Lads, I started NoFap, because I kept losing my boner with the ladies. Well after a long tough year of breaking my wanking habits even with a few setbacks. I have made progress. I found myself a pretty lady, a little heavy (but I didn’t mind haha) and after multiple beers, a bit of ganja […]
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Introduction A number of articles and interviews have attempted to push-back at the TIME article (“Porn and the Threat to Virility”) and the Utah resolution declaring internet porn a public health problem. What might be a few “dead giveaways” that such an article is nothing more than a propaganda piece? Psychologists David Ley and/or Nicole […]
Read More… from How to recognize biased articles: They cite Prause et al., 2015 (falsely claiming it debunks porn addiction), while omitting over 50 neurological studies supporting porn addiction
“Right now, many young guys believe their porn use has no consequences, and they are often distressed to find that when they connect with partners they aren’t aroused. They are dependent upon porn for arousal. Some are justifiably furious when they realize that their sexual health has been put at risk in order to increase […]
Read More… from This Is Your Brain On Porn (Inside the Rift)
Introduction This page, and a second page, provide empirical support for claims put forth in The Great Porn Experiment | Gary Wilson | TEDxGlasgow (and The Demise of Guys, by Philip Zimbardo). Each PowerPoint slide and associated text is accompanied by (1) the original supporting citations/sources, followed by (2) supporting studies and clinical evidence published […]
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Front Endocrinol (Lausanne). 2017; 8: 216. Published online 2017 Aug 29. doi: 10.3389/fendo.2017.00216 PMCID: PMC5581815 Julie Paradis,1 Pierre Boureau,1 Thomas Moyon,1 Sophie Nicklaus,2 Patricia Parnet,1,*† and Vincent Paillé1,*† Abstract Perinatal maternal consumption of energy dense food increases the risk of obesity in children. This is associated with an overconsumption of palatable food that is consumed […]
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Introduction This page, and a second page, provide empirical support for claims put forth in The Great Porn Experiment | Gary Wilson | TEDxGlasgow (and The Demise of Guys, by Philip Zimbardo). Each PowerPoint slide and associated text is accompanied by (1) the original supporting citations/sources, followed by (2) supporting studies and clinical evidence published […]
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Today I am one year sober. I feel like my whole life has changed. I can’t explain it easily, but staying pornfree has made a huge difference to many different aspects of life. If you told me 4 years ago when this journey started that I would go an entire year without porn or masturbation […]
Read More… from Age 38 – Reflections on 1 Year Sober – Changes in Attitude
For the beginning I just want to apologize for some grammatical mistakes because I don’t use English very often and I want to tell you that it is going to be a very long story, maybe one of the longest I have read so if you don’t want to read it, nobody forces you. This […]
Read More… from Age 24 – 5-year recovery, severe HOCD, transgender porn
What does the post-porn emotional rebound look like? Regular users who give up porn often report unexpected changes, such as improved sexual performance and satisfaction, increased confidence and desire to socialize, better concentration, more satisfying romantic relationships and so forth. Yet they also frequently remark on another change: They feel more emotion. This is often […]
Read More… from Can porn use blunt my emotions?
After months of ups and downs, relapses and urges, flatlines and “superpowers”, I’ve earned a great source of experience and it has definitely changed my life forever. If someone had told me, not at the beginning but even six months ago, that I would reach 90 days without Porn and Masturbation, then I wouldn’t have […]
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