Your Brain On Porn

Erectile Dysfunction, Depression, and 7 More (Selfish) Reasons to Quit Porn

"It’s hard to imagine that a whole generation chain-smoked cigarettes without having any idea how harmful they are, but the same thing is happening today with online pornography. If you want to learn about the health risks of porn now instead of waiting a decade or two for society to catch up, all you have to do is continue reading." —Brian McDougal

It's time to distinguish 'sexual orientation' from reversible 'sexual tastes'

"The bulk of scientific evidence currently favors the view that the origins for most sexual desires are not cultural but innate." —Leon F. Seltzer

Such statements mislead people that all sexual inclinations are created equal and are immutable. This is simply not true. 

I know this is pretty long, but I've been accumulating a lot of thoughts on this subject over the past week, and it seemed appropriate to put it in my obligatory '90 day report', so... here goes.

• The Beginning

90 days ago, I was truly a skeptic of NoFap. The TED talk had a few interesting ideas in it that resonated with me, in particular the ideas concerning reward-seeking feedback loops. It was a logical enough theory that if you cut off the supply of mind-candy, you'll slowly re-train your mind to find it elsewhere. Since I was a couple weeks into quitting smoking and drinking, I was in the right mindset of tackling a new challenge just for the sake of seeing what happens.

I’ll give you guys an idea of how bad I was before nofap, what this process has been like for me and what changes I’ve noticed in myself as a result of sticking with nofap for 90 days. First off I’m 26 years old and I’ve been dealing with a pretty serious porn addiction since I was 13. Until I started nofap I never made the connection between the anxiety issues that I have been battling with and my porn habits. My addiction was pretty bad. Before starting nofap I would take days off from work and stay home looking at tranny and other shock value porn. I was at the point where I was questioning my sexuality. At one point I even started looking at gay porn to try to get off. It never did the trick though.

Day 91 - No shit, I'm a whole other person now. Also, AMA! The following may help answer questions you may ask, or you can skip it and just ask away! When I started this challenge, it was not the only major change I wanted in my life. I was unemployed/in and out of dead end hourly jobs, lonely, and deeply unhappy. I lacked confidence and direction, but looking back, what I lacked most was something required to succeed at anything - belief in my own abilities. Thanks to a phone call from an old friend, I woke up and decided to start doing something with my life. Publicly, I began looking for a job and planning my assault on the law school application process. Privately, I joined the Fapstronaut Corp.

I post extremely infrequently and have been but a quiet observer of the things that have gone on in these forums, but after reaching my goal I feel compelled to share with you my experience with the worst and possible greatest challenge I will face for a long time to come. My goal was to have successful, non forced, non drug assisted sex with my GF, and in that I succeeded twice after a long 177 day wait.