Depression is my biggest underlying problem that I “solved” and my recovery from porn has been better ever since

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 […]

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Cyberpornography: Time Use, Perceived Addiction, Sexual Functioning, and Sexual Satisfaction (2016)

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 […]

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Is Utah #1 in Porn Use?

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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Age 37 – Porn-induced ED cured. Tastes reverted to pre-porn days. But I never considered myself ever having been addicted

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 […]

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Analysis of “Perceived Effects of Pornography on the Couple Relationship: Initial Findings of Open-Ended, Participant-Informed, Bottom-Up Research” (Kohut et al., 2017)

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 […]

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