How erection works on the brain: Motivation, Life Style, Dopamine and Porn.

Quality work here dude. Very fact based, respect that.

I have been through this and it works. I have had a few slips of the waggon and when I did it set me back weeks of improvements so shows me that this does work.

I am at the stage where PE doesn’t have a negative effect and I’m even using it to train my brain to respond more to mental imagery and thoughts of my partner.

Thanks Hame,

Being able to share experiences and discuss is a great opportunity for all of us to learn. I really want to start my PE journey, but, right now, I can’t even jelq. First goal is get rid of the addiction and conquer natural erections with a good morning wood. Then, I can PE.

Keep at it, your story sounds like this is deep rooted. Have you done any CBT or affirmation work to help reset your thought paths?

I have done this for Anxiety and it helped a lot

Ok, I will do my laste PE exercise today to see what happens, and gonna stop.

No, actually I don’t know what it is. Any recommendation?

Hope you are successful!

I’m gonna report my own journey through nofap at this thread:
Curing ED Through NoFap - My Progress

There I will share more of my experiences, challenges, wins, losses…

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. Through a combination of talking things through (even with yourself outloud), some self analytical exercises and looking at your response patterns it tried to teach you to intercept your negative behaviour and promote positive behaviour and reactions. There is a lot of online resources for free. As with everything, it’s a tool and not a cure all

Thanks for the tip! I’ll look after

Thank you to the OP for sharing his experience. I too have been affected by this and have already started seeing the benefits of rebooting my brain.

I think this affects more men than we realize and either most don’t wanna talk about it or they just don’t believe that anything so seemingly normal as watching naked women have sex on a digital screen could be impacting their sex life and heck their entire life as much as it does. All these men under 40 messing around with supplements and ED drugs and usually the problem is just the porn.

Any man on this forum who is having problems with erection quality, ED, depression, anxiety, social confidence etc should start with this book ”Your brain on porn” before you go on to self diagnose other things or let doctors prescribe medication that you may or may not need. Reading this book is one of two things that changed my life forever. I can’t begin to do it justice.

Hey rush9mota, I’m also doing nofap right now because of my porn addiction, and I have some questions.
First, I’m watching no porn or sexual images or texts at all, I’m trying not to imagine sexual things, I’m trying to forget even my cock is there(this is not very successful.).

Q1. Because I’m on nofap for about 25 days, my libido is very high and even watching girls with sexy outfits on the road makes me horny. It feels similar to watching sexual images on web. Is it ok?? I’m trying my best not to stare at these girls outside, but they are everywhere..

Q2. I’m confused that which one is actually the problem. High dopamine itself is a problem? Or excessive secretion of dopamine (because of porn) makes my brain resist(desensitized?) on dopamine is a problem? Do I have to stop trying to rise my dopamine level?(by setting daily goals, meditations, good supplements, etc.) Or just strict nofap is OK?

I know you weren’t asking me directly but if you don’t mind I’m going to offer my experience to your question.

I would not worry about what happens in your pants when you see something I’m in real life such as the hot women. Of course I would stay out of strip clubs and things like that but it sounds like you’re doing everything you need to do as far as staying away from the false digital reality. Eventually your body will regulate itself Don’t be surprised if you start having massive morning wood strong erections in the middle of the night and the return of wet dreams

Congratulations on your success so far and be aware that at least for me the most difficult part was between 30 and 90 days. Stay strong

Your second question is too scientific for me but I would read the book if I were you that I recommended it explains a lot of that stuff.

Thank you so much!! I’m looking forward to reach the next steps(like flatline, then rock hard morning woods.). Also I’m reading book named “Your brain on porn” but English is not my primary language, so it’s slow..

Anyway thank you for your answer!

Funny story: at this year’s PornHub awards ceremony, the awards given were shaped as the serotonin molecule.

Hi Samuron,

Sorry for my late response. I’ve been avoiding thunders because of my addiction. There is a lot of naked women photos here…

I don’t know the answers but let me try.

First of all, congratulations for having 25 days of no FAP. I’m so addicted that I couldn’t have a couple of days yet. It’s good to know you are as horny as a teenager, I hope I can get there one day. Maybe you can try to transform this in a sex opportunity. Having sex is the real deal, so go for it. Real sex is allowed and may relieve your constant arousal.

If I understood right, only excessive secretion of dopamine is a problem. Keep rising your dopamine levels by going to the gym, haging out with friends and so on. Avoid bizarre dopamine secretion that is so easy to get by porn. Actually, raising the dopamine levels make the reboot easier cause the brain won’t be so in need.

Porn industry knows everything about addiction. They know how it works, they know how to monetize. Enter in pornhub, xvideos or any other, there are two main advertisements: 1. erection medicine. 2. penis size miracles.

They are laughing at us and getting rich. We are making guys that explore our addiction more rich. The same guys that makes us feel inadequate about our dicks, even when our girlfriends loves us AND our dicks it doesn’t feel right.

I quit porn and I’m fighting to quit masturbation. I had a computer at home in 1998, I was just 12. I spent much time alone at home. Back at that time, my parents didn’t know the risks of internet. How would they know? It’s also novelty for them. My addiction journey started right there.

I was only 26 when I got ED. I never felt inadequate about my cock… But ED hit me so hard, that I lost my confidence in every aspect of my life. I lost too many sex opportunities, by ED and fear. Last weekend I had sex with my girlfriend (thanks Viagra). I did so many things to her… I made her cum 8 times. EIGHT! After she sleeps I was still feeling inadequate, I just can’t describe how much frustrated I was, I’m.

Knowing porn industry is using serotonin molecule as shape for awards, really pisses me off.