I provide 2 updated “Reality Checks” before we get to the 2014 critique. Reality check#1: Neurological & epidemiological studies that refute nearly every claim in Ley et al., 2014: Porn/sex addiction? This page lists over 50 neuroscience-based studies (MRI, fMRI, EEG, neuropsychological, hormonal). They provide strong support for the addiction model as their findings mirror […]
Read More… from The Emperor Has No Clothes: A Fractured Fairytale Posing As A Review (2014)
I am 19 years old and I am addicted to porn, and I would like to share my story with anyone who could find it helpful. I am not sure for how long I have been addicted to porn, I started watching it when I was 12 or 13, and I think it wasn’t long […]
Read More… from Age 19 – (ED), HOCD: both finally gone, but still struggling with porn
Who I am: A 28 year old regular guy. Started PMO when I was about 18. Feel free to read my story. I realize that this is a long post and I’m mostly posting this for personal reasons, to finally get it off my chest. Maybe someone out there can relate. Before: On average I […]
Read More… from Age 28 – HOCD almost gone, no longer depressed or anxious, in a great relationship
LINK TO ORIGNAL POST In this guest blog post fmitsui argues that since many crossdreamers find it hard to live out their sexuality in real life, they end up exploring it in fantasies and pornography instead. Ironically, fmitsui argues, this may lead to an addiction that stops them from establishing the real life relationships they are […]
Read More… from On Crossdreaming and Addiction to Pornography
Recent headlines have (falsely) predicted that porn shoots may be shut down in light of HIV scandals. What’s not being mentioned is the addiction that is becoming more widespread within our society. With easy access to unlimited Internet pornography, watching it can turn into a very destructive addiction, especially for young people. According to psychotherapist […]
Read More… from How Porn May Be Changing Your Brain
I had complete copulatory impotence for 8 years. No wood at all for real women, no matter how gorgeous. I could sport maybe a 20%er. No morning wood, ever. Was down to fapping semi-erect to some of the most degrading fetish porn imaginable, because normal genres couldn’t get me up anymore. Viagra had stopped working, […]
Read More… from Age 43 – Copulatory Impotence for 8 years: Cured!
2010 January 1. Published in final edited form as: Neuropharmacology. 2009; 56(Suppl 1): 139–148. SHELLY B. FLAGEL,* HUDA AKIL,* and TERRY E. ROBINSON† Author information ► Copyright and License information ► The publisher’s final edited version of this article is available at Neuropharmacology See other articles in PMC that cite the published article. Go […]
Read More… from Individual differences in the attribution of incentive salience to reward-related cues: implications for addiction (2009)
Couples are having 20% less sex than they did just ten years ago Wolf connects this to the rise of pornography Porn poses health problems… It desensitises those who watch it and has long-term consequences As a result, it has a negative effect on sex and relationships By Naomi Wolf PUBLISHED: 19:44 EST, 11 December […]
Read More… from How porn is destroying modern sex lives: Feminist writer Naomi Wolf has an unsettling explanation for why Britons are having less sex
Hi, I’m a 20-year old who has been masturbating since 13, and when I started I was fapping a lot. More than 5 times a day, then it normalized. From normal I became a f***kin weirdo who was playing video games most of the day and only going out to school. For 3 years straight. […]
Read More… from Age 20 – Well, ladies and gentlemen, I Found The Missing X.
I missed my 90-day Victory post, so here’s a 100-day one! I won’t drag this out. This was my position when I started this journey: a PMO-addicted wreck. This is what’s happened since then: I reclaimed the ability to physically have sex (i.e. get it up without the aid of porn and/or my hand) I […]
Read More… from Age 23 – (ED) I reclaimed the ability to have and enjoy sex