Have you heard these claims a lot recently? Or perhaps even believed they are true? Religious populations have higher rates of porn use than their secular brethren, and lie about it. Religious porn users are not really addicted to porn; they only believe they are addicted because they are ashamed. Believing in porn addiction is […]
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The deniers of porn addiction are agitated because the latest version of the World Health Organization’s medical diagnostic manual, The International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11), contains a new diagnosis suitable for diagnosing both porn addiction and sex addiction. It’s called “Compulsive Sexual Behavior Disorder.” For a responsible article, quoting WHO’s official spokesperson, Christian Lindmeier, the […]
I’m 25. Male. Definite increase in female attraction, increase in overall charisma, more emotional stability. Negative states are less intense and don’t last as long. More stamina and strength. I have candida (systemic yeast infection) and so the benefits tend disappear occasionally and be replaced with candida symptoms. I started NoFap because I hate porn […]
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Just wanted to post here that [I] had sex 3 days ago and rock-hard erections, no loss of hardness at all. After-effect of sex, mental symptoms are not that bad anymore. Withdrawals are gone, and everything feels amazing. All I can say is this process works. Hang in there. Thank you to all those who […]
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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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