A little background (you can read some of my older posts for additional info). I’m 36 years old, no ED issues, but have felt that fapping has been a root cause of a variety of problems in my life over the past several years — everything from low energy/motivation, to depression, to brain fog, to […]
Link To Thread – Beating HOCD I’ll tell my story here. Last years I gradually started to have gay thoughts – they are very rare. Once, coming back from a party, I thought “what if I have sex with a guy?”. And yes, I had porn addiction, always masturbating and thinking about crazy fantasies (including […]
NoFap and it’s relationship to what media technology is currently doing to humans. Many of us come because we’ve identified the effects that technology has had on our brain, and how it has distorted our reward mechanisms. Underlying the negative effects of masturbation are causes created by the explosive advancement of science and engineering in […]
LINK: Re-Thinking Porn; The Internet Factor Posted on August 19, 2012 Some of my most popular posts are those that discuss porn and masturbation. I don’t believe they are the evil the the Mormon Church does. I also believe that the religious approach to sexuality is harmful and I believe that the evidence supports my view. […]
I was completely normal, and excelling at all areas of life. I was confident, intelligent, charismatic, and had almost no problem getting girls attracted to me. Yet, when it came to the sexual realm, I was a dismal failure. I had no experience whatsoever, and dreaded every additional sexual opportunity for fear that it would […]
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Made a F.A.Q. thread. I’ll keep it updated. Be sure to reply with your opinions and do suggest more Q’s and A’s that need adding to the list. Q: Rebooting, is it worth it? What are the benefits of a reboot? A: There are plenty of benefits, you couldn’t even name them all, here are […]
Por Guilherme Gouvêa Pícolo em 13/Ago/2012 – Há poucas semanas, o SD publicou uma notícia na qual o psicólogo Philip Zimbardo, da Universidade de Stanford, comentava sobre os graves danos que prevê às pessoas expostas de maneira constante à pornografia online. Apesar do alerta de Zimbardo ter soado um tanto quanto histriônico, a verdade é que existem […]
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Are we becoming a nation of pleasure junkies? August 7, 2012 by Sherry Pagoto, Ph.D. in Shrink As a nation, we are becoming increasingly indulgent, whether in our consumption of food, sex, alcohol or drugs. At present, 1 in 3 adults are obese and 1 in 10 adults has a substance use (alcohol or drugs) […]
UPDATES on this American Association of Addiction Medicine announcement: An official diagnosis? The world’s most widely used medical diagnostic manual, The International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11), contains a new diagnosis suitable for porn addiction: “Compulsive Sexual Behavior Disorder.” Porn/sex addiction? This page lists 39 neuroscience-based studies (MRI, fMRI, EEG, neuropsychological, hormonal). They provide strong support […]
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BEFORE NOFAP I started with Severe ED, depression and porn addiction. My life had hit rock bottom. ED for 2 years managed to screw up on-night-stands with attractive women offering themselves to me. The fear of ED put me off dating and all I got was scraps thrown at me – failed random one night […]
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