Join the challenge! Porn detox!

Hey!! Sta-kool how do you do it? What tips can you offer? If any.. Thanks

Hey, afguy23!

Here is how it worked for me.

First two weeks after stopped looking at porn, my libido was DEAD. This seems common. So I just did not worry about PE, I did not care. If this is where you are right now, I would say “Don’t worry about it, it will get better.”

Then my libido started coming back, so I started to get more interested in things. I started getting horny and wanted to jack off. So I just sat down, closed my eyes and started fantasizing about some of the best sexual encounters I have had. I would recreate the whole thing in my head and visualize what was happening. The longer I am away from porn, the stronger my imagination got, the more vivid the fantasies are.

So basically when I do PE now, I just start fantasizing and get hard and then go at it. When I hit the erection level I want for jelqs, then I start jelqing. If the level goes too low, then I close my eyes again and bring it back up.

Hope this helps a little.

Ok, after that wonderful inspirational post about pornless PE I wrote, I ended up watching porn a couple times yesterday. For about an hour total. Edged but did not ejaculate.

However, I am not going to beat myself up over this, as I initially said I didn’t think I wanted to dump porn completely. I wanted to go back to the good old days of watching it say once or twice a month.

My start time was July 14. Yesterday was Sept 10. So not quite 2 months, but almost.

So the big question is: will this be a one time thing, or will I fall back into the trap. Let’s see how it goes.

I fell off the wagon hard as well today, though like you I only got as far as edging. I’ve been in a gradual downward spiral since I watched the tantra video with my girl; it broke my streak. Since then it got progressively worse because I figured a slip-up here and there didn’t matter anymore. Also, like you, I thought I was ready to let it go; my resolve started to weaken after the first month (just like last time).

The good news is I’m determined to not just give in and fall back like I have so many times before. I will find a way to do this.

Keep at it guys, it’s worth it. Addictions are usually lifelong, but you can definitely get out of the habit of falling into them. It gets easier.

Although you shouldn’t beat yourself up over the slip up period, I think that attitude won’t help you at all. You should aim to drop it forever. From other people’s accounts, what happens when you decide to make it an occasional thing is that you relapse eventually. I could be wrong though but I believe that would happen if you decided to watch porn once or twice a month even if scheduled and not brought on by hornyness. In my opinion, your goal should be to go as long as possible without porn to rewire your brain and substantially diminish the urge to watch porn. Good luck getting back on track.

15 days clean here! Wow it is great, I did not imagine when we just want something really bad we can accomplish anything we want, but today it was curious because I was taking a nap and I had this dream where I was watching porn lol, crazy shiet right?! anyway I don’t really feel the urge of watch it, my libido is increasing little by little and I am barely touching my penis in order to masturbate.

I have a question for you guys, When we are in porn detox, how often is recommended to masturbate?

Well I am back on track again, starting Monday, Sept 13.

BossaNova and determination: Thanks for the encouraging words. I really appreciate it.

Bruna: I will take what you said very seriously. Thank you very much for taking the time to write that up.

21 days now of no porn! 40 days of no marijuana!

that is great! no porn and no masturbation, thing is I want to ask for the ones who have more experience on it, how long is it recommended to masturbate?

My EQ improved a lot, but I think it is also because I am taking MACA, man this MACA thing is a miracle, thanks God it is from Peru and it is indeed very cheap to buy here.

I officially fell all the way off today after several increasingly worse lapses. Back to the beginning….Day 1.

And….Day 0.

Has anyone noticed this- one negative that I had before kind of put down to other things, but detox seems to be the common factor.

I get really horny after a few days off, & my mind gets very cloudy, especially if I’m in a new place (travelling). I become absent minded. I’m so horny, & there’s so much novel pussy walking around I begin to go into almost a trance, & just can’t stop thinking about sex. But not in a good way. Like I said, I feel absent minded, I don’t feel charismatic & just don’t feel in a position to approach women. I just want to jerk off, badly.

Anyone else? I think it may be in part due to other factors (travelling alone, not with friends, hungover) but just wondering if anyone else felt something like this.

I’m taking the next step and putting all my digital porn in single location on a single external hard drive (right now it’s in multiple places) that I use as an “unplugged” second backup. The plan is to:

A. Have all the porn isolated in a single location that is rarely if ever in contact with my computer. This is to keep me away from it and eventually facilitate the next step.
B. Delete the whole stash in one brutal, irreversible go. The logic behind this is my failure to complete the task in the past when I try to delete each of the individual stashes. I get through part or most of it and decide that I just can’t part with the last bit. The “one folder” will be gone in a few seconds if I can bring myself to push “delete.”

I don’t know how long it will take me to get to the point of letting go. It’s a different tactic that will hopefully succeed where other accompanying methods have failed.

I think you should man up and just delete them right now :)

Good luck whatever you decide.

Hey hey…Day 4.