Age 45, married – PIED was the catalyst for me to quit…twice. Porn was inflating my “libido”

My situation: 45,M, happily married. I don’t know if I was as addicted as some of y’all but I was an almost everyday user/abuser. I never paid a dime for porn, I was able to satiate my appetite with the free stuff. Why would a happily married man go down that rabbit hole? Well, my […]

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Since I stopped…

I stopped staying awake till 6am. I stopped staying in my little apartment for days on end. I stopped slacking on important work. I stopped smoking cigarettes. (Used to like to smoke while PMO). I stopped being the guy with no opinion. I stopped following fake instagram accounts. I stopped looking for artificial beauty. I […]

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Social Anxiety, Pornography Use, and Loneliness: A Mediation Analysis (2021)

COMMENTS: Study reports that porn use correlates with both social anxiety and loneliness. Subjects weren’t basement dwelling INCELS. 70% were married or had a life partner. Average age was 37. Relevant results: “Bivariate correlations were also conducted to answer the third research question: What is the relationship between social anxiety and pornography use? The third […]

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Age 27 – I feel more in control of my masturbation habits when porn is absent

Latest Update: Masturbation WITH vs WITHOUT Porn So I’ve (27M) been a porn addict since I was 12. Fortunately, this past year I’ve been able to drastically reduce my consumption of porn (websites, TikTok, Instagram, etc) but I still indulged in it from time to time (maybe twice a month). Currently, I’m around 1 month […]

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DE and PIED cured. Change your default to sex and away from masturbation

Where the focus should be is in the process, in the rewiring part, in changing your default mechanism to S and M without P. And to deal with problems in life with healthier solutions, like emotional intelligence, taking responsibility instead of always being a victim, developing new healthy habits, not being in toxic relationships or […]

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Cognitive Processes Related to Problematic Pornography Use (PPU): A Systematic Review of Experimental Studies (2021)

J. Castro-Calvo, V. Cervigón-Carrasco, R. Ballester-Arnal, C. Giménez-García, Addictive Behaviors Reports, 2021, 100345, ISSN 2352-8532, Comments: Really well written, and helpful in understanding many of the neuropsychological studies listed on YBOP’s brain studies page. This is a review of 21 porn studies assessing 4 neuro-psychological “processes” which are altered in drug and behavioral addictions: 1- […]

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