I’ve been masturbating to porn daily since I was about 8 years old. The first two, and previous to nofap only, times I had sex, were not very good. The first was at 17yo and was going great until I was turned off by what I now know was a very strong smelling cooter (a […]
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Noah B. E. Church is a wildland firefighter, EMT, tutor, entrepreneur, speaker, and author. At 24 years old, he’s also a recovering porn addict. Having first encountered internet pornography at the age of nine, it wasn’t until very recently that he realised how badly his porn habit had affected his sexual and emotional well-being. Following […]
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Comments: The following (roughly) translated articles contain quotes and describe studies (in press) by Italian urology professor, President of the Italian Society of Reproductive Pathophysiology, and author of some 300 academic papers, Carlo Foresta. See this page for descriptions of the studies and his 90 page PDF of the lecture where he presented his results. […]
I’m pretty hungover – I’ve realized that this is a trigger for me and precisely why I’m focusing my energy on recognizing what has improved over the last 18 days. I’ve made it past two weeks about 5 times, then I’d get cocksure and blow it “accidentally”. The last year has been crazy in […]
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I have reached the 5 month mark for nofap now and I almost think of it as a good luck charm now and am too scared to stop it as everything has been going so well for me since I have started it. I use to suffer from really bad performance anxiety induced erectile dysfunction […]
I tried to reach 90 days without PMO 2 times before and failed miserably. Then I figured that you can rewire your brain easier if you go hard mode or even monk mode. The key is to divert your attention, change your focus to something else, some kind of activity whenever you start thinking about […]
Read More… from ED – erections are much stronger; huge confidence boost
tl;dr – PMO almost destroyed my life…. discovered NoFap… drastically changed things… got happier :D… NoFap challenge works I swear. 100 days baby! Hi non-fapping community I reached a 3 month milestone with the help of all your inspirational posts on this sub. It was a privilege to read ya’ll stories and it seems like […]
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Front Psychol. 2013 Sep 10;4:609. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00609. eCollection 2013. Kira Bailey,1,* Robert West,2 and Judson Kuffel3 Author information ► Article notes ► Copyright and License information ► Go to: Abstract Recent work has revealed a relationship between pathological video game use and increased impulsivity among children and adolescents. A few studies have also demonstrated increased […]
Read More… from What would my avatar do? Gaming, pathology, and risky decision making (2013)
An early fixation with pornography can damage teenagers’ lives for years to come, experts say Teenagers were ogling breasts long before the internet was created. But there are now so many images to be gawped at – many of them much more accessible than ever before – that graphic pornography is becoming a normal part […]
Dr. Carlo Foresta is a urology professor, president of the Italian Society of Reproductive Pathophysiology, and author of some 300 academic studies. Foresta has been investigating the effects of porn use on young people for several years. In the following 2014 lecture (pgs. 45 – 79) Foresta discusses studies and surveys showing strong relationships between […]
Read More… from PDF of a lecture by Carlo Foresta, urology professor (2014)