Since my last post on July 29, 2016 I have made a lot of changes. I gave my wife a little card which spelled out my promise never to masturbate and never to orgasm without her. She keeps it in her bedside cabinet. I have managed to stay absolutely true to this pledge and I […]
I’m 167 days into this thing and I want people who are similar to me to know the reality of their situation. I started very early on in my life, escalating to fetishes by the middle of high school. I continued on like that until sometime during my freshman year of college, when I discovered […]
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I have Syndrome of Aspergers and I have been struggling with depression and self loathing since 2013. I have always been really self conscious about myself because I knew I ‘wasn’t normal’. Because of this, I compared myself with the ‘normal’ people and I was really sad every time I saw photos of my friends […]
Here are some real-life answers to the question “What does withdrawal from porn addiction look like?” We have contributions from guys going through the process and some thoughts from Gabe Deem. PDF with reports of “Withdrawal Symptoms“ Page with 17 studies reporting withdrawal symptoms in porn users. Listen to a radio show about porn-addiction withdrawal […]
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Front Psychol. 2015; 6: 653. Published online 2015 May 22. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00653 Jan Snagowski1 and Matthias Brand1,2,* Abstract There is no consensus regarding the phenomenology, classification, and diagnostic criteria of cybersex addiction. Some approaches point toward similarities to substance dependencies for which approach/avoidance tendencies are crucial mechanisms. Several researchers have argued that within an addiction-related […]
I suppose I’ll preface with a little background. Skip ahead if you’d like. I’ve masturbated since I can remember. I found softcore porn in my dad’s room when I was very young and found very hardcore stuff on the computer shortly thereafter. My impressionable young brain was hooked. I started developing fetishes before even hitting […]
Last night (early this morning) I brought a girl back to my place, that I know. As soon as she took her dress off I had an instant boner and she noticed. The old me would have been hesitant to even invite her over. And if I did, I would have thought of an excuse […]
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YBOP COMMENTS: This study reported two seemingly contradictory findings in regard to porn use: More time spent viewing porn correlated with lower sexual satisfaction More time spent viewing porn correlated with less sexual dysfunction Wouldn’t it make sense for poorer sexual satisfaction to always be related to more sexual dysfunction? How could more porn use […]
Today, I have won a major victory against the monster that is PMO. This demon, is the most powerful. It corrupts children from a young age, and everyone thinks it’s normal. Well they thought wrong. PMO has destroyed my early teen years. It gave me symptoms such as social anxiety, depression, lack of energy, lack […]
COMMENTS: In this paper, US Navy doctors warn of a possible link between internet porn use and sexual dysfunctions. The entire paper is well worth a read (see below) and also available here. It reviews more than 180 relevant papers, pointing out that traditional explanations for ED are insufficient to account for the recent jump […]