Intro It was over two years ago when I first discovered Nofap. My best friend and I, in our last year of flight school, had just finished up a series of oddjobs in the city to get some extra booze money. It was late and it was a school night, and we had a […]
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Introduction EEG study: “Modulation of late positive potentials by sexual images in problem users and controls inconsistent with porn addiction” (Prause et al., 2015) Claim: To this day, former UCLA researcher Nicole Prause boldly claims that her solitary EEG study “falsified the porn addiction model.” Reality: The results indicate habituation/desensitization in the more frequent porn […]
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I am a teenager male. Masturbating for about 3 to 4 years from puberty. When I hit puberty, I started getting a lot of wet dreams. I used to masturbate but not that often and felt a wierd attraction towards the opposite sex. I was not into porn yet. Whenever I had a wet dream […]
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https://www.gci.or.id/proceedings/view_article/251/7/icometh-ncp-2018 Dian Fairuz Izdihar(1*), Fikry Ravi Fauzi(2), Diah Ayu Aguspa Dita(3), Miskatyas Putri Aransih(4), Pukovisa Prawiroharjo(5), Elly Risman(6), Rizki Edmi Edison(7) (1) University of Muhammadiyah Prof Dr HAMKA (2) University of Muhammadiyah Prof Dr HAMKA (3) University of Muhammadiyah Prof Dr HAMKA (4) University of Muhammadiyah Prof Dr HAMKA (5) Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital (6) Kita […]
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COMMENTS: Study on subjects with hypersexuality (porn/sex addiction) reports epigenetic changes mirroring those occurring in alcoholics. The epigenetic changes occurred in genes associated with the oxytocin system (which is important in love, bonding, addiction, stress, etc.). Highlights: Sex/porn addict’s epigenetic markers for the brain’s oxytocin system looks similar to alcoholics Study’s findings aligns with Kuhn […]
tl;dr: If I can break free after more than FIVE HUNDRED relapses, then so can you! It’s possible! Seek clarity on why you’ve found it hard, learn how to overcome the addiction, make a solid plan, follow and refine it until you reach your goal! It feels incredible. I’m crying tears of joy. I’m so […]
If someone would have told me sometime ago, when I was ignorant of the dangers of porn, that it could cause serious sexual dysfunctions and disconnect myself from others, I would have thought they were some evangelical lunatic or something. I would have thought they were pretty sex negative and regressive, not open to new […]
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When I regained the joy of life again, the realization that I previously had blamed all of my shortcomings on others (and other things and circumstances) started to sink in. I slowly became more and more convinced that my previous destructive and negative thinking and attitude had been the causers of my previous tribulations, struggles […]
Physiol Rev. 2019 Oct 1;99(4):2115-2140. doi: 10.1152/physrev.00014.2018. Volkow ND1, Michaelides M1, Baler R1. National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland. Abstract Drug consumption is driven by a drug’s pharmacological effects, which are experienced as rewarding, and is influenced by genetic, developmental, and psychosocial factors that mediate drug accessibility, norms, and social […]
Read More… from The Neuroscience of Drug Reward and Addiction (2019)
Half a year ago, I couldn’t get hard without porn couldn’t ejaculate without porn couldn’t ejaculate with porn without a death grip, and it also took a long time I’m in my sixties, and picked up porn and PIED over the last five years or so. I cold-turkey stopped looking at any sort of porn […]