NoFap™ is a peer support website for porn addiction recovery.
Joined June 2013
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Men & women get addicted to porn.
Straight, gay, bi, & trans people get addicted to porn.
People of varying nationalities & races & ages get addicted to porn.
Christians & Muslims & Jews & Atheists & Buddhists get addicted to porn.
This is a HUMAN issue,
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For years, top leadership in the adult industry has tried to shut down our website.
Harassment. Hit pieces. Wikipedia astroturfing. False police reports.
They have targeted 70 scientists, therapists, etc. One victim committed suicide.
We may not stay online much longer.
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MANY scientists, doctors, & therapists believe problematic pornography use can fit within a behavioral addiction model.
@WHO first recognized compulsive sexual behavior disorder in 2018
Just because the DSM doesn’t currently categorize porn addiction doesn’t mean it never will.
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Pornography addiction is not a scientifically recognized medical condition
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Because of sustained targeting by pоrn industry associates, our website has been barely functional for years. We hope to return to our mission—e.g., improve the platform, expand resources, collaborate with more scientists and clinicians, and support more people seeking recovery.
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However, the outlook is bleak. Many people have avoided or left the recovery field due to harassment from pornography industry associates. Work in this area is not tenable for most. There is a real risk we may be forced to shut down—and if we do, we want a clear record of why.
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Hi @TwitrHagen!
Not sure how else to contact you, so sending this privately here via "Twitter circles". We would appreciate it if you do not quote us, as we're just currently reaching out privately with the sole intention of requesting that you leave us alone. We do not think that an article targeting us is warranted. However, if you do decide to move forward with working with pornography industry associates to target us after thoroughly investigating this matter, please have your editor(s) get in touch with us for formal on-the-record statements.
Upon information and belief, it appears that you are working on an article targeting us, a porn addiction recovery peer support website, initiated and primarily sourced by a close associate of the porn industry's primary trade/lobbying group FSC and MindGeek (the owner of Pornhub). This individual is directly collaborating with the pornography industry to deplatform and defame porn addiction resource resources. You've almost certainly been deceived with disinformation from this individual and their collaborators. Before you let yourself and NPR become a vessel of porn industry disinformation/defamation (which would not only be harmful to us, but also adversely impact the credibility of NPR), breach of contract, and extensive online harassment (targeting 50 people that even contributed to the death of somebody in our field), please have your editors and legal department reach out to contact@NoFap.com. If you could also provide editor/legal emails, that would prove most helpful.
We would appreciate the opportunity to correct the record - we have a LOT of information (criminal records, retraction statements, court records, legal documents, a lot of stuff that isn't public, etc.) we would share with NPR, and we also can connect NPR with dozens of targets of your primary source (and the porn industry more generally), witnesses, experts, credible scientists and clinicians not affiliated with the pornography industry, etc., to interview. In the meantime, you should check out all of the webpages Gary Wilson published regarding this matter on "Your Brain on Porn" (the .com website, lots of helpful info on there) - it will probably take you months to sort through everything! Please just Google-search "<YourSourceName> site:yourbrainonporn.com" for some basic background information, although there is MUCH more to share with NPR!
However, we're just a tiny, under-funded peer support website for addiction recovery - so please just leave us alone so we can focus on helping people, rather than assist the multi-billion dollar porn industry continue to target us and many others! We aren't legitimately controversial (see NoFap.com/about) and such an industry-sourced piece would not be of legitimate interest to the public (only those who want to smear us), and we would rather be left alone to exist without such harassment, thanks!
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This was supposed to be sent privately to Twitter circles. Our circle only has two accounts just to get the message over to @TwitrHagen. What gives, @ElonMusk, @TwitterSupport?
Anyway, it's probably best to leave it up for now since it doesn't contain identifiable information. And maybe it's best for it to be public record that we attempted to reach out with information to @NPR and @NPRpubliceditor that the porn industry, as in an associate connected to MindGeek and their primary lobbying group/trade association, is attempting to get a hit piece targeting a porn addiction recovery site placed through them.
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Hi @TwitrHagen!
Not sure how else to contact you, so sending this privately here via "Twitter circles". We would appreciate it if you do not quote us, as we're just currently reaching out privately with the sole intention of requesting that you leave us alone. We do not think that an article targeting us is warranted. However, if you do decide to move forward with working with pornography industry associates to target us after thoroughly investigating this matter, please have your editor(s) get in touch with us for formal on-the-record statements.
Upon information and belief, it appears that you are working on an article targeting us, a porn addiction recovery peer support website, initiated and primarily sourced by a close associate of the porn industry's primary trade/lobbying group FSC and MindGeek (the owner of Pornhub). This individual is directly collaborating with the pornography industry to deplatform and defame porn addiction resource resources. You've almost certainly been deceived with disinformation from this individual and their collaborators. Before you let yourself and NPR become a vessel of porn industry disinformation/defamation (which would not only be harmful to us, but also adversely impact the credibility of NPR), breach of contract, and extensive online harassment (targeting 50 people that even contributed to the death of somebody in our field), please have your editors and legal department reach out to contact@NoFap.com. If you could also provide editor/legal emails, that would prove most helpful.
We would appreciate the opportunity to correct the record - we have a LOT of information (criminal records, retraction statements, court records, legal documents, a lot of stuff that isn't public, etc.) we would share with NPR, and we also can connect NPR with dozens of targets of your primary source (and the porn industry more generally), witnesses, experts, credible scientists and clinicians not affiliated with the pornography industry, etc., to interview.
In the meantime, you should check out all of the webpages Gary Wilson published regarding this matter on "Your Brain on Porn" (the .com website, lots of helpful info on there) - it will probably take you months to sort through everything! Please just Google-search "<YourSourceName> site:yourbrainonporn.com" for some basic background information, although there is MUCH more to share with NPR!
However, we're just a tiny, under-funded peer support website for addiction recovery - so please just leave us alone so we can focus on helping people, rather than assist the multi-billion dollar porn industry continue to target us and many others! We aren't legitimately controversial (see NoFap.com/about) and such an industry-sourced piece would not be of legitimate interest to the public (only those who want to smear us), and we would rather be left alone to exist without such harassment, thanks!
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"73% of the respondents (75% of boys & 70% of girls) said they had watched online pornography. The average age they started was 12. Many began younger."
"4 in 10 said they had watched pornography, including nudity & sexual acts, during the school day."
psychologytoday.com/us/blog/…
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NoFap retweeted
2 May 2023
Japan to ban upskirting in sweeping sex crime reforms bbc.in/3VksTs9
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NoFap retweeted
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Short CNN clip about effects of teens’ early online porn use. New survey reveals effects of early online porn exposure on teens. youtube.com/watch?v=DTYAux86…
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P0rn addiction is a widespread issue.
ED rates skyrocketing around the world. People choosing p0rn over in-person partnerships.
Many kids getting hooked on p0rn before they even go on a first date.
Relationships ruined. Lives falling apart.
Thankfully, recovery IS possible.
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