Comments: This study reports poorer executive functioning and lower activation of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex during the cognitive tests (Stroop test). All this indicates poorer prefrontal cortex functioning, which is a hallmark of addiction, and manifests as the inability to control use or suppress cravings. ————————————————– Front. Psychiatry, 25 September 2018 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00460 Ji-Woo Seok1 and […]
I came here a year ago on the verge of losing a wonderful relationship. I have not viewed porn or masturbated for the last 365 days. I have sex regularly, but went 30 days without it at the onset of my journey. In the last year, I have accomplished many of the things I failed […]
Read More… from Age 35 – Bought a house, learned to code, sex life is wonderful (no more PIED)
~Warning: there may be some light trigger words in this post~ I’m very new to this whole community but I found it when I was searching for why I had a difficult time getting it up with my girlfriend for sex. We are currently long distance and see each other about every 2-3 weeks. So […]
Read More… from Age 17 – Porn-induced ED cured. Used “edging” to beat the flatline
I just wanted to share that progress is possible! During the last 6-9 months, my erections during sex were about 50% of max, with some episodes of non-erections. Just awful frankly…..I began to feel like less of a man, and depression was beginning to creep into my thoughts, yet I kept on fapping often. After […]
Read More… from Age 43 – PIED gone, very stimulated by my wife. I’m back!
Wow quite a journey, Here’s a list of everything that happened in the last 101 days, by far biggest time of personal growth ever. Depression pretty much gone, I could evaluate my life, I see what isn’t working and what is. I can identify toxicity. I’m going off anti depressants soon. My depression was so […]
Read More… from 101 Days – Stronger, no longer suicidal, I can identify toxicity
*English is not my main language. Sorry for my grammar. I guess I will start out with some history about myself. I discovered porn and masturbation since I was in 4th grade. However, throughout my life I only watched and masturbated to porn every 3-4 days or so. More like intermittent consumption. I was a […]
I started on porn in my early teens with dial up and switched to high speed internet and from there I became addicted. It’s not so important how it all started. What’s important is that I finally made the changes necessary to build solid recovery. It took me about eight years to get to this […]
Read More… from Age 29 – After failing for 8 years my life has changed dramatically
Introduction: His correlations say one thing, but Joshua Grubbs says another The researcher who saddled humankind with “perceived pornography addiction” and claimed it somehow “functions very differently from other addictions,” has now turned his dexterity to porn-induced ED. Joshua Grubbs’s new paper claims there’s no epidemic of youthful ED, boldly concluding its abstract with: In […]
I will get right to the main topic. I started watching porn when I was 13 and my taste in genre got from softcore/fanservice to hardcore BDSM and tranny shit. I believe that during the time where I constantly PMO (porn masturbate orgasm) I got used to porn and started to have fucked up thoughts […]
I’m a Chess player, but decided to try this out. Wanted to see if it would help me. So I planned it out. 7 days nofap, 1 day fap, repeat twice. Every day I did nofap my cognitive abilities increases, and I use a lot of logic, keeping calm and can solve puzzles. I actually […]
Short video about new book: "TAKEDOWN". It "tells the unfiltered truth about this predatory company [Pornhub, and] exposes its owners in a way that hasn't been done before."
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