Age 25 – PIED cured, Depression 85% healed, Increased confidence, Greater peace of mind, Women not objects

I started this journey because I had some issues which are common among the PMO addicts but also because in my case the condition was much more severe. I think I have a highly addictive nature. It doesn’t take me long to get addicted to things. Before starting nofap this was my condition: 1) I […]

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Age 16 – Got first girlfriend at around day 70, a real life person is 100x better than pixels

I’m 16 years old and have been doing nofap on/off for about a year, I’ve recently achieved my second 100+ day streak. This is what has changed: Slightly more confidence, not superpower level but noticeable More motivation to work out, and better results Brain fog basically completely gone Perception of porn completely changed, I almost […]

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5 months – Had to put restriction on my phone with forgotten password. Now, better connections with people, sex feels as it should, fucking feel like a man.

This is a long one boys. tl:dr’s are for losers I wanted to write this to give back, I thought it incredible that we a community like this to help guys who’ve lost their way in life due to a myriad of factors. While i’ve never actually used these forums other than for informing myself […]

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PIED cured – I feel like a new man. I feel confident in social situations. No more anxiety. I laugh a lot more now.

Fighting my porn and masturbation addiction might be the best decision I’ve ever made. Even though I can feel I can write a book on this subject now, I’m going to make it brief. By no means think this wasn’t a big deal. This changed my life. Before finding YBOP: I jacked off about 10 […]

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More Time on Technology, Less Happiness? Associations Between Digital-Media Use and Psychological Well-Being

 Jean M. Twenge https://doi.org/10.1177/0963721419838244 Abstract Studies using large samples consistently find that more frequent users of digital media are lower in psychological well-being than less frequent users; even data sets used as evidence for weak effects show that twice as many heavy users (vs. light users) are low in well-being. Differences in perspective may stem […]

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Debunking the debunker: Critique of letter to the editor “Prause et al. (2015) the latest falsification of addiction predictions”

Introduction In various comments, articles and tweets Nicole Prause has claimed that not only did Prause et al., 2015 falsify “a core tenet of the addiction model, the cue reactivity biomarker,” but that “a series of behavioral studies replicated by independent laboratories [falsify] other predictions of the addiction model.” Prause cites her 2016 “Letter to […]

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Sexual Dysfunction in the New Father: Sexual Intimacy Issues (2018)

This chapter from a new medical textbook entitled Paternal Postnatal Psychiatric Illnesses addresses porn’s impact on the sexual function of a new father, citing a paper co-authored by this website’s host, “Is Internet Pornography Causing Sexual Dysfunctions? A Review with Clinical Reports.” Here are some excerpts from the chapter:         […]

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