I came across Nofap in Feb this year and started the 90 day challenge immediately (No P or M ). I’m currently approaching 100 days, and so far so good. While I currently have no desire to return to PM I’ve not been getting too excited, as I’ve had stretches this length before. I am […]
Read More… from Age 37 – Sex is definitely, definitely better. Can’t emphasise that enough!
Hey there. It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything on these forums, but I’m approaching a year without porn soon, and I thought I’d post about my progress. Maybe some of you remember me. Sometime in the middle of March last year, I took a small, blue hard drive out of my closet and […]
Read More… from 1 Year – I haven’t found any superpowers. I found something much more valuable than that: newfound piece of mind.
I know how much we all love reading success stories, I am almost on 365 days of Nofap tomorrow and I have been reading soaring eagles book, on rebooting as the best remedy to PMO. I am grateful to @HMHU for providing The material for me to download to my kindle to read in my […]
Read More… from 365 days success – We are bound to be a minority who knows the truth
Greetings fellow experiencers of this journey, this is most likely my last visit to this forum, but I am here to inspire someone in my farewell, someone will relate to what I’ve been through and the way I think and feel that my way of escape is the same. It is only about 60 or […]
Read More… from Age 20 – Through escalation, I scraped at the bottom of the barrel. Now I am simply free, there is no struggle.
Introduction EEG study: “Modulation of late positive potentials by sexual images in problem users and controls inconsistent with porn addiction” (Prause et al., 2015) Claim: To this day, former UCLA researcher Nicole Prause boldly claims that her solitary EEG study “falsified the porn addiction model.” Reality: The results indicate habituation/desensitization in the more frequent porn […]
Read More… from Peer-reviewed critiques of Prause et al., 2015
I am a teenager male. Masturbating for about 3 to 4 years from puberty. When I hit puberty, I started getting a lot of wet dreams. I used to masturbate but not that often and felt a wierd attraction towards the opposite sex. I was not into porn yet. Whenever I had a wet dream […]
Read More… from How I completed my 90 days. Long post. My tips in the end.
I want to share something that I found profoundly life changing. I gave myself a challenge, if you will. I wanted to see what would happen if I could quit my bad habits. I couldn’t enjoy anything in my life due to the emotional pain of porn(even though it’s fake, your brain can’t tell the […]
Read More… from Age 20 – My Depression Went Away After I Quit PMO, News, and Social Media
COMMENTS: Study on subjects with hypersexuality (porn/sex addiction) reports epigenetic changes mirroring those occurring in alcoholics. The epigenetic changes occurred in genes associated with the oxytocin system (which is important in love, bonding, addiction, stress, etc.). Highlights: Sex/porn addict’s epigenetic markers for the brain’s oxytocin system looks similar to alcoholics Study’s findings aligns with Kuhn […]
Read More… from Hypermethylation-associated downregulation of microRNA-4456 in hypersexual disorder with putative influence on oxytocin signalling: A DNA methylation analysis of miRNA genes (2019)
I discovered nofap sometime in May 2016. I was on a business trip with a lot of down time and I remember reading about it and just tripping! Like seriously what the fuck? How could porn be bad? Isn’t masturbation good? That was over 3 years ago. In that time span I went through all […]
Read More… from Age 35 – I was on a roller coaster for years, PE, prostate massage – Now, something in me has changed
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