The dynamics of adolescents’ pornography use and psychological well-being: a six-wave latent growth and latent class modeling approach (2019)

Štulhofer, A., Tafro, A., & Kohut, T. (2019). European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 1-13. Link to web COMMENTS: A study by “Real” Your Brain On Porn site members Taylor Kohut and Alexander Štulhofer. First, the data are included in the above Kohut & Štulhofer study, so we can view these 2 studies as two halves […]

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Assessing neural responses towards objectified human targets and objects to identify processes of sexual objectification that go beyond the metaphor (2019)

Jeroen Vaes, Giulia Cristoforetti, Daniela Ruzzante, Carlotta Cogoni & Veronica Mazza Scientific Reports volume 9, Article number: 6699 (2019) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-42928-x Abstract Objectification – reducing a someone to a something – represents a powerful and potentially damaging way in which we can see and treat others. Women are often victims of processes of objectification that occur whenever […]

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PIED is real; porn (not masturbation) was the enemy. Now in LT relationship, work performance improvement led to 6-figure salary

2 years ago today I started my NF which I completed, it happened almost randomly and changed my life under many points of view and is one of the reasons why today I make six figures, have a gf, and see the world differently. This is my story, in hope it can help motivate someone […]

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Female – I was watching porn that made me bored with real life and numb to real pleasure

*THIS MIGHT BE TRIGGERING FOR SOME PEOPLE First of, if you like porn than go ahead, I’m not saying you can’t and I’m not morally judging anyone. That said, these are my personal experiences and what I have learned from not watching it. So, a while ago I went down a slippery slope. I have […]

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NoFap founder Alexander Rhodes defamation lawsuit against Nicole Prause / Liberos

On October 23, 2019 Alexander Rhodes (founder of reddit/nofap and NoFap.com) filed a defamation lawsuit against Nicole R Prause and Liberos LLC. See the court docket here. Downloadable PDFs of the three primary court documents filed by Rhodes (screenshots below): Alex Rhodes defamation suit against Nicole Prause: The initial complaint – 15 pages. (screenshots of […]

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Age 33 – I was doing laundry in my bathtub, because of severe social anxiety

It’s only been 3 months, but I’m beyond amazed at my transformation. I’m an entirely new, happy person now. I talked about the benefits I felt and the new things that happened in my life in my previous posts. Those curious enough can view my post history. Not socially anxious, shy, depressed, lethargic, or suicidal. […]

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Relationships among impulsive, addictive and sexual tendencies and behaviours: a systematic review of experimental and prospective studies in humans (2019)

Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2019 Feb 18;374(1766):20180129. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2018.0129. Leeman RF1,2, Rowland BHP1, Gebru NM1, Potenza MN2,3,4,5. Abstract Impulsivity’s relationships to addictive and sexual behaviours raise questions regarding the extent impulsivity may constitute a vulnerability factor for subsequent addictive and sexual behaviours and/or results from each of these. Here, we systematically […]

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Incentive and Dopamine Sensitization Produced by Intermittent But Not Long Access Cocaine Self-Administration (2019)

Eur J Neurosci. 2019 Apr 9. doi: 10.1111/ejn.14418. Kawa AB1, Valenta AC2, Kennedy RT2, Robinson TE1. Abstract The temporal pattern of drug use (pharmacokinetics) has a profound effect on the ability of self-administered cocaine to produce addiction-like behavior in rodents, and to change the brain. To further address this issue, we compared the effects of […]

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