I don’t want to sound like I’m comparing straight up heroin to porn: I’m a former heroin addict and PMO was harder to quit for me.

I used heroin for like 2 years and currently have 6 months clean. Obviously heroin had much more of a negative impact on my life and mental/physical health, but I’m talking purely from an addiction standpoint. We’re surrounded by artificial stimulation everywhere and everyday in our lives. It was a lot tougher to rewire my […]

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Research Suggests the Grubbs, Perry, Wilt, Reid Review is Disingenuous (“Pornography Problems Due to Moral Incongruence: An Integrative Model with a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis”, 2018)

The authors of this so-called review would have readers believe that self-identification as a porn addict is a function of religious shame/moral disapproval about porn. They only reviewed a small number of studies, which rely on the CPUI-9, an instrument developed by co-author Grubbs that produces skewed findings. The co-authors carefully omitted or misrepresented opposing […]

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Exploring the way sexually explicit material informs sexual beliefs, understanding and practices of young men: a qualitative survey (2018)

Charles, P. and Meyrick, J. (2018) Journal of Health Psychology. ISSN 1359-1053 Abstract Purpose Research suggests that exposure to Sexually Explicit Material (SEM) has negative effects on the beliefs, attitudes and actions of young men, but little research has examines how this may happen. The objective of this study was to address this emerging issue […]

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Age 63 – What is new is the experience of total virility in a loving relationship

Day 62, and a lot of changes to report. Advice to couples from our experience with “karezza”. I use the word to mean loving sex without the goal oriented judgmental pressure to have orgasms. Avoiding the burnout of too many O’s, (especially the man’s), and eliminating the overstimulation of porn, has given us amazing sexual […]

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