Excerpts: “Pornography can become an addiction and watching too much of it has been shown to damage deep relationships.” “The rate at which young people are going without sex has been steadily rising.” As many as four in ten young adults are in the midst of a year-long dry spell when it comes to sex. […]
Current Psychiatry Reports Sherer, J., Levounis, P. Technological Addictions. Curr Psychiatry Rep 24, 399–406 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11920-022-01351-2 Comments: Psychiatrists from medical school faculties at NYU and Rutgers published this article about technological addictions, including compulsive porn use (CSBD). Excerpts: “The prevalence of problematic cybersex and Internet porn use could be as high as 10%.” “Compulsive […]
My dear friends! It’s been almost a year I haven’t logged in the forum. Now I understand why there are so many rebooting stories but not so many successful stories. This is what Gary Wilson had been saying before he passed away. “Once the rebooters get cured, they don’t sign back to the forum to […]
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Physical changes No PIED at this point, though I didn’t use enough for this to be a major problem for me. Way more energy to do things that are important. I find that there’s no “baggage” that’s always dragging me down. For me, PMO use was like a literal weight on my mind and body. […]
Brazilian Journal of Health Review (BJHR) FULL PAPER IN ENGLISH January 2023, DOI: 10.34119/bjhrv6n1-184 Aluízio Fernando Costa Silva, Álefi Dornelas Soldeiro Estorque, Fernando Vieira Evangelista Abstract [translated from Portuguese] This review investigates the association between the use of pornography and the increasing rise in the rates of erectile dysfunction, in a context where traditional [ED] […]
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Coach Mark Queppet explains that a porn-trained brain feels entitled to “bang every attractive potential mate it sees.” Therefore, its owner-operator feels like they have lost status when they give up porn and enter an exclusive relationship. Queppet explains that the desire for status is not unhealthy in itself, but that it needs to be […]
Five years ago on April the 24th 2018, I decided to quit porn for good. I still remember that morning vividly. I had just blown an hour or two masturbating while trying to find the “perfect” picture. Afterwards, I remember staring at the screen hating myself for wasting so much time on doing absolutely nothing […]
Day 323 Life feels pretty good. It’s not perfect but I really got the feeling today of moving forward, holistically improving every aspect of myself. I know that there’s ups and downs (maybe in a week I’ll be complaining a bit!) but directionally the path is up and up. I think quitting porn has been […]
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The last of the depression has left me. 2 months ago, during my last post, I was very angry and frustrated because I wasn’t normal yet. Spoiler alert: I’ll NEVER be normal. I am a porn addict. But I’m clean. And I now function normally. Shit, man, the past week has seen me fail […]
Is Sex Addiction a Myth?: Geoff Goodman PhD concludes that the evidence is mounting that Compulsive Sexual Behavior Disorder is remarkably like other behavioral addictioins. CSBD is recognized in the ICD-11, the international authority on disease classification. ~ "Many
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