A major event has occurred in the realm of addiction science and treatment. America’s top addiction experts at The American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) have just released their sweeping new definition of addiction. The new definition, and associated Q&A’s, echoes the major points made here at www.yourbrainonporn.com. Foremost, behavioral addictions affect the brain just […]
Intro I decided to try this out after stumbling upon this when googling what the effects of frequent porn/masturbation were. I have watched and masturbated to porn usually every day since I was 13, and I am 28 now. I have gone one month without both in the past, but it was not to reset […]
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COMMENTS: This set of frequently asked questions accompanied ASAM’s new definition of addiction. A few of the Q & A’s address sex addiction. It’s quite clear that the experts at ASAM view sex as a real addiction. We see sex addiction (real partners) as quite different from Internet porn addiction (a screen). Many who develop Internet porn addiction would never have developed a sex addiction in the pre-Internet era.
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COMMENTS: This is the best article covering the August, 2011 release of The American Society of Addiction Medicine’s new definition of addiction. This article, A Radical New View of Addiction Stirs Scientific Storm originated from the website “The Fix.” The bolded sections below relate to concepts discussed here on YBOP.
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4-10 I met my current girlfriend and it was my first opportunity having sex. Everything went well until penetration: I penetrated but then lost it.
The thought of this plagued me and I began to suspect porn and over-masturbation as the culprits. When inside I soon lost stimulation. Also my girlfriend could kiss me and hold me, and I still would not get all that aroused. This, I think, is from the porn.
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I’m a 27-year old PMO addict who has been trying to recover for the last 8 months. I’ve had a PMO addiction for well over 12 years. Drug addiction for 10. Online video games for another 6-7 years.
Age 1-13
-Normal Kid. Very social and happy with life.
Age 13-16
– Started to PMO a lot. Mostly to fantasy and any TV show, magazine or newspaper that resembled any semi-hot woman. Social anxiety began.
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COMMENTS: The sweeping new ASAM “definition of addiction” (August 2011) ends the debate over the existence behavioral addictions, including sex and porn addiction. This new definition of addiction, which includes behavioral addictions, such as food, gambling and sex, ASAM unequivocally states behavioral addictions involve similar brain alterations and neural pathways as do drug addictions. We […]
COMMENTS: It’s very important to note that this new definition of addiction includes behavioral addictions, such as food, gambling and sex. In ASAM’s longer version, they detail the nature of addictions and equivocally state that behavioral addictions exist and involve similar mechanisms and neural pathways. In addition to stating that sex addiction exists, Dr. Nora Volkow makes two other points of interest to porn users:
1) Teens are more vulnerable to addictions, and
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[Day 18] I’m 21 and had an amazing sex life before all this bullshit. Could do it forever. Never even the smallest afterthought of not being able to get it up. I went thru a dry spell though when I didn’t get with any girls cus I was depressed. This was for a year, and […]
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“Wherein I document my attempt at regulating my porn and masturbation habit” Introductions I am 38 years old, and after more than two decades of porn use and masturbation, I am attempting to impose some control over these activities. I will document my experiment here at this blog. Other relevant information about me: I am […]
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