Education & Porn

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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Stress Modulates Illness-Course of Substance Use Disorders: A Translational Review (2014)

Front Psychiatry. 2014 Jul 17;5:83. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2014.00083. eCollection 2014. Lijffijt M1, Hu K2, Swann AC3. Marijn Lijffijt,1,* Kesong Hu,2 and Alan C. Swann1,3 This article has been cited by other articles in PMC. Go to: Abstract Childhood trauma and post-childhood chronic/repeated stress could increase the risk of a substance use disorder by affecting five stages […]

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Extinction circuits for fear and addiction overlap in prefrontal cortex (2009)

Learn Mem. 2009 Apr 20;16(5):279-88. doi: 10.1101/lm.1041309. Peters J1, Kalivas PW, Quirk GJ. Abstract Extinction is a form of inhibitory learning that suppresses a previously conditioned response. Both fear and drug seeking are conditioned responses that can lead to maladaptive behavior when expressed inappropriately, manifesting as anxiety disorders and addiction, respectively. Recent evidence indicates that […]

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Age 16 – Motivated to do everything, more social & feel incredibly energetic in everything I do

90 days going strong! I can proudly say that I have not fapped for 90 days! (Who’s actually able to say that? None of my friends tbh). Well let’s go ahead and talk about the changes and the FLATLINE. The benefits I feel incredibly energetic in everything I do I have fun and I am […]

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Age 30 – (ED) Some people tell me I look like an absolutely different person.

I have finally reached the so-coveted 90 day goal. Here are my thoughts on the matter. ———————– On the healing process Has the healing process finished? No. For me it has basically just started. It has just begun because I have so many other self-destructive patterns to handle that this one, porn, was just a […]

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Japan’s sexual apathy is endangering the global economy (2013)

Comments: It’s clear from previous articles and interviews that technology and porn play the major role in Japan’s sexual apathy. By Max Fisher October 22, 2013 People in Japan are so averse to romantic relationships that the country’s media even has a name for it: sekkusu shinai shokogun, or “celibacy syndrome,” according to a widely […]

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