I lost my virginity for the first time this year at age 25, with my now wonderful GF. This was after over 10 years of consistent porn consumption and masturbation. This girl is amazing, the exact type I always dreamed of, attractive, mature, sensitive, confident etc. Yet after so many years of fantasising about sex, […]
Read More… from Age 25 – Lost my virginity this year with my (wonderful) now GF
3rd post and I can’t be more thankful to this community. Sorry if post is too long but definitely our generation needs reckoning. Some lines copied from my earlier post. I’m in my early 30s and addicted to porn since 15 years with intermittent 4-5 days/week watching porn and almost every alternate day masturbation n […]
Read More… from Age 30s – After 15 years of damage, PIED gone, lost 10kgs, more creative
UPDATE April, 2021 This is a rare “yay me” moment 🙂 Had sex Tuesday night. I had NO issues maintaining an erection. No anxiety, no worry, no rushing, just fun. I also had NO PE, which made me so happy I wanted to cry. I had not had an orgasm in 50 days. The vegan-exercise-avoid […]
COMMENTS: Relatively old study on men with so-called ‘psychogenic’ sexual problems (ED, DE, inability to be aroused by real partners). While the data is even older than 2003, interviews revealed tolerance and escalation related to “erotica” use: Participants themselves had begun to question whether there may be a link between masturbation and the difficulties they […]
Read More… from Male psychogenic sexual dysfunction: the role of masturbation (2003)
I feel a little hesitant at posting under the success stories section – partially my desire to not be viewed as boastful, and partially my hesitancy at proclaiming victory prematurely. I hope that you don’t perceive my post as either, rather a testament to the power of persistence (it has taken me over 20 years […]
Read More… from Age 47 – Realize that the urge is temporary (chat apps were my challenge)
Here’s my big dump of everything I’ve learned to attain a better state of living. If you just want to hear the advice I have to give then feel free to skip to the bottom. Hi there, I’m 21 years old from the UK. About a year ago I decided to cut pornography out of […]
Read More… from Age 21 – I suffered PIED through all my teen years
Link to abstract of above paper As men who have quit porn and recovered from sexual dysfunctions during partnered sex demonstrate, porn-induced ED appears to be primarily due to conditioning their sexual response to online porn rather than real partners. Their difficulties are not due to “hypersexuality.” In fact, men who report the problem are–just […]
COMMENTS: New review from the Medical Journal of Indonesia. The current review aligns with the views presented in these 25 recent neuroscience-based literature reviews & commentaries. All support the addiction model. —————————- LINK TO PDF OF OF FULL PAPER Agastya IGN, Siste K, Nasrun MWS, Kusumadewi I. Med J Indones [Internet]. 2020Jun.30 [cited 2020Jul.7];29(2):233–41. Available […]
Preface I have read many of the success stories posted on the forum and don’t want to add one more post to the hundreds that are already on here with laundry lists of withdrawal symptoms and new “superpowers” that they acquired. Instead, I want to provide a framework that early rebooters should be able to […]
Read More… from Age 23 – Want to return from villain to hero? Try not jacking off.
A brief background about me: 26 y/o male. Was struggling with fapping (commonly edging) and used porn between the ages 13-23. So what happened after I became 23? After graduating college I entered this dream job for me in a government Office. I can hear you saying can being an officer be a dream job? […]
Read More… from Age 26 – From disaster to success with Nofap and semen retention