Want to be a good example for my son

I'm 29, but I'll be 30 this month.
I remember watching porn for the first time. It were my cousins in my house since we had a VHS at home. I was so nervous that my mom asked for what I was watching and I lied. I think I was 9.
In high school, a friend of my lend me a dvd that I watched alone in my computer. When I saw it I ejeculated without even touching myself. I was 12. I feel ashamed, and never asked for another dvd.
When I was 15, I remember that a group of friends were talking about fapping. I replied I didn't know how to do that. But I do remember feeling very horny for hot girls I liked in school.
So I started doing it, with porn.
My family is poor, so I have always had anxiety about money.
When started working, I took responsibility for projects beyond my competence level, and stress for worst case scenarios of customers firing me would lead me to porn consumption.
This only got worse with time and nowadays I use it as a relief for stress, which is sadly more and more frequent in my daily life.
I have definitely escalated in my consumption but thanks God I've had no problem reaching orgasm, but my wife has noted that my boner is not hard enough when I had masturbated recently.
Last week I watched porn every day in my working hours. Which make me feel real bad.

I remember discover my dad watching porn at home, and thinking what could possibly be wrong with him?

And also feel bad for judging him back then.

I want to recover, and find another way to deal with stress.
I want to cut it forever from my life.
Last time consumed porn was 2 days ago.

I just read someone else's thread and feel scared reading the frequent relapses even after months of successful reboot. Anyway, I think there's just one way to find out what my path will be. Start to walk through it.


Thanks for reading.
 

canguro

Active Member
I hope you can break the cycle. So that you can stop, but at the same tkme that you will be able to teach your son about the danger of porn so he won't fall for it.
 
Today's my 5th day without porn.
Have had sporadic toughts on this. But not that strong as to relapse.
I've read more thoroughly YBOP.com and watched some helpful youtube videos (TED talks).
And started worrying about the future of my son, and how generalised this problem will be for his generation.

I'm trying to learn more and more about the benefits of quitting porn and the problems of its consumption, so can teach myself to stay out of it.

So far, I've noticed that a big part of my current mental state: low energy levels, low motivation, anxiety, could be produced by this problem.

I'm also reducing my social media consumption to almost zero. Which is something I have always wanted to do since I've noticed what a waste of time it is.

That's it for now.
 

Wolfman

Active Member
Hi JOG,

Welcome to the forums. One of the vital things you need to do is to educate yourself. I recommend Universal Man's youtube series called "sexual self-mastery".

If you have trouble with finances and money, why not educate yourself on that front? I can recommend the book Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki. In fact, taking up a new interest/educating yourself on something can be a good way to relieve stress from porn and empowering yourself by becoming more adept and competent. Win-win situation!

If you have an addiction, there is no way this is not going to be hard. There will be stress, fear and failure. But there will also be immense growth, personal transformation and freedom. Look at this as an opportunity to become the best version of yourself you can, and someone you admire. Keep coming to the forum, keep the journal (even when you don't feel like it or it doesn't make sense) and be honest and compassionate with yourself. I wish you plenty of strength and courage on your journey!
 
Today's my 7th day without porn. Sadly I'm feeling sick because of the vaccine I took yesterday.
In regards with porn, everything goes ok.
But, my stomach hurts so much and keeps me awake at 3am.
I know has nothing to do with this, but wanted to log in to my journal. Since t made me think of improving my health too.
 
Please check this thread and let me know if we can be in on this together.

 
Please check this thread and let me know if we can be in on this together.

Thanks for the Invitation, but I would fail to promise daily accountability.
Nevertheless, I wish you get fully recovered.
 
It's been just 24 days without porn. And it feels good so long.
I've tried praying before, but education is definitely a strong support for quitting porn.
Almost daily I remember myself of the dangers of getting erectile dysfunction, getting insesitized to regular human contact, scaling to weird categories of porn, etc.
And my body rewards me with stronger erections. Wish I can stay motivated for a lifetime in this journey.

Wish you all luck.
 
Hi JOG,

Welcome to the forums. One of the vital things you need to do is to educate yourself. I recommend Universal Man's youtube series called "sexual self-mastery".

If you have trouble with finances and money, why not educate yourself on that front? I can recommend the book Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki. In fact, taking up a new interest/educating yourself on something can be a good way to relieve stress from porn and empowering yourself by becoming more adept and competent. Win-win situation!

If you have an addiction, there is no way this is not going to be hard. There will be stress, fear and failure. But there will also be immense growth, personal transformation and freedom. Look at this as an opportunity to become the best version of yourself you can, and someone you admire. Keep coming to the forum, keep the journal (even when you don't feel like it or it doesn't make sense) and be honest and compassionate with yourself. I wish you plenty of strength and courage on your journey!
Thanks for taking the time reading and replying thoroughly. I fully read your reply, and appreciate it.
 
I'm already 30, and feel deeply happy of having get rid of porn.
I've accidentaly seen some nudes on twitter and erotic images on facebook, but gladly have not relapsed.
I'm firm in this commitment.

Told my wife I was doing this reboot around 10 days after my first post and felt such a relief.
I'm writting this as a remainder that quiting porn has gave me more energy, pleasure, self-steem.

I've been away from this harmful habit, recovering from this excesive dopamine and stimulus.
This community give me tools to recognize this problem and foresee what it could become if I didn't stop it.

I'm still in the journey, won't relax.
I'm aiming for 1 year porn-free. By now it's been a month.
 
I've been sleeping poorly and had feel some cravings for watching porn. My wife's been sick so we haven't had sex and I had watched girls on social media and that used to lead me to open some porn tabs.

I'm alone, so usually I would have alredy been watching porn.

I came to the forum since I felt weak.

Posting my progress makes me feel strong again.

Never going back to porn path: frying my brain with dopamine hits, having poor sexual performance, weak boners, feeling bad about myself, no more.

I'm free now.
 
I just had a kind of relapse.
I was scrolling on twitter and saw a half naked girl and remind me how bad I've feel these days, haven't had sex and had little sleep.
Tomorrow I have a meeting I don't really want to attend.
So I masturbated, without porn.

I felt a relief of my stress, but I admit I'm afraid of getting dragged to porn again.

I came here to log what happened and remind myself of this brain frying habit, and how it killed my performance on bed. That was pretty bad stuff...

So here I go again, optimist, trying to leave this porn shit forever.
 
I definetely relapsed this time.
It's been a while away from the forum (more than 2 months).
My relapse has been gradual.
First, some images in twitter: that was the begining of everything.
Click surfing led me to other content, and I've been watching provocative girls on internet.
That made me more anxious in real world and horny when saw hot girls on street.

And money problems led me to stress.
My wife is pregnant so we're not having much sex.
So I have masturbated a couple times before and today, just a few minutes ago I masturbated while watching porn.

Immediately came back to the forum, trying to regain my reasons to not do this again.
This habit made me feel ashamed, disconnected from reality, killed my perfomance in bed with my wife, made me feel weak and embarrased of telling anyone.

Not again.

My plan to not relapse:
1. remember the pain this bad habit brings
1. sleep longer hours
1. continue to study the literature available at the site, I haven't found a way to effectively deal with stress (i've tried meditation)
1. plan how to deal with masturbation (even without porn, because eventually led me to porn)

That's it.
I plan to log in every now and then to report my progress.

Good luck
 
Just re-read the whole thread.
My killer path to porn: poor sleep, watching girls on social media.
That's it.
I'll focus on these 2.
 

Wolfman

Active Member
As you may have noticed JOG, little transgressions open the way for bigger ones. I feel there is really no good course of action other than total abstinence for a set period of time to reboot things.

Given you cannot have sex with you wife, perhaps this would be a good opportunity to re-evaluate what sexuality means to you and whether or not you "need" sex and orgasm. Addiction to porn, I believe, is a symptom of a deeper issue of how you view your sexuality and whether or not this is something you master or you are a slave to. I'm not saying that sex cannot be a need--perhaps for you it is--only that you should reconsider things on a deeper level and give yourself an informed decision about how you want to deal with the matter and live your life.
 
As you may have noticed JOG, little transgressions open the way for bigger ones. I feel there is really no good course of action other than total abstinence for a set period of time to reboot things.

Given you cannot have sex with you wife, perhaps this would be a good opportunity to re-evaluate what sexuality means to you and whether or not you "need" sex and orgasm. Addiction to porn, I believe, is a symptom of a deeper issue of how you view your sexuality and whether or not this is something you master or you are a slave to. I'm not saying that sex cannot be a need--perhaps for you it is--only that you should reconsider things on a deeper level and give yourself an informed decision about how you want to deal with the matter and live your life.
Hi, thanks for your reply. First part fully understood and agreed.

I don't understand your advice of "re-evaluate what sexuality means to me".
I "know" that I don't NEED sex and orgasm. But it's a very powerful force of nature.
I think right now I'm a slave to sex.
How do I "reconsider things" o a deeper level?
How do I make an informed decision about it?
 
I'm here since it's been a total mess this whole month.
Today I masturbated and felt a weak boner.
That made me scare again, so that's why I came back.

Stress + poor sleep + social media

This combination is killing me.
Tody I'll start by sleeping early.

Good night.
 

GeminiMan

Well-Known Member
I'm here since it's been a total mess this whole month.
Today I masturbated and felt a weak boner.
That made me scare again, so that's why I came back.

Stress + poor sleep + social media

This combination is killing me.
Tody I'll start by sleeping early.

Good night.
Sleeping early has helped me win half the battle ! Really !
 
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