I’m, 37, was 36 when I started nofap. I started fapping at 13, occasionally to porn but not very often. Around 2006 or 2007 I started on the high speed internet porn sites. I still never considered myself a heavy porn user, I’d estimate 20-30 percent of my faps were to porn, however when I did use porn it would generally be long sessions with a lot of edging because of those damn suggested videos.
I started getting in to weirder genres and then I got in to sexting which I think is where my problem really started. I’d spend hours edging while sexting a girl and having her tell me about her other sexual experiences.
It was around 2008 or 2009 that I started experiencing PIED, but for some reason it never crossed my mind that something has to be wrong if a guy in his twenties can’t get hard with a woman. It seemed like it only happened with random hookups and not girls I was interested in dating, so I figured it was an intimacy issue. Then this past July I was with a girl I was very interested in and couldn’t perform and it freaked me out and that’s how I ended up on NoFap.
I started my first streak in July, but it was a half-assed attempt. I thought as long as I don’t PMO I’m good, so I was still sexting and edging and it was only a matter of time till I took it too far and relapsed. A few days later I ended up hooking up with some girl off tinder and I was barely able to get hard enough for sex and I came in minutes. This was humiliating enough to give me the kick in the ass I needed for a hard mode reboot, no edging, trying to avoid pretty much anything that would turn me on in order to fix the damage done to my brain.
The first thing I decided to do was to attempt to stop being a creep and checking out women like a perv. It was my natural instinct to give good looking women a complete ocular pat down as soon as they entered my sight line to see if she has tits or ass worth discreetly staring at. I told myself I’m only allowed to look women in the eyes, it was a tough habit to break but after about two weeks it started to come naturally. This really helps keep sexual thoughts out of my head when I’m watching TV and I see someone in minimal clothing, because I apply the same rule to women I see on TV too.
As far as my streak, the only new habit I’ve really added is reading, I’ve always worked out so that’s not something new I’ve added. Giving up fapping was actually pretty easy to me, I don’t really consider myself ever having been addicted, I just abused porn and fapping to the point where I did damage to myself but I don’t think I was ever at the point where I couldn’t stop. I was just uneducated. Also, the fact that I’ll never be able to get a rock hard erection with a woman again is enough to make me quit forever.
As for the benefits/changes I’ve noticed, the first 30 days were the most noticeable for me, the next 60 days were just about being patient and trusting that this would work. After about two weeks I saw the increase in energy and confidence.
Around week three is when I saw my tastes start reverting back to what they were in my pre-porn days, no more interest in BBWs, no desire to chat with girls about their sexual experiences with other guys.
About a month in I noticed improvement in the erection department. I’ve always had morning wood, but it had a different feel to it. In the past it was more of a feeling of needing to go to the bathroom, but now it had a more sensitive, sexual feel to it. This would keep increasing over the next two months.
I never really had much of an extended flatline, it was more like a rollercoaster, I’d have some days where I was as horny as can be and others where sex was the last thing on my mind. I’d say the PIED was cured after about two months but I went 90 days just to be safe. A few nights ago I was out with a girl, no sex but we made out for a bit and it got things moving below the belt for me, so yeah this definitely works for anyone having doubts.
LINK – 90 Day Report
I had dealt with PIED for years and always made excuses for it in my head. Finally one day I realized something had to be wrong because I shouldn’t need dick pills at my age. That’s when I found out about yourbrainon porn and nofap. It was as if the weight of the world was taken off my shoulders when I found out all I need to do is stop fapping to fix my ED. permalink
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