Six steps to success – Porn related ED and returning to a balanced form of sexual expression. by adamantine_mind [Edit]: This is an awesome link: http://www.reddit.com/r/NoFap/comments/1ab9ww/official_trigger_list/ Our mind creates our reality. There is no way to dispute this fact. Its easily demonstrable that not only does our mind create our reality, but that our perceptions […]
Here at Your Brain on Porn we know that porn is becoming a problem for an increasing number of women. We are making more female-friendly resources available. Porn Problems: Here Come the Women Vibrators and “Dead Vagina Syndrome” (research and mainstream press) Women, Vibrators, and Shaky Sex Research Vibrators and Other Pleasures: When ‘Moderation’ Fails […]
I’m 28 and am addicted to porn. Started in my early teens, although 56k modems and living with my parents curbed things. I definitely knew I had an addictive personality though, as I’d often masturbate to digital pictures and magazines 5-6 times a day in my early teens. So I took precautions when I moved […]
Read More… from Age 28 – (Psychiatrist) Porn-Induced ED cured and kicked the addiction
Gabe Deem believes the dopamine rushes produced by pornography can rewire the brain and cause addiction. (Photographer: Chris Arrant, Copyright: Chris Arrant Photography) This is part one in a four-part series. (Coming Monday: How pornography harms relationships. Coming Tuesday: Why laws to fight pornography aren’t being used. Coming Wednesday: How couples break the cycle of […]
Read More… from Ubiquitous assailant: The dangerous unasked questions surrounding pornography (2013)
This is my story of the changes that I noticed in my 365 days of no PMO. Lets first begin by saying that if any of you are skeptical about quitting porn then tune in and listen up because I am offering you evidence that this REALLY works. My story is the same as everyone […]
Read More… from Age 21 – ED: 365 days – confidence through the roof, social anxiety gone
Dopamine Is _________ Is it love? Gambling? Reward? Addiction? By Bethany Brookshire Wednesday, July 3, 2013, In a brain that people love to describe as “awash with chemicals,” one chemical always seems to stand out. Dopamine: the molecule behind all our most sinful behaviors and secret cravings. Dopamine is love. Dopamine is lust. Dopamine is […]
Kinsey/Trojan study on vibrators omitted lovers’ top question Sexual exploration is a fine idea, but we need to be radically honest with ourselves about researching its effects, lest we overlook signs of excess. A couple of years ago, I wrote Vibrators and Other Pleasures: When ‘Moderation’ Fails. It included self-reports by women for whom vibrator […]
Read More… from Women, Vibrators, and Shaky Sex Research (2013)
Psychiatry Investigation – 2013 (Vol.10 , Issue 2 , Pages 200-2) EunJin Cheon1;Bon-Hoon Koo1;Sang Soo Seo2; and Jun-Yeob Lee3; 1;Department of Psychiatry, Yeungnam University College of Medicine, Yeungnam University Medical Center, Daegu, 2;Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, 3;Department of Psychiatry, CHA Gumi Medical Center, CHA University, Gumi, Republic of […]
Read More… from Two Cases of Hypersexuality Probably Associated with Aripiprazole (2013)
Front Neuroanat. 2011;5:41. doi: 10.3389/fnana.2011.00041. Epub 2011 Jul 18. Lobo MK, Nestler EJ. Source Fishberg Department of Neuroscience, Friedman Brain Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine New York, NY, USA. Abstract The striatum plays a key role in mediating the acute and chronic effects of addictive drugs, with drugs of abuse causing long-lasting molecular and […]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2013 Jan 29;110(5):1923-8. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1221742110. Grueter BA, Robison AJ, Neve RL, Nestler EJ, Malenka RC. Source Nancy Pritzker Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA 94305, USA. Abstract Synaptic modifications in nucleus accumbens (NAc) medium spiny neurons (MSNs) play a […]