So here I am, 90 days after I vowed to start the challenge on 25th March 2012. Its been a tough and arduous journey, but I am finally here. So what’s my story? I am a 22-year old male. Started PMO around the age of 12, and since then my life has been a crazy […]
COMMENTS: Excellent article. I placed it on YBOP because it does such a great job on addiction. The Diseases We Share with Our Animals, including Reptiles (from HerpDigest) Posted on June 11, 2012 by MDCrabtree The following is from the latest Herp Digest release (if you don’t subscribe already, please do!) and a collaboration of […]
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Six Recent Innovations in Porn and Erotica By Leon F. Seltzer, Ph.D. Created Jun 20 2012 – 10:31am Producers of Internet erotica and pornographycan generally turn a sizeable profit if they’re able to craft sexually supercharged images, videos, and fiction. And to satisfy seekers’ endless quest for carnal excitement, these entrepreneurs have generated paranormal stimuli […]
Cyber erotica: Can pixels alleviate an evolutionary yearning? Scott Adams, the genius behind “Dilbert,” recently wrote a piece called The Digital Crossover. Here’s an excerpt, As soon as sex and marriage in the simulated world … become better than the real thing, no one will bother with the expense, stress, and inconvenience…. Humans aren’t becoming […]
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COMMENTS: This study found no correlation between compulsive Internet use and substance use. This does not align with often stated theory that Internet addiction must be due to pre-existing conditions or only occurring in those with “addict brains”. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2012 Mar;9(3):660-73. Epub 2012 Feb 23. Sun P, Johnson CA, Palmer […]
Tips for reaching more than 100+ days of nofap. Hi everyone, Thought I should give back some tips that helped me in one of the most life changing experiences that I’ve had. I’ve already written long posts on the steps of my experience in doing this in great detail but I’m not sure if I […]
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The D.S.M. Gets Addiction Right By HOWARD MARKEL Ann Arbor, Mich. WHEN we say that someone is “addicted” to a behavior like gambling or eating or playing video games, what does that mean? Are such compulsions really akin to dependencies like drug and alcohol addiction — or is that just loose talk? This question arose […]
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LINK – 40yearfapper Day 101 – no porn, 23 – no MO: YBOP says the reboot isn’t linear and that mixing in sex, orgasms, relapses, can slow you down. I guess I qualify for all the above. After 3 years of limp dick, it got hard within 7 days of nofap. Yet, here I am 90-something-days after […]
J Neurosci. 2011 Jun 8;31(23):8625-33. St Onge JR, Abhari H, Floresco SB. Source Department of Psychology and Brain Research Center, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z4, Canada Abstract Choices between certain and uncertain rewards of different magnitudes have been proposed to be mediated by both the frontal lobes and the mesocorticolimbic dopamine […]
Comments: This young man (m1610) posted several comments in July, 2011 on YBOP. However, it wasn’t until he found Reddit-NoFap around January, 2012, that he finally made progress. His first YBOP post is followed by his NoFap report. July, 2011 I’ve always had problems getting and maintaining erection as well as having problems with delayed ejaculation. I’ve always watched porn, tried […]
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