Said a recovering porn user:
I knew I was more than I appeared to be. More knowledgeable, funnier, more socially intelligent. I had all of these skills, but I couldn’t use them. It was like driving a Ferrari and being stuck in 1st gear.
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Note: Porn-induced sexual tastes are often impermanent in those who quit: Are Sexual Tastes Immutable? Sexual Identity and Behavior Among U.S. High School Students, 2005–2015 Prevalence, Patterns and Self-Perceived Effects of Pornography Consumption in Polish University Students: A Cross-Sectional Study (2019) This large study found that escalation to more extreme porn was common: “Various changes […]
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Link to video NORTH TEXAS (CBSDFW.COM) – “If I have to sacrifice a little embarrassment on the topic to do it, then I’m going to do it.” A young North Texas man shared his story with the CBS 11 I-Team out about his pornography addiction. Gabe Deem says he was first exposed to porn when […]
If someone would have told me sometime ago, when I was ignorant of the dangers of porn, that it could cause serious sexual dysfunctions and disconnect myself from others, I would have thought they were some evangelical lunatic or something. I would have thought they were pretty sex negative and regressive, not open to new […]
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COMMENTS: By one of the top neuroscientists researching porn’s effects (Matthias Brand). Matthias Brand knows what he’s talking about. His research team has published 20 neurological studies on porn users (along with 4 reviews/commentaries). ——————————————————————————————————————— Suchttherapie 2019; 20(S 01) DOI: 10.1055/s-0039-1696187 M Brand, Universität Duisburg-Essen Link to abstract Abstract Introduction Compulsive sexual behavior disorder, including […]
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Half a year ago, I couldn’t get hard without porn couldn’t ejaculate without porn couldn’t ejaculate with porn without a death grip, and it also took a long time I’m in my sixties, and picked up porn and PIED over the last five years or so. I cold-turkey stopped looking at any sort of porn […]
Front Psychiatry. 2019; 10: 600. Published online 2019 Aug 27. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00600 PMCID: PMC6718472 PMID: 31507468 Kell Grandjean Costa, 1 Daniel Aranha Cabral, 1 Rodrigo Hohl, 2 and Eduardo Bodnariuc Fontes 1 , * Abstract Drug addiction is a worldwide public health problem, resulting from multiple phenomena, including those both social and biological. Chronic use of […]
The latest in Prause & Ley’s malicious 4-year campaign to create a false association between YBOP, and men in recovery, with neo-Nazis. In a new low (which is saying something), Nicole Prause used the tragic deaths of innocent people once again to defame Gary Wilson and NoFap while promoting the porn industry’s agenda. On the […]
Does Porn Cause Erectile Dysfunction? August 9, 2019 By Alvaro Ocampo M.D. Sex is arguably the best thing in the world. It is one of those activities we can’t get enough of and can’t live without. In fact, we rank it right up there with food, water and air. Sadly, our partner is not always […]
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COMMENTS: While the study’s title emphasizes a fairly universal finding (men don’t chat about jerking off to porn), the important findings are (many more excerpts below the abstract) : Pornography began eroding their sense of autonomy when men experienced a loss of control over their use, which underpinned the core aspect of their problematic use. […]