Opening our family laptop to be confronted with a line up of barely legal naked women gave me the shock of my life. But my son’s reaction when I demanded to know why he thought it was acceptable to look at such filth on the shared computer, was even more concerning. Incensed at my discovery, […]
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150+ Days NoFap Hard Mode today.but streaks are BS, because it is “one day at a time”. My “willpower” did not accomplish this. An absolute blessing to be freed from the curse of constant arousal, objectification, sexual fantasy, and urges.I can sleep easily with the phone next to my bed every night again. I have […]
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by Freya India Excerpt: “We learned the wrong things about love. We girls learned that sex is brutal; that men are predatory and insatiable; that the only way to be loved is to become a better object. That intimacy isn’t something to be clumsily stumbled through together, but a performance to be delivered, “content” to […]
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by Christine Emba [Original article] Excerpt: In my own experience speaking to college students and young adults, they’re dismayed and discouraged by the role pornography has played in their sexual formation. In their eyes, it colors everything. These days, virality is difficult to achieve. But the British OnlyFans creator Lily Phillips managed it this winter, […]
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I never thought I’d see the day. I am no longer gripped by the addiction of porn and masturbation. I don’t have any urge to look and I am happy with my life. I will briefly talk about my story and maybe some people here can benefit. I’ll also give some suggestions for those who […]
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I started M at 13, multiple times a day, sometimes P but mostly imagination. I lost my virginity at 18 to my gf at the time. At best, we had mediocre sex and it was because I could only become semi-hard, not enough for anything special. After a while I lost the ability to perform […]
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This 2020 article does a good job of breaking down some of the common myths sexologists use to prop up the porn industry. It’s worth a re-read. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Uncomfortable truths about the industry and how it intertwines with child abuse, sex trafficking, and exploitation This article covers the direct and indirect harm of pornography from […]
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Wondering how your sex life got conditioned to particular fetishes or other special needs? These doctors explain why so many young men are complaining about being prisoners of sexual habits developed masturbating exclusively to porn. Today’s porn is such a powerful conditioning force that porn users need to understand the risks. […]
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[History of my PIED, 2022] Im 25 years old and i watched porn since my teens like many of us here. It escalated over the years into hardcore fetishes (femdom). In the end this was the only thing i could get an erection. In my life i had so far 3 attempts to have sex […]
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[In this masterful review, feminist organization Nordic Model Now summarizes Gary Wilson’s Your Brain on Porn.] The idea that compulsive internet porn use can be a form of addiction has a bad reception in some feminist circles. There is a conviction that it lets men off the hook; perhaps even positioning them as victims – […]
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