Don’t know if any of you remember me, but it will be two years this December since I began my healing. (search for my journal) So, an update after going on two years now… I am porn free!!! The very thought of it makes me sick. I have zero desire to view it. There is […]
Ask The Academy: My question is, I live in Egypt, and I’m a Muslim, Sex before marriage is forbidden in Islam and in Egypt society. And part of our culture that we don’t get married before 26-28 years old in an average. And […]
Front. Behav. Neurosci., 25 August 2014 | doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00288 Zhenhe Zhou*, Hongmei Zhu, Cui Li and Jun Wang Department of Psychiatry, Wuxi Mental Health Center, Wuxi, China ABSTRACT Internet addiction disorder (IAD) should belong to a kind of behavioral addiction. Previous studies indicated that there are many similarities in the neurobiology of behavior and substance […]
Over a year or two ago now, I sat down in front of my computer after work, fired up facebook and resumed the all-familiar position that I had become all too accustomed to for the evening. Relentless scrolling, browsing, masturbating, everything I could do to distract myself from the monotony of what my life had […]
So I consider myself successfully recovered by now. I am 42 years old, sexually not very experienced and have been recovering for 11 months. During this time, I went from not being able to get an erection at all to having sex without ED drugs. Here is an account of my journey. My porn history […]
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Guillaume Sescousse1,* and Hanneke E.M. den Ouden1,2,* +Show Affiliations ↵*G.S. and H.E.M.d.O. equally contributed to this work. The Journal of Neuroscience, 20 February 2013, 33(8): 3256-3258; doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5828-12.2013 Full Text Full Text (PDF) Next Section Introduction Pathological gambling is a behavioral addiction that is characterized by excessive (monetary) risk-taking in the face of negative consequences, […]
Before I stumbled upon NoFap one year ago, I was fapping 1-3 times a day, yes, that was 365 – 1095 times a year for around 20 years. After reading posts, and exploring more, and putting in hard work, I’ve lowered that frequency. Here are my one year stats since I started this journey- please […]
Comments: This is the second Cambridge University study on internet porn addicts (“CSB” in the study). This study assessed cue-reactivity through attentional bias. Unlike this 2013 EEG study in which the subjects were male, female and non-heterosexuals, and were not screened for mental conditions or other addictions, this study meticulously followed established neuroscience protocols. The […]
Recently, there has been some buzz regarding the role of religion with regard to porn addiction. One study http://www.provenmen.org/2014pornsurvey/pornography-use-and-addiction/#addiction showed that men claiming to be Christian were twice as likely as non-Christians to think that they might be addicted to porn. Some commentators are quick to conclude that this is proof that porn addiction is a construct […]
Source: Final article by IPPR. Comments – articles and a news video about a UK survey asking 18-year olds about pornography. ENTIRE POLL – RAW DATA. Full report will be released on August 27. Here is a sample: The Telegraph – It’s time we started talking to our children about sex, and that means porn […]
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