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 […]
Read More… from Age 30 – 468 days without PMO: A lot things changed during this period. But mostly my brain changed.
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 […]
Read More… from Internet porn: the highly addictive narcotic emasculating young men through erectile dysfunction. Urologist Paul Church, Maureen Newberg LCSW (2019)
Link to original article By Mike Huynh 5,517,000,000 hours of porn was consumed in 2018 alone…on one site. If you didn’t give a toss before you might need to now. Porn addiction is a growing issue amongst today’s men. At worst, it can ruin your relationships, your career and mess with your moral compass. It’s […]
Read More… from Your Porn Session Could Be An Addiction & This Psychologist Explains How To Fix It. Luke Vu, PhD (2019)
Link to abstract (which is also below) This paper is a misleading, irresponsible attempt to counter the 2010 Ana Bridges study on aggression in porn (“Aggression and sexual behavior in best-selling pornography videos: A content analysis update”), which found that 88% of the most popular porn films featured physical aggression against women. However, this study […]
Read More… from Critique of “Harder and Harder? Is Mainstream Pornography Becoming Increasingly Violent and Do Viewers Prefer Violent Content?” (2018)
A doctor reveals how girls as young as 15 have come to her about removing hair She says that teenagers don’t know how to refuse sexual advances from partners One male, 23, was unable to perform sexually after watching too much porn Around 1.4mil children in the UK visited a pornographic website in just 1 […]
Read More… from The true toll of porn: Girls who hate their bodies and young men who can’t perform in relationships – by a GP who’s seen the harm it does to teens (Daily Mail)
Link to original study – Online Porn Addiction: What We Know and What We Don’t—A Systematic Review (2019) Excerpt critiquing Steele et al., 2013 (citation 105 is Steele et al.) Evidence of this neural activity signalizing desire is particularly prominent in the prefrontal cortex [101] and the amygdala [102,103], being evidence of sensitization. Activation in […]
Read More… from Online Porn Addiction: What We Know and What We Don’t—A Systematic Review (2019): Excerpt analyzing Steele et al., 2013
First of all I just want to say how fucking incredible this website is, and how much it has helped me in the last 3 years. Though I was never the kind to sign up and track my progress, the success page has always kept my hopes up through this whole journey, and without discovering […]
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NOTE: This page contains multiple self-reports by people (some of whom are more politically correct than others), who concluded that their porn tastes influenced their sexual tastes after they quit porn and noticed their tastes reverting. These self-reports are taken from porn recovery forums. YBOP excerpts them pretty much as they are, and their authors’ […]
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