Comments: This study reports poorer executive functioning and lower activation of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex during the cognitive tests (Stroop test). All this indicates poorer prefrontal cortex functioning, which is a hallmark of addiction, and manifests as the inability to control use or suppress cravings. ————————————————– Front. Psychiatry, 25 September 2018 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00460 Ji-Woo Seok1 and […]
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I started on porn in my early teens with dial up and switched to high speed internet and from there I became addicted. It’s not so important how it all started. What’s important is that I finally made the changes necessary to build solid recovery. It took me about eight years to get to this […]
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Front Psychiatry. 2018; 9: 545. Published online 2018 Nov 7. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00545 PMCID: PMC6234835 PMID: 30464748 David A. Wiss,1 Nicole Avena,2 and Pedro Rada3,* Abstract The obesity epidemic has been widely publicized in the media worldwide. Investigators at all levels have been looking for factors that have contributed to the development of this epidemic. Two major […]
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I’m 27. I’ve been trying nofap since I was 20. Never made it past 25 days and even that was an ALMIGHTY struggle. I have failed in every single way possible. I have failed in spectacular, often depressing, manners. And I believe I have it cracked. I have hit 30 days and I’ve now, somehow, […]
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Introduction (as it appears on Page #1) Legal counsel advised us to create these pages, which document Nicole Prause’s extensive campaign targeting those who point out possible harms of porn use or issues in the porn industry. “Sunshine” protects the community Prause harasses by preserving facts and permitting visitors and journalists to understand the truth […]
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I´m a 24 year old man, I´m 1 month away from completing my clinical psychology specialization. I have given many hours of psychotherapy during this whole year, and have studied this subject for about 5 years now. I reached 90 days in this journey today. It has been extremely hard, probably the hardest and most […]
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Heim C. (2018) Psychobiological Consequences of Child Maltreatment. In: Noll J., Shalev I. (eds) The Biology of Early Life Stress. Child Maltreatment Solutions Network. Springer, Cham [Does extensive exposure to extreme internet porn early in life have similar effects in some?] Abstract Adversity in early life, such as childhood abuse, neglect, and loss, is a […]
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Below this long intro are many sub-sections containing relevant studies. Relevant Research – first we have lists of studies that provide support for the claims made by YBOP. (See Questionable & Misleading Studies for highly publicized papers that are not what they claim to be.): Porn/sex addiction? This page lists 60+ neuroscience-based studies (MRI, fMRI, […]
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COMMENTS: A 2017 “Narrative Review” on sexual dysfunction in young men which contains a section on porn-induced delayed ejaculation (reproduced below). Many porn users report that delayed ejaculation (difficulty climaxing during partnered sex) was a precursor to their erectile dysfunction. YBOP FAQ – Any suggestions for healing delayed ejaculation (DE) or anorgasmia? ————————————————————————— PDF OF […]
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LINK TO PAPER Gola Mateusz 1Clinical Neuroscience Laboratory, Institute of Psychology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland 2Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience, Institute for Neural Computations, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA *Corresponding author: Mateusz Gola, PhD; Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience, Institute for Neural Computations, University of California San Diego, 9500 […]
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