Taming your computer and phone to remove porn temptation is wise. When porn is available at a click, its looming presence can produce intense inner conflict. The stress from this inner conflict makes relapse more likely. On the other hand, when porn is not available, the brain seems to relax and find other ways to […]
Said a frustrated porn addict who was relapsing regularly:
I even read and studied a great philosophical work by Pope John Paul II entitled Love and Responsibility. If I ever recommend a book to someone, it’s this book. I learned full on why porn and lust before love is wrong morally.
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Potential changes to the law by Europeans. A committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe is calling for a debate on adolescent Internet porn use in order to alert the public to the following: An alarming increase in the number of adolescents entering the most explicit and violent pornographic websites. Children as […]
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Test of the American Society of Addiction Medicine:
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Week 3
I realize now that it was never about the porn. Nor was it about accomplices in bed. It was about the rush of those precious few seconds of orgasm and the blissful exhaustion right after.
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Porn users describe what it’s like to be hooked Last month, 3000 doctors of the American Society for Addiction Medicine released a public statement bringing the definition of addiction into line with decades of addiction research. “[Addiction] is about brains…. It’s about underlying neurology, not outward actions,” explains ASAM’s Dr. Michael Miller. ASAM’s definition captures […]
Here’s an account by a man who made an experiment after two and a half years without porn or porn fantasy.
I started porn at 12. I’m 24 now. My brain didn’t have the chance to develop normally with regard to sex. My sexuality developed with the help of the porn, not real women.
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This symptom has been reported repeatedly. It’s likely that premature ejaculation is somehow related to dysregulated dopamine in heavy porn users. We associate porn-induced ED and delayed ejaculation with desensitization or what we call a “numbed pleasure response”. Desensitization involves a decline in dopamine signalling in the reward circuitry.
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Without the Coolidge Effect there would be no Internet porn The Coolidge Effect is an ancient biological program that can override your sluggish contentment after orgasm if there are new mates begging to be fertilized. Without it, there would be no Internet porn. This neurological mechanism perceives each new erotic possibility—including those on your screen—as […]
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One guy asked the forum: