I’m a french student and 17, I’ve had maladaptive daydreaming from 7yo to 16yo, basically I would make a repetitive movement with my hand and get lost in my imagination for long periods of time, sometimes hours, I think it was my way to escape the reality, no one ever found out, I’ve been seen 2-3 times […]
I write this on my birthday, which just so happened to be my 127 hoursday. This is probably going to be a long post. I write this for me as much as I write it for my fellow fapstronauts. I was hoping to make a 90 day post, but bugs and life got in the […]
Read More… from Age 28 – PIED cured. I went from a shy person to a dominant sex partner
At the age of 7, I was playing at my friends house and we decided to go out to his father’s truck. In the truck we found a porn magazine. I don’t remember thinking that much about it at the time. But at a later opportunity we took the magazine with us and started reading. […]
Read More… from Age 32 – A decade of addiction and two years of recovery. A happy ending.
COMMENTS: This Korean fMRI study replicates other brain studies on porn users. Like the Cambridge University studies it found cue-induced brain activation patterns in sex addicts which mirrored the patterns of drug addicts. In line with several German studies it found alterations in the prefrontal cortex which match the changes observed in drug addicts. While […]
100 Days! (2nd time around!)- what have I learned? 10 Principles of Recovery Below are several principles that have been in place for me currently and during my longest periods of abstinence. For those times when we get lost in the forest, and we need to find our way, use these principles (or those that […]
(Okay I realize it’s a bit of a read, but I encourage all of you to please read my success story. I want everyone to see Gods amazing power and the ways he works.) Jesus is truly our King and saviour. This is no question or doubt to this statement. Never in my life will […]
Read More… from Age 15 – ED and addiction gone: Credit goes to religious experience
I’m 29, Married, 1 kid, IT pro. I started with masturbation when I was around 13, started watching porn when was about 16 and been playing video games since about 13 too. I slipped into these without no idea they are anything bad, on the contrary I thought they are the best. Lost my virginity […]
Read More… from Age 29 – Married, quit gaming then porn – life is amazing
Jonathan Porter, 48, accountant When I was a teenager in the Eighties, I saw pornography in magazines such as Razzle and Fiesta that didn’t turn me on at all. It seemed cartoonish and degrading. I grew up thinking that pornography was bad and demeaning to women. It actually put me off sex. Then at university […]
Read More… from Men on pornography ‘Where’s the harm if I’m feeling lonely?’ (The Times, UK)
I CANNOT BELIEVE IT!!! On one hand, this [180 days] has been a painful, some times long process of cleaning my mind and body, and changing so many negative things in my life. Some days I felt lost and desperate, and so many of you have helped me to keep fighting. On the other hand, […]
Read More… from Age 51 – Celebrating life, no more escorts or femdom
I am 51 years old. I started having fantasies with boys from school when I was 11, I understand now that this was because I was bullied at school and was not “popular”: I was shorter, fatter, used glasses, and did not know how to play soccer (very important to be popular if you are […]
Read More… from Age 51 – Addicted to porn and male escorts – I have changed my life