IANS | London April 21, 2014 Do not try to force your lady to watch porn movies or explicit images as viewing porn out of context can make her feel sick, a Dutch study has revealed. A woman’s body immediately goes on the defensive when seeing porn out of context. It can immediately induce […]
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DISCLAIMER I want to make it clear that nofap did not CAUSE any of this to happen to me. You won’t improve if you don’t do anything- what you do is most important, not what you abstain from. My improvements are correlated with nofap, but there is not a causal relationship. Nofap gives you the […]
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Curr Neurol Neurosci Rep. 2013 Oct;13(10):386. doi: 10.1007/s11910-013-0386-8. Probst CC1, van Eimeren T. Author information Abstract Impulsive-compulsive disorders such as pathological gambling, hypersexuality, compulsive eating, and shopping are side effects of the dopaminergic therapy for Parkinson’s disease. With a lower prevalence, these disorders also appear in the general population. Research in the last few years […]
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J Behav Addict. 2014 Apr 1;3(1):33-40. Sussman S, Arpawong TE, Sun P, Tsai J, Rohrbach LA, Spruijt-Metz D. Author information Abstract BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Recent work has studied multiple addictions using a matrix measure, which taps multiple addictions through single responses for each type. METHODS: The present study investigated use of a matrix measure approach […]
Eval Health Prof. 2011 Mar;34(1):3-56. doi: 10.1177/0163278710380124. Epub 2010 Sep 27. Sussman S1, Lisha N, Griffiths M. Author information Abstract An increasing number of research studies over the last three decades suggest that a wide range of substance and process addictions may serve similar functions. The current article considers 11 such potential addictions (tobacco, alcohol, […]
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Bit of background – I’m just turned 29, single and from the UK.. I’ve lurked on the subreddit for some time and eventually tried it towards the end of last year, did a few 3-4 weekers, and also hit a 47 day streak. But at the time I wasn’t counting days, just trying to get […]
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YBOP Comments: the following is a response to an EEG study (Steele et al. 2013) published in July, 2013 by SPAN Lab. The study was promoted by Nicole Prause as a major challenge to the concepts of porn and sex addiction. YBOP analyzed this deeply flawed study at the time it was published: SPAN Lab […]
Going strong after 90 days, learnings to share, read below for more details. It’s long, but I hope some of this helps someone somewhere… Story I’ve been fapping for probably 28 years. Looking back, that makes me mad – 28 years squandered. I could be so much more now. I could have achieved so much […]
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Addict Behav. 2014 Mar 3. pii: S0306-4603(14)00054-9. doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2014.02.016. Tonioni F1, Mazza M1, Autullo G1, Cappelluti R2, Catalano V1, Marano G1, Fiumana V1, Moschetti C1, Alimonti F1, Luciani M1, Lai C3. Author information Abstract AIMS: The behavioural-addiction perspective suggests that Internet addiction (IA) and pathological gambling (PG) could share similar characteristics with substance dependence. Despite […]
There probably aren’t many guys here on nofap over 50, the recent poll showed almost none, but here I am and I am glad to be here. If you don’t want to read this whole long post, I’ll just say that avoiding PMO for 90 days has been great for our marriage. I’m glad I […]
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