Nicole Prause

Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction. Her areas of concentration were neuroscience and statistics. Her clinical internship, in neuropsychological assessment and behavioral medicine, was with the VA Boston Healthcare System's Psychology Internship Training Program.^[a] Her research fellowship was in couples' treatment for alcoholism with Timothy O'Farrell at Harvard University.^[2]

David Geffen School of Medicine. While there, she was promoted to Associate Research Scientist in 2014. Institutional attitudes towards sex research and ongoing safety threats from anti-porn organizations prompted her to found Liberos LLC in 2015.^{[3][self-published source?][4]} This private research institute and biotechnology company is funded entirely by grants from the federal government and private grants.^[5] She is also a licensed psychologist in California.^[6]

Theta Burst Stimulation (TBS).^[7] This study was also the first in the US to use primary sexual rewards in the laboratory, adopting from a history of this approach in European laboratories, to overcome the problem of sex films used as secondary reinforcers in previous research.^{[citation needed]} This is thought to raise new possibilities for intervention for those with high or low sex drive, which could be altered semi-permanently by repeated TBS.^[8]

porn addiction published in 2013, which concluded that hypersexuality might be better understood as a "non-pathological variation of high sexual desire", rather than an addiction.^[9] The suspect in the 2021 Atlanta spa shootings claimed to be addicted to pornography and sex, but Prause has stated that there is no scientific consensus that sort of addiction exists.^[10]

3d printed penes to rummage through and handle, rather than flat images. Results suggested that most women preferred a penis only slightly larger than average size, that their preference differs slightly across different types of relationships, and that they found penis size to be relatively unimportant in a partner, less important than cooking skills or dress, and only more important than eye color and car type.^[12] Twenty percent of participants reported never having experienced sexual intercourse prior to the start of the study.^[11] A similar percentage reported having ended a relationship "in part" because of penis size.^[13] Blueprints of all the model phalluses used in the study are publicly available.^[14]

orgasmic meditation, which concluded that this genital stroking practice increased closeness in partners regardless of whether or not they had an existing romantic relationship.^[15]