A man has revealed how he accumulated 18 terabytes of porn on his computer and took the bold step of deleting it all to help him overcome his addiction. To put that into perspective, a terabyte is 1,000 gigabytes, so the man’s 18 terabyte collection is equivalent to 5,400 hours of high quality video or […]
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I’m three months clean. It sounds so weird saying in out loud. It both feels like a large achievement, and a small number. There is still a long way to go. Improvements I’ve noticed. Erections and pleasure incomparable 90 days ago and today. Significant, undeniable improvement. Return of morning wood (not always though, sometimes). Women […]
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I’ve never been able to kick it so far, with just a “I promise to myself that I wont ever do that again.” statement. Its as if, when it wants to, the fetish could disable the other, thinking parts of my brain, and get me to feed it. I wont go into details on my […]
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With all my personal due diligence I now claim I’m free from pmo. I started pmo since 12, and it escalated to a point where I had serious brain fog, pmo while working from home, and sleep for 11 hrs and still feel tired. During a period of recovery, I had serious anxiety and mood […]
Read More… from Age 25 – Looking back, the journey feels like getting out of hell. I will never watch porn again.
I’ve been off my streak with masturbating without P but I’m starting back up right now monk mode. I have realized that it’s not the “masturbation” that causes the erectile dysfunction it’s the effect of porn usage on the brain. I’ve only watched porn only once in about 6 months and my erections are almost […]
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Updated 21 July 2017 An international study found that the percentage of men below 40 who suffer erectile dysfunction has skyrocketed in the last 15 years, from between 2% and 5% to 30%. Many young men who should be in their sexual prime are suffering erectile dysfunction as a result of watching pornography from an […]
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[by Andrew Brown] This is a question that is on the surface about sex but actually it goes a lot deeper than that. That’s not to say that sex on its own is a small business. It’s difficult to get solid figures, but in 2009 the American industry was the size of the mainstream film […]
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[youtube]https://youtu.be/DclqE-9vFgY[/youtube] One of the best short videos on porn’s effects on the brain by popular YouTube channel “What I’ve Learned.” However, it quotes my early 2015 presentation as saying there were only 4 brain studies published on porn users. As of July, 2017 there were 34 neurological studies published on porn users and sex addicts. […]
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Since this community helped me alot, I want to share a little experience that made dealing with the entire porn addiction and ED problem much easier for me: I went 120 days without porn or masturbation, but with occasional orgasms with girls, mostly from petting and oral sex. My condition has improved alot over this […]
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So I’ve nearly reached the two year without pornography mark, and my life has changed drastically. My sex drive still isn’t what I feel like it should be, and given that I PMO’d for so long, I’m not sure whether it ever will be – but I don’t want to kill myself anymore so I […]
Read More… from 2 year struggle – Felt suicidal due to porn-induced ED: Now I have no trouble getting hard, my GF & I have a good sex life