Here is a story by a 42-year-old guy about ignorance, shame, fear, and about his big revival. The story about how PMO can bring your life to an end. My marriage is dead. My 10-year relationship with a beautiful, smart and sexy woman broke up into pieces within days. There had never been a strong […]
Read More… from Age 42 – Masculine awakening. How my life changed in 6 months (HOCD).
Let me start with my pmo history. I started looking at porn at the age of ten then started masturbating at the age of 12. Continued this pattern until my clean break in March of this year. I’m 25 so that makes 15 years total of porn addiction. I looked at porn and masturbated everyday, […]
This is my day 90 and this reports is going to be huge long post with broken English. I warned. I’ve been a long time lurker like 1~2 years in this subreddit. And I feel really great to post this long story. I wanted to share it honestly as possible as I can. Because I […]
Read More… from Age 29 – Changed my life goals, my primary values
Hey everyone, here is my one month report and the outcomes I have had from it. This is my second longest streak and the easiest one so far. I have been attempting noFap for about a year now but this is definitely the streak that will be for the rest of my life! Let’s get […]
Hum Brain Mapp. 2014 Oct;35(10):5153-65. doi: 10.1002/hbm.22540. Lorenz RC1, Gleich T, Beck A, Pöhland L, Raufelder D, Sommer W, Rapp MA, Kühn S, Gallinat J. Abstract Processing of reward is the basis of adaptive behavior of the human being. Neural correlates of reward processing seem to be influenced by developmental changes from adolescence to late […]
Read More… from Reward anticipation in the adolescent and aging brain (2014)
J Behav Addict. 2014 Sep; 3(3): 149–156. Published online 2014 Aug 26. doi: 10.1556/JBA.3.2014.019 KENNETH BLUM,1,3,7,* MARCELO FEBO,1 THOMAS MCLAUGHLIN,2 FRANS J. CRONJÉ,8 DAVID HAN,9 and S. MARK GOLD1,3 Author information ► Article notes ► Copyright and License information ► Go to: Abstract Background: Following the first association between the dopamine D2 receptor gene polymorphism […]
A recovering porn user writes: I’ve been on and off the porn-free bandwagon for the last three years. It’s always been a struggle, but I did manage a full 90 days porn-free a couple years back. Every day though is pretty much a struggle. Until I did something new, unrelated to the pornfree effort. I […]
Int J Impot Res. 2010 Jul-Aug;22(4):234-9. doi: 10.1038/ijir.2010.9. Seo Y1, Jeong B, Kim JW, Choi J. Abstract The various changes of sexuality, including decreased sexual desire and erectile dysfunction, are also accompanied with aging. To understand the effect of aging on sexuality, we explored the relationship between age and the visual erotic stimulation-related brain response […]
Physiol Behav. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2012 Jul 25. Published in final edited form as: Physiol Behav. 2011 Jul 25; 104(1): 173–177. Published online 2011 May 5. doi: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2011.04.057 PMCID: PMC3107928 NIHMSID: NIHMS294810 Elaine M. Hull* Author information ► Copyright and License information ► The publisher’s final edited version of this article is available […]
Read More… from Sex, Drugs and Gluttony: How the Brain Controls Motivated Behaviors (2011)
Curr Opin Pharmacol. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2013 Oct 7. Published in final edited form as: Curr Opin Pharmacol. 2009 Feb; 9(1): 39–45. doi: 10.1016/j.coph.2008.12.018 PMCID: PMC3791851 NIHMSID: NIHMS468294 Matthew E. Carter, Jana Schaich Borg, and Luis de Lecea Author information ► Copyright and License information ► The publisher’s final edited version of this […]
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