A former Team GB diver said he was left feeling “dirty” after he became hooked on online pornography as a child. Freddie Woodward, who competed at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio, said at the height of his addiction he sometimes visited adult websites multiple times a day. Today, the 30-year-old, from Sheffield, is calling […]
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The company behind Pornhub and other adult entertainment sites will pay $120 million to end a pair of lawsuits in California and Alabama alleging they profited from child sexual abuse and trafficking. The websites also agreed to improve their policies and practices to deter and reduce the uploading of child sexual abuse material, including mandatory […]
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“Surrounded” is a debating forum of sorts, where a guest takes on critics of his propositions one at a time. In this episode, Mark Manson, former men’s coach, discusses the manosphere with a group of men. The participants all acknowledged that players in both the manosphere and feminism spew toxic messages. Although one of Manson’s […]
Pornography Is Liberalism Made Visible The modern West suffers from a profound delusion. We condemn pornography while refusing to condemn the civilization that inevitably produced it. We treat Pornhub, OnlyFans, dating applications, and the commodification of intimacy as unfortunate excesses of an otherwise healthy order, glitches to be regulated rather than symptoms to be understood. […]
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by Danielle Thielke, Campbell Ince, Giselle Woodley. Written for “The Conversation“ Porn is a topic we tend to avoid talking about—whether it be at school, work or around the dinner table. But in Australia, roughly three-quarters of men (76%) and more than one-third of women (41%) report to have looked at pornographic material in the […]
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Coach Church shares a letter from a young man who couldn’t have sex with his beautiful girlfriend. He did the research, connected the dots, and understood he was dealing with porn-induced erectile dysfunction. So he did something about it. […]
This page is for journalists and other investigators who may have read assertions that Dr. Prause is a victim. Also see, “Founders of OneTaste ‘orgasm cult’ guilty of grooming employees to have sex with clients.” NOTE: This page was originally written by the late Gary Wilson. However, the YBOP team has updated it a bit. […]
Is nofap magic or what you do instead of fap’n that causes the magic ? There have been times when i have been on a streak and insane attraction, picking up someone with utter ease. I used to believe on day 7 the magic happened where i was attracting people to me – i put […]
[On the recovery path for 4 months. Porn addiction was about a 5-6 on a scale of 1-10.] It’s a weird duality…being somewhat vulnerable to fall ANY given day (even later today),but at the same time feeling strong and solid and like a changed man. I definitely feel like I am healing, and not the […]
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Depressive symptoms were associated with pornography use. Associations held beyond age, gender, and moral disapproval. Associations persisted stably over 2 years. Psychiatry Research Englehardt et al., 9 June 2026, 10.1016/j.psychres.2026.117275 Abstract Background Depressive symptoms and pornography use are both common in the United States. Prior cross-sectional research has consistently reported positive associations between these variables, […]
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