I first discovered porn when I was 12. It started when I decided to look up pictures of naked girls on google images out of curiosity. After a few times doing this, I progressed to looking at hardcore stuff. I never really escalated from here, never really developed any weird fetishes, but my habits still […]
3rd post and I can’t be more thankful to this community. Sorry if post is too long but definitely our generation needs reckoning. Some lines copied from my earlier post. I’m in my early 30s and addicted to porn since 15 years with intermittent 4-5 days/week watching porn and almost every alternate day masturbation n […]
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Abstract Recently interest into the effects of pornography on children and young people’s sexual development has increased leading to an increase in studies in the area, laws being changed and public concern growing. This paper aims to recap these findings including more recent studies carried out in the UK. The literature shows links between viewing […]
Read More… from Young People, Sexuality and the Age of Pornography (2020)
UPDATE April, 2021 This is a rare “yay me” moment 🙂 Had sex Tuesday night. I had NO issues maintaining an erection. No anxiety, no worry, no rushing, just fun. I also had NO PE, which made me so happy I wanted to cry. I had not had an orgasm in 50 days. The vegan-exercise-avoid […]
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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I’ve been on the semen retention journey for quite some time (longest streak was 13 months) and let me tell you… the superpowers are real. The amount of magnetic attraction and exuberance you exude is on another level. I never really talked about it until now because quite frankly we’re in a time where we […]
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I feel a little hesitant at posting under the success stories section – partially my desire to not be viewed as boastful, and partially my hesitancy at proclaiming victory prematurely. I hope that you don’t perceive my post as either, rather a testament to the power of persistence (it has taken me over 20 years […]
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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 […]
Read More… from Age 21 – I suffered PIED through all my teen years
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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