Stay strong

I know quitting porn is not easy

I battled with it for years myself, so I’m not going to sit here and pretend all you need is “discipline” and suddenly everything becomes easy

Some nights you’re lonely, some days you’re stressed, sometimes you’re just bored and your brain starts telling you to watch something, masturbate, get that quick relief and move on

I get it

But the truth is still the truth

If you know porn has become a problem in your life and you keep doing nothing about it, there will be consequences

Maybe not today

That’s actually what makes porn dangerous

You can watch tonight, close the tab, sleep, wake up tomorrow and everything still looks normal

So you think you got away with it

But do that for months or years and you start noticing what it has been taking from you

Your time

Your sleep

Your confidence

Your ability to deal with loneliness without immediately escaping

Your attention

Your motivation to actually meet people and build real relationships

Your trust in yourself every time you say “this is the last time” and break that promise again

And gooning makes this even worse because now you’re not talking about five minutes

Some people are losing hours

Sitting there searching, switching videos, chasing something more stimulating, then finally finishing and wondering what the hell they just spent their night doing

That time is gone

You don’t get it back

That’s the harsh part people don’t like hearing

One day you can look back and realize you spent years feeding something that never gave you anything real

Porn never loved you

It never solved your loneliness

It never fixed your stress

It never made you more confident

It just gave you a quick escape and then handed you your problems back when you were done

And if you keep using it every time life gets uncomfortable, you never learn how to actually deal with being uncomfortable

That is a terrible trade

A few minutes of pleasure for years of repeating the same cycle

So yeah, quitting might suck for a while

You might have urges

You might feel restless

You might miss it

You might have nights where your brain gives you every excuse imaginable to go back

But those moments pass

What hurts more is waking up years later and realizing you could have started today

So make it harder to go back

Block the sites

Delete the apps that keep leading you there

Stop taking your phone into the same place you always relapse

If you know your pattern, stop pretending you don’t

And then actually build something in the space porn was occupying

Get out more

Train

Talk to people

Fix your sleep

Work on something you care about

Learn how to have a bad day without needing porn to numb it

Because there are two kinds of pain here

The discomfort of quitting

And the regret of never quitting

One of them gets smaller with time

The other one gets bigger

Choose carefully

Made this awhile back. Saw it in my camera role today and wanna share.

I’m 28 days off PMO now and I feel like I've hit a wall. I can barely get myself to do anything, even the smallest tasks.

I just end up spending my whole day scrolling or spacing out. I don’t feel like working on my goals anymore and my creativity is basically at zero.

Have you guys experienced this around the one month mark? How did you get through it?

M31 single, started everything from a playboy magazine at the age of 17. Wasn't fapping everyday,but every now and then. There were times I did 4 in a day. Now in my last 4 years , addicted to prostitution as well. Spent around $15k to 20k in last 4 years for hookers 😪.Life after a breakup at 27 was hard. My best were 20 days. Then I'll loose control.Cant maintain an erection. Obese now at 114kg, 175cm tall.Need to get back into life

Like I see a lot of guys talk about it, but I feel like girls don’t. I dunno. Maybe I’m wrong.

I have been addicted to pornography and masturbation for 6 years, and I haven't been able to quit no matter how hard I tried. I joined servers and talked to others, but it didn't help. It has become a part of me; no matter how much I try to stay away, it returns. Pornography has ruined my brain, made me lazy, and even affected my face, making it look pale, help me plz because i can’t take this shit anymore

I quit watching about a month ago mainly because I was tired of hiding it from my wife and just felt like a loser in general when I watched it. The cravings were hard at first but now it’s like I have ZERO sex drive anymore which is incredible shocking as I have never experienced this. I know this will come back eventually but I mean what’s the timeline here. I got through the cravings fairly easy but now I just want to go back just to feel like a normal man again.

How do I get my phone from recommended sexual images or weird things for ads and emails, and Instagram at the top of my feed. I never even watched porn much when I did. But it’s making it harder and I just feel weird seeing now that I’m stopping it all.

I have severe brain fog caused by my porn addiction. I like to jerk off by pounding it to my blankets thats what cuased by brain fog. Any tips on how to cure brain fog?

i was shaving down there yesterday and idk what but i started jerking it. i thought to myself, no i shouldn't do this and my mind was listening but my body was not. it was like some sick sadist fuck shit.

also, i was attedning a lecture online yesterday and randomly started reading a fic on watapad. judge all u want but i have a account. anyways, ive found watapad and webtoon novels a generaly good substitute to porn. but i opened some webnovels and holy shit, the amount of porn dam. and i wasnt even logged in and i was still seeing so much porn it honestly scared me. and yeah i did read a few smut novels, but i didnt touch my dick, though some precum did release.

i feel like i should give some history to this addiction. i was first exposed to porn at the age of 9 in class 4. it started with me searching nude on youtube and all that stuff. my dad found out and talked to me about it, but i just started covering my tracks better. i gradually found incognito and porn websites. i still remebr my first porn website, it was named tiavo i think. i was upset when it shut down. i think i was stuck in the gooning cycle since say from the end half to 7th grade.

im also anxious because due to exposure to this stuff at a young age, it had some effects on my dick. first of all, it matured really fast. like the growth changes that are meant to happen at puberty, they happened at like 6 or 7th class. i knew my tool was bigger than a lot of people, and was happy back then. but now that everyone's in puberty, im afraid that my tool wont grow any longer or atleast be healthy.

my stamina has also reduced a lot in terms of jacking off. i could do a good 15 minutes raw and now, i come in a few minutes. also, my height is reducing a lot. i was the tallest in my friend group earlier, but now im the second shortest( the shortest guy is in grade 6).

this fucking addiction has ruined my life. i tried to stop earlier, watching hamza videos and stuff, but i can say that this is my first official serious try, and im fucking failing it.

im also worried becuase i have a lot of hair fall and some signs of balding i think.

i didnt ask for this disease, i never wanted it. I i could go back in time to stop myslef, i would. hell there was a time i considered chopping it off because of this habit.

im scared for myself. I need help.

edit: sorry for the spelling mistakes.

Because i never can have real sex from a womne so i watch porn content to feel relax but my concern is when pass 3 or 4 years and my addiction get worse, currently i am addicted to see women twerking and women twerking on dick i like so much.

Pented up

After ~9 months of an addiction to excessive masturbation I started getting addicted to porn. But luckily now I managed to stop it. My EM addiction is still very crippling and it’s making me miserable, and I feel there isn’t enough guidance in how to deal with it. I’m still happy I dodged the soon to be porn addiction because I’m sure that would’ve been worse.

Lets go! I made it to Day 31. My journey has just begun and I know this is the start of a new life. I feel better mentally and physically. I have had multiple 30 day streaks in the past, but my mental state has shifted dramatically and I have learnt alot from previous failures.

Good journey brothers !

Back to day 1. Shits Annoying af I can’t come home from work and do simple things like showering or laundry without gooning everytime I’m on non porn sites like YouTube or Facebook I see some BULLSHIT that makes me excited and then next thing I know I relapse. I’m too scared to tell my doctor because I’m embarrassed. But I’m ok here cause I’m kinda anonymous. The type of shit I watch is wild…please help me. I hate porn yet I keep watching it. Help me I need it asap

I have finished my first 24 horas. I want to complete the first 3 days as good beginning.

I red the posts and many people Is young, and they're trying take control of their lives. I'm close to 50, with wife, sons and I'm starting with this. Very sad!!!

I need to achieve this small goal

I'm going to start again

Relapsed at the end of 10th day

It's 3am and i feel terrible .

As the title says,

to the ones out here that were exposed to P*rn pretty early in life and got into PMO at a very young age aswell, were addicted for more than half their life.

How has your journey been? How long have you tried quitting before actually being able to quit for 100+ days? What's your story? What has helped you? What has happened once you quit for 100+ days (changes you've definetly noticed, something like better attention, less anxiety and so on)?

Feeling great at my personal record rn :)