I started my journey through NoFap / yourbrainonporn.com. In retrospect, my main problem might have been porn. Porn has caused so much damage to my brain. I’m 22 years old, and have been PMO’ing from around age 13 up until my late 21. I had my own private room with a fast internet connection. No […]
Read More… from Age 22 – ED cured. My libido was strictly dependent on porn
I had the nice surprise to notice that my counter had finally reached 100% of achievement, here is my story: First of all, I must admit that one of my reasons for posting here is that I am proud of what I have accomplished and want to be recognized for what I’ve done. Yeah, that’s […]
Read More… from Age 20 – ED: For the first time in many years, I was hard (after a 2 month flatline)
I really started seeing the need to kick the PMO habit early in 2013. I’d started to get into some particularly dangerous areas of pornography, which included watching videos that included an element of hypnosis. My behavior started to get riskier. I started buying women’s clothing and would dress and make myself up before PMO […]
Read More… from Age 42 – Married: Gave up porn; quit cross-dressing and dangerous masturbation
Brain Stimulations Alter Primate ‘Free Choice’ TEHRAN (FNA)- When electrical pulses are applied to the ventral tegmental area of their brain, macaques presented with two images change their preference from one image to the other. The study is the first to confirm a causal link between activity in the ventral tegmental area and choice behavior […]
Read More… from (L) Stimulation of the VTA alters preferred choice in primates (2014)
Wow it’s hard to believe that its been a year since I last watched any pornography. Its been a rough 7 year journey but I finally made it. Let me tell you my story with this addiction. The first time that i ever watched porn was way back in 2004 when I was 12 years […]
Nofap works. I suggest reading why and how. So 90 days ago was the last time I had PMO and that feels awesome. I’m in this for life so I intend to keep fighting. Here are some benefits and tips. Benefits: Way I view other sex: Once I decided that women are not tools give […]
Read More… from Age 31 – Nofap works. I suggest reading why and how.
Man, this is so fucking awesome. The past 90 days have been the most eventful ones of my life. I am so proud of myself and feel so motivated that I can achieve almost anything. I have been hooked onto masturbating ever since I was 14 (I am 19 now) so, it was quite a […]
This may be a long post, and some of what I’m going to say might sound contradictory to some of the messages we’ve gotten from this site, but know that the amount of good this site has created is astronomical, and hundreds of thousands of us from different walks of life have been helped back […]
Read More… from 90 Days and Beyond: Healing from addiction and sexual abuse
My path to recovery from porn induced ED has been a long one. For the longest time I thought something was physically wrong with me – i.e a venous leak – and never made the connection between porn and my inability to maintain an erection. I couldn’t maintain an erection standing up. Sitting down, I […]
Read More… from Age 21 – ED cured. Need to deal with the addiction head on
Transl Psychiatry. Apr 2014; 4(4): e387. doi: 10.1038/tp.2014.28 M R Harb1,2 and O F X Almeida1,* Abstract Elevated glucocorticoid levels and sign tracking (ST) in Pavlovian conditioning are potential biomarkers of compulsive behaviors such as addiction. As overeating is sometimes viewed as a form of addictive behavior, we hypothesized that murine Pavlovian sign trackers would […]