Update (July, 2017): Co-author Brian Willoughby exposes how David Ley spun & misrepresented his study in Ley’s Psychology Today blog post “Religious Conflict Makes Porn Bad for Relationships“: Thinking in Black and White: A Response to the Claim that Religiosity Cause the Harms of Pornography. ———————————————————————————————— Article The “perceived pornography addiction” meme continues to infect […]
Read More… from Critique of: “Damaged Goods: Perception of Pornography Addiction as a Mediator Between Religiosity and Relationship Anxiety Surrounding Pornography Use” (Leonhardt, Willoughby, & Young-Petersen 2017)
I discovered nofap about 2-3 years ago. I am not sure how I got here but I think I was searching for “why doesn’t my dick work sometimes” or something like that. At this time I was a student and had a lot of free time so I masturbated sometimes 6-8 times a day to […]
Read More… from A year clean. PIED healed. Would not trade my GF for all pornstars together
I came to this site in January of this year in the hopes that I would cure my PIED. I’m happy to say that I am now having great sex with my wife, and erections (both achieving and maintaining) aren’t a problem anymore. I wanted to share my story with anyone who could benefit from […]
Read More… from Age 41 – Married and overcame porn-induced erectile dysfunction
I’m 25, and I used porn for close to 10 years. A lot of what got me to give this a try was l had just had a discussion with a friend of mine about my teenage years. I attributed a lot of it to a strong sex drive, but realized I had lost that […]
Read More… from Age 25 – I’ve become the man I was supposed to be all along
First time poster, on a dump account, and first time reaching 90 days. Currently on around day 94/95 (Haven’t pmo’d since Christmas). A quick bit of backstory: I’m now 19, studying at uni. I have low level social anxiety and before uni I couldn’t even talk to girls without getting really nervous. Discovered NoFap about […]
Read More… from Age 19 – Can now have genuine normal conversation with girls
I’m basically three months free of fetish porn. Still failing hard at nofapping, but voila, I can get full erections to straight porn and thoughts. This is fantastic, this means I probably can get myself in a functional relationship. Honestly that is pretty unbelievable, before I started I was doubting if I ever gotten hard […]
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UPDATE: June 11, 2015: A peer-reviewed critique of Prause & Pfaus 2015, by Richard A. Isenberg MD UPDATE: June, 2015: A critique of the Prause & Pfaus response to Richard Isenberg’s letter UPDATE: August 5, 2016: Peer-reviewed paper by US Navy doctors – Is Internet Pornography Causing Sexual Dysfunctions? A Review with Clinical Reports (2016) […]
Read More… from “Nothing Adds Up in Dubious Study: Youthful Subjects’ ED Left Unexplained” by Gabe Deem
Intro: First of all, my hearty thanks to this very supportive and caring community of nofap. This info, since i found out about it a year ago changed my life and sex performance. I now want to share my success story. I will write in point form and make it as short as I can. […]
Read More… from Age 25 – PIED cured: I feel like I’m back to normal. And I don’t need the pill anymore
Been porn free for the last six months and it has definitely changed me for the better. What got me thinking I had a problem in the first place was my difficulty in getting an erection when having sex. It didn’t have anything to do with ED, rather porn creep or something very similar had […]
Read More… from Age 33 – PIED cured. After porn I can look at girls in the eye again, and smile at them. Social anxiety gone.
Update: Studies Finding Escalation (and Habituation) in Porn Users YBOP FAQ: Is my fetish porn-induced? It’s time to distinguish ‘sexual orientation’ from reversible ‘sexual tastes’ “The bulk of scientific evidence currently favors the view that the origins for most sexual desires are not cultural but innate.” —Leon F. Seltzer Such statements mislead people that all […]
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