As Porn Goes Up, Performance Goes Down? (2010)
Is there an unsuspected link between today’s porn and potency?
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Effects of Porn on the User
Effects of Porn on the User. For many, the decision to quit porn is fueled by unwanted side-effects. This section touches on a few common issues, and what users have done to restore balance. Some of these consequences, such as erectile dysfunction, usually show up after years of use. Other consequences, such as escalation into […]
What Porn Users Taught Me (2010)
Protect Your Appetite for Pleasure (2010)
New research reveals a spiral of dissatisfaction from over-stimulation.
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Porn On The Brain (2010) by Marnia Robinson
Would we be happier without online pornography?
A few years ago, men from all over the world began arriving in my website’s forum complaining that they were unable to stop using Internet porn. Google had sent them—perhaps because my site shares information about the effects of sex on the brain. My site, however, is about relationships, not recovery. Yet their obvious distress, and porn’s impact on their relationships, motivated me to welcome them. As I listen, these visitors support each other in the struggle to leave porn behind.
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What’s Driving Your Addiction?
If you want to stop using porn, but can’t stop, you have an addiction. All addictions involve changes in the reward circuitry of the brain. Although the science of Internet porn addiction is woven into most of our articles, this section gets more specific. Interwoven into these articles are comments by porn users on their addiction and their recovery.
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Meditation for porn recoverers
Daily meditation can be very soothing for anyone struggling with stress. (Withdrawal from an addiction is stressful.) Research also shows that daily meditation helps the rational part of the brain stay in the driver’s seat (even as it quiets the primitive parts of the brain that drive impulsive behavior).
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What about wet dreams and porn dreams?
Words from a recovered user:
The “stopping porn” journey took probably a year or so of NO porn to transform myself. Wet dreams did not reset the whole process. I powered through anyway! (They happen rarely now.)
Another guy said not long after starting his reboot:
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Talk by Neurosurgeon on Porn’s Impact on the Brain
Talk is directed to parents and children. It focuses on research that shows changes in the brain’s frontal cortex in sex addicts and the implications of those changes for impulse control in porn addicts.
Here’s a link to and Can Pornography Use Become An Actual Brain Addiction?, an article for lay people article by neurosurgeon Donald Hilton
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Rebooting/Porn Use FAQs
Welcome to our FAQ page. If you have a question, ask it below. (After registering, click on “Add new comment.”) The answers are based on years of hard-won wisdom shared by recovering users, whose comments are sometimes included along with relevant research. Most questions have multiple links (porn user accounts & advice, and articles).
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