COMMENTS: Relatively old study on men with so-called ‘psychogenic’ sexual problems (ED, DE, inability to be aroused by real partners). While the data is even older than 2003, interviews revealed tolerance and escalation related to “erotica” use: Participants themselves had begun to question whether there may be a link between masturbation and the difficulties they […]
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Here’s my big dump of everything I’ve learned to attain a better state of living. If you just want to hear the advice I have to give then feel free to skip to the bottom. Hi there, I’m 21 years old from the UK. About a year ago I decided to cut pornography out of […]
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So, I hung out with a girl for the first time since I started nofap, and it crystallized some ideas. porn conditions us to want to please ourselves. We want to touch ourselves, instead of feel someone else’s touch. We lose the ability to relax. We disconnect with the energy of our partner because we […]
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Its past midnight on July 1. That means I’ve made it 6 motherfuckin months without PMO. I honestly would not have thought this possible a few years ago. I thought I needed porn. I thought it was a necessary and healthy expression of my sex drive. What would I do without it? What lies I […]
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Link to abstract of above paper As men who have quit porn and recovered from sexual dysfunctions during partnered sex demonstrate, porn-induced ED appears to be primarily due to conditioning their sexual response to online porn rather than real partners. Their difficulties are not due to “hypersexuality.” In fact, men who report the problem are–just […]
I am free of the addiction for 3,5 years now. I don’t want to talk about it anymore with people. There is no need in that. I don’t have to convince others the effects of porn on the brain. Like a lot of things that I dealt with in life: overweight, drug addiction (weed), insecurity, […]
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COMMENTS: New review from the Medical Journal of Indonesia. The current review aligns with the views presented in these 25 recent neuroscience-based literature reviews & commentaries. All support the addiction model. —————————- LINK TO PDF OF OF FULL PAPER Agastya IGN, Siste K, Nasrun MWS, Kusumadewi I. Med J Indones [Internet]. 2020Jun.30 [cited 2020Jul.7];29(2):233–41. Available […]
Donald S Crain, MD and Michael T Marshall, MD and John E Kehoe, MD:
“There appears to be a relationship between pornography use and sexual dysfunction in men who report a preference for masturbation to pornography rather than sexual intercourse.”
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