8-25 I am 18 years old, I discovered pornography quite early on in life around 10 or eleven years old, I remember from the earliest moment I always was turned on by pornography. I would look at pictures of naked girls, and stuff, it then elevated to heterosexual video porn, then like most, I discover […]
COMMENTS: a review by the top researcher on obesity and food addiction. FULL STUDY Volume 69, Issue 4, 24 February 2011, Pages 664–679 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2011.02.016, Review Paul J. Kenny1, , 1 Laboratory of Behavioral and Molecular Neuroscience, Department of Molecular Therapeutics, The Scripps Research Institute, Jupiter, FL 33458, USA ________________________________________ Food is consumed in order to maintain […]
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FULL STUDY The Journal of Neuroscience, 6 September 2006, 26(36): 9196-9204; doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1124-06.2006 Peter Olausson1, J. David Jentsch2, Natalie Tronson1, Rachel L. Neve3, Eric J. Nestler4, and Jane R. Taylor1 1.Correspondence should be addressed to Jane R. Taylor, Department of Psychiatry, Division of Molecular Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, Ribicoff Research Facilities, Connecticut Mental […]
COMMENTS: As later studies will reveal DeltaFosB is the common molecular switch for both drug and behavioral addictions. It’s a transcription factor which means it affects what genes are turned on or off. As stated elsewhere, addictive drugs only hijack normal mechanisms. That’s why it’s silly to suggest that behavioral addictions cannot exist. FULL STUDY […]
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I am young, 22 years old. Went through this issue during my early college years. It was really rough because something as minor as not getting it up once, had devastating effects on my confidence. There’s so much pressure about penis size and what not, but nothing there’s worse than when it doesn’t work. It […]
tl; dr: Karezza saved my relationship. I came to this place via karezza. Last fall, while hanging out in /r/deadbedrooms, I came across some articles by Marnia Robinson, in particular this one, that suggested to me that my focus on sex was possibly the reason why I didn’t get any in my long-term relationship. So […]
This scientist doesn’t speak in terms of addiction-related changes, but he describes how learning changes the brain. Addiction is pathological learning. This exchange appeared on Reddit.com under “AskScience.” Why does abstaining from porn/masturbation/orgasm temporarily decrease as opposed to increase libido? In /r/nofap there’s a move to ‘reboot’ one’s overstimulated brain to restore the sensitivity to […]
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Jordan Harbinger, host of The Art of Charm website, interviews Gary. […]
Day 38 I would say i started masturbating since I was 12 and it is so unfortunate that i started off to tv porn. Wow what a great discovery I thought I made finding porn whilst flipping through cable channels. Ever since then I never looked back. Used to masturbate at least once a day […]
Day 33 I’m from Germany. I am 32 and what you would probably call a very good looking guy. I’m married to a beautiful woman and I work in the central department of a world famous company. Before that I had finished high school with a A+ degree (called 1,0 Abitur in Germany) and then […]