New here, been lurking for the last few months, and today I am 90 days free from PMO. I wanted to share my story, and hopefully give other people hope, much like the hundreds of posts I’ve read myself that helped me through this. Sorry for a long post. I’m 33 years old, male, and […]
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Current Psychiatry Reports Sherer, J., Levounis, P. Technological Addictions. Curr Psychiatry Rep 24, 399–406 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11920-022-01351-2 Comments: Psychiatrists from medical school faculties at NYU and Rutgers published this article about technological addictions, including compulsive porn use (CSBD). Excerpts: “The prevalence of problematic cybersex and Internet porn use could be as high as 10%.” “Compulsive […]
Physical changes No PIED at this point, though I didn’t use enough for this to be a major problem for me. Way more energy to do things that are important. I find that there’s no “baggage” that’s always dragging me down. For me, PMO use was like a literal weight on my mind and body. […]
Translations of Your Brain on Porn are now available in Spanish, French, Persian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Turkish, German, Dutch, Hungarian, Arabic, Hindi, Tamil, Malayāḷaṁ and Telugu. Translations into Italian, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese and Czech are in preparation. From this page you can click on a book cover to visit the publisher’s website for individual translations, […]
Coach Mark Queppet explains that a porn-trained brain feels entitled to “bang every attractive potential mate it sees.” Therefore, its owner-operator feels like they have lost status when they give up porn and enter an exclusive relationship. Queppet explains that the desire for status is not unhealthy in itself, but that it needs to be […]
Five years ago on April the 24th 2018, I decided to quit porn for good. I still remember that morning vividly. I had just blown an hour or two masturbating while trying to find the “perfect” picture. Afterwards, I remember staring at the screen hating myself for wasting so much time on doing absolutely nothing […]
Day 323 Life feels pretty good. It’s not perfect but I really got the feeling today of moving forward, holistically improving every aspect of myself. I know that there’s ups and downs (maybe in a week I’ll be complaining a bit!) but directionally the path is up and up. I think quitting porn has been […]
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In honor of Gary Wilson’s birthday today, YBOP is pleased to share this video by master communicator and coach Seb Jones. In it, Jones highlights some of the most poignant personal accounts and key insights of Gary’s book Your Brain On Porn. […]
Rates of porn addiction, sex addiction or compulsive sexual behaviour disorder in the general population are gradually being revealed by ongoing research. Pornography: A Concealed Behavior with Serious Consequences (2023) [Data from n=1022 participants of the Rhode Island Young Adult Survey] 6.2% met the criteria for addiction. Odds of pornography use were 5 times higher […]
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Clark, Luke, and Zack, Martin. ” Addictive Behaviors (2023): 107626. Comments: Researchers explain why Gary Wilson was correct when he hypothesized that internet porn’s addictiveness is fueled by endless novelty/variability (not unlike slot machines). Variability amplifies the addictive potential of modern digital products. Excerpt: By enabling near limitless diversity and speed of delivery of non-drug […]