November 19, 2012 – I masturbated since the age of 13. But, in 1973 there was no internet nor porn available. Sometimes an old Playboy issue, but even females in catalogues (or even thought of them) made me horny. Sometimes I tried to get rid of fapping, but I never succeded. With 30 years, still […]
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Neuropharmacology. 2011 Dec;61(8):1470-6. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropharm.2011.08.046. Sim-Selley LJ, Cassidy MP, Sparta A, Zachariou V, Nestler EJ, Selley DE. Source Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology and Institute for Drug and Alcohol Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond, VA 23298, USA. Abstract The stable transcription factor ΔFosB is induced in the nucleus accumbens (NAc) by chronic […]
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– I’m new to this site and I was reluctant at first to share my story about porn, ED, and how I have been affected. Nevertheless I have decided to go into the gritty details of my life and the journey I am on to stop masturbating. (This post is so long because I didn’t […]
Read More… from Age 19 – ED, depressed, anti-social, bad grades, felt crappy
History – I recently I came to the conclusion that porn was not for me, and that I’m better off living my life without it. I also decided to rarely masturbate, for safe reasons (chronic masturbation has also affected me). I’m a 20 year old virgin, I had discovered porn at age 10, and seriously […]
Read More… from Age 21 – Some relapses, more confidence
Porn-induced ED is a relatively recent phenomenon, but there is now a strong scientific literature exploring how it came to exist and what can be done to treat it. Introduction Studies assessing young male sexuality since 2010 report historic levels of sexual dysfunctions, and startling rates of a new scourge: low libido. Documented in this […]
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FIRST POST – As you can see by my flair, I’m only on my second day. After emailing with my mom earlier today, she said that she found of box of my old stuff and said: “I am going to bring you the file as well because, my son, you were quite the stud in […]
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This account is interesting because it’s consistent with the phenomenon of older guys recovering faster than younger guys. He’s not well yet, but far ahead of where many young guys who started on highspeed would be after 26 days of no porn (but frequent orgasm). POST #1 (fnordsnord) Life’s funny that way. I’ve fallen off […]
Read More… from Age 49 – (ED) 40 years of porn, yet recovering quickly while still masturbating
So here I am, 90 days later. I Stopped cold turkey. No relapses, and no PMO whatsoever. I guess this is what you call hard mode. Here’s my story. I’ll try to keep it short and sweet, but I’ll probably fail: Let me tell you first of all that I was by no means a […]
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Comments: Porn is (supposedly) banned in China. However, this study of university students found that 86% of males use porn. BMC Public Health. 2012 Nov 13;12:972. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-12-972. Chi X, Yu L, Winter S. Source Department of Education, University of Hong Kong, Room 101, HOC BLOG, Hong Kong, China. [email protected]. ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: In China, sexual […]
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Here’s my situation: 9/24/2012 I’m 25 years old and during sex I often loose my erection while penetrating, sometimes I don’t even get hard enough to penetrate. When I use cialis it works fine to keep the penis erected enough to penetrate, but the I suffer of DE since it doesn’t help to solve the […]
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