It’s obvious that porn usage causes low dopamine levels. Which in turn, causes negative physical response from the body. For years, I was never satisfied with life. I felt there was always something missing. I felt as if there was a hole in my chest that couldn’t be filled. I drifted farther and farther from […]
Anyways the thing is that in these 3+ months I learned a lot of things and gained a lot of things. First of all I realised what I want to do with my life, which is to finish my degree at computer science and then invest more time in programming languages because I find them […]
BENEFITS OF NoFap – More positive. Happier. Focus, energy, drive, willpower increase. Better sex and stronger erections. More cum. Better at pickup: ooze sexuality and groundedness. More “Alpha” and masculine. Better at leading and expressing personal boundaries and opinions. Feel better.NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF PMO More negative Less able to control emotions More anxiety, especially social […]
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I am 45 days clean from pmo, and to say it’s changed my life is an understatement. Check out my journal for the full story on how my addiction started, but to summarize it, I started when I was around 17. I am 29 now and from 2008-2013 I was deeply addicted to it and […]
Link to original paper – Should compulsive sexual behavior be considered an addiction? (2016) Note – Numerous other peer-reviewed papers agree that Prause et al., 2015 supports the porn addiction model: Peer-reviewed critiques of Prause et al., 2015 Excerpt Describing Prause et al., 2015 (Citation 73) “In contrast, other studies focusing on individuals without CSB […]
COMMENTS: This paper was published under the “Debate” category in the journal ‘Addiction‘. Its main weakness is that it purports to address compulsive sexual behavior (CSB), an umbrella term that covers everything sexual. For example, “CSB” can encompass hypersexuality or “sex addiction” and may include such behaviors as serial infidelity or acting out with prostitutes. […]
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[youtube]https://youtu.be/Mta4-n-LVSM?list=PLZ8c54cxQG2HUdFsIt6WZKYZPffvN-w1Q[/youtube] you can watch it now. The “Part 2 Pictures” team brought in several NoFap community members from around the country to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. REVIEW BELOW. Watch here: Episode 6 The full episode can be viewed on “Showtime” (and if you don’t subscribe you can get a month-long free trial to watch it). However, it […]
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It started one day when I heard the word fap in grade 6. I knew what it meant but didn’t know really why it was such a big deal. So, out of curiosity I did it and watched porn for the first time as well. This eventually led to the next 2 years being, well […]
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This is my longest nofap streak yet. Previously, I had made it a few weeks, but that included edging. This time, I’ve been very strict. I don’t touch myself. I notice when the desire arises and I resist. I don’t look at porn. I get annoyed at attempts in the media to gain my attention […]
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YBOP COMMENTS: The following “critique” was published only a few days after Gary Wilson published his Psychology Today critique of Steele et al., 2013 (often called the Prause study): “Nothing Correlates With Nothing In SPAN Lab’s New Porn Study (2013)”. As any reader can see, Rory Reid’s so-called critique is not a critique. Instead, it […]
Read More… from “Critique of Prause Study” – by Rory C. Reid, Ph.D., LCSW (July 2013)