TexasFan Wrote:It's been three days for me and I'm already feeling kinda miserable. I was a little more energetic than normal yesterday but today I feel a little down. Don't know why. I'm horny and the thought of watching and jacking off is pretty tempting. But I'm sticking with this till the end. This is my first time ever doing something like this and I feel like all the laziness/procrastination that I've done though out all my life has been to jacking off on a regular basis. I hope this is gonna help.
Hey TexasFan
Have you educated yourself already about the withdrawal symptoms?
Go back earlier in this thread (I think my second post), and you'll see what I'm talking about. You'll also understand the science (or theory) behind porn consumption.
This will definetly help you to keep on track!
crazyhorse Wrote:Hey TexasFan
Have you educated yourself already about the withdrawal symptoms?
Go back earlier in this thread (I think my second post), and you'll see what I'm talking about. You'll also understand the science (or theory) behind porn consumption.
This will definetly help you to keep on track!
Thanks man. Yeah.. The feeling of being down and horniness is not the most pleasurable feeling in the world. I have been meditating since yesterday too. It's helping out a bit.
I have been waking up the last five nights with morning wood and vivid sex dreams. Its kinda getting old honestly and I hope it stops soon. I am doing both no masturbation and no porn though, so maybe I have just gone too long without coming.
Also, not sure if has been brought up, but have you guys seen this article on the benefits on masturbation?
http://news.menshealth.com/masturbate-ev...011/12/29/
I personally have found that I am having large benefits to my drive (creative, athletic, and for picking up girls) now that I have taken a break from masturbation. But it is interesting to note that there are benefits to it..
Day 5.
I've been very tired lately, due to not getting good sleep. No, it's nothing to do with needing to jerk it to fall asleep. Noisy neighbors, and drunk dials. :/
A sexual thought did pop into my head, but it didn't stay there for long. I keep reminding myself that it's just a chemical response: dopamine. It's just a hormone. But, again, it's normal for me to go 5 days without any release, so it's not a big deal to me. I know I feel flat-lined, and now that I've read about it, I feel much better about just letting it happen. It feels good. I feel calm. I feel like I'm not shackled by my libido. My goal is to go 3 weeks without PMO. I know it's not THAT long, but I've been watching porn for about once a week for the last year anyhow, so I don't feel as "addicted to porn" as I used to be.
PS: whoever posted the "Call on Me" music video...you suck.
Just finished reading David Foster Wallace's essay on the porn industry's awards, the AVNAs. It is hilarious and although he's quite clearly disgusted, horrified, and cynical the whole way through, I think he manages to really paint it as what it is, and give you some stuff worth thinking about. The bit where he mentions a 60 year old cop who enjoys porn because of the opportunities it allows for really seeing the emotions of the actors really made me think about the nature of acting.
The essay is called Big Red Son and you can find it in 'Consider the Lobster', or probably via google. Recommend it if you want a wider perspective on porn and the industry.
I stopped doing this challenge about a week ago and have been looking at porn since. Last night on NYE I met a cute girl at a party and went home with her and I could not get an erection for the life of me. I think I need to stop watching porn again. I'm really noticing the negative effects of porn now.
Yes I didnt notice the effects porn and masturbation had on me until after I first quit and then started again.
I'm still in the race, more or less. Jerked off to a girl who did very nice things on cam for me. It's a girl I've dated so I'm not sure if it's allowed.
It's easier again since I came. I really couldnt deal with the horniness after not orgasming for 3 weeks. I wasn't functioning properly anymore.
CHB2 Wrote:I have been waking up the last five nights with morning wood and vivid sex dreams. Its kinda getting old honestly and I hope it stops soon. I am doing both no masturbation and no porn though, so maybe I have just gone too long without coming.
Also, not sure if has been brought up, but have you guys seen this article on the benefits on masturbation? http://news.menshealth.com/masturbate-ev...011/12/29/
I personally have found that I am having large benefits to my drive (creative, athletic, and for picking up girls) now that I have taken a break from masturbation. But it is interesting to note that there are benefits to it..
I'm still not where I want to be. My first weeks of no porn: I woke up three times each night everytime with morning wood, I was also very agressive and competitive. This is a good sign. Every male has to have agression in him, but porn has numbed this for a large part. Now I'm still rebooting. Meaning that your brain is returning to his normal level of dopamine sensitivity.
I don't find the findings on prostate cancer very convincing in my opinion. Go check
http://www.yourbrainonporn.com, they have done far better research.
Arikado Wrote:Day 5.
I've been very tired lately, due to not getting good sleep. No, it's nothing to do with needing to jerk it to fall asleep. Noisy neighbors, and drunk dials. :/
A sexual thought did pop into my head, but it didn't stay there for long. I keep reminding myself that it's just a chemical response: dopamine. It's just a hormone. But, again, it's normal for me to go 5 days without any release, so it's not a big deal to me. I know I feel flat-lined, and now that I've read about it, I feel much better about just letting it happen. It feels good. I feel calm. I feel like I'm not shackled by my libido. My goal is to go 3 weeks without PMO. I know it's not THAT long, but I've been watching porn for about once a week for the last year anyhow, so I don't feel as "addicted to porn" as I used to be.
PS: whoever posted the "Call on Me" music video...you suck.
didn't do anything to me body. Flatlining
Oh yeah
Tim Wrote:Just finished reading David Foster Wallace's essay on the porn industry's awards, the AVNAs. It is hilarious and although he's quite clearly disgusted, horrified, and cynical the whole way through, I think he manages to really paint it as what it is, and give you some stuff worth thinking about. The bit where he mentions a 60 year old cop who enjoys porn because of the opportunities it allows for really seeing the emotions of the actors really made me think about the nature of acting.
The essay is called Big Red Son and you can find it in 'Consider the Lobster', or probably via google. Recommend it if you want a wider perspective on porn and the industry.
I think the porn business is a very shady one, while having the image of "glamour" it isn't something that I would like to be part of.
if you're interested you should look up "Louis Theroux series on the porn industry". I also have a link to a women who used to be a pornstar and who now owns a rehabilitation center for former porn stars.
Mike Wrote:I stopped doing this challenge about a week ago and have been looking at porn since. Last night on NYE I met a cute girl at a party and went home with her and I could not get an erection for the life of me. I think I need to stop watching porn again. I'm really noticing the negative effects of porn now.
For me porn killed my sex drive towards real life women. I couldn't enjoy oral sex due to the insensitivity. If you have given up, you may want to install K9 or some other porn blocker. The only times I've relapsed, was when there was a computer around without this program. But at this moment I should be safe. My goal is to go 2 weeks without MO (masturbation - orgasm).
Halo Effect Wrote:Yes I didnt notice the effects porn and masturbation had on me until after I first quit and then started again.
I'm still in the race, more or less. Jerked off to a girl who did very nice things on cam for me. It's a girl I've dated so I'm not sure if it's allowed. It's easier again since I came. I really couldnt deal with the horniness after not orgasming for 3 weeks. I wasn't functioning properly anymore.
3 weeks is already amazing! Honestly I don't you should feel bad to do it after 3 weeks
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I would like to make this my goal: to only have an orgasm when it is done by a women. What I sometimes find funny is that people seem to measure their sex drive by the ammount of times they want to masturbate or can masturbate daily. But I've read reports from masturbation addicats and porn addicts that exceeds that ammount of times to a great extent. So this argument doesn't seem convincing to me.
I've seen great results in the first 5 days of my no Porn. So I'm sure that the future should bring me a lot of positives. That's the thought that I'm holding on to. To be honest "sexual anxiety" and "apathy" were my only issues around women. In those 5 days I also approached women and when I think back, everytime that this happened, it was when I havn't looked at porn for a day.
Sex with a random last night. Sex across the board has improved since I started the challenge. My horniness is back under control, but my dick is far more responsive and sensitive now. I'm up and ready to go in a moment's notice and I actually sometimes finish fairly quickly, whereas before it always took me forever to finish. Hell, in the past, I often wouldn't even finish at all. But now that's almost never a question. The end result is that sex happens easier and is more enjoyable, both with girls I've known for a while, and girls I just met.
Gotta say that I'm finding girls more beautiful than before too... not like I'm chasing fatties now, but the little flaws or nuances that most girls have, whereas I used to nitpick at them and they seemed like a big deal, I find many of them sexy now.
All in all, these are some pretty welcome changes. And even though I'm only like 37 days in or something like that, I think I'm going to make this permanent. The few times I have looked at porn over the last month, its appeal has simply not been the same as before. So I see no reason to ever go back.
Had my first craving for porn on new years night, got home really horny...
There's probably some lesson on this story...
[video=youtube;Yfe_OE22ZSE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yfe_OE22ZSE[/video]
Caved in at 8 days. I stupidly watched a clip of Keyra Augustina, and that was it.
I googled her. You are forgiven.
Alvar Wrote:There's probably some lesson on this story...
For me the lesson is: No rejection can ever be as embarrassing as having to call the fire department because I got stuck while humping a park bench :-)
Having said that, I failed the challenge again when I had nothing to do yesterday evening than to surf the net, which brought me to a porn site. Was about two weeks since my last fail.
But I am starting over again, not watching porn is such a time saver; and not masturbating seems to help my confidence and raise my activity level and motivation (not only with women).
Arikado Wrote:PS: whoever posted the "Call on Me" music video...you suck.
Am still porn free. And I have no desire to watch porn, that's the most surprising fact. My goals is now: No MO for a week constantly.
Had a daytime date yesterday, was horny as hell after that. Was very physically aggressive and even told her "shut up" when she interrupted me. I think she smiled after that...
I just had a date as well. My first ever internet date!
Last week I watched no porn and didn't masturbate. I was pleased with how social and confident I felt and with how my voice sounded this morning. Date went pretty well. We end up at my place and start kissing. She had told me she liked being dominant (in bed). Which I don't like and pretty much ignore. So we kiss. I push her against a door and hold her hands and place them above her head. She resists. After a few seconds of that I let go and she walks off, pretty emotional. My dominance scared her. What the heck... That pretty much ended things for the night. I brought her to the train station and we made out there and she got very turned on again, but this girl is not a match for me I'm afraid. :/
gabe Wrote:On masturbating: http://yourbrainonporn.com/weird-masturbation-habits
According to the article, frequent masturbation is just a phenomenon of the hyperstimulating, among other characteristics, environment of Western culture.
Interesting concept... Although with the amount of porn that comes from Japan I hardly doubt it is only the environment of Western culture.
ha the world champion of masturbation is from Japan.
Take that Western culture
haha
@Alvar, what a sad guy
. I loved the way he screamed the entire time haha
Started the challenge December 29. I just went on a date with a beautiful girl who has caught me off guard by just grabbing me and making out with me right after lunch so I have HUGE motivation to do this now.
bwong Wrote:Interesting concept... Although with the amount of porn that comes from Japan I hardly doubt it is only the environment of Western culture.
Modern culture, whatever.
Well I just caved after 2 weeks
Probably the longest I've gone without porn since I first discovered it. Back to square 1. Hopefully I can get to at least a month this time.
Am still porn free, libido returned, flatliness and the withdrawal symptoms are gone. Oh and I am far more interested in real life women, having now fantasies all the time
The funny thing is that I don't feel any urge to return to porn, lol.