I made it 90 days without looking at ANY porn and without jerking off a single time (obviously I had a handful of wet dreams, most recently as two nights ago). If you told me a year ago or even 90 days ago that i would be able to accomplish this, I would have said […]
Read More… from Age 32 – Porn-induced ED cured. It’s like my brain has developed a firewall to looking at porn
I’ve relapsed. The number’s back to where it started. Square one. All my efforts have been wasted… That would have been how the old me would have looked at this. Although, I may not regret today’s mishap, I do still desire to reach a point in my life where I could live life without being […]
Read More… from Depression is my biggest underlying problem that I “solved” and my recovery from porn has been better ever since
YBOP COMMENTS: This study reported two seemingly contradictory findings in regard to porn use: More time spent viewing porn correlated with lower sexual satisfaction More time spent viewing porn correlated with less sexual dysfunction Wouldn’t it make sense for poorer sexual satisfaction to always be related to more sexual dysfunction? How could more porn use […]
Read More… from Cyberpornography: Time Use, Perceived Addiction, Sexual Functioning, and Sexual Satisfaction (2016)
UPDATE: The points made below have now been affirmed in peer-reviewed research. In Social Desirability Bias in Pornography-Related Self-Reports: The Role of Religion (2017), Dr. Joshua Grubbs tested his hypothesis that religious individuals are more likely to lie about their porn use (in anonymous surveys studies or to researchers). The “religious people are lying” hypothesis […]
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I’m, 37, was 36 when I started nofap. I started fapping at 13, occasionally to porn but not very often. Around 2006 or 2007 I started on the high speed internet porn sites. I still never considered myself a heavy porn user, I’d estimate 20-30 percent of my faps were to porn, however when I […]
Read More… from Age 37 – Porn-induced ED cured. Tastes reverted to pre-porn days. But I never considered myself ever having been addicted
Understand your partner’s porn challenge and how you can help You have no particular objection to porn, but you love your partner and he has decided to give up Internet porn after using heavily for years. Here are 5 ways you can support his effort: 1. Understand why he’s quitting For your partner, porn isn’t […]
Read More… from Boyfriend Quitting Porn? 5 Tips (2013)
[TRIGGER warning for content, not images] VR porn is going to ruin lives. We have summoned the demon, folks. The virtual world of hedonism is so immersive, accessible, and pleasurable it will spread like a virus. The VR-porn Borg is here, and resistance is futile (or at least it will be for most men). Background I first […]
Read More… from I tried VR porn, and we are F**KED (NaughtyNomad.com)
YBOP COMMENTS: Is the intention behind this Taylor Kohut study to (attempt to) counter the over 80 studies that show porn use has negative effects on relationships? The two primary methodological flaws (tactics?) of this study are: 1) Study did not contain a representative sample. Whereas most studies show that a tiny minority of females […]
Read More… from Analysis of “Perceived Effects of Pornography on the Couple Relationship: Initial Findings of Open-Ended, Participant-Informed, Bottom-Up Research” (Kohut et al., 2017)
So, here are some things that happened to me during NoFap: -I was going out -I was more social -I felt relaxed in social situations -I looked at myself and told myself that I’m beautiful -I made friends -Talking to people was MUCH easier -I became more independent -I started drawing, reading and playing guitar […]
Read More… from Age 17 – Social anxiety gone, had to quit porn entirely to see benefits
After 180 days my reboot got successful. I am happy to say this: Alcohol helped me to get rid of PMO and now I am quitting Alcohol too. You know guys, quitting Alcohol is easier than PMO. PMO is more difficult to quit It needs lot of patience self realization what you actually want in […]
Read More… from Addicted to porn for 20 years; now I’m happy