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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CASE REPORT Year : 2017 | Volume : 10 | Issue : 5 | Page : 461-464 Adnan Kadiani, Ekram Goyal, Spandana Devabhaktuni, Brig Daniel Saldanha, Bhushan Chaudhari Department of Psychiatry, Dr DY Patil Medical College, Hospital and Research Centre, Pune, Maharashtra, India Date of Submission 28-Dec-2016 Date of Acceptance 17-Feb-2017 Date of […]
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Yeah so I just passed the 90-day mark. Can’t say it was easy, but it’s definitely achievable if you have strong reasons. I’ve been learning to channel my sexual energy into books, study groups, and spiritual practices. My relationship improved A LOT. I’m so much more present and reliable, and sex is better as well. […]
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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Porn Addiction is Being Severely Underestimated We’re dealing with some powerful stuff here, but it is not treated seriously enough, probably because it’s widely accepted by society and is not a substance like heroine or cocaine. I cringe when people relapse, reset their counters, and proclaim “This is it, I’ve had enough, I’m going to […]
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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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Cortex Available online 8 December 2017 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2017.11.020 · Carlotta Cogonia, b, , , · Andrea Carnaghic, · Giorgia Silanid, Abstract Sexual objectification is a widespread phenomenon characterized by a focus on the individual´s physical appearance over his/her mental state. This has been associated with negative social consequences, as objectified individuals are judged to be less […]
Holy shit. I’m an engineering student and I’m in my finals period. Usually because of stress (and procrastination), this is the period I jack off 3-4 times a day. But this whole semester I didn’t touch my dick. Not once. Today I met my cute lab peofessor in private to ask her some questions about […]
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The beginning half of my sophomore year in college was a shit show. I can’t remember too many of the specifics but a bunch of things happened to me which put me in a shit place for a while. I had low testosterone; I hadn’t lifted weights in months (I’m currently about to do my […]
Are you – or someone you love – getting tired of all this talk about porn being so harmful? Rather than having to worry about making serious personal or public changes, wouldn’t it be nice to stop worrying about this all together? Thankfully, a small handful of authors have been coming up with some compelling […]
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