Started masturbating at around 13 yo if I remember correctly. Never had a girlfriend in highschool and the one attempt I had in junior high ended up in humiliation for me. Started seriously overdoing PMO at 18 yo when I was still a virgin, couldn’t have relationships with girls, had huge social anxiety and was […]
Read More… from Age 29 – Feeling my emotions and sexual arousal more normally
At the age of 7, I was playing at my friends house and we decided to go out to his father’s truck. In the truck we found a porn magazine. I don’t remember thinking that much about it at the time. But at a later opportunity we took the magazine with us and started reading. […]
Read More… from Age 32 – A decade of addiction and two years of recovery. A happy ending.
“How Internet Porn Affects the Brain” is a 2015 updated version of the original YBOP 6-part series. A Polish translation of this presentation Supporting materials for this presentation Current state of the research Porn/sex addiction? This page lists 55 neuroscience-based studies (MRI, fMRI, EEG, neuropsychological, hormonal). All provide strong support for the addiction model as […]
Read More… from Your Brain on Porn: How Internet Porn Affects the Brain (2015)
I’ve been a lurker for the past 5 months and thought I would contribute since things seemed to have worked out for me, at least so far, and reading success stories played a huge role in getting me through some pretty tough times. I’ll give you some background but not too many details to preserve […]
Read More… from Age 37 – PIED and DE Cured (hopefully) After 5 Months.
[Translated from Italian] Friends, the following story was summarized the facts and events in the PMO was present in my life. The story starts from zero for people who read can identify and see that there is light at end of tunnel for everything bad that are going through. EPISODE I – THE PHANTOM MENACE […]
I am a 21 year old man. Was addicted to PMO since I was 16. I would PMO 4-6 times a day to pathetic fetish videos. Had no friends, no happiness, no motivation, no life, felt like a loser. I started my nofap journey in 2014 October, but failed consistently. Because of this i was […]
I started fapping in around 5th/6th grade & I’m currently 17. I probably started watching porn around the same time, can’t really remember. Anyway, sometimes I would fap and watch porn every day, then other times I would just randomly do it, no specific order or anything. I started dating this girl in June but […]
Read More… from Age 17 – PIED cured: My message to y’all is quit watching porn
As it has been exactly a year I would like to share my inner thoughts about this addiction as it hopefully might be helpful to someone out there. Cause we are all here to help each other, right? Long story short, I wanted to change something in my life after the break-up with a two-year […]
Well, I think it’s time for me to post a success story, given that today by 22:00 I’ll be making one full year without porn and masturbation. I have had orgasms, but only with my girlfriend [which I left], but I had completed five consecutive months of “hard mode” [from July to November, aprox] That’s […]
I can confidently say that my ED is toast, and this site, along with a lot of you people, is why. First off, let me tell you that this will not be the worst case you’ve ever read. In fact, my success story is pretty tame (although unique) compared to most of what I’ve read […]
Read More… from Age 29 – Married: Successfully defeated Porn-induced ED and Delayed Ejaculation