act. The anti-masturbation forum can now not be accessed unless you submit biometrics or identifying information.
Screen shot of NoFap forum on Reddit mature content warning.
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Nicole Prause @nicolerprause.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
The first longitudinal test of the NoFap November practice: failure. Abstinence does nothing. Sexual function did not improve. Most started as children, misled with this disinformation. academic.oup.com/jsm/advance-...
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Nicole Prause @nicolerprause.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
ICE lied to falsely arrest peaceful protestors. Keep filming! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Dropped cases against LA protesters reveal false claims from federal agents
Revealed: records show border patrol gave inaccurate testimony about people it jailed. Prosecutors now face ‘embarrassing’ dismissals
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Nicole Prause @nicolerprause.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
fyi, they cut cancer funding. Direct knowledge. This is just a lie.
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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
The UK age-verification law has been in effect less than 48 hours and people are getting around it using these guys for age-verification. www.techspot.com/news/108819-...
A shot of the meme "Hide the Pain Harold" showing a middle-aged man in front of a laptop holding a cup of coffee.Discord chat showing verification by using Harold Hides the Pain and a guy from the video game Death Stranding.
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Nicole Prause @nicolerprause.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
We have power. Asking someone being detained if you can call anyone for them, or live streaming for them, both seem like ways we can help the brown people being targeted without warrants in Los Angeles. We haven't seen ICE in my neighborhood, but we should all be ready and have a plan.
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Nicole Prause @nicolerprause.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
NoFap, FightTheNewDrug, and other anti-porn websites are placing hidden tracking that follows you around the web and cannot be stopped by clearing cookies by BlackLight report. Both websites are design for youth to talk about their sexual behaviors.
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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Antiporn groups said they were only going after games with violence against women. But what got censored? Award-winning games about disordered eating, LGBTQ+ games and anything flagged NSFW. @megannicolett.bsky.social's reporting raises alarms about the real danger of this censorship campaign.
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Steam and Itch.io Are Pulling ‘Porn’ Games. Critics Say It's a Slippery Slope to More Censorship
A conservative group is targeting payment processors as “a weapon” to get adult games deindexed in storefronts. Even games that have nothing to do with sex or abuse have been caught in the dragnet.
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