If you’re married and using porn, “You da man!” At least in your genes’ estimation. First, your wedding vows increase the chances that your joint offspring will have two caregivers, thus improving the survival odds of gene packets (kids) you are pretty certain are yours.
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Introduction The 4-page Nicole Prause commentary can be found here. It’s one of several commentaries (mostly by Prause allies, such as David Ley, Taylor Kohut and Sam Perry) on the following paper: An Organizational Framework for Sexual Media’s Influence on Short-Term Versus Long-Term Sexual Quality (Leonhardt et al., 2018). These commenters don’t care for Leonhardt […]
Read More… from Critique of Nicole Prause’s “Porn Is for Masturbation” (2019)
“I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.” – Aristotle I constantly get aroused to my girl (before, I had trouble getting hard sometimes). This is #1 reason why I did it… I feel more confident (before, I felt shy asking people […]
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UPDATE 2017: A new study (Fernandez et al., 2017) tested and analyzed the CPUI-9, a purported “perceived pornography addiction” questionnaire developed by Joshua Grubbs, and found that it couldn’t accurately assess “actual porn addiction” or “perceived porn addiction” (Do Cyber Pornography Use Inventory-9 Scores Reflect Actual Compulsivity in Internet Pornography Use? Exploring the Role of […]
YBOP comments: In plain English, this research found (again) that religiosity is NOT associated with believing yourself to be a porn addict (“perceived pornography addiction”). This explodes the meme that Josh Grubbs worked for years to “sell” to the world, that believing oneself an addict is related to religious shame. Grubbs’s CPUI-9 studies and his […]
Read More… from Evaluating Pornography Problems Due to Moral Incongruence Model (2019)
As I’m typing this I’m on day 15. My record was over 150 days before, I’d have thought it would not affect my self-esteem, but falling back to the addiction caused me to feel much more insecure, weaker eye-contact, unwilling to go to battle, easily giving up. When you go on long streaks, you become […]
Disclaimer: I was addicted for 15 years, doing NoFap for 6 years. This is my longest streak ever. The streak is very clean – no peeking, no edging, no fantasizing. Working out daily, eating healthy, doing yoga, taking cold showers, socializing. I’ve also quit gaming completely, and decreased Netflix to 1-2 episodes a day. Benefits […]
Read More… from Age 27 – Doing things I’ve procrastinated on for years, morning wood back
Hello guys I’m 28, i want to describe my situation in first part, and in second part i will tell you about my recovery. 1st part: I have started to watch porn when I was 15 but at the same time I started having sex at the age of 18. The real problem occurred when […]
I am 31 years old. My battle with porn addiction has been almost 12 years. Several bad moments: ED, broken relationships, sexual repression, stress, frustration, ignorance, and loneliness were driving me crazy. Several benefits to quitting porn: improved strength, better dating approach, more confidence, improved relationships with women, removing toxic people out of my life, […]
Read More… from Age 31 – Better dancing skills, decisions and relationships with women
