Excerpt: A lot have happened this year. I have had a lot of tough days also. I have struggled with anxiety, stress, sadness, anger, loneliness, rejection. A lot of stuff. But I have also ran my first marathon, I got a job within my line of work despite covid making it tough post-graduation, I’m in […]
Read More… from Age 26 – Compulsive porn use was part of my life since I was 8 or 9
Excerpts suggesting bingeing and tolerance are key factors in problematic porn use: Specifically, the longest pornography viewing session that one had engaged in can be potentially related to binge behavior, positively predicted treatment seeking, severity of experienced symptoms, and feelings of loss of control over sexual behavior in the whole group of study participants. The […]
Normally I only lurk on reddit and never post anything, but I am writing out my story to prove you are never too far gone and anyone can eliminate porn from their life and cure their PIED if they experience it (porn induced erectile dysfunction for anyone that doesn’t know). This is my first reddit […]
Read More… from Age 21 – PIED…I finally accepted porn was the problem
I want to share my story with you all in the hopes it will be useful to someone. Especially for those who are struggling. It is a little different in its ending than most but it starts the same. I’m a 27 year old straight man. I started watching porn on the internet at 11. […]
Excerpts and comments: Almost half of this study’s 138 total subjects (porn users), average age 31.75, reported sexual dysfunction. This level of sexual dysfunction among this age group was unheard of before freely available digital porn. Is porn conditioning the sexual response of some users to porn – even when they are not addicts according […]
Read More… from Exploring the clinical profile of problematic pornography use (2020)
Gary Wilson was sued by Nicole Prause, who viciously smeared him in an attempt to discredit his ongoing research into how pornography is harmful. He won. (*) August 26, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — For years, the evidence that porn is utterly destructive has been mounting. Pornography has not only been mainstreaming sexual violence, but been spurring […]
Some of the world’s top behavioral addiction experts have just published a new study “Frequency of use, moral incongruence, and religiosity and their relationships with self‐perceived addiction to pornography, internet use, social networking and online gaming.” Don’t let its long-winded academic title fool you. It powerfully shatters one of the most pernicious myths that pro-porn […]
Read More… from New study shatters the “moral incongruence model of pornography addiction” (2020)
I just want to make this post so that those with PIED (porn induced erectile dysfunction) can feel inspired and hopefully encouraged – you can reverse the effects of PIED with a sustained effort by quitting porn. I started porn free because I was embarrassed that on hookups, it was a coin flip if I […]
Lewczuk, K., Nowakowska, I., Lewandowska, K., Potenza, M. N., and Gola, M. (2020) Addiction, https://doi.org/10.1111/add.15272. Comments: This new study found that behavioral addicts (not just porn addicts) often disapprove of the behaviors they are struggling to eliminate. This finding shatters one of the most pernicious myths that pro-porn researchers have promoted in the last decade, […]
David Ley is the author of The Myth of Sex Addiction, Ethical Porn for Dicks and Insatiable Wives: Women Who Stray and the Men Who Love Them about the joys of cuckoldry. He has written 30 or so blog posts attacking and dismissing NoFap, porn addiction, sex addiction, porn-induced sexual dysfunctions and porn’s effects on […]