Day 90: Well here it is, never thought it would have happened but here we are…the final day of my reboot! I don’t think there’s much to say that I haven’t said over the course of the last three months, although it feels like it’s worth taking stock of some of the changes that have […]
Is pornography use causing harm? COMMENTS: When confronted with hundreds of studies linking porn use to negative outcomes, a common tactic by pro-porn PhDs is to claim that “no causation has been demonstrated.” The reality is that when it comes to psychological and (many) medical studies, very little research reveals causation directly. For example, all […]
I am certainly not alone in my grave concerns about the Nicole Prause & Jim Pfaus ED paper (P&P). Recently, Sexual Medicine Open Access published a Letter to the Editor by Richard A. Isenberg MD, which made many of the same observations as did my critique. As is customary when a letter critical of a […]
After 164 days have passed i can tell that i finally feel better in my own skin. So don’t give up if after 30 days or even 90 days you still feel miserable. It has been a hard journey but i absolutely have no wish to go back to faping anymore, its completely disgusting. Sometimes […]
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Neuroethics. 2017 Apr; 10(1): 29–33. Published online 2016 Nov 7. doi: 10.1007/s12152-016-9286-3 PMCID: PMC5503469 NIHMSID: NIHMS840286 PMID: 28706571 Abstract Where does normal brain or psychological function end, and pathology begin? The line can be hard to discern, making disease sometimes a tricky word. In addiction, normal ‘wanting’ processes become distorted and excessive, according to the […]
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THE REALLY SHORT VERSION: Some years ago, David Ley and study spokesperson Nicole Prause teamed up to write a Psychology Today blog post about Steele et al., 2013 called “Your Brain on Porn – It’s NOT Addictive“. The blog post appeared 5 months before Prause’s EEG study was formally published. Its oh-so-catchy title is misleading […]
M27YO – Before this I was with depression and panic attacks. I’m still taking my meds but now I’m happier than ever 🙂 *Confidence / less social anxiety. It’s easier for me to just go talk to a girl and take my chances. I prefer “no” as the answer than not asking at all. At […]
Video by Gabe Deem –Porn Addiction Is NOT Sex Addiction: SASH Conference, 2015 UPDATE (2018): Study finds differences between porn use and other forms of problematic sexual behavior, and researchers wonder if internet porn use should be categorized separately from hypersexuality (“sex addiction”): One issue is whether problematic pornography use may be considered a subcategory […]
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Today is my 45th straight day without PMO! While I can’t say that getting to 45 days has eliminated all of the problems in my life (Spoiler Alert for those of you just getting started: Ditching porn and masturbation will NOT get rid of every issue that you are dealing with…), I can definitively say […]
YBOP Comments: This was written in response to David Ley’s blog post attacking nofap. It serves a bigger purpose: 1) to expose that the so-called science contradicting porn addiction is smoke and mirrors, and 2) the papers claiming to refute porn addiction come from two individuals who often team up – Nicole Prause & David […]
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