Your Brain On Porn

This article (Google translator) quotes three experts who say porn is causing sexual problems: Socionomen Inger Björklund, psychotherapist at RFSU Clinic; Stefan Arver's chief physician and head of the Centre for Andrology and Sexual Medicine at Karolinska University Hospital in Hudding;  Psychiatrist Goran Sedvallson.

More and more young men suffer from "porn impotence." On the web, they search for people with the same problem. "I was just about when I was looking at porn - not with my girl," said one of the victims.

This is going to be long one, I will try to keep it simple with bullet points.

• 1.) Energy: It's said that life evolves because of energy. Where did I spend my life 18 years of energy? Almost 2 hours a day on porn , not counting the loss of energy after that to do anything. It's this energy which is back with me. I have more energy, more fuel to accomplish things I have set out to do.
  

Day 31 - I first started masturbating to porn when I was 13 or 14.I was doing it most days, if not every day. Then around my 15th birthday in July, I realized I couldn't keep an erection without porn. So over the last year I've been trying over and over again to reboot, failing everytime at around 2-3 weeks. Now I am in week 5 and still in  flatline :( .

There is a fix for the brain-altering effects of pornography

It was suspiciously warm, the reception given to a study published a week ago in the Journal of Sexual Medicine. A survey of 4,600 young people in the Netherlands, aged 15 to 25, found the behavioral impact of pornography—most of it online now—to be surprisingly small. Reaction to the news? People didn't whoop exactly. But you know they wanted to. (see my comments at end of article)

As of today, I have been on NoFap for exactly half a year. I’ve had high highs and very low lows throughout this time, but regardless of how hopeless and helpless I have felt, I continued to do this, and I continue to lengthen my list of reasons to. Below is that list.

Condom compliance may be a matter of software, not hardware

Progress has stalled on teen condom use to ward off the spread of STIs. Bill Gates is convinced that better condoms will increase condom use by making sex more pleasurable.

I wish I could write here that when I stopped masturbating everything fixed itself. I wish I could tell you that my anxiety disappeared over night, that I'm no longer a virgin, that I'm suddenly a confident Casanova that is a god damned sexual Tyrannosaurus Rex, and that my life just suddenly clicked into place. But of course that didn't happen.

I have been a fapstronaut for a year now but deleted my old account. Several months ago I started fapping regularly again, but am now two months in to my new streak. I feel as though I have made large-scale changes to my state of mind. I regularly feel awesome.

I'm 22 years old at the moment - I've been a porn junkie since I first started watching it in my early teen years. Binged heavily up until age 18 or so, and was aware that it was a problem since at least age 16. After starting college, I drastically toned down the porn-watching, though I tended to binge going home on breaks. Things have been steadily improving over the last few years.