Nergish Sunavala,TNN | Sep 13, 2015 LINK TO ARTICLE Two weeks ago, at the country’s first seminar to battle “the plague of pornography,” more than 103 counsellors, youth animators, priests, nuns and therapists from various parishes and secular counselling centres pondered a patient history titled Mathew’s story. “Like many people, Mathew looked at porn on […]
A relapse can be more difficult to deal with than quitting PMO in the first place. Generally, if you quit, it’s because you’ve made up your mind, you’ve got inspiration and motivation backing your choice. However, a relapse can sneak up on you and before you know it, you’re right back to the start. A […]
COMMENTS: This study is often cited as support for the contention that watching porn enhances sexual satisfaction. From the study: Those who viewed SEM only with their partners reported more dedication and higher sexual satisfaction than those who viewed SEM alone. However, the percentage of couples, in a representative sample, where both partners ONLY watch […]
I’ve been doing NoFap “Hard Mode” on and off for a number of years and I decided to really make a go of it during a moment of clarity earlier this year. I was fapping the night away and I thought to myself “What the fuck am I actually achieving here, I’m 26, time to […]
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Yale J Biol Med. 2015 Sep; 88(3): 295–302. Published online 2015 Sep 3. PMCID: PMC4553650 Focus: Addiction Adrian Meule Author information ► Copyright and License information ► Go to: Abstract In recent years, the concept of food addiction has gained more and more popularity. This approach acknowledges the apparent parallels between substance use disorders and […]
Today, I completed 90 days for the second time in my life. I have a girlfriend so it was on soft mode, but it was a great journey. I’ve been putting it off for so long and couldn’t get a streak past 15 days. I promised myself I would try to go the whole summer […]
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Int Arch Med. 2014; 7: 29. Published online 2014 Jun 16. doi: 10.1186/1755-7682-7-29 PMCID: PMC4108978 Oscar Arias-Carrión,1,2 Xanic Caraza-Santiago,1 Sergio Salgado-Licona,1 Mohamed Salama,3 Sergio Machado,4,5 Antonio Egidio Nardi,4 Manuel Menéndez-González,6 and Eric Murillo-Rodríguez7 Go to: Abstract The ventral tegmental area is strongly associated with the reward system. Dopamine is released in areas such as the […]
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Int J Clin Exp Med. 2015 Jun 15;8(6):9943-9948. Liu M1, Luo J1. Abstract OBJECTIVES: To explore the association between peripheral blood dopamine level and internet addiction disorder (IAD) in adolescents, this could be used to explain the neurobiological mechanism of Internet addiction disorder. METHODS: 33 adolescents with IAD diagnosed by Young’s Internet Addiction Test (IAT) […]
J Sex Res. 2015 Sep;52(7):736-46. doi: 10.1080/00224499.2014.960908. Epub 2014 Oct 28. Rothman EF1, Kaczmarsky C, Burke N, Jansen E, Baughman A. Abstract Information about the pornography-viewing habits of urban, low-income youth of color in the United States is lacking. This study was designed to answer the following using a sample of 16- to 18-year-old urban-residing, […]
Neuron. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2012 Feb 23. Published in final edited form as: Neuron. 2010 Sep 9; 67(5): 728–734. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2010.08.040 PMCID: PMC3285464 NIHMSID: NIHMS347429 Jay N. Giedd1,* and Judith L. Rapoport1 Author information ► Copyright and License information ► The publisher’s final edited version of this article is available at Neuron See […]