I found this place and started Nofap on a whim; I even tried to get a few friends to join me. Upon my asking, each and everyone of them proceeded to make fun of me and rip me apart in front of others. Obviously as an ambitious male, that wasn’t enough to deter me; a […]
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LINK TO FULL STUDY Abstract Excess sugar consumption has been shown to contribute directly to weight gain, thus contributing to the growing worldwide obesity epidemic. Interestingly, increased sugar consumption has been shown to repeatedly elevate dopamine levels in the nucleus accumbens (NAc), in the mesolimbic reward pathway of the brain similar to many drugs of […]
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Authors Rash CJ, Weinstock J, Van Patten R Received 18 September 2015 Accepted for publication 22 December 2015 Published 17 March 2016 Volume 2016:7 Pages 3—13 DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/SAR.S83460 Checked for plagiarism Yes Review by Single-blind Peer reviewers approved by Dr Thomas F. Hilton Peer reviewer comments 3 Editor who approved publication: Dr Li-Tzy Wu Carla […]
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Gillian Branstetter Mar 29, 2016, The Daily Dot After years of wide-eyed promises and hyperbolic speculation, the dawn of virtual reality is finally upon us. This week, the Oculus Rift VR headset began shipping to customers in its final, ready-to-play form. The $1,500 bundle comes with the trademark Oculus headset as well as a high-powered […]
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I was masturbating and “addicted” to porn, I started in middle school probably around age 12 or 13. My guess as to why I started and why porn gripped me so hard was the fact that I was scrawny and weak, or as some call it “beta”. Due to that, many boys disrespected me and […]
Read More… from Age 19 – My experiments with NoFap. It works and it’s not placebo!
Scroll down to the comments section to view over 1000 posts by individuals conducting The Other Porn Experiment (all are from other websites as YBOP has no forum). See this 2016 peer-reviewed paper by Gary Wilson: Eliminate Chronic Internet Pornography Use to Reveal Its Effects (2016) ———————————————————————————————- Article: What Can Informal Control Groups of Former […]
COMMENTS: This study said it was the first to examine the associations between the amount of porn use, negative symptoms (as assessed by the Sexual Addiction Screening Test-Revised SAST-R), and other factors in individuals seeking treatment for problematic porn use. That study also surveyed non-treatment seeking porn users. As with other studies frequency of porn […]
I am 34 and have been using porn about 4-5 times a week for about 20-30 minutes per time since I was about 15. The frequency never really increased that much but the impact it was making on my brain and outlook definitely increased over time. The dysfunction increased over time for sure even though […]
LINK TO ARTICLE And eventually, they might be able to intervene. Ed Yong Mar 23, 2016 At Stanford University, a rat faces a choice. If it presses one lever, it gets a fixed amount of sugar liquid. If it presses a second lever, it usually gets less but occasionally wins a sweet bonanza. This choice […]
Read More… from (L) Scientists Can Now Watch the Brain Evaluate Risk (2016) – D2 receptors
Int J Obes (Lond). 2016 Mar;40 Suppl 1:S12-21. doi: 10.1038/ijo.2016.9. Benton D1, Young HA1. Abstract Addiction to a wide range of substances of abuse has been suggested to reflect a ‘Reward Deficiency Syndrome’. That is, drugs are said to stimulate the reward mechanisms so intensely that, to compensate, the population of dopamine D2 receptors (DD2R) […]