YBOP and its late creator Gary Wilson have been long targeted with various deplatforming attempts and extensive defamation. A new journal article examines the 2019 “Mormon porn” smear campaign. However, that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Since Gary Wilson first created Your Brain on Porn in 2010, it provided a refreshing evidence-based perspective on […]
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Pornography Consumption and Cognitive-Affective Distress
Excerpts: These findings show that stress, anxiety, and depression are strongly related to pornography consumption and conflicting emotional experiences as well as identity problems significantly enhance vulnerability to addictive sexual behavior–related pornographic experiences…. Because of this process, it is possible that sensitized sexual arousal to Internet pornography may cause that sexual experience with a real […]
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“Dopamine Fasting: Some MDs Are Prescribing It. Should You?”
Comment: See if eliminating porn for 4 weeks helps you regain control Julie Stewart, January 15, 2024 It’s an appealing concept: Stop addictive behaviors for a while — think social media, video games, gambling, porn, junk food, drugs, alcohol (dry January, anyone?) — to reset your brain’s reward circuitry, so you can feel great minus […]
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How Pornography Distorts Intimate Relationships
Don’t miss this insightful interview with Bret Weinstein about the hidden costs of porn use on development, intimacy and relationships. “There has been a sharp decline in relationship satisfaction and partnerships in general. Many young people are opting out all together. This is due to many factors, but a primary cause is the exposure to […]
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Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence with Anna Lembke
Doctor Lembke’s Dopamine Nation has helped to inspired recovery in many who struggle with with problematic porn use. Stanford psychiatry professor Anna Lembke—New York Times bestselling author of Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence—decodes complex neuroscience into applicable strategies that explain why the relentless pursuit of pleasure can lead to pain. An […]
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Age 19 -Makes you feel like a f–king boss. Read YBOP.
Been on a streak for a good few weeks now, and for the first time ever it isn’t just some pussy shit of still jerking to porn but not ejaculating and acting as if that isn’t a relapse. I’ve gone hard mode / monk mode this whole time, and my life is already so different. […]
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Age 27 – No longer need ADD medication
Since about two months back on hard mode after a summer of dumb flings, i now notice great results again. Just going to share my new benefits here to keep myself motivated. – Managed to get off my ADD medications (Bupropion and Ritalin), i have basically zero symptoms now. Been on them since 2017 or […]
Age 29 – Quitting let me get a girlfriend
I passed for months free of porn a few days ago and figured I’d share the results! My goal was to quit pornography, I find that with every passing week I think about it less and less I can barely even remember what they look like. I’m still with the girlfriend I met around the […]
Alejandro Villena, psychologist and sexologist: “Pornography has turned masturbation into something compulsive”
[Translated from Alejandro Villena, psicólogo y sexólogo: “La pornografía ha convertido la masturbación en algo compulsivo”] Alejandro Villena, psychologist and sexologist: “Pornography has turned masturbation into something compulsive”. Madrid 13/10/2023 21:37 María Martínez Collado @mariaa_0600 Alejandro Villena is a general health psychologist, sexologist and research director at the association Dale Una Vuelta, a social project […]
Clarifying and extending our understanding of problematic pornography use through descriptions of the lived experience
Excerpts: Our findings shed new light on various sexual and non-sexual functional impairments related to PPU [problematic porn use] that have yet to be robustly examined in the existing literature. Our findings corroborate increasing evidence that many individuals with PPU experience tolerance and desensitisation effects, which can lead to escalating use [evidence of addiction]. [PPU […]