At the age of 7, I was playing at my friends house and we decided to go out to his father’s truck. In the truck we found a porn magazine. I don’t remember thinking that much about it at the time. But at a later opportunity we took the magazine with us and started reading. […]
Read More… from Age 32 – A decade of addiction and two years of recovery. A happy ending.
I am very happy I found this subreddit. This is a unique online community in that it is the only online quasi social network on the internet (that I know of) committed to fostering the development of true core values in its members rather than falsely inflating egos through external value systems (up-votes, false praise, […]
This isn’t a humble brag, just a confirmation that with patience, persistence, and a lot of resolve – you can begin to undo the damage that porn causes to your brain. Thanks to nearly a decade of porn use, I was a sufferer of severe PIED, and PE. After a long stretch of sobriety, therapy, […]
Read More… from Age 25 – I was a sufferer of severe PIED & Premature Ejaculation
I’ve been a lurker for the past 5 months and thought I would contribute since things seemed to have worked out for me, at least so far, and reading success stories played a huge role in getting me through some pretty tough times. I’ll give you some background but not too many details to preserve […]
Read More… from Age 37 – PIED and DE Cured (hopefully) After 5 Months.
Original article. In recent months a small cadre of clinicians has leveled an ongoing criticism against the sex addiction treatment field, mostly arguing that all sex addiction treatment specialists are moralistic, ultra-conservative, narrow-minded therapists who unnecessarily pathologize their clients’ behaviors. Why these critics choose to attack sex addiction treatment clinicians in this way is not […]
Since it is a very good time of the year to start new resolutions, I wanted to share with you how my journey has been: First and foremost: I am 19 years old. I started my attempts of no PMO when I was 13, I relapsed at different stages: 1 month, 2, 4 and even […]
I finally stopped watching porn for good. For what I know, it ruined my life for maybe 5-7 years. That combined with weed, which came around in 3-4 years ago. At the time I thought it was the best thing to do. Little did I know that it would ruin my life. It was like […]
Are we waxing away the line between adults and children? At present, our culture both underestimates the power of erotic cues and misinterprets their significance. That is, sexual cues are presumed harmless because sexual tastes are thought to be hardwired whatever one views. Two circular assumptions follow from this faulty premise: First, we assume that […]
Read More… from Wiring Sexual Tastes to Hairless Genitals…Oops! (2012)
There are three things I have learned in the two years I have been dealing with the addiction (I have been aware I am addicted for two years, addicted much more than that): It starts with lack of connection It’s all about the brain and retraining it I have a choice It starts with lack […]
[Translated from Italian] Friends, the following story was summarized the facts and events in the PMO was present in my life. The story starts from zero for people who read can identify and see that there is light at end of tunnel for everything bad that are going through. EPISODE I – THE PHANTOM MENACE […]