Background: I’m currently 18 years old. I’ve always been really horny, so I started fapping when i was around 7 years old. I didn’t start video porn until I was about 13, but since then, I had fapped very regularly..definitely more than 5 times a week. Obviously, I started to experience the effects of too […]
Read More… from Age 18 – ED: 130 days, Masturbated at day 123 to prime the pump
When erectile dysfunction and the crash hit me in the second half of 2012, I had no idea what was happening. As many of you know, your body, your way of relating to the rest of the world, your identity all come under huge doubts. This site has changed my life. I hope this post […]
The Journal of Neuroscience, 15 November 2006, 26(46): 11809-11810; doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4135-06.2006 David Belin1 and Aude Rauscent2 + Author Affiliations 1Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EB, United Kingdom, and 2Laboratoire de Physiologie et Physiopathologie de la Signalisation Cellulaire, Unité Mixte de Recherche 5543, Université Victor Segalen Bordeaux 2, 33076 Bordeaux Cedex, France […]
COMMENTS: Biol Psychiatry. 2010 Jun 15;67(12):1199-204. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2009.12.029. Davis JF, Loos M, Di Sebastiano AR, Brown JL, Lehman MN, Coolen LM. Source Department of Cell Biology, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. Abstract BACKGROUND: An inability to inhibit behaviors once they become maladaptive is a component of several psychiatric illnesses, and the medial prefrontal cortex […]
J Neurosci. 2011 Nov 9;31(45):16473-82. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4013-11.2011. Frohmader KS, Lehman MN, Laviolette SR, Coolen LM. Source Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario N6A5C1, Canada. Abstract Methamphetamine (Meth) users report having heightened sexual pleasure, numerous sexual partners, and engaging in unprotected sex due to […]
PLoS One. 2012;7(4):e34700. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0034700. Epub 2012 Apr 18. Pitchers KK, Schmid S, Di Sebastiano AR, Wang X, Laviolette SR, Lehman MN, Coolen LM. Source Departments of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada. Abstract Natural reward and drugs of abuse converge upon the […]
This study examined the effects of sexual reward on DeltaFosB and the effects of DeltaFosB on sexual behavior and reward. The standard molecular changes known to occur with drug addiction were found to be the same as occur with sex. In other words, DeltaFosB evolved for sexual stimuli, yet drugs hijack this very same mechanism. […]
August 29 – I’m a musician in my late twenties, and I have had a problems with my sex life ever since i can remember. Firstly, I have never had a real girlfriend, so you can also tell that I have not developed a healthy sexuality either. I have been masturbating more or less regularly […]
COMMENTS: Study found cue-induced cravings, similar to drug addicts, predicted porn addiction. Contrary to popular belief, unsatisfying sexual life had no correlation to porn addiction. Supporting the gratification hypothesis means addiction-like behaviors in response to ones chosen addiction. Laier, C., Pawlikowski, M., Pekal, J., Schulte, F. P., & Brand, M. (2013). Journal of Behavioral Addictions. […]
November 27, 2012 –It’s day 25 since my wife found my porn collection and left me taking our 5 month old daughter away. So the background, this will be a long story but I have have really appreciated being able to read everyone else’s stories and I know sharing mine will help me. I am […]