My wife left me because of porn. Not “because of porn”, but for what porn was doing to me. I’ve been in PMO for the last 15 years (I’m 37 now), and I’ve been through all the symptoms described here, including ED. Recently I got really scared when I read about the damages that porn […]
Read More… from Age 37 – Lost my wife over porn/ED, but now I’m almost at the top of my game again
When I was 16 years old I tried to have sex for the first time and couldn’t get it up. Not even a little bit. I’m here to tell you: no it’s not performance anxiety, no your testosterone levels are fine, no you’re not gay/asexual/whatever – you watch too much porn and this is the […]
Read More… from Age 26 – PIED. It was the porn, not performance anxiety
I’ve been lurking nofap for over 2 years now, and I guess, after checking my counter, and thinking about how much nofap has changed my life, I owe it to this community to let you guys know what it’s done for me and what it has the potential to do for you. I’m 22 years […]
Read More… from Age 22 – Porn screwed me up and quitting made my life better than ever
Some background: 44 years of age, male, long-term porn user (magazines >> VHS tapes >> internet); dozens of efforts to quit (even back at the magazine stage); recent onset of PIED. Longest previous record was 23 days. During the last 90 days: no porn, no masturbation, but sex with real women is allowed. So what […]
Read More… from Age 44 – PIED: Almost every other reason for quitting porn did not work
Currently I am on hardmode since first of January 2016. I once had sex with a girl after 5 weeks. I had ups and downs, two severe flatlines. The best benefit I realized so far is that I am really confident and calm in social interactions. In the past I got a bit nervous around […]
Background – An Indian guy 34 years of age – had been watching porn since the age of 19/20. Before that I used to jerk off to magazines, even hot pics of celebrity women in newspapers, and my own dirty imagination (mostly weird/kinky sexual thoughts, because of my poor upbringing which is another story in […]
Just messaged for a reset so I apologize if the counter isn’t right. Initially, what drove me away from using porn was insistence from my girlfriend. This was at the beginning of our relationship, and I never took it seriously until we got to the point where we are at, talking about spending our lives […]
New research suggests watching porn may lead to some undesirable consequences People continue to ask the same questions about porn that they have for decades – is porn good for us or bad for us? Is it immoral or is it empowering? Damaging or liberating? Asking these questions inevitably leads to an intense clashing of […]
Read More… from Is Porn Good For Us or Bad For Us? by Philip Zimbardo PhD. (2016)
Disagreeing with one’s heroes is always an interesting growth experience. As young psychologists, we learn about the revolutionary work of Dr. Philip Zimbardo, and the way in which his research and insights have changed our understandings of human behavior and morality. As a psychologist, and a person, I owe Dr. Zimbardo a debt of gratitude. […]
Read More… from David Ley’s Blog Post “We Must Rely on Good Science in Porn Debate” (March 2, 2016)
The following is YBOP’s response to David Ley’s Psychology Today blog post “We Must Rely on Good Science in Porn Debate (2016).” Ley’s post is his response to Philip Zimbardo’s Psychology Today blog post “Is Porn Good For Us or Bad For Us?” (2016). While Ley’s title says we must rely on “good science,” it […]