Benefits from nofap (currently third attempt day 26. Have been fapping with only one day in a row pause max for 4 years): better vision. I shit you not. Before nofap, my eyes would go slightly out of focus on a regular bases when I was tired. Now, they stay focused the whole day. I […]
Read More… from Mind is so much sharper, I am no longer numb to reality, lot more confidence
I am now currently in my second AND LAST! reboot. I am never watching porn again and i think i am never going to masturbate ever again. I always had severe PIED. My first sexual experience was at 16. From age 16 to age 21 i had non-succesful sex with different girls. I hated myself […]
Read More… from Age 21 – This is my second and last reboot. Almost succesfully healed from ED again.
I am a 33-year old healthy male, athletic build. My first exposure to porn started at the age of 14, around the time when the internet was still in its infant stages. Slowly over the years, I graduated from viewing pictures – videos – internet porn. I began having sex at age 28 ( mixed […]
Read More… from Age 33 (ED): 8 months – continued to have sex with girlfriend and use Cialis during reboot
LINK – 13 November 2013 SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA—Compulsive gamblers aren’t necessarily greedier than the rest of us—their brains may just be wired to favor money over sex. That’s the conclusion of a study presented here today at the Society for Neuroscience conference. This tendency to prioritize money over more basic desires resembles other addictions like […]
Read More… from (L) Gamblers More Attracted to Money Than Sex (2013) – Desensitization
SUCCESS! I just wanted to share this with everyone – I have actually felt cured for a few months now, but i only now have time to repeat my story 😉 I wasn’t a bad case, i didn’t delve too deep into the porn pit, a few hardcore bits here and there, but nothing too […]
Read More… from Age 26 – From sitting alone at home to satisfying and fulfilling sex life with girlfriend (ED)
First of all, I have no badge. I didn’t have a reddit account at all until just now, so excuse me for that. But anyway, I think this is my seventh week of the challange (give or take a bit), and I have to say it’s worked wonders in my life. I’ll give you a […]
Read More… from Age 23 – I’m forming genuinely meaningful relationships with women, I have emotions, I feel more intelligent
Cereb. Cortex (2007) 17 (12): 2796-2804. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhm008 First published online: February 24, 2007 Tiziana Pascucci1,2, Rossella Ventura2,3, Emanuele Claudio Latagliata1,2, Simona Cabib1,2 and Stefano Puglisi-Allegra1,2 + Author Affiliations 1Dipartimento di Psicologia, Università “La Sapienza,” Rome I-00185, Italy 2Fondazione Santa Lucia I.R.C.C.S, European Centre for Brain Research (CERC), Rome 00143, Italy 3Dipartimento di Scienze e […]
Read More… from The Medial Prefrontal Cortex Determines the Accumbens Dopamine Response to Stress through the Opposing Influences of Norepinephrine and Dopamine (2007)
Front Neurosci. 2012; 6: 157. Published online 2012 November 1. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2012.00157 Anthony J. Porcelli,1,* Andrea H. Lewis,2 and Mauricio R. Delgado2,* Author information ► Article notes ► Copyright and License information ► This article has been cited by other articles in PMC. Go to: Abstract People often make decisions under aversive conditions such as […]
Read More… from Acute Stress Influences Neural Circuits of Reward Processing (2012)
I’ve gone 91 days now without masturbation or porn, so I’ll try to write a little now about my experience. My counter is at 91, but I had sex on day 38, and I felt like I was “using” the girl I had sex with the same way I had used porn. I felt that […]
Read More… from Age 32 – I’m totally certain that masturbating to porn was keeping me depressed and unmotivated
World J Mens Health. 2013 August; 31(2): 126–135. Published online 2013 August 31. doi: 10.5534/wjmh.2013.31.2.126 Akira Tsujimura Author information ► Article notes ► Copyright and License information ► Go to: Abstract Testosterone is important in the physiology of various organs and tissues. The serum testosterone concentration gradually declines as one of the processes of aging. […]
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