J. Castro-Calvo, V. Cervigón-Carrasco, R. Ballester-Arnal, C. Giménez-García, Addictive Behaviors Reports, 2021, 100345, ISSN 2352-8532, Comments: Really well written, and helpful in understanding many of the neuropsychological studies listed on YBOP’s brain studies page. This is a review of 21 porn studies assessing 4 neuro-psychological “processes” which are altered in drug and behavioral addictions: 1- […]
I just wanted to share something 🙂 I am 20 years old and due to my porn addiction since my youth I have some larger erection problems from time to time. Moreover I suddenly stopped having morning erections when I was 18 years old. They just disappeared and never came back unfortunately. Since then I […]
Read More… from Age 20 – I had my first morning wood after almost 2 years
I. Before NoFap I got to know “NoFap” thanks to NoNutNovember of November 2019 Before November 2019 Before knowing this event, I tried as best I could to stop this addiction which was destroying my brain, I did not take long without plunging back into this addiction. I lasted for a maximum of 5 days, […]
1.Did you have PIED? Yes, I did. How bad was it when you started? I don’t remember when it started and how bad was. It was weird and I never thought it was connected to PM but I had problems getting erect as well to finish intercourse with my wife. When I started my recovery […]
Read More… from Age 38 – I had no idea my PIED was related to my porn use
It’s been 33 days since I did PMO and things have changed for the better I suddenly feel attracted towards women again. Last time I felt attraction I was 16 (I’m 27 now) Yesterday I felt the urge to get out and talk to girls once again, it’s been a long time. PMO really numbs […]
Read More… from Age 27 – After 11 years, I feel attraction to women again
Comment: Compulsive pornography use is associated with less erectile function and low ejaculatory control in young men. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Front. Psychiatry, 06 April 2021 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.517411 Buchholz Verena N., Mühle Christiane, Cohort Study on Substance Use Risk Factors, Kornhuber Johannes, Lenz Bernd Abstract Pornography addiction and sexual dysfunction are increasingly prevalent in young men. Previous studies […]
Health Commun . 2021 Apr 22;1-8. Paul J Wright Abstract Using six samples of unmarried U.S. residents aged 18-24 who were part of a larger biennial nationally representative survey (2008-2018), the present study examined whether pornography consumption is a risk factor for condomless sex during emerging adulthood. Condomless sex is the norm in popular, commonly […]
TRANSCRIPT OF THE VIDEO: This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Hello, YouTube. What a few weeks I’ve had! I’ve learned something very important recently: no one reads the description. You know, the doobly doo. So with that in mind, I’m going […]
I first became addicted to the PMO cycle around 12. Early on, I also slowly became entrenched in a serious fetish addiction that fed into the PMO cycle. Easily by 13 or 14, I was already making daily use of PMO. Binge usage was common. In high school and early college, I was very depressed. […]
COMMENTS: This study (below) is the first to assess if conditioning one’s sexual arousal template to porn use is the mechanism that explains why greater porn use correlates with poorer sexual and relationship satisfaction. It does – for both men and women. This suggests porn use can result in preference for masturbation to porn over […]