PMO History: I was regular in PMO and sexting with increasing frequency everyday of up to 4 times a day. Discovered PMO at the age of 16 and now 31. The genre of porn was escalating to a higher level. No more attraction to females. All I wanted to do is have sex with every […]
[Responses received] Why abstaining from PMO is “good” for me: I feel Sharp and Energised, able to do any chore, sport, activity without the feeling of “ugh, this takes so much effort”. Joy comes from a broad range of activities now that my brain is regulating dopamine properly. Empowerment – I am not a slave […]
So let me start by saying, I’m not new to all of this. I’ve done the research, read lots of posts here. I know what is going on. I’ve done the whole streak thing myself, but never going over two weeks. Many one week streaks and countless 2-3 day micro streaks. Before I even attempted […]
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ARTICLE: Might tube sites be to porn what crack is to cocaine? You’ve read it before, right? “Porn has been around since ancient times and Internet porn is fundamentally no different.” Some porn users, however, are telling a different story, and it’s one that therapists with porn-using clients need to hear. The degree and intensity […]
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Lamentations, but gratitude. Here, I recall in the years of near 2006, some 10 years ago, when I was ages 21-23 trying to “Sow” my wild oats as a young man. It wasn’t until recently, last year, (2015) that I discovered the true destructive effects of pornography in my own life, that I look back […]
So for the whole nofap journey not a lot has happened I hadn’t had any luck with girls, sad times. When suddenly from day 89 out of nowhere I’m suddenly spoilt for choice. I made out with some girl I met out which rocketed my confidence and she’s now constantly messaging me. The same day […]
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Front. Behav. Neurosci., 23 March 2016 | http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2016.00054 Paul M. Klenowski1, Masroor R. Shariff1, Arnauld Belmer1, Matthew J. Fogarty2, Erica W. H. Mu2, Mark C. Bellingham2 and Selena E. Bartlett1* 1Translational Research Institute and Institute for Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, Australia 2School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Queensland, […]
Today is my 4th birthday. It was 4 years ago March 25th that I watched porn, and masturbated, for the last time. Seriously: The. Last. Time. Back then I was 47 and overweight. I always had plans to get up early and exercise, but getting up early and doing anything typically turned into getting up […]
LINK TO FULL STUDY Veruska Andrea Santos1*, MSc ; Rafael Freire1*, MD, PhD ; Morená Zugliani1*, MD ; Patricia Cirillo1*, MD ; Hugo Henrique Santos2 ; Antonio Egidio Nardi1*, MD, PhD ; Anna Lucia King1*, PhD 1Laboratory of Panic and Respiration, Institute of Psychiatry of The Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (IPUB/UFRJ), Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio […]
YBOP COMMENTS: The following “critique” was published only a few days after Gary Wilson published his Psychology Today critique of Steele et al., 2013 (often called the Prause study): “Nothing Correlates With Nothing In SPAN Lab’s New Porn Study (2013)”. As any reader can see, Rory Reid’s so-called critique is not a critique. Instead, it […]
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