I started this reboot when I was 19, about 11 or so months ago. Probably one of the worst cases of PIED out there, I hadn’t been able to get an erection since early in high school. A little over a week ago, I lost my virginity to my incredible girlfriend and we’ve had sex […]
Read More… from Age 20 – Took 11 months to beat porn-induced ED
I was addicted to porn but I beat it with a simple two-step method that I have designed. Hundreds of former porn users are adopting this method and it works every time. But before I explain I need to deal with porn addiction. Porn Addiction I know porn addiction is controversial, but the release of […]
Read More… from How I beat porn addiction with the two-step method
Lamentations, but gratitude. Here, I recall in the years of near 2006, some 10 years ago, when I was ages 21-23 trying to “Sow” my wild oats as a young man. It wasn’t until recently, last year, (2015) that I discovered the true destructive effects of pornography in my own life, that I look back […]
Read More… from Age 31 – I went many months & years railing against the nofap movement as to why “It wasn’t working for me.” The problem – I continued to watch porn.
I am 40, dentist from Serbia. I have been heavy internet porn user for last 10 years. Even though I am happily married, and have been very satisfied with my sex life, I’ve been addicted to porn, because it offered me variety, and I was rather porn addicted than unfaithful. I am sure I am […]
Read More… from Age 40 – Dentist – “Quitting porn should be a cornerstone of treating impotence”
For ten years until the age of twenty I was a hardcore porn wanker. I’ve jacked off thousands and thousands and thousands of times. When I started as a boy of around ten I couldn’t even cum, I would orgasm but nothing would come out the end. That’s how young I was. Anyway, initially porn […]
Read More… from Age 20 – From virgin porn wanker with PIED, to 6 girls in 3 months
I’m proud to say that after coming across this sub sometime in Feb 2014, I completed 2 years porn-free, as of April 10, 2016. I had been watching porn of various types since at least 1999, on 33kbps modems. The reason I got serious about stopping was that I realized that access to porn was […]
Read More… from Age 30 – 2 years porn free: I feel like a completely different person
Updates: Multiple studies link porn use to poorer cognitive outcomes. See this list: Studies linking porn use to poorer mental-emotional health & poorer cognitive outcomes. Studies reporting poorer executive functioning (hypofrontality) or altered prefrontal activity in porn users/sex addicts: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16. […]
Read More… from No Porn, Better Working Memory? (2012)
Need to see the humor in your internet porn use? Here’s an earlier version of this graph. Note the current focus on erectile dysfunction: […]
Read More… from The More Porn You Watch
So here finally comes my success story. Things aren’t perfect now, even at day 127 – but all areas of my life have improved so much; and I feel like I’m now on tracks that are good enough that things will keep improving for a long time. So I write this as an opportunity to […]
Read More… from Age 25 – My ongoing story (OCD, ADHD, depression, brain fog, low energy)
Pornography in relationships has been an issue for a long time. Even today, professional recommendations on how to manage the use of pornography still vary widely. I attended one workshop in a couples therapy conference that recommended to merely accept porn use, especially by men, as natural and harmless. While this may be an extreme view, […]
Read More… from An Open Letter on Porn (John Gottman)