Condom compliance may be a matter of software, not hardware Progress has stalled on teen condom use to ward off the spread of STIs. Bill Gates is convinced that better condoms will increase condom use by making sex more pleasurable. To this end, “His foundation will give a $100,000 grant to anyone with credible plans […]
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One of my favourite ways to avoid PMO was to read all the success stories on the YBOP website. Kinda long but a year is a long time!: Age 20 – 365 Days I’m 21, and during exams last year, I decided porn would no longer be part of my life. When I tried writing […]
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I’m 22 years old at the moment – I’ve been a porn junkie since I first started watching it in my early teen years. Binged heavily up until age 18 or so, and was aware that it was a problem since at least age 16. After starting college, I drastically toned down the porn-watching, though […]
Read More… from Age 22 – Over a year without Porn -> relapse -> recovery: This works!
Mehdi Keramati mail, Boris Gutkin Abstract Despite explicitly wanting to quit, long-term addicts find themselves powerless to resist drugs, despite knowing that drug-taking may be a harmful course of action. Such inconsistency between the explicit knowledge of negative consequences and the compulsive behavioral patterns represents a cognitive/behavioral conflict that is a central […]
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Vlog: 250 days of Nofap/NoPorn/NoOrgasm Whirlwind Tobias’s 90-day No fap, no orgasm, no edging, no porn experience. Last year, a blog I frequent known as Roissy/Chateau Heartiste had a comment posted by one of it’s many intelligent followers. He described his woe with females, and that as a result he gave up on them totally; […]
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As most of you, I started fapping from an early age, without noticing, fapping changed my perspective about sex, as time passed by I was needing more hardcore porn than before. I unconsciously jumped from fapping at magazines like Playboy to feeling unsatisfied with 1 fap per day on hardcore porn. I felt like this […]
Read More… from 90 days – Hard mode: greater confidence, motivation, determination & focus. I know myself better
90 days NoFap, 86 days no orgasm. Edged twice, briefly viewed porn twice (unrelated to edging). Social anxiety, HOCD, and stress immensely diminished. Confidence up, energy up, relationships strengthened, and limitless flirtation with girls. 28 year old male. AMA. [Responses to various forum members who asked questions:] On what day did nofap start to take […]
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From Technology vs Writing And Thinking … Reading this and watching this riveting Tedx talk on the impact of online porn on young male brains – essentially numbing them to actual sex with real human beings and creating an epidemic of young men with floppy dicks (I refuse to use the term “erectile dysfunction” when […]
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“Chaser” is the term often used to describe intense cravings that follow orgasm, perhaps immediately or perhaps the following day. They likely arise from neurochemical changes naturally triggered by climax. Men often report that the chaser eases over time as the brain finds a new balance during rebooting. For more, read Do You Need a […]
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I have been participating in nofap for a while now and I believe it is time to unleash my story to you all in the hope that you will continue to support me and perhaps shed some light on my past. I should say initially that I am now doing extremely well, have a girlfriend, […]
Read More… from Age 22 – Fatherless, alone, misguided and troubled to healthy, educated and happy!