YBOP COMMENTS: Below are (1) David Ley’s original Psychology Today blog post about a Nicole Prause yet to be published EEG study, and, (2) Gary Wilson’s Psychology Today blog post responding to it (published March 7th, 2013). Under Wilson’s post are the comments as they originally appeared, including an exchange between Wilson and Prause. (Ley’s […]
Read More… from Unpublished Porn Study by SPAN Lab Finds Porn Is Arousing (March, 2013)
Longitudinal studies are needed to reveal morphing porn tastes Published on July 27, 2012 by Gary Wilson in Cupid’s Poisoned Arrow This post is a response to The Truth about 50 Shades of Grey and Futanari Porn by Ogi Ogas, Ph.D. We’d like to begin our response to your above post by clarifying some points […]
Read More… from ‘A Billion Wicked Thoughts’ Is Only A Snapshot: Longitudinal studies are needed to reveal morphing porn tastes (2012)
I’m 28 and am addicted to porn. Started in my early teens, although 56k modems and living with my parents curbed things. I definitely knew I had an addictive personality though, as I’d often masturbate to digital pictures and magazines 5-6 times a day in my early teens. So I took precautions when I moved […]
Read More… from Age 28 – (Psychiatrist) Porn-Induced ED cured and kicked the addiction
Gabe Deem believes the dopamine rushes produced by pornography can rewire the brain and cause addiction. (Photographer: Chris Arrant, Copyright: Chris Arrant Photography) This is part one in a four-part series. (Coming Monday: How pornography harms relationships. Coming Tuesday: Why laws to fight pornography aren’t being used. Coming Wednesday: How couples break the cycle of […]
Read More… from Ubiquitous assailant: The dangerous unasked questions surrounding pornography (2013)
Right, I’ve got a long story, partial life story, but I want to go to bed, so will condense! I should firstly also clarify that I heavily credit yourbrainonporn.com, as well as the concept of nofap. Here we go… Teen years – boob magas, faps, dawn of the internet, dial up porn faps, mpeg fapping […]
Read More… from Age 27 – ED cured: Had sex during reboot. Took me 10 years to realize it was porn.
By Isaac Abel About a year ago, I was regularly seeing a therapist. During one session, I mentioned the niche porn I had watched and how I was unsure whether or not I wanted to embrace some of the “kinkier” fantasies, like rape and incest, through role-play in my real sex life. It was the […]
Read More… from “Coming Out as a Porn Addict” (The Atlantic)
Before I started nofap I had a few girlfriends. They were all women that I was genuinely interested in but I had one unusual problem. I never wanted to have sex with them. I was a virgin at the time and all of my friends were telling me I had to loose it, but I […]
Read More… from Porn will rob you of your sexuality: I was not attracted to real women
A couple years ago, I stumbled across some research and articles about the pornography and the negative effects it could be having on men and their sex lives. I found it interesting, but never gave it too much thought after that. Then some time last year I stumbled across this video. It caught my attention […]
Read More… from Pornography Can Ruin Your Sex Life (Mark Manson)
Some of you old-timers might remember me from posts like [the one below]. Hopefully you didn’t think I had given up on this wonderful process because I haven’t posted in a while. On the contrary. I’m still going strong! In fact, the reason I’ve been fap-free for more than six months is because I was […]
Read More… from Age 38 – 6 months: This works, gentlemen. Porn has been cock-blocking you
Addiction isn’t a term to be thrown around lightly. But some argue that it’s possible to become neurologically dependent on porn. I was staring at an inbox overflowing with emails about porn. Not spam, but hundreds of personal emails from people I’d never met, detailing their relationships with Internet pornography. The emails were in response […]
Read More… from Was I Actually ‘Addicted’ to Internet Pornography? (The Atlantic)