I’m 21 years old, never had sex. I’ve been free for exactly 100 days! I haven’t watched any kind of porn whatsoever. I didn’t even need any blockers. The only time I saw something sexual was in a movie The Wolf of Wall Street. But I hadn’t known there would be something like that. The […]
Read More… from Age 21 – A huge paradigm shift in my behavior & perceptions
First of all, I should tell you why I did pornfree, it was not because of some religious or moral issues, it was not because of ED. It was because I was a dopamine junkie, spending hours browsing for nude pictures of woman (I was mostly only into softcore). I started my pornfree journey last […]
Read More… from Age 30 – 110 days of pornfree made me a better man
By 2012 I had been using porn for over 40 years. I wasn’t doing this daily, by any means, but I would binge repeatedly when I was under stress. So, on December, 2, 2012, during a time of stress I was binging along with 20 browser tabs open and, somehow, I tripped into a site […]
I’ve made it to 100 days, and on my first try. The beginning came after I had just seen the Ted Talk: The Great Porn Experiment on Youtube and was instantly disgusted by what I’d been doing to myself for so long. More importantly though, I was immensely inspired to make a change that would […]
Read More… from Age 31 – 100 days – more aware & engaging socially, healthier erections
The initial impact of this journey was amazing, tons of energy, tons of confidence, great gym sessions, and unbelievable mental clarity. I have been flatlining for about the last 4 months or so and I’d like to blame that on being unemployed and dealing with a really shitty Polar Vortex winter, my social life has […]
George Collins MA, co-author of two books -“Breaking the Cycle: Free Yourself from Sex Addiction, Porn Obsession, and Shame,” and A Couple’s Guide to Sexual Addiction: A Step-by-Step Plan to Rebuild Trust and Restore Intimacy, and director of Compulsion Solutions, discusses his experience and how porn has changed with host Gary Wilson. Listen to January 29, […]
“Femstronauts” from Reddit.NoFap are experiencing familiar porn-related problems and benefits from quitting. Gary discusses this phenomenon with his guest Marnia (his wife). Listen To Show Also see: Jag väljer bort sex med en partner – (“I opt out of sex with a partner” (Sweden) Comments by women under this article Sexual energy and the single […]
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Cereb Cortex. 2009 Feb;19(2):435-44. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhn094. Winstanley CA, Bachtell RK, Theobald DE, Laali S, Green TA, Kumar A, Chakravarty S, Self DW, Nestler EJ. Abstract Increased impulsivity caused by addictive drugs is believed to contribute to the maintenance of addiction and has been linked to hypofunction within the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC). Recent data indicate that […]
Dialogues Clin Neurosci. 2013 Dec;15(4):431-43. Eric J. Nestler, MD, PhD* Author information ► Copyright and License information ► Go to: Abstract Despite the importance of numerous psychosocial factors, at its core, drug addiction involves a biological process: the ability of repeated exposure to a drug of abuse to induce changes in a vulnerable brain that […]
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I’ve been dealing with anxiety issues over the past few years, or rather trying to find a reason for it. Not just anxiety but the awkwardness that I really couldn’t understand. Why could I speak with some people just fine, but most people was a complete struggle? I knew I could do it, but whatever […]
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