11 Months Porn Free!

I honestly don’t think about the time anymore but I just focus on other things like PE gains and bodybuilding. Once you know 100% that plrn is the cause you no longer want to ever look at it again. It is not a struggle to avoid watching it because I know the consequences. I don’t know how many people here ever experienced porn induced ed but having it in your early 20s is one of the most depressing things. I’m just happy I finally realized that it was actually the porn that caused my severe ed. I went years wondering what the problem could be as I was always one that watched what I ate and worked out regularly. But there is a light at the end of the tunnel and once you go long enough everything will return back to normal. Women no longer have to be “pornstar hot” to turn me on anymore. My brain is sensitized to the real thing and I’ve never felt better.

Hi there. During this 11 month period of abstinence from porn did you masturbate at all? Or no masturbation, porn, edging etc for 11 months?

Hadn’t seen a reply from OP but wanted to take a stab from the perspective of a recovering sex addict who’s done a lot of work on understanding what Rahman810 alludes to.

I think he was referring to the mechanism of how gazing at beautiful women (even those that are partially or fully clothed), causes our brains to release significant amounts of dopamine (which for any that don’t know, is the reward system that makes us enjoy looking at them). Over time this causes our brains to trim back our dopamine receptors in the presence of the over-abundance of dopamine should we take things too far. In turn when we look for more imagery (in person or on our phone’s screen), it’s harder to get the same feeling because the reward system is being modified & sensitized by our actions and we have to look longer or for more variety or more whatever.

The point is that all of this is causing releases of and therefore depletion of dopamine which creates and sustains an imbalance that typically drives us to want more & more which in my case, eventually wiped out normal sexual response. When this advances far enough, you’re really lucky if it doesn’t lead to an addiction escalating to constant porn use and/or crossing the flesh line which is not so good if you’re in a closed relationship.

Anyway, good luck to those that are fighting not to use porn or give into it’s cousins. I just hit the 2 week point of no-porn (and trying not to lust after every woman walking down the hall in front of me) partly in response to this great thread.

Hey buddy!!
Im going to simplify:

You started another thread on the same topic: Help me! ED. 20 years old! All PI’s!
So you may not get a lot of responses on this thread.
Also, I see that you have asked the Spanish-speakers about this. Did you get any worthwhile advice from them? I am sorry to hear about your condition.

I also had a bit problem with porn. I watched it 2,3 hours a day and just masturbated. It was becoming an addiction, hell it was an addiction. I realized that I have a problem, when my EQ got bad, few times my willy did not come up when I was with my girlfriend, so I look it up online, what may cause it and found some no fap, no porn community they say porn and constant masturbation hurts EQ. So they say no masturbating and no porn just sex with girls will help with that. With better EQ they are claiming there are other benefits, I forgot what.. So I wanted to try and see so I stopped from that day, its been almost a year and I will never look back.
Every thing is back to normal even better, I’m again chasing my girl around the house to hamp her crazy like I’m 18. 😂
Now see how porn was a complete waste of time in my life, I’m so sad I can’t take it back and do something else.
It helped me a lot, so if someone has similar problems like me try it maybe it will help you too.