“Dopamine lies at the heart of all addiction” – Andrew Huberman Disclaimer I want to share this with anyone looking for a different approach, as I didn´t find anyone detailing his dopamine fasting in this forum. I have a serious case, I´m 40 years old now, probably with 25 years of addition and had this […]
Read More… from Age 38, 25 years of addiction, now lots of benefits
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 […]
Read More… from Age 33 – DE, addiction, overcame a monster that had grown inside me for years
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, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Turkish, German, Dutch, Hungarian, Arabic, Hindi, Tamil, Malayāḷaṁ and Telugu. Click on a book cover to visit the publisher’s website for all these translations and learn more about the book and its availability in different formats. If you are a publisher […]
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 […]
Read More… from Recent Studies Describing Porn or Sex Addiction (or CSBD) Rates
James Elist, MD
““Being in private practice for more than 30 years now, I have seen, diagnosed, and treated many men with erectile dysfunction. While erectile dysfunction (ED) used to be an “old guy’s issue”, in the recent times it seems as if more and more younger men are…
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