After confronting my PMO addiction that I started to regain a lot of the creativity I had lost when I was engaging with porn five times a day. Growing up, I was a creative kid, and as an adult I have worked as a professional designer for over 15 years. Now, after fighting addiction for […]
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International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction February 2017 , Volume 15, Issue 1, pp 16–27 Craig S. Cashwell, Amanda L. Giordano, Kelly King, Cody Lankford, Robin K. Henson Abstract For individuals with sexual addiction, sexual behaviors often are the primary means of regulating distressing or undesirable emotion. In this study, we sought to examine differences in aspects of emotion regulation between students in […]
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Hamman, Jaco J. Pastoral Psychology (2017): 1-27. Abstract This article explores the interplay of fantasy and image in male solitary masturbation in the virtual age. Online pornography has drastically changed the intimate relationship between the hand and the penis. The case of a 17-year-old boy and his excessive use of Internet pornography is used to […]
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I started the nofap journey a couple of years ago, but never managed to make it over 3 weeks until this streak. Before the beginning of college, I decided to stop wanking it all together until I have a reason to continue. I’ve gained so much from this so far that I’m definitely going to […]
Read More… from Age 20 – More respect for women, Weird fetishes have disappeared
I know I have so many short comings in my body, I am short and my teeth are not aligned and due to masturbation my hair became thin and hairline started receding, to compensate all these I was working really hard on gym, fapping never hampered my workouts but my body looked tight and rotten, […]
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Introduction In early November, 2017 three non-profit kink organizations (Center for Positive Sexuality, National Coalition for Sexual Freedom, and The Alternative Sexualities Health Research Alliance) released a group position paper “opposing the addiction model in relation to frequent sexual behavior and pornography viewing.” The groups’ press release, Position statement opposing sex/porn addiction model, explained their […]
Introduction A number of articles and interviews have attempted to push-back at the TIME article (“Porn and the Threat to Virility”) and the Utah resolution declaring internet porn a public health problem. What might be a few “dead giveaways” that such an article is nothing more than a propaganda piece? Psychologists David Ley and/or Nicole […]
J Behav Addict. 2017 Oct 16:1-12. doi: 10.1556/2006.6.2017.063. Lewczuk K1, Szmyd J2, Skorko M3, Gola M3,4. Abstract Background and aims Previous studies examined psychological factors related to treatment seeking for problematic pornography use (PU) among males. In this study, we focused on females who seek treatment for problematic PU and compared them with non-problematic […]
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I was 23 when I first went on this journey…now I am 29. You can look at my previous posts if you want to see more, but I had ED and my only sexual experience was with porn, and masturbating almost every day. The streaks were a good starting point, and I would have definitely […]
Read More… from Age 29 – Had PIED. I would say part of my problem was also performance anxiety
I am 25 years. Been PMOing since 11. Got first gf at age 18 and second at age 21. Broke up with last gf in january. I never really felt depressed in my life, but regarding getting a partner or seeing my future I always had many doubts. I always felt I was single by […]
Read More… from Age 25 – I am feeling good, clarity and energy