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Post-Porn Culture (2012)

“Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.” –Frank Herbert Discussion threads on porn use We often hear about how our culture is becoming “pornified” thanks to today’s eager Internet users and their suppliers. Yet those giving up porn are also beginning to shape our culture. Like soldiers returning […]

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Clarifying and extending our understanding of problematic pornography use through descriptions of the lived experience

Excerpts: Our findings shed new light on various sexual and non-sexual functional impairments related to PPU [problematic porn use] that have yet to be robustly examined in the existing literature. Our findings corroborate increasing evidence that many individuals with PPU experience tolerance and desensitisation effects, which can lead to escalating use [evidence of addiction]. [PPU […]

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Pornography Use Could Lead to Addiction and Was Associated With Reproductive Hormone Levels and Semen Quality: A Report From the MARHCS Study in China

Highlights: Early contact, frequent use, greater time spent using, and frequent masturbation during pornography use correlated with addiction. More than 30% reported needing longer to orgasm to porn than they had needed 3 months earlier. Earlier use, greater exposure and more masturbation to porn correlated with lower sperm concentration and total sperm count. This was […]

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My wife is more beautiful

Day 73 I can’t seem to appreciate how beautiful my wife is until I’ve detoxed from porn several weeks. Yesterday i walked by her and was amazed at how she looked, and well, things went pretty well for us from there forward. It was similar on my last streak, all of the sudden I start […]

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Smear campaign targeting YourBrainOnPorn.com and Gary Wilson examined in a peer-reviewed journal

YBOP and its late creator Gary Wilson have been long targeted with various deplatforming attempts and extensive defamation. A new journal article examines the 2019 “Mormon porn” smear campaign. However, that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Since Gary Wilson first created Your Brain on Porn in 2010, it provided a refreshing evidence-based perspective on […]

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Speed your recovery with FREE porn addiction video series on the science behind related brain changes

This clear, concise Scandinavian video series explains what you need to know to understand porn’s harms, whether you are a porn addict or simply experiencing porn-induced symptoms. Its author is a remarkable teacher. His cogent analysis and personal experiences as a recovered porn addict make this series especially effective. He answers common questions thoroughly and […]

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‘I just can’t stop’: Online porn addiction becoming serious issue in Japan

[Original article] TOKYO — While a large amount of traffic to the world’s most viewed adult website comes from Japan, the effects of internet pornography are rarely discussed in the country. Yet addiction is becoming a serious issue, with 5.7% of university students in a 2021 study saying it causes problems in their daily lives. […]

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