Gabe Deem: Founder of Reboot Nation, Activist, & Former Porn Addict
Consider Before Consuming
Fight the New Drug
4.8 • 779 Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2020
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Trigger Warning: During this conversation we discuss mainstream internet porn, porn addiction, porn-induced erectile dysfunction, sexuality, suicide ideation, and some graphic language is used. Listener discretion is advised.
Like most adolescents in the world today, Gabe was exposed to hardcore porn well before the age of 18. What started as a habit driven by curiosity and a growing normalized culture around porn spiraled into a full-blown compulsive habit. Without expecting any sort of negative effects in his relationships as a result of his years-long porn habit, as a twenty-something, he started having trouble getting and maintaining an erection in real-life sexual encounters. Looking for answers, he found thousands of other young guys in online forums talking about the exact same issues he was having. Inspired to make a difference, change the conversation, and remove shame and secrecy among young people who struggled with porn and its proven negative effects, Gabe started Reboot Nation. It’s a site where anyone can go and join a supportive community while they “reboot” their brains and regain optimal sexual health by ditching porn for good. Listen to Gabe tell podcast host, Garrett Jonsson, about how pornography impacted his ability to be intimate with partners in real life, and how he’s since been able to create a supportive community of recovering porn addicts.
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| 0:00.0 | How can pornography impact you, your loved ones, and the world around you? |
| 0:07.0 | Discover the answer for yourself in our free three-part documentary series, Brain Heart World. |
| 0:13.0 | In three 30-minute episodes, this docu-series dives into how pornography impacts individuals, relationships, and society. |
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| 0:26.3 | on this heavy topic. |
| 0:27.7 | In each episode, you'll hear from experts who share research on porn's harms, as well as |
| 0:31.9 | true stories from people who have been impacted personally by pornography. |
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| 0:40.2 | brainheartworld.org. |
| 0:44.3 | An older guy who grew up, you know, using a Playboy magazine where the novelty and shock |
| 0:50.5 | and surprise wears off when you're done turning the pages and you have to wait another |
| 0:54.1 | month before you get anything novel. The stimulation and the level of... and shock and surprise wears off when you're done turning the pages and you have to wait another |
| 0:54.1 | month before you get anything novel. The stimulation and the level of conditioning can't even compare |
| 1:00.4 | to what internet porn can do to a young person. And so these young guys that grew up, like myself, |
| 1:06.5 | wired deeply to internet porn. I was watching compilation videos in high school where the clip changed every two seconds. |
| 1:13.6 | I was seeing a drastic angle in the highlights of best parts of porn clips. |
| 1:17.6 | And I'd watch that for, you know, 10, 30 minutes to an hour. |
| 1:21.6 | So I would see more naked people in 10 minutes in that session in 2005, then, you know, our ancestors would see an |
| 1:30.2 | entire lifetime. |
| 1:33.8 | My name is Garrett Johnson, and you're listening to Consider Before Consuming, a podcast by Fight |
| 1:40.2 | the New Drug. |
| 1:41.4 | And in case you're new here, Fight the new drug is a non-religious and |
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