Hesse, Colin, and Kory Floyd. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships (2019): 0265407519841719. Abstract Scholars have stated that humans have a fundamental need to belong, but less is known about whether individuals can use other resources to substitute for close relationships. In this study, 357 adults reported their level of affection deprivation, their weekly pornography […]
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I started my porn free journey for multiple reasons but I would say the biggest reason was to get back to actually being turned on by real women in real sexual situations. Let me tell you 6 months porn free has helped me think clearer, helped my foggy mind, helped with sex drive, helped with […]
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LINK TO FULL STUDY Clin. Med. 2019, 8(1), 91; doi:10.3390/jcm8010091 Rubén de Alarcón 1 , Javier I. de la Iglesia 1 , Nerea M. Casado 1 and Angel L. Montejo 1,2,* 1 Psychiatry Service, Hospital Clínico Universitario de Salamanca, Institute of Biomedical Research of Salamanca (IBSAL), 37007 Salamanca, Spain 2 University of Salamanca, EUEF, 37007 […]
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Mark H. Butler Marriage & Family Review Published online: 09 Apr 2019 https://doi.org/10.1080/01494929.2019.1588187 Abstract An ethological model of human procreative well-being is proposed and the goodness-of-fit of pornography’s script to that model is considered. Deducing an evolutionary template for procreative well-being from an ethological analysis links attachment dynamics to procreative success. Alongside parent–child attachment, pair-bond […]
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COMMENTS: Questionable write-up, and game-playing with the data obscure the actual findings: Both studies (not just study 2) reported more porn use related to less sexual and relationship satisfaction. This paper attempts to blame masturbation, not porn, for relationship dissatisfaction, but there is no legitimate method to tease masturbation apart from porn use. The tables […]
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Wow 400 days today. And I can say Nofap really has blended into my lifestyle for quite a while now I already went through the flatlines, withdrawals, and the brain fog all which is something in the past now. I no longer crave to see anything that relates to porn, I quit social media a […]
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So a little back story first. I have / had been PMO’ing for at least 10 years. I am now 27. When I first started regularly PMOing in late High School I was severely depressed, extremely unconfident, and generally looked down upon by other people. I have always lacked energy and had a problem with […]
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Today unfortunately I break my strike. I read about feminine porn and I wanted to see that (also because during this time I read a lot about perception of sexuality, majority of male point of view in creating erotic content in internet, trying to expand my point of view for healthy sexual behaviors). I was […]
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Introduction by YourBrainOnPorn.com I cannot tell you how many times the following “letter to editor” to a Salt Lake newspaper has been cited as “proof” porn use causes no problems and porn addiction doesn’t exist: Op-ed: Anti-porn school program misrepresents science. It’s often posted on social media (Quora, Twitter, Facebook) as evidence that YBOP, Fight […]
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Link to full article March 29, 2019, (LifeSiteNews) — Young men are being robbed of their ability to enter into natural sexual relationships with women as frequent pornogrpahy viewing rewires their brains, undermining their ability to perform sexually. In a sense, males in their teens through their 30s are being inoculated against sex, against intimacy, against […]
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