I’m a 27-year old PMO addict who has been trying to recover for the last 8 months. I’ve had a PMO addiction for well over 12 years. Drug addiction for 10. Online video games for another 6-7 years.
Age 1-13
-Normal Kid. Very social and happy with life.
Age 13-16
– Started to PMO a lot. Mostly to fantasy and any TV show, magazine or newspaper that resembled any semi-hot woman. Social anxiety began.
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Read More… from Age 27 – ED: Physically I’m 100%. Super duper hard morning erections, even spontaneous erections
COMMENTS: The sweeping new ASAM “definition of addiction” (August 2011) ends the debate over the existence behavioral addictions, including sex and porn addiction. This new definition of addiction, which includes behavioral addictions, such as food, gambling and sex, ASAM unequivocally states behavioral addictions involve similar brain alterations and neural pathways as do drug addictions. We […]
Read More… from American Society for Addiction Medicine: Definition of Addiction – Long Version. (2011)
COMMENTS: It’s very important to note that this new definition of addiction includes behavioral addictions, such as food, gambling and sex. In ASAM’s longer version, they detail the nature of addictions and equivocally state that behavioral addictions exist and involve similar mechanisms and neural pathways. In addition to stating that sex addiction exists, Dr. Nora Volkow makes two other points of interest to porn users:
1) Teens are more vulnerable to addictions, and
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Read More… from (L) American Society for Addiction Medicine: New definition of addiction (2011)
Comments: A review by one of the top researchers stating that natural rewards and addiction overlap.
Full Study: The Neuroscience of Natural Rewards Relevance to Addictive Drugs
The Journal of Neuroscience, 1 May 2002, 22(9): 3306-3311; Ann E. Kelley1 and Kent C. Berridge2
+ Author Affiliations
1 Department of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin–Madison Medical School, Madison, Wisconsin 53719, and
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Question: What’s the difference between fantasizing about porn and watching porn?
Answer: The mouse
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Read More… from What about fantasizing during a reboot?
[Day 18] I’m 21 and had an amazing sex life before all this bullshit. Could do it forever. Never even the smallest afterthought of not being able to get it up. I went thru a dry spell though when I didn’t get with any girls cus I was depressed. This was for a year, and […]
Read More… from Age 21 – Sex with girlfriend may have slowed reboot (ED)
Without the Coolidge Effect there would be no Internet porn The Coolidge Effect is an ancient biological program that can override your sluggish contentment after orgasm if there are new mates begging to be fertilized. Without it, there would be no Internet porn. This neurological mechanism perceives each new erotic possibility—including those on your screen—as […]
Read More… from Porn, Novelty and the Coolidge Effect (2011)
For longer, more detailed ED accounts see rebooting accounts.
This page includes shorter ED recovery accounts:
- I had sex with a girl today after 71 days of abstaining, felt really good and everything and had no problems with ED or ejaculating, so I guess I’m cured =D
If anyone’s interested I didn’t do any O or P or m for those 71 days, I’ve been eating really well and I’ve been going to gym a lot.
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Read More… from ED Recovery Stories 4
New research overturns commonly held beliefs about men Regardless how many sexual partners you’ve had, you may still benefit from figuring out the extent to which you’re wired for pair bonding. Being a pair-bonder, by the way, doesn’t guarantee “happily ever after.” It means socially monogamous: having the capacity to fall in love and the […]
Read More… from Guys: Where Do You Fall on the Monogamy Spectrum? (2011)
[History, Day 12] I’m a 35-year-old man. I was married for about ten years and had no problems at all, sexually speaking. Also, I had never seen porn. I used to make love with my wife for hours. Functionality was something I just never even thought about.
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Read More… from Age 35 – 70 days: ED cured, libido is raging once again.