Men’sHealth News

How Porn Kills Your Sex Drive

Online vixens may raise your flag but could be leaving you at half-mast with real-life ladies.

 Many men in their 20s who started watching porn at a young age (as early as 14) and currently consume porn daily have a low libido or even inability to get an erection, according to a wire report on an Italian Society of Andrology and Sexual Medicine survey of 28,000 men. […]

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Age 21 – “Nerdy virgin”

Hello all no-fappers. As promised in a previous post, here is a full report of my 90-day reboot (www.yourbrainonporn.com for clarification of the 90-day reboot) Some personal details: 21 years old Male Virgin, no real dating experience, virtually deprived of female contact prior to 2 years ago. Forever-alone, nerdy, shy type for most of my […]

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ED Recovery Stories 6

ED Recovery Stories 6 is part of an 8-page series containing shorter accounts. For longer, more detailed ED accounts see Rebooting Accounts and External Rebooting Blogs & Threads ——————————————————————————————————————————————- 1 month into PIED reboot! Hi guys, my name is Travis. I first learned about the dangers of high speed internet porn a little over a […]

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“How mindfulness meditation helped me” (by a sex addict)

I want to reach out to anyone on this forum or reading this who is trying to cast off the yoke of sex addiction. I have suffered with the addiction for over 15 years which has manifested itself in many ways. Effects include/d: compulsively spending hours watching extreme pornography, compulsive masturbation, unstable and negative sexual encounters, visiting prostitutes and so on. I am sure I don’t have to explain to many reading this the suffering which these addictions create not just for ourselves but for those around us.

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Age 26 – 33 days: successful sex (ED)

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I’ve been masturbating to porn since the age of 14. I am now 26 years of age. That’s an awful lot of masturbation! Often I’d masturbate on average 3 times a day in my teens, up to 8 times – I think was my ‘personal best’

I’ve done my research on this topic of masturbation and porn and I believe that too much porn and masturbation is the cause of my problem.

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Preliminary investigation of the impulsive and neuroanatomical characteristics of compulsive sexual behavior (2009)

Comments: Cognitive tests Show similarities between those with compulsive sexual behaviors and other compulsive disorders such as pathological gambling and kleptomania. Brain scans show those with CSB have decreased frontal cortex white mater organization, such as found in anxiety disorders and PTSD.

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