Background: I’m a 26-year old IT professional that’s lived a relatively normal life. At the age of 9 or 10, I discovered “fapping”, the act of engaging in self-pleasure. I recall not even being able to ejaculate, at first, but I would soon become addicted to the dopamine rush of orgasm. I masturbated once per […]
Read More… from Age 26 – 50 days: happy, motivated, focused, anxiety nearly gone
Advice to the younger guys by Oxberg I would like to share some thoughts as an older guy on this nofap post. I have never posted anything on any website before but I really would like to say something now. Hopefully it won’t sound like just some guy who wants to post his amazing insights […]
I never knew just how far or how bad my addiction to porn was until I came here. I used to think that watching fetish porn was a way to embrace and empower my sexuality. It started with Jenna Haze way back in middle school. She started me down the road to anal porn. From […]
How it started The first time I viewed porn was at the age of four. My parents were in the kitchen cooking breakfast, so I got up from my room to look around the new apartment. I went into their room, and discovered a porn magazine under the bed. For a week straight I went […]
Read More… from Age 19 – 365 Days: I wake up every day happy to see a new day
The biggest mistake of my life was disrespecting the power of porn. When I was 14, a friend of mine gave me a data CD brimming with hardcore pornography. Until then, my only experience with the female form was trying to sneak scrambled late-night HBO. The time where a boob seemed so special that we’d […]
Read More… from My Story: Porn-love, Secrets and Self Hatred
Where to begin? This has been a long and crazy journey. This is a long post, stick with it and I’ll tell you a story at the end. I am 30yo male, I guess I started whackin’ around the age of….11? I would say I’ve been whackin it once a day for as long as […]
I have completed the 90 day challenge! Have I learned about myself and become a better man from this experience? Yes, but not for the reasons I thought. Allow me to explain. I am 33, and have been a PMO addict for over a decade. Like many here, I grew up with the internet, and […]
Read More… from Age 33 – DE, social anxiety, self-hatred gone, loves life
I haven’t seen many stories of young rebooters, so I didn’t have much to go by. I always felt that being young it would take me a very long time to reboot due to the lack of benefits that I had throughout most the whole process. I have gone through 90 days and I would […]
Read More… from Age 17 – 90 days: reduced social anxiety, porn fetishes
This article (Google translator) quotes three experts who say porn is causing sexual problems: Socionomen Inger Björklund, psychotherapist at RFSU Clinic; Stefan Arver’s chief physician and head of the Centre for Andrology and Sexual Medicine at Karolinska University Hospital in Hudding; Psychiatrist Goran Sedvallson. More and more young men suffer from “porn impotence.” On the […]
Neurochem Res. 2013 Apr 13. Lee DK, Oh JH, Shim YB, Choe ES. Source Department of Biological Sciences, Pusan National University, 63-2 Pusandaehak-ro, Kumjeong-gu, Pusan, 609-735, Korea. Abstract Protein kinase G (PKG) activation has been implicated in the regulation of synaptic plasticity in the brain. This study was conducted to determine the involvement of PKG-associated […]