My story is a little different. I don’t suffer with PIED but I was an avid Porn user myself. So I wanted to give NoFap a try for the “Superpowers”/ and to reset my brain if you will. Another of my main reasons for doing it was to reset my brain to find the average/ […]
Read More… from Age 27 – I actually want to interact with people… And that terrible brain fog? Gone!
Update (July, 2017): Co-author Brian Willoughby exposes how David Ley spun & misrepresented his study in Ley’s Psychology Today blog post “Religious Conflict Makes Porn Bad for Relationships“: Thinking in Black and White: A Response to the Claim that Religiosity Cause the Harms of Pornography. ———————————————————————————————— Article The “perceived pornography addiction” meme continues to infect […]
Read More… from Critique of: “Damaged Goods: Perception of Pornography Addiction as a Mediator Between Religiosity and Relationship Anxiety Surrounding Pornography Use” (Leonhardt, Willoughby, & Young-Petersen 2017)
First thing I want to say is if you are struggling- DONT GIVE UP, it really does work and will change your life. Very grateful to have found all the online help to get porn under control in my life and save my relationship with a real woman. I suffered from ED for several years […]
Read More… from Age 53 – Porn-induced ED: Successful reboot completely changed my life
Link to article: Pornography addiction grips young Americans, compared to crack cocaine Molly Hendrickson, May 23, 2017 DENVER — Porn addiction is the fastest growing addiction in our country, and one of the most hidden. “This thing doesn’t go away, it’s like cancer in the brain, but it’s cancer in the thoughts,” said a recovering porn addict […]
Read More… from Online Porn: Fastest growing addiction in the U.S. Sex addiction therapist, Chris Simon (2017)
I discovered nofap about 2-3 years ago. I am not sure how I got here but I think I was searching for “why doesn’t my dick work sometimes” or something like that. At this time I was a student and had a lot of free time so I masturbated sometimes 6-8 times a day to […]
Read More… from A year clean. PIED healed. Would not trade my GF for all pornstars together
Link to original study – Conscious and Non-Conscious Measures of Emotion: Do They Vary with Frequency of Pornography Use? (2017) Comments: This 2017 EEG study on porn users cited 3 Nicole Prause EEG studies. The authors believe that all 3 Prause EEG studies actually found desensitization or habituation in frequent porn users (which often occurs […]
Read More… from “Conscious and Non-Conscious Measures of Emotion: Do They Vary with Frequency of Pornography Use?” – Excerpts analyzing Steele et al., 2013
Link to original study – Conscious and Non-Conscious Measures of Emotion: Do They Vary with Frequency of Pornography Use? (2017) Comments: This EEG study on porn users cited 3 Nicole Prause EEG studies. The authors believe that all 3 Prause EEG studies actually found desensitization or habituation in frequent porn users (which often occurs with […]
Read More… from “Conscious and Non-Conscious Measures of Emotion: Do They Vary with Frequency of Pornography Use?” – Excerpts analyzing Prause et al., 2015
On this page, YBOP looks at the research linking porn use by women to its effects on arousal, sexual satisfaction, and relationships. While some studies report little effect of women’s porn use on women’s sexual and relationship satisfaction, many do report negative effects. This page contains studies linking female porn use to lower sexual or […]
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You Will Not See Adult Videos The Same After Hearing Brother Ali’s New Song (Audio) Yesterday (May 5), Brother Ali released All The Beauty In This Whole Life, an LP which unequivocally continues the Rhymesayers MC’s career-long history of addressing the personal and universally relatable through his music. This time around, the Minnesotan keeps it 100% […]
Read More… from Brother Ali’s Rap Song About Internet Porn Use (AFH)
My porn addiction had escalated to the point where I was using 2-4 times a day, I had intermittent delayed ejaculation problems, and my sexual interests morphed (I thought I was bisexual when I am actually gay… haha the opposite of what usually happens I know). I knew I had to stop completely. I read […]
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