COMMENT: New brain scan study comparing white matter of porn/sex addicts (CSBD) to controls reported significant differences between controls and CSB subjects: This is one of the first DTI studies assessing differences between patients with the Compulsive Sexual Behaviors Disorder and healthy controls. Our analysis has uncovered FA reductions in six regions of the brain […]
I’ve been addicted to pmo for around 11 years (I’m 25). I always felt this deep emptiness inside and thought I was destined for failure. I had no motivation to succeed in life and just wanted to get drunk, hang out with friends who didn’t care about me and sleep around. I’d made my peace […]
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Significant finding: One-way ANOVA results reveal that there is a statistically significant difference in attitudes toward women between respondents that had viewed pornography during the previous year and respondents that had not. Specifically, respondents that had viewed pornography during the previous year held more negative, less egalitarian attitudes toward women. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Amahazion, Fikresus (2021). Journal […]
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PRESS RELEASE: Gary Wilson (Your Brain on Porn) Wins Second Legal Victory Against Sexologist Nicole Prause Activist porn researcher owes penalty plus court costs after her defamation suit fails ASHLAND, OREGON: January 28, 2021: Best-selling author and public health advocate Gary Wilson has won another legal victory against sexologist and vocal porn-industry proponent Nicole Prause. […]
Hey so tomorrow is 70 days for me and I’m so so so proud of myself I am recovering from a very intrusive fetish and can officially say that I think about 85% less than I did before about it. I also get butterflies when I see people that I wouldn’t normally have been into […]
Before I used to be hooked on porn and I had ED with real girls, because real girls could not turn me on and when I was horny all I thought about was porn and jacking off to it. I was also into some fucked up shit back then. But now, I think about real […]
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Like many others I (29m) started pmo at a very young age and 99% of the time I watched stuff that were about bizarre fetishes and not just normal intercourse. So, many years passed and I had my first sexual experience with a girl at the age of 24 which was a big failure. I […]
I’m doing this post because even though there are a lot of these reports, reading through all of them when I first started this journey gave me motivation, ideas, and knowledge of what I’d go through. I (32M) have finally hit 90 days of being porn free, after 5 years of trying, 2 years of […]
[Study participants, males and females who work with those who exhibit harmful sexual behaviors towards women,] believed that increased ease of access to pornography, lots of which includes violence towards women, was problematic for many of their clients. … A number of Frontline Workers described how their clients had become desensitised to the sexual content […]
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Joined this sub in 2019, I was going thru tough time after broke up with my ex. Initially I relapsed non stop for like the first month, couldn’t even last thru a day without sexual thoughts. Then I began to try some progressing method like addiction withdrawal therapy: First I only limit myself to only […]
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