Honestly can’t believe I am writing this right now. I saw so many examples of guys talking about the benefits but something in the back of my head always said “that was just a coincidence”, or “that will never be me”. Even though I had my doubts I still find so much inspiration hearing everyone’s […]
I’ve created three levels of summation depending on how busy you (the reader) are: tl;dr of tl;dr: Had severe ED my entire life. NoFap fixed it. No superpowers tl;dr: I tried to have sex for the first time at 16 and couldn’t get an erection. Lots of experimentation/doctor visits/drugs later, nothing worked to fix it. […]
Read More… from 5 years – Had severe ED. NoFap was the cure. Sex is now intense.
Ensure you know your enemies ‘Avoiding PMO’ isn’t your adversary. You’re fighting multiple enemies. If you’re just starting out, your initial enemy is already hard at work bombarding you with insurmountable sensual urges. This enemy goes by The Chaser Effect. The Chaser Effect will be your greatest enemy early in your journey. There is only […]
Currently on a 107 days NoFap streak. Lurking into this sub for a while. At one point in life, I had a very terrible addiction to PMO. It started to affect nearly all areas of my life. I was trying very hard to give up urges. But most of my streaks ended in 4-5 days. […]
Read More… from 107 Days – Feels like a new life. What I have learned.
Today I made it to 90 days. I did not keep a counter on here, nor did I use this subreddit much as I progressed through my 90 day journey, but I made it to 90 days none the less. Now, I am not sure if what I am going to say has been said […]
Excerpt analyzing Prause et al., 2015 (which is citation 87) A study using EEG, conducted by Prause and colleagues, suggested that individuals who feel distressed about their pornography use, as compared to a control group who do not feel distress about their use of pornography, may require more/greater visual stimulation to evoke brain responses [87]. […]
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Link to PDF of full paper – Neurocognitive mechanisms in compulsive sexual behavior disorder (2018). Note – numerous other peer-reviewed papers agree that Steele et al., 2013 supports the porn addiction model: Peer-reviewed critiques of Steele et al., 2013 Excerpts analyzing Steele et al., 2013 (which is citation 68): Klucken and colleagues recently observed that […]
…the day I stopped waiting for other people’s advice or tricks to be the magic bullet solution. I’m now just over 4.5 years sober from porn. I would have told you then that M/O was also an issue, but once the porn went away the M/O reduced by 98%. I was a porn addict. I […]
Neuroscience and PSBs In recent years, neuroscience discoveries about the reward system and human sexuality have shed new light on both problematic and healthy sexual behavior. As can be expected with any new paradigm, however, some doubtful neuroscience claims have also appeared in the media. As a neurosurgeon and the author of several papers on […]