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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,

@justindubinmd Hmm? This is confusing because we think that masturbation is generally healthy! We're a peer support website for porn addiction recovery. Internet porn didn't exist 150 years ago. We're certainly not against moderate masturbation. Our actual views are at NoFap.com/about

Nofap and retention misinformation goes back 150 years! Looks funny and hard to believe presented this way, but why do so many people believe in it now, 150 years later with the same lack of evidence? Simple, the false advertising has gotten slicker with social media

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Hi @TwitrHagen, Just following up on this because we are still waiting to hear from you regarding NPR's editors and legal department. Interestingly, you ghosted on our request but appear to still be in touch with porn industry associates (and their friends) about this matter. We find this concerning, as we would really like to be left alone, not to mention the breaches of contract that are occurring. We would also like to take this opportunity to ask you about this prior Twitter post by a porn industry associate, along with the subsequent repost by the "director of public affairs" for the porn industry's primary lobbying/trade group ("Free Speech Coalition"), recruiting interview subjects for a hit piece about our website (while simultaneously misrepresenting us as "anti-porn" or "anti-masturbation" - as an addiction recovery website, we are neither). Were they recruiting people for your piece that their colleague initiated with you, or for another piece they've placed? We ask because someone claiming you interviewed them responded to the aforementioned porn industry recruitment post. We can also see that this same porn industry associate ("Free Speech Coalition"/XVideos/Pornhub's self-described "lead expert" in Texas age verification litigation, paid to deny porn addiction for xHamster/Stripchat, endorsed by Pornhub, an industry insider/friend of executives, who has engaged in extensive unethical conduct targeting us and others, etc.) just restarted openly recruiting for your piece. We have this all preserved using archive software. Maybe they'll be more discrete for the next hit piece (usually, they are way more discrete). Are you comfortable that porn industry associates are recruiting interviewees for your article, in conjunction with the fact that your article was initiated and sourced by their colleague? It seems dubious that @NPR, a highly reputable outlet, would be comfortable with this level of apparent cooperation with the pornography industry's primary lobbying/trade group and its associates to target an impecunious porn addiction recovery website with a piece predicated on disinformation and breach of a contract. 🤔 As fans of NPR, we feel like this sort of stuff is beneath the dignity of the outlet, and it's a shame and frankly disturbing to see this happening. It's also highly concerning that you have a history of uncritically promulgating disinformation originating from a highly uncredible source closely associated with the porn industry, who has a long history of lawsuits / legal losses / settlements / retractions / harassment / false reports / hoaxes (one of the most amusing is they reported a researcher to his employer for sending them threats that were "tracked" to his office but he was actually out of the country at the time, or another time they claimed to be getting death threats as a result of a fundraiser ~22 minutes before the fundraiser was public, or that time they claimed a popular author in another state was somehow physically stalking them while wearing a sleeping bag, or that other time they settled a lawsuit and issued a retraction after falsely claiming a reputable neurosurgeon stalked / threatened / harassed them, there are many other similar examples) / defamation targeting many people. It does seem that nearly anyone who publicly talks about, researches, or provides resources for problematic pornography use/porn addiction/CSBD, who supports the behavioral addiction model for PPU, is targeted by this individual and/or their associates. You also previously published an article purporting that porn addiction doesn't exist, somehow overlooking the many clinicians and researchers who support the behavioral addiction model (for example, thelancet.com/journals/lanps…), which seems unbecoming: is it possible that you have been deceived by porn industry associates? Your source's conduct is quite disturbing, but it's also disturbing to see unsuspecting people tricked into buying into such nonsense. Quitting or reducing problematic pornography use is not legitimately controversial (note the World Health Organization recognizes compulsive sexual behavior disorder). We aren't interested in culture wars or controversy and just want to exist as a peer support website for porn addiction recovery. These days, we are seldom mentioned outside of hit pieces placed by the porn industry associates you're in touch with, not to mention the Wikipedia astroturfing (for example, your source appears to have operated over 80 Wikipedia sockpuppet accounts thus far) and the vast amount of other unethical conduct that has occurred, targeting many people who provide resources for (therapists, researchers, doctors, authors, peer support, etc.) or publicly discusses (journalists, media outlets, recovery advocates, content creators, people in recovery, etc.) porn addiction. This conduct doesn't only harm us (our ability to operate has been suppressed for years), but there are probably millions of people out there who could benefit from factual information about porn addiction, such as interviews with non-industry-connected scientists and clinicians (who, generally speaking, can't afford publicity services) about problematic pornography use and its connection to adverse effects consistent with the behavioral addiction model, rather than porn industry disinformation. It would certainly be a disservice to the public to publish yet another porn industry-initiated piece parroting the same old smears, science denialism, and misleading talking points. Again, we are imploring that you (and the porn industry associates you're in touch with) just leave us alone to exist in peace. This is a very serious matter, and due to our well-warranted concerns that you are in ongoing contact with a porn industry associate involved in reprehensible conduct (for one example of many, after obsessively cyberbullying/defaming a person to death for nearly a decade on a near-daily basis (tweeting defamatory statements about their targets up to 150+ tweets in just one day alone), they celebrated the death on social media and took steps to harass the bereaved friends and family members), the porn industry's involvement with your article, along with other circumstances (such as a contractual agreement that would be breached), we must again respectfully request that you put us in touch with NPR's editors and legal department. We look forward to providing the NPR team with further information, including ample evidence to back up all of our assertions, at that time. Let's take a moment to put this into perspective. Here we are as a peer support website for behavioral addiction recovery, actively at risk of shutting down due to a lack of resources to continue operating and extensive porn industry harassment/disinformation. Recovering from behavioral addiction is an utterly uncontroversial subject (is quitting or reducing problematic gambling contentious?). The porn industry is endeavoring to disinform about porn addiction recovery with stuff like "anti-masturbation", "anti-porn", "anti-sex", "religiously based", "political", "profiteers", "conservative sexual values/sexual shame", denial of the extensive research on problematic pornography use, conflation with "semen retention", conspiracy theories that porn addicts on recovery forums are actually bots, that people telling minors not to use porn is harmful, that quitting or reducing porn use is somehow harmful, or even violent/misogynistic/otherwise discriminatory/extremist/terroristic, going to great lengths to endlessly harass and suppress those creating recovery resources. Recovering porn addicts are being targeted like politicians. Due to such conduct, nobody from our website has done any media interview (or has even done so much as to speak at a conference) in over four years (these days, we hardly even tweet or publish any content whatsoever), and we're stuck constantly dealing with their harassment and smears day in and day out rather than being able to devote that time towards developing peer support resources to help people. And yet here you are working on a piece with the very same porn industry associates who have been targeting us for years with hit pieces and extensive disinformation, initiated by an individual collaborating with the porn industry ("Free Speech Coalition" and MindGeek/Pornhub) who has a criminal conviction for stalking someone (specifically, "domestic violence-violation of protection order") who cyberbullied a porn addiction recovery advocate to death. This same porn industry associate has targeted many other people with defamatory conduct (including many false reports with employers, law enforcement, oversight agencies, etc.), was accused by a porn industry member of collaborating on their "research" with the FSC, publicly purported to be on the board of a porn performer union "to advocate for the health and other interests of adult performers" and maintains many other connections to the industry, declared bankruptcy while solvent to obstruct discovery/litigation, attempted to trademark the name of an existing porn addiction recovery website (while collaborating with MindGeek/Pornhub), works with and was funded (over 1.6 million dollars) by an infamous organization recently indicted by the federal government (including for "sexual abuse"), and is a pathological defamer (see legal victories such as their anti-SLAPP loss and don't forget to Google-search " site:yourbrainonporn.com" for some background information). And that's just the tip of the iceberg. And this porn industry associate who initiated your piece is collaborating with MindGeek (the owner of Pornhub) to target porn addiction recovery resources such as us, which was just revealed in court documents (see 8:21-cv-00338-CJC-ADS Docket Item 145) to have hosted child sexual abuse material, not reporting it to law enforcement for years, not reviewing reported videos until they got 15 flags, and having only one moderator go through a backlog of over 700,000 reported videos. But, sure, let's just do a piece sourced by this same well-resourced (they own one of the most popular websites in the world) unethical porn company's collaborators and lobbying group, in breach of a contractual agreement, targeting an impecunious porn addiction recovery peer support website that isn't currently engaged in public discourse and can barely afford to stay online. Shouldn't MindGeek, their lobbying group, and their associates pay more attention to the sexual exploitation problems present in their industry rather than working to get hit pieces placed targeting struggling porn addiction recovery resources? What a world we live in. Kind regards. P.S. Since the porn industry associate claims that he is helping to find people for you to interview, here is a quick list of some folks to get you started: - John Adler - DJ Burr - Daniel Caldwell - Jason Carroll - Stefanie Carnes - Noah Church - Diana Davison - Gabe Deem - Gail Dines - Andrew Doan - Megan Fox - Geoff Goodman - Bradley Green - Paula Hall - Linda Hatch - Donald Hilton - Alexandra Katehakis - Todd Love - MDPI - Darryl Mead - Laila Mickelwait - Aaron Minc - Clay Olsen - Jessica Pin - Rory Reid - Mary Sharpe - Arion Sprague - Jay Stringer - Liz Walker - Rebecca Watson (from Skepchick) P.S. Also, we won't be on Twitter too much until about two weeks from now. Please tell your porn industry contacts to leave us alone with this nonsense until at least then; thanks. Shabbat Shalom!

Thanks for the prompt response! As mentioned, if you insist on continuing with this porn industry-initiated piece that would be published in breach of a contract, we can provide on-the-record statements with the involvement of @NPR's legal department and editors to ensure everything is above-board. Since your piece was initiated by a close associate of MindGeek (the owner of Pornhub) and the porn industry's primary lobbying/trade group, "Free Speech Coalition," and you have a history of working with this same individual, editor/legal involvement would be warranted. With that in mind, please kindly provide contact information to the editor(s) and NPR's legal department - and we can start a group email conversation about this! Please feel free to provide us with their contact information via email (contact@NoFap.com) privately rather than posting publicly here. We can fill NPR in on further details at that time, such as how your primary source is collaborating with MindGeek/Pornhub to get pieces such as yours published about us, and how cyberbullying led to the death of a porn addiction recovery advocate. In the meantime, we have a question for you to ponder. Is it ethical to publish a hit piece in a prestigious national outlet, targeting an impecunious addiction recovery peer support website, predicated on a "lead" from a close associate of the lucrative and powerful porn industry? Kind regards.

Hi @NoFap ! I’m very happy to set up an interview for “formal on-the-record statements” and was always planning to reach out. Would love to see the information you’d like to share with us and learn more about your operation and funding. You can reach me at contactme@npr.org ...

To those who need to see this: There are better days ahead for you.

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.

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 " 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!

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 " 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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@GVgamete You're coming off as hyperbolically hostile there. We're unsure what about porn addiction recovery is so upsetting to you. Anyway, we wish you all the best in your future Twitter trolling.

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.

@PicturesFoIder Porn guys

@Road2Recovery11 We've wondered about that and are experimenting.

@NoFap Serious question, is everyone deliberately misspelling p0rn to avoid algo shadow banning?

@Nichola77357114 @pixie_pear WTF? Please treat other people, even those you disagree with, with a basic level of respect and cordiality.

@pixie_pear @NoFap We ain’t buying the only fans bitch. And take off that fucking makeup.

You CAN quit porn. You CAN live a better life.

Think about something - even just a small step - you can do TODAY to improve your life. Then actually do it.