About ten months ago I made the decision to pursue the NoFap challenge on Hard Mode for three months (or 90 days, for a nice round number) and now I fulfill this goal, having struggled for years to combat PMO. I really don’t feel like I’ve achieved much at all – I mean, there’s more […]
Before I discovered nofap and pornfree was banging it multiple times at day, was really tired. Sometime MO multiple times in the day, then sex, and then still not happy another MO… I had to watch porn as soon I had some free time or felt slightly bored. And clearly I masturbated to it every […]
Indian J Psychiatry. 2016 Jan-Mar; 58(1): 6–11. doi: 10.4103/0019-5545.174354 PMCID: PMC4776584 P. K. Dalal and Debasish Basu1 “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” -Albert Einstein Go to: THE BEGINNING In 1995, when the New York based psychiatrist Dr. Ivan Goldberg posted a sincere-looking but satirical note on the online psychiatric […]
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I am surprised that I made it this far. This being my first time and all. I started this path to cure my PIED and get my libido up but got a lot more through it all. Good: Urges have diminished quite dramatically over the past several weeks. My hardest period I would argue was […]
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 […]
Neuropharmacology. 2016 Aug;107:122-30. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropharm.2016.03.002 Pitchers KK1, Di Sebastiano AR2, Coolen LM3. Abstract Natural rewards and psychostimulants cause similar neural plasticity in the nucleus accumbens (NAc). In addition, sexual experience in male rats causes increased locomotor activity and conditioned place preference (CPP) induced by d-Amphetamine (amph). The latter is dependent on a period of abstinence […]
Published on 13.07.16 in Vol 3, No 3 (2016): Jul-Sept Please cite as: Hökby S, Hadlaczky G, Westerlund J, Wasserman D, Balazs J, Germanavicius A, Machín N, Meszaros G, Sarchiapone M, Värnik A, Varnik P, Westerlund M, Carli V Are Mental Health Effects of Internet Use Attributable to the Web-Based Content or Perceived Consequences of […]
This page collects studies with rates of porn use (keep in mind that studies employ a variety of questions and methodology). Targeting Mechanisms for Problematic Pornography Use Interventions (2023) There are estimates that in the United States, pornography is used by 46% of men and 16% of women during an average week (Regnerus, Gordon, & […]
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I’m bonding with men much better lately and men in my local venues whether walking the dog or playing tennis. They are showing me much more respect and actually seem happy to see me. Women want to be around me and are using whatever physical and social tactic to keep me interested when I converse […]
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Physiol Res. 2016 Mar 15. Wang F1, Jing X, Yang J, Wang H, Xiang R, Han W, Liu X, Wu C. Abstract A negative emotional state resulting from the withdrawal of drug addiction is thought to be an important factor that triggers and exacerbates relapse. Since the insular cortex is a key brain structure involved […]