Hello all! I have been working hard and patiently waiting to post in the successes thread. I want to give hope to everyone that healing is possible, because the success stories at a few points were the only thing that kept me going and motivated. Last night I had sex, twice, without the use of […]
Read More… from Age 31 – After 150 days pornfree I had sex twice without ED pills!
Paul Wright PhD is a highly regarded, prolific pornography researcher. Apparently, he’s tired – as are many others in this field – of the deceptive tactics employed by some of the notoriously agenda-driven sexology researchers in the field (and their biased refereeing of papers). He highlights two of their stratagems in separate Letters to the […]
Read More… from Paul Wright, PhD Calls Out Porn Researchers’ Questionable Tactics (2021)
It definitely gets easier. I remember the first month, I described urges as “DDOS attacks,” because of how frequent and high-volume they were. It feels uncomfortable to feel the porn urge arise, and having to sit with it. It’s like trying to sit with an urge to sneeze, scratch, pee, or breathe. I don’t know […]
Read More… from Finally, I stopped “trying” and quit pornography for life
J. Castro-Calvo, V. Cervigón-Carrasco, R. Ballester-Arnal, C. Giménez-García, Addictive Behaviors Reports, 2021, 100345, ISSN 2352-8532, Comments: Really well written, and helpful in understanding many of the neuropsychological studies listed on YBOP’s brain studies page. This is a review of 21 porn studies assessing 4 neuro-psychological “processes” which are altered in drug and behavioral addictions: 1- […]
Wright, P.J. Arch Sex Behav 50, 393–399 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-021-01922-z “Let it go, let it go Can’t hold it back anymore Let it go, let it go Turn away and slam the door” (Elsa – Disney’s Frozen) In another Letter in this issue, I wrote a brief exposé on the many perils of the current approach […]
1.Did you have PIED? Yes, I did. How bad was it when you started? I don’t remember when it started and how bad was. It was weird and I never thought it was connected to PM but I had problems getting erect as well to finish intercourse with my wife. When I started my recovery […]
Read More… from Age 38 – I had no idea my PIED was related to my porn use
Strap in, there’s a lot to unpack here. Laura Miano is a sex and relationship writer and sex therapist based in Melbourne. Her mission is to help those with sexual concerns as well as support individuals who might like to enhance their sex lives beyond cultural norms. To learn more about her, follow @lauramianosexology or contact her here. […]
Read More… from Ask A Sex Therapist: Is porn bad for you? Sex therapist Laura Miano
COMMENTS: This study (below) is the first to assess if conditioning one’s sexual arousal template to porn use is the mechanism that explains why greater porn use correlates with poorer sexual and relationship satisfaction. It does – for both men and women. This suggests porn use can result in preference for masturbation to porn over […]
I really didn’t think I could break this 10 year addiction to MO/PMO since I used to release twice a day on average. However, with the help of everyone here, I have made it past 90 days without PMO during my final year of university. As a gesture to thank this community, I would like […]
Read More… from Age 22 – 10 year addiction to porn; anxiety and brain fog gone
J Behav Addict 2021 Apr 2. doi: 10.1556/2006.2021.00018. Charlotte Markert 1 2 3 , Sanja Klein 1 2 3 , Jana Strahler 1 2 , Onno Kruse 1 2 4 , Rudolf Stark 1 2 3 PMID: 33822748 DOI: 10.1556/2006.2021.00018 Abstract Background and aims The use of pornography, while unproblematic […]