(NOT A DOX) ALL THE INFORMATION YOU NEED REGARDING THE DEFENDANT (NOT A DOX)

Defendant's Bio on https://www.liberoscenter.com/
Nicole Prause, PhD, has over fifteen years speaking to academic audiences, including as an international keynote speaker, panelist, discussant, and leading technical demonstrations on the wide variety of sexuality topics that she studies (see below). She has held professional positions as a neuroscientist, sexual psychophysiologist, statistician/Data Scientist, and most recently as founder of a sexual biotechnology company. She also is a licensed psychologist in California.

She has been profiled on National Public Radio’s Only Human, The Guardian, The Times, California Sunday (magazine of the Los Angeles Times and San Francisco Chronicle), PBS NOVA’s The Secret Lives of Scientists, Times Higher Education, Men’s Journal, Neo.Life, Men’s Health, The Sun (UK), Israel’s Haaretz, and Fusion television’s Sex. Right. Now. Expert appearances include BBC’s “Porn Laid Bare“, Discovery Channel’s Sex in America, the Comedy Central show Not Safe with Nikki Glaser, German public television’s der Spiegle documentary The Penis, National Public Radio’s AirTalk, CBS news [1][2], Fox news, Australia’s Studio 10 morning show, the feature film After Porn Ends 2, the Today Show, and the documentary Super Orgasms on UK’s channel 4 with several international documentaries currently in post-production. She also has spoken on dozens on podcasts and radio programs, including on the BBC, NPR’s Airtalk and Watching America, and with Tucker Max and Shane Mauss. Stage talks include a variety of live, public audiences, including in bars to college students, a Jewish Community Center, a 2,500 attendee TEDx auditorium, a discussion at LA Summit, and leading sexual biotechnology at PopTech. She has continued her academic career as well, including talks about brain stimulation at the International Society for the Study of Women’s Sexual Health, training clinicians through the Modern Sex Therapy Institutes, and debating Yale professor Marc Potenza at the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality contesting the diagnostic status of hypersexuality (anti position) in 2018.

Past topics have included:

§ Anti-science attacks that threaten sex research in the USA

§ Female sexual health, including dyspareunia, sexual desire, and anorgasmia

§ How alcohol and drugs affect sexual behaviors

§ Couple’s relationship satisfaction and sexual satisfaction

§ Sex and sex film “addiction”

§ Educational training for a science profession

§ The effects of viewing sex films on relationships and mental health

§ Being a female scientist in a STEM profession

§ Brain stimulation technologies

§ Portable neuroscience technologies



In one of her talks on the YouTube channel “Span Lab”, she discusses some of her work. I have typed a partial transcript beginning at 2:44. Here is the link.



“In 2013 we published what is still the largest neuroscience study of the porn addiction model. Unfortunately for us, the data indicated that it wasn’t consistent with an addiction – at least no substance or behavioral addiction that we know of. So we falsified the porn addiction model. There were some people were unhappy with our data, to put this mildly. So, amongst those that were unhappy, some of them were therapists who had been treating sex and porn addiction for many years who now built into their training for their therapists how to debunk our research to their patients so that they could continue – uhh huh – so that they could continue charging patients to treat this non-diagnosis with untested treatments.

Also, the LDS, who you may be familiar with – the Mormon church has a long history with trying to discourage masturbation, and it’s fallen out of favor for a while. So, they recently have switched strategies to demonize porn instead and taken on a health verb-age around this to say now, it’s not masturbation they’re worried about, it’s pornography and it’s addictive. So in response, you’ll get called a child molester and an antichrist, and these are all expected. But then a few weeks ago, we even had the senator from Utah, Todd Wilder, publicly saying that I was funded by pornography organizations and that I was outspoken, because, you know, female scientists – we should really shut up.

Then of course there are the trolls, and you shouldn’t pay attention to trolls, you should pay them no mind, until they write UCLA over a dozen times claiming that you faked your data, that you faked your title, that you’re involved in a mass conspiracy to promote pornography, and the lawyers have to respond to all this garbage. So that was going on, they were dealing with it. In the midst of this, I had a bunch of personal photos stolen and posted on some of their websites which they then linked to the location of my laboratory. So we notified the police, we notified our staff, we shut the lab, moved the signs and closed things for a while. Now my name is still on this one person’s website stalker over 1500 times and you may have some experience with this, but as a scientist I had never had this happen before. I did not know how to respond or how to deal with it, frankly, and it’s scary.”

AFTER THIS POINT SHE LITERALY PUTS UP AN IMAGE OF PORNHUB ON HER PRESENTATION SLIDE AND PROCEEDS TO APOLOGIZE FOR PORN FOR THE REST OF THE VIDEO.

TL;DR – watch the video



Naturally, the next question that arises is: what is Liberos LLC?

From their website page:

About

Liberos LLC is a sexual biotechnology company founded by Nicole Prause, Ph.D. in 2015 following a decade of research at the Sexual Psychophysiology and Affective Neuroscience Laboratory. This laboratory conducted research at the University of California, Los Angeles and the neuroimaging center Mind Research Network.

The company is now fully supported by several federal and private grants and includes a growing network of international collaborators and a full-time, post-doctoral scholar. Liberos has several intellectual properties in development, some of which will be premiering on national television shows this season. We also work with our talent management and literary agent to disseminate the results of our research.

Follow our progress at CrunchBase or on the Twitter.



As implicated by the above screenshot, they partake in the testing of “sex technology.” This could mean a number of things. Perhaps it refers to measurement and scientific experiment technology, or perhaps it refers to pleasure devices. The description below says that this service is used primarily to measure “sexual responses.”

Sexual technology testing
While technology around sexuality continues to explode, few are testing the efficacy of their devices. Even fewer laboratories in the world are equipped to collect, interpret, and disseminate data related to sexual responses. Our capabilities include questionnaire programming and panels, cognitive tests, genital physiology, brain responses, and the felt experience. While we use these tools to conduct our own research, we are happy to discuss how these could be leveraged to answer your questions.


This is the extent of the research I have done over the span of roughly an hour. Feel free to do some Sherlocking of your own. I have not found any evidence that Nicole Prause has been employed by or received any compensation from the porn industry, but she does seem to hold it in high regard. Also, some collaboration between her research organization and the porn industry is highly likely, given her favorable stance towards porn and their technological and monetary capacity to benefit each other. Let this stand as a possible motive for her and her company's actions against NoFap and Alex.

I will conclude with the following questions:

• What relationship does Nicole Prause have with NoFap.com?
• Why would she make personal allegations against the owner? Is it retaliation for some action that NoFap or Alex have taken against Liberos LLC in the past?
• Is this the first time NoFap and Liberos LLC have battled with each other, or do they have a legal history?

 

So basically, we've all been lied to and we're not really addicted to porn.

I'll even give them the assumption that porn is NOT a clinically diagnoseable addiction. It still has harmful effects in excess, otherwise there would not be a need for a site such as this. I would love to see some kind of link or resource that clearly connects Liberos to the porn industry. I'm sure that resource exists somewhere.

 

Because the defendant cited her own study as evidence that porn is not an addiction. While on the other hand there are multiple doctors who are beginning to agree that it is in fact consistent with addiction.

Watch the video. My guess is that she made this favorable study in order to receive grants. This is because she uses porn (she calls it "digital stimulation") in a lot of her testing and research. If she presented her research and projects in front of ethics boards without data to support that porn isn't addictive then she would likely not receive many of the research grants that she has been given. So basically it's about money. But that's just my theory.

Seriously, watch the full video. It will explain so much.

 

She works in Hollywood too. Think of how high all the connections go.