I had successful sex with a woman a couple of days ago. My libido wasn’t 100% yet but enough to get turned on and reach orgasm. Staying away from porn wasn’t enough. To keep my libido alive, I MO once a month without porn. LINK – Successful sex BY – rebooting UPDATE – cum […]
December 3, 2015 by Eric Bowman, The Conversation Most researchers agree that the key difference between human brains and those of other animals is the size and complexity of our cerebral cortex, the brain’s outer layer of neural tissue. We therefore tend to focus our attention on this area, believing that our unique mental life […]
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THIS MAY SEEM LIKE A WALL OF TEXT, AND FRANKLY IT IS – But I think it will prove a great motivator to many! I haven´t intentionally sought out porn since the 17th of May. I have been free from an abusive, unforgiving and objectifying industry for half a year. I´ve experienced trials on the edge […]
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Front Neurosci. 2015; 9: 404. Published online 2015 Nov 5. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2015.00404 PMCID: PMC4633516 Manoranjan S. D’Souza* Go to: Abstract Individuals addicted to drugs of abuse such as alcohol, nicotine, cocaine, and heroin are a significant burden on healthcare systems all over the world. The positive reinforcing (rewarding) effects of the above mentioned drugs play […]
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COMMENTS: New Cambridge University brain study. Subjects were carefully screened porn addicts. Compared with controls, they habituated faster to sexual images. That is, their brains became less activated seeing the same image…they were more quickly bored. Thus, the novelty of internet porn drives the addiction to it, creating a circular spiral of needing more novelty […]
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Cyberpsychol Behav Soc Netw. 2015 Nov 20. Vandenbosch L1, van Oosten JM1, Peter J1. Abstract The goal of this study was to investigate whether exposure to sexual reality television content and Internet pornography (IP) is related to sexual self-presentation on social media. Based on a two-wave panel survey among 1,765 adolescents aged 13-17 years, we […]
I CANNOT BELIEVE IT!!! On one hand, this [180 days] has been a painful, some times long process of cleaning my mind and body, and changing so many negative things in my life. Some days I felt lost and desperate, and so many of you have helped me to keep fighting. On the other hand, […]
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Comment: The American College of Pediatricians is speaking out about the harms of pornography use for young patients. ABSTRACT: The availability and use of pornography has become almost ubiquitous among adults and adolescents. Consumption of pornography is associated with many negative emotional, psychological, and physical health outcomes. These include increased rates of depression, anxiety, acting […]
Published in Advance December 18, 2012, doi: 10.1101/cshperspect.a011932 Copyright © 2013 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press; all rights reserved Louk J.M.J. Vanderschuren1,2 and Serge H. Ahmed3 + Author Affiliations 1Department of Animals in Science and Society, Division of Behavioural Neuroscience, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, 3584 CG Utrecht, The Netherlands 2Rudolf Magnus Institute of […]
Eur Neuropsychopharmacol. 2015 Oct 21. pii: S0924-977X(15)00329-6. doi: 10.1016/j.euroneuro.2015.10.004. Engel JA1, Nylander I2, Jerlhag E3. Abstract Gut-brain hormones such as ghrelin have recently been suggested to have a role in reward regulation. Ghrelin was traditionally known to regulate food intake and body weight homoeostasis. In addition, recent work has pin-pointed that this peptide has a […]