Started Faping to porn around 9 or 10. Fapped to porn no less than 6 times a day until I was 18. Joined the military at 18. No porn in boot camp, did not fap either. This made me a leader, focused and more productive than I had ever been. Being 18 I couldn’t connect […]
Read More… from 3 years – tons of resets – 718 days in
PMO had become such a devastating addiction in my life. I had avoided most of the experiences and struggles that we all have to go through in our adolescence, by channeling all my needs to Porn. Porn was part of my life before and during my first orgasm, and I am not going to lie […]
Read More… from 10 years of Porn Addiction, 5 years of ED, 4 ruined relationships: And how I managed to get over it.
I don’t post here but I do browse occasionally and thought I would give you my story. I am a 23 year old male who has given up porn. I never fell into the niche/weird fetishes of porn, just a daily user since middle school who grew up with porn. For the past year, maybe […]
Read More… from Age 23 – ED almost cured: I have grown so much over the past 90 days.
it’s been 365 days of hardmode, I remember making the 90 days post about not seeing myself here at 365 days but shit, here I am. This is my third streak of NoFap. I’ve always had discipline, I suppose I’m a bit masochistic so I derive pleasure from not indulging. This was also the problem […]
Read More… from Age 20 – (1 year) I’m becoming more ambitious
UPDATE 1: Peer-reviewed criticism of this paper – Comment on: Is Pornography Use Associated with Sexual Difficulties and Dysfunctions among Younger Heterosexual Men? by Gert Martin Hald, PhD UPDATE 2015: Landripet & Stulhofer’s paper omitted three significant correlations they presented to a European conference (excerpts from their abstract): Reporting a preference for specific pornographic genres […]
Read More… from Study on young men: ED rates of 31%; low libido 37%, but, hey, it can’t be porn (critique of Landripet & Stulhofer, 2015)
Jonny, 27, from Cambridgeshire says he was addicted to porn by age 12 Admits porn encouraged him to degrade the women he was involved with He grew up in the first generation where porn was free to access online The youth worker now hopes to warn youngsters about dangers of porn The moment you meet Jonny Adams, he […]
Read More… from “Watching explicit internet porn as a child warped attitude towards women, left him feeling depressed, anxious and mentally disturbed” (Daily Mail)
It’s so bizarre how people get swept up into things and don’t realize what’s going on until it’s over. I didn’t know I was a porn addict until I wasn’t one anymore. I think that’s true for a lot of people like us. And it’s not like you “walk” out of the fog, it’s like […]
Read More… from Age 23 – I didn’t know I was a porn addict until I wasn’t one anymore.
I want from february 1 to may 1, and wow was it interesting. I’m writing now to share with you guys what it may be like for you and how it was for me. At first it was hard. Really hard. The first three or four weeks were torture. I have a few fetish sites […]
Read More… from Age 19 – 90 Days – ED progress, still have DE
I’m no longer fixated on anal sex, and the thoughts of having sex with transvestites, young teen girls (13/14), corpses, and other really nasty stuff no longer turns me on. This is probably the biggest thing to change. My testicles have gotten much larger in size. I’m doing hard mode, maybe that’s the reason? I […]
Read More… from Age 26 – ED & escalation to really nasty stuff: It no longer turns me on.
Education for kids about porn is vital, because streaming porn will be with us as long as the internet is around. However, educators must teach pupils how brain plasticity works. Too often one reads in the media that educators should focus on: distinguishing “good porn” from “bad porn,” or reducing the problem to “the need […]
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