How it started The first time I viewed porn was at the age of four. My parents were in the kitchen cooking breakfast, so I got up from my room to look around the new apartment. I went into their room, and discovered a porn magazine under the bed. For a week straight I went […]
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The biggest mistake of my life was disrespecting the power of porn. When I was 14, a friend of mine gave me a data CD brimming with hardcore pornography. Until then, my only experience with the female form was trying to sneak scrambled late-night HBO. The time where a boob seemed so special that we’d […]
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Where to begin? This has been a long and crazy journey. This is a long post, stick with it and I’ll tell you a story at the end. I am 30yo male, I guess I started whackin’ around the age of….11? I would say I’ve been whackin it once a day for as long as […]
I have completed the 90 day challenge! Have I learned about myself and become a better man from this experience? Yes, but not for the reasons I thought. Allow me to explain. I am 33, and have been a PMO addict for over a decade. Like many here, I grew up with the internet, and […]
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I haven’t seen many stories of young rebooters, so I didn’t have much to go by. I always felt that being young it would take me a very long time to reboot due to the lack of benefits that I had throughout most the whole process. I have gone through 90 days and I would […]
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This article (Google translator) quotes three experts who say porn is causing sexual problems: Socionomen Inger Björklund, psychotherapist at RFSU Clinic; Stefan Arver’s chief physician and head of the Centre for Andrology and Sexual Medicine at Karolinska University Hospital in Hudding; Psychiatrist Goran Sedvallson. More and more young men suffer from “porn impotence.” On the […]
Neurochem Res. 2013 Apr 13. Lee DK, Oh JH, Shim YB, Choe ES. Source Department of Biological Sciences, Pusan National University, 63-2 Pusandaehak-ro, Kumjeong-gu, Pusan, 609-735, Korea. Abstract Protein kinase G (PKG) activation has been implicated in the regulation of synaptic plasticity in the brain. This study was conducted to determine the involvement of PKG-associated […]
I can’t believe I made it this far. The hardest part of the journey is the first month. My body was just begging me, begging me so badly to go back into fapping that made me feel like an Alpha who owns an endless supply of harems. About the superpowers, judging from my own experience […]
There is a fix for the brain-altering effects of pornography It was suspiciously warm, the reception given to a study published a week ago in the Journal of Sexual Medicine. A survey of 4,600 young people in the Netherlands, aged 15 to 25, found the behavioral impact of pornography—most of it online now—to be surprisingly […]
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