Hormones slown down? Or Nofap?

I remember the first time I attempted nofap, at 28, I was constantly thinking about sex. I didn’t ejaculate for 3 1/2 months and had constant throbbing erections and sexual thoughts. However, now only 2 years later, I am on nofap and not “struggling” at all. I have no desire to “relieve” myself by means of masturbation.

If I didn’t masturbate for a week that felt like forever and I was really horny the whole time. I feel like at 30 my hormones have finally slown down and that is probably a blessing in disguise, especially as I am an incel.

I’m on that regime too and in the latter half of my thirties.

I find/found masturbation to be kinda depressing, but yeah, the urge has dissipated as time’s gone on. ‘Dissipated’ as in the (strong) urge to masturbate is further apart than it used to be. Having said that, before I found out about the NoFap concept I did occasionally go without masturbation for varying times. Weeks - months apart.

I can’t be the only one who has this sad feeling at the point of ejaculation? I’m not articulate enough to describe it, but I often start laughing, almost laughing at the fact the sensation is much weaker than expected. Combine that with a sad afterglow.

I will say I’m kinda an incel too and even with the deleterious modifying affect of pornography I still have the urge for sex. I think about it everyday and it’s a significant mental occupation.

Hey there, thanks for the reply.

It’s strange, the first time I tried nofap at 28 years old, I couldn’t stop thinking about sex. Before I did nofap, even going a week without was a long time and I had various pains in my nether regions, presumably from all the build up. However now just a couple of years later, it seems that nature has taken it’s course with regards to ageing and my hormones have indeed slown down.

It’s bittersweet, because the whole time from 18-25 I never even had sex, let alone a girlfriend and since 25 I’ve only had sex with prostitutes. So I never really got to experience sex when I was all “fired up” in my youth, back when I could masturbate several times in a single day.

On the otherhand, it does mean that I am less distracted by sex and can pursue hobbies more.

On finding masturbation depressing, no. I always found it a relief when I was younger, my penis was just too horny and I had to relieve it somehow. I’ve always had intense orgasms from ejaculation, so I can’t relate to the feeling being “less than expected”, sorry.

From our description though, it sounds like something that might happen when you get older.

Hi guys,

I’m trying to leave masturbation and porn. I’m addicted to it and it’s effecting my EQ. I even suffer from ED, it was so severe that I couldn’t have an erection even with injections. Thanks god I’m better, I still need pills, but not always. I have some threads about that if you are interested.

Because of that I did a lot of research and read many books to understand sexual desire and how to control it. I always recommend this book: “Your Brain on Porn: Internet Pornography and the Emerging Science of Addiction”. Not only to discuss addiction, but to understand how our brains and bodies work over stimulation…

Reading your posts I suspect something, tell me if it fits in your lives.

I believe that both of you watched porn since teenagers. It kept going and going which may have triggered in your brains that women are easy to find. One of the lessons I took reading that book is, our brains doesn’t know the difference between a real woman, porn images/videos, imagination… So if you are masturbating, it’s like really having sex to your brain.

When you stop feeding your brain, it has to adapt. That’s why we get more energy to work on different hobbies… For some guys, addicted like me, it also cause depression till the brain learns how to adapt.

So, I believe that porn kept us in a sexual trap. We lost the normal grow from teens to adults. We masturbate a lot because of a hormone explosion when we were young but we kept this behaviour because we are surrounded by sex, making our brains think that our lives are a sexual party, if you wanna sex, open your browser… It’s not hormones anymore, it’s the environment.

When we stop masturbation and porn, we got aroused by our environment, real woman. Of course we need to relief from times to times, that we got super horny, but it’s just not like it was before. It should be a slow process between teenage urge to adult urge. I believe you (and me) skipped that.

But believe me. If you go back to porn, your needs to masturbate, your urge, will come back. Our brains are already trained for that.

But I can’t go back to porn. It’s destroying my life (ED SUCKS), and I feel I’m masturbating to a guy fucking a hot woman when I’m fucking nobody. Most of times watching a scene that makes me feel bad with my body. A girl screaming with a wonderful smile “oh I feel sooo streched, so loose” and cumming like that is the real pleasure, that I’m not capable of.

So, I used to adore porn. Now I can’t stand to it. I want the real thing! I can’t just watch another guy doing the best part of life while I’m alone at home.

What do you think?

I used to consume porn when I was younger, yes. But since about 25 when I started using prostitutes I would much rather have had “the real thing”. But even without porn I used to get horny enough that I could masturbate and cum within 10 seconds before I already had an erection.

I didn’t even need to look at anything. This was as recently as 18 months ago.

I’ve only had ED like issues since I started nofap and stopped using my cock on a regular basis. I also think this is due to aging and my hormones slowing down.

But to answer your post, no, I don’t think it is anything to do with not watching porn. The primal desire to masturbate and think about sex/women seems to have reduced in the last 2 years.

Try to find some information about flatline. It’s a common body reaction from nofap.

And yes, age counts, but you are young.

Hello Brothers,

After reading through all the post quickly, I would say you are most likely not eating/supplementing some of the things that you need. I’m turning 32 and God Damn, if I don’t jerk off for more then 1 week, I go nuts and my girl knows it. This is what I take from all the basic research that I’ve done for myself over the years.

Diet - 2500 - 3000 calories
Since I’m actively PEing, I want to make sure that I’m getting enough calories for such growth. I noticed for myself that when I’m restricting calories (cutting) my EQ tanks and I feel smaller. However, some other members might chime in to say otherwise.

Supplements
Vitamin D3 - 20,000 IUs - 30,000 IUs daily for like 2 weeks and cycle off. This is not as strict to be taking something everyday for me
Tongkat Ali - 4 Days on 3 Days off (I take these at night since most of the HGH is released in your sleep.)
Black Maca - This is what I take when I’m running out of Tongkat Ali or I want to fully take this and pause on the Tongkat Ali. (Tongkat Ali is pricey as hell)
Multivitamins - I take this to fill in the holes in my diet since I’m training as well
Swedish Flower Pollen - This was just a week ago, and holy crap the amount of pre-cum was quite ridiculous

Sleep
I make sure to get 7 - 8 hours of sleep every night or else my gym session or libido takes a hit the next day for sure. Since I work everyday I can’t afford to get sick so sleep is the #1 priority.

Anyways guys, take this for what it is

I went with the prostitute again. It seems that after a period of nofap my dick forgets how to have a proper erection and has to be woken back up. The first time I went with the prostitute my unit didn’t seem to get to it’s full size, I would estimate it scraped just over 6” BPEL and a thinner girth than usual.

This time around, I played with her first and I must say, by the time I got my dick out for a blowjob, it looked like I was packing a whopper! I even noticed the prostitute a bit surprised and I think she must have thought “I’m sure it wasn’t that big last time!”. I would estimate my full 7” bpel which I normally only get when I wake up in the morning.

So on a related note, does anyone notice that they’re size is heavily related to EQ? My EQ seems to need time to get fully engorged. It’s as though to begin with, the tissues are stiff and full size can’t be reached until after a few minutes when the tissues have loosened up a bit.

Similarly, I notice that my unit seems to look bigger when jelqing than when I have an “arousal erection”. The arousal erection seems to take a few minutes to hit full size, before which it seems smaller and stiffer.