Hesse, Colin, and Kory Floyd. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships (2019): 0265407519841719. Abstract Scholars have stated that humans have a fundamental need to belong, but less is known about whether individuals can use other resources to substitute for close relationships. In this study, 357 adults reported their level of affection deprivation, their weekly pornography […]
Addict Behav Rep. 2018 Oct 18;8:164-169. doi: 10.1016/j.abrep.2018.10.003. Blum AW1, Chamberlain SR2,3, Grant JE1. Abstract Introduction: Many young adults are unable to control their sexual behavior despite distress or negative consequences created by these activities-a clinical phenomenon described as non-paraphilic problematic sexual behavior (PSB). Little is known about clinical features associated with quality of life […]
Stats: male 37 years old, IT professional work for a bank, own my own house and three cars, make a good living, single, 6ft tall 85kg 12% bodyfat, no kids, never married, PMO addict for 20+ years, PMO’ed multiple times per day. Things I did during this time: cold showers daily 20min guided meditation with […]
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Here’s my success story of how I got to day 180. (Protip: If you want to skip my rambling, there’s my action point list in the end) The beginning: I started NoFap because of my porn addiction and severe PIED. I won’t go to details here, but let’s say my path was a classic story […]
Hi, I discovered NOFAP in January 2018 when I wanted to reduce my fapping and porn watching habit and found myself watching BDSM porn on Christmas and I don’t even like it. The first few months were an emotional disaster, I cried all the time and tried to cope with med school, with my empty […]
Archives of Sexual Behavior February 2019, Volume 48, Issue 2, pp 417–423 | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10508-018-1293-5 Matthias Brand, Stephanie Antons, Elisa Wegmann, Marc N. Potenza This comment refers to the article available at https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-018-1248-x. Introduction The Target Article by Grubbs, Perry, Wilt, and Reid (2018) addresses an important and timely topic regarding problems that individuals may experience related to pornography use. Grubbs et […]
UPDATE 2017: A new study (Fernandez et al., 2017) tested and analyzed the CPUI-9, a purported “perceived pornography addiction” questionnaire developed by Joshua Grubbs, and found that it couldn’t accurately assess “actual porn addiction” or “perceived porn addiction” (Do Cyber Pornography Use Inventory-9 Scores Reflect Actual Compulsivity in Internet Pornography Use? Exploring the Role of […]
YBOP comments: In plain English, this research found (again) that religiosity is NOT associated with believing yourself to be a porn addict (“perceived pornography addiction”). This explodes the meme that Josh Grubbs worked for years to “sell” to the world, that believing oneself an addict is related to religious shame. Grubbs’s CPUI-9 studies and his […]
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I am 31 years old. My battle with porn addiction has been almost 12 years. Several bad moments: ED, broken relationships, sexual repression, stress, frustration, ignorance, and loneliness were driving me crazy. Several benefits to quitting porn: improved strength, better dating approach, more confidence, improved relationships with women, removing toxic people out of my life, […]
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