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[RwandaLibre] Science Alert: Watching porn 'makes men stupid'!

Men who watch porn have less brain grey matter
FELICITY NELSON
SATURDAY, 31 MAY 2014

Porn consumption has been linked to differences in the structure and
function of male brains

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Men who watch porn have significantly less grey matter in their
brains, a new study shows. MRI brain scans of 64 men between 21 and 45
years of age were taken while participants were shown images of porn
and people exercising.

The participants were later requested to provide information about
weekly porn consumption via a phone interview. Every person in the
study volunteered to answer these questions, even though they were not
told that this information would be needed before commencing. The men
had a wide range of porn consumption averaging 4 hours a week.

Men with higher porn consumption had lower grey matter volumes.
Interestingly, when men were shown sexually explicit material during
the MRI scan, the region of the brain associated with motivation
showed reduced activity.

"Our findings indicated that grey matter volume of the right caudate
of the striatum is smaller with higher pornography use,"
researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in
Berlin, Germany told ABC Science.

The study could not show that porn caused men's brains to lose grey
matter. "Future studies should investigate the effects of pornography
longitudinally or expose naive participants to pornography and
investigate the causal effects over time", researchers told ABC
Science.

This research was published this week in the journal JAMA Psychiatry.
Source: ABC Science

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Original Investigation | May 28, 2014

Brain Structure and Functional Connectivity Associated With
Pornography Consumption
The Brain on Porn ONLINE FIRST

Simone Kühn, PhD1; Jürgen Gallinat, PhD2,3
[+] Author Affiliations

JAMA Psychiatry. Published online May 28, 2014.
doi:10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2014.93 Text Size: A A A

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ABSTRACT

ABSTRACT | METHODS | RESULTS | DISCUSSION | CONCLUSIONS | ARTICLE
INFORMATION | REFERENCES

Importance Since pornography appeared on the Internet, the
accessibility, affordability, and anonymity of consuming visual sexual
stimuli have increased and attracted millions of users. Based on the
assumption that pornography consumption bears resemblance with
reward-seeking behavior, novelty-seeking behavior, and addictive
behavior, we hypothesized alterations of the frontostriatal network in
frequent users.

Objective To determine whether frequent pornography consumption is
associated with the frontostriatal network.

Design, Setting, and Participants Sixty-four healthy male adults with
a broad range of pornography consumption at the Max Planck Institute
for Human Development in Berlin, Germany, reported hours of
pornography consumption per week. Pornography consumption was
associated with neural structure, task-related activation, and
functional resting-state connectivity.

Main Outcomes and Measures Gray matter volume of the brain was
measured by voxel-based morphometry and resting state functional
connectivity was measured on 3-T magnetic resonance imaging scans.

Results We found a significant negative association between reported
pornography hours per week and gray matter volume in the right caudate
(P < .001, corrected for multiple comparisons) as well as with
functional activity during a sexual cue–reactivity paradigm in the
left putamen (P < .001). Functional connectivity of the right caudate
to the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex was negatively associated
with hours of pornography consumption.

Conclusions and Relevance The negative association of self-reported
pornography consumption with the right striatum (caudate) volume, left
striatum (putamen) activation during cue reactivity, and lower
functional connectivity of the right caudate to the left dorsolateral
prefrontal cortex could reflect change in neural plasticity as a
consequence of an intense stimulation of the reward system, together
with a lower top-down modulation of prefrontal cortical areas.
Alternatively, it could be a precondition that makes pornography
consumption more rewarding.

Figures in this Article

Figure 1.
Brain Regions and Pornography Consumption
A, Brain region showing a significant negative correlation (r
64 = −0.432, P < .001) between hours of pornography consumption per
week (square rooted) and gray matter volume (Montreal Neurological
Institute coordinates: x = 11, y = 5, z = 3) and the scatterplot
illustrating the correlation. B, Negative correlation between hours of
pornography consumption per week and blood oxygenation level–dependent
signal during sexual cue–reactivity paradigm (sex cue > fixation)
(Montreal Neurological Institute coordinates: x = −24, y = 2, z = 4).
C, Negative correlation between hours of pornography consumption per
week and functional-connectivity map of the right striatum in the left
dorsolateral prefrontal cortex.

Figure 2.
Mediation Analysis
The negative association between gray matter (X) in the right striatum
identified in the voxel-based morphometry analysis and pornography
consumption (Y) is not strongly mediated by the functional
task-related activity in the left striatum (M), showing that
structural, as well as functional, effects contribute independently to
the prediction of pornography consumption.

a, b, ab, and c/c′ indicate path coefficients.aP < .05.bP < .001.

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[RwandaLibre] eNCA - 1 hour ago: Former Rwandan rebels commence new life

Former Rwandan rebels commence new life

eNCA - 1 hour ago
Africa Sunday 1 June 2014 - 11:42am

UN peacekeepers stand alongside local residents as they look at
members of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (DFLR)
rebel group boarding a bus to go to the UN cantonnement camp in
Kanyabayonga after a weapons surrender ceremony on May 30. Picture:
JEAN BAPTISTE BADHERA / AFP

KANYABAYONGA, DRC - In a huge hangar covered in white tarp, nearly a
hundred rebels from a group linked to the 1994 Rwandan genocide were
preparing Saturday for a new start.

Welcomed to the UN's camp in Kanyabayonga, in the east of the
Democratic Republic of Congo, with a bowl of gruel and a promise of
help to return home or claim asylum, the men handed over their guns
and weaponry.

Hutu members of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda
(FDLR), the rebels are remnants of a group accused of participating in
the killing of at least 800,000 ethnic Tutsis during the country's
genocide, according to the UN.

Some 20 years on from the massacres, 105 men, most of them young,
surrendered on Friday at a grammar school in the DRC's North Kivu
province.

By Saturday the group were at the UN's hillside camp north of
provincial capital, Goma, surrounded by corn fields and eucalyptus
trees.

For the first day, this is a good start, but more can be done.

"We arrived a bit late," Major Jean-Pierre Faustin Mugisha, one of the
commanders of the rebels, said. "We were put up, and in the morning,
given a bowl of gruel and something to drink. We have been well
received."

The delay was apparently to do with some last-minute details: the
rebels did not want to leave without their families.

"Our dependents should come as well," said Major Mugisha, a fighter in
his forties somewhat older than many in his group. "We are going to
fulfil (our commitments) but we want our families to join us."

After some negotiations, it was decided their wives and children would
join them on Sunday.

After so many years on the run, it was only a minor hold-up.

North Kivu governor Julien Paluku said Friday that the surrender was
the first step in a process which should be wound up "within 22 days",
with the ex-rebels given a choice to return to Rwanda or ask for
political asylum.

The UN mission in DRC (MONUSCO) has welcomed the rebels' surrender,
but cautioned that it would take time to see if the movement was
serious about disarming.

In the end, only 97 of the 105 men who had handed themselves in on
Friday boarded the lorries to take them to the UN camp, but it is
hoped that this will be just the "first wave" of defections.

"For the first day, this is a good start, but more can be done,"
General Abdallah Wafi, MONUSCO's number two, told AFP.

"We are encouraging the process and have mobilised all our [military
and logistic] resources but only coming days will tell us if the
process is credible and serious."

The FDLR -- whose fighters have been refugees in the east of the DRC
since 1994 -- is today much weakened, numbering 1,500 combatants
according to the United Nations, although Kigali gives a figure of
4,000.

The rebels are scattered across Kivu province, where they have been
accused of widespread violence and rights abuses.

Previous attempts to settle the FDLR problem have failed, but in April
the group said it wanted to "devote itself to the political struggle"
in Rwanda.

It said it had no intention of starting conflicts or creating
insecurity in Rwanda, but the government there has refused to enter
into any form of dialogue.

On Saturday, a spokesman for Joseph Kabila, the president of the DRC,
called the "voluntary disarmament" of the rebels a sign that the
country was "on the right track" in terms of tackling various
conflicts in the country.

Kabila, the spokesman said, now "wants to make up for time lost to
war, sedition and destruction".

Some locals say that of late, the FDLR have behaved better, living
"peacefully" and cohabiting with the local population.

Maskia Espe, who runs a restaurant in Kanyabayonga, says some of the
FDLR are "good", but he welcomed a sign that things might be changing.

"Congo is for the Congolese," he said. "We want them to get help to
return" to Rwanda.

Major Mugisha says he wants to go home, but he knows it is complicated.

"The return to Rwanda will depend on the government in Kigali. We want
to return, but with dignity. If the government in Rwanda commits to
real dialogue, we'll return without any problems, and unarmed," he
said. -AFP

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Saturday, 31 May 2014

[RwandaLibre] UN backlash as Uganda's 'anti-gay' minister heads for human rights top job | World | The Guardian

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Secretary-Generalmeeting with H.E. Mr. Sam K. Kutesa, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Uganda. — Sam Kutesa, Uganda's foreign minister, with Ban Ki-moon, the UN's secretary-general. Photograph: UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe/SG's Office

Ed Pilkington in New York

Saturday 31 May 2014 12.11 EDT

The United Nations is facing a chorus of criticism over the inauguration as president of its general assembly of Uganda's foreign minister, just four months after that country enforced a brutal and widely denounced anti-gay law.

Sam Kutesa will become ceremonial head of the world parliament on 11 June. There will be no ballots cast and he will be "elected by acclamation", as he is the only candidate for the 12-month post, having been chosen by t he African Union for the job that falls this year to Africa on a Buggins' turn basis.

But as the appointment nears, questions are being asked about his track record of alleged corruption, as well as his role as cabinet member of a government that has enacted one of the most virulent homophobic laws on the globe. Voices of disapproval have spread from Uganda to the general assembly's home in New York and to the US senate.

New York senator Kirsten Gillibrand said: "It would be disturbing to see the foreign minister of a country that passed an unjust, harsh and discriminatory law based on sexual orientation preside over the UN general assembly." In the UK the rights campaigner Peter Tatchell has called on the government to intervene. "David Cameron and William Hague should be lobbying the UN to block Kutesa's appointment on the grounds that his political record is inconsistent with UN principles," he said.

Uganda's president, Yoweri Museveni, signed the anti-homosexuality act in February. It builds on an existing ban on homosexuality dating back to British colonial times and authorises life imprisonment for "repeat homosexuals" – couples in a committed relationship; seven-year sentences for anyone helping gay people to avoid detection; and five years in prison for "promotion of homosexuality".

Kutesa, as Uganda's foreign affairs chief, was responsible for defending the law in the face of international condemnation. Though less virulent in his advocacy than Museveni – who has called gay people "disgusting" – Kutesa said "the majority of Africans abhor this practice". He added that "we shall not accept promotion and exhibition, because we think that is wrong for our young people and it offends our culture".

His new role as president of the UN general assembly will be largely figurative. He will chair meetings of the assembly – including the annual shindig of all 193 nations in New York in September that will be addressed by President Obama, Cameron and other world leaders – but in other respects his influence will be limited.

None the less, the elevation of such a controversial figure to such a prevalent seat in the world body is disconcerting to a growing number. "There are real concerns about Sam Kutesa's commitment to the values embodied in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, including his defence of Uganda's profoundly discriminatory anti-homosexuality law," said Maria Burnett, an expert on Africa at Human Rights Watch.

A Change.org petition calling on the Obama administration to revoke Kutesa's visa to enter the US and thus prevent him taking up the presidency has attracted almost 3,000 signatures. It was written by a Ugandan, Milton Allimadi, who edits the New York-based site Black Star News. Allimadi said that Kutesa represented "the very antithesis of what the UN is supposed to embody globally – peace, security and human rights for everyone".

Asked recently what he thought about the petition, Kutesa said: "I'm not bothered by that, because it's incorrect. It's a lie."

The Ugandan mission to the UN in New York said there was no one available for comment.

In addition to the gay issue, Kutesa has also been criticised for persistent allegations of corruption. A lawyer by training, he is extremely wealthy and owns several luxury properties in Kampala. In 1999 he was censured by the Ugandan parliament for alleged misuse of his office. In 2009 he wasnamed in a confidential US diplomatic cable disclosed by WikiLeaks as one of three senior government ministers Museveni had failed to hold "accountable for corruption allegations". Two years later he was forced to step down as minister after he and two other cabinet members were accused in parliament of accepting bribes from a foreign oil company – he was reinstated in 2012, but only after the investigation into the three wasquashed by court order.

Cissy Kagaba of the Anti-Corruption Coalition Uganda in Kampala said that Kutesa's elevation to such a prominent UN role was sending the wrong message: "It says that people who have been linked to alleged corruption can still represent their country, and that will make the fight against it much more difficult."

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-“The root cause of the Rwandan tragedy of 1994 is the long and past historical ethnic dominance of one minority ethnic group to the other majority ethnic group. Ignoring this reality is giving a black cheque for the Rwandan people’s future and deepening resentment, hostility and hatred between the two groups.”

-« Ce dont j’ai le plus peur, c’est des gens qui croient que, du jour au lendemain, on peut prendre une société, lui tordre le cou et en faire une autre ».

-“The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.”

-“I have loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile.”

-“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”

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