I suppose I’ll preface with a little background. Skip ahead if you’d like. I’ve masturbated since I can remember. I found softcore porn in my dad’s room when I was very young and found very hardcore stuff on the computer shortly thereafter. My impressionable young brain was hooked. I started developing fetishes before even hitting […]
The American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT) has released what they themselves are hailing as a “historic position statement” on porn and sex addiction. At the center of the statement is an assertion that the organization “does not find sufficient empirical evidence to support the classification of sex addiction or porn addiction as a […]
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Last summer (now over a year ago) I met a girl…let’s call her Rachel. Rachel was different from every other girl I’ve hooked up with–she was more fun, cooler, had a better sense of humor. For the first time in my life, I had caught real feelings for a girl and no longer cared so […]
I made it 90 days without looking at ANY porn and without jerking off a single time (obviously I had a handful of wet dreams, most recently as two nights ago). If you told me a year ago or even 90 days ago that i would be able to accomplish this, I would have said […]
I’ve relapsed. The number’s back to where it started. Square one. All my efforts have been wasted… That would have been how the old me would have looked at this. Although, I may not regret today’s mishap, I do still desire to reach a point in my life where I could live life without being […]
YBOP COMMENTS: This study reported two seemingly contradictory findings in regard to porn use: More time spent viewing porn correlated with lower sexual satisfaction More time spent viewing porn correlated with less sexual dysfunction Wouldn’t it make sense for poorer sexual satisfaction to always be related to more sexual dysfunction? How could more porn use […]
UPDATE: The points made below have now been affirmed in peer-reviewed research. In Social Desirability Bias in Pornography-Related Self-Reports: The Role of Religion (2017), Dr. Joshua Grubbs tested his hypothesis that religious individuals are more likely to lie about their porn use (in anonymous surveys studies or to researchers). The “religious people are lying” hypothesis […]
I’m, 37, was 36 when I started nofap. I started fapping at 13, occasionally to porn but not very often. Around 2006 or 2007 I started on the high speed internet porn sites. I still never considered myself a heavy porn user, I’d estimate 20-30 percent of my faps were to porn, however when I […]
Understand your partner’s porn challenge and how you can help You have no particular objection to porn, but you love your partner and he has decided to give up Internet porn after using heavily for years. Here are 5 ways you can support his effort: 1. Understand why he’s quitting For your partner, porn isn’t […]