Anecdotes are a probably dime a dozen and not so useful, but maybe someone will find this insightful, and I felt like writing it.
I’ve spent a little over 90 days now without watching porn. For the first two or three weeks of that I didn’t masterbate either. The start of this wasn’t by choice (I was in a situation where I had little privacy), which I think helped a lot, because otherwise I’m not sure I’d have the willpower to get into it. When I started masterbating again, I noticed I was doing it less than once a week.
Then one week I did it back to back on two days. I think that boredom had an influence on it, so I came up with a rule to “wait 12 hours.” Once I started doing that I usually found that 12 hours later I didn’t have any interest.
Something else I noticed is that the “sex” shown on TV or in movies became more arousing. I used to not think that stuff affected me, but once I was cut off from porn it showed. The 12 hour rule was applied to TV/movie sex scenes too.
I don’t have a ton of comments on mood and the like. I haven’t noticed a change but I don’t think it was bad before (wasn’t depressed). My sexual desire clearly increased, unsurprisingly.
I might try out r/nofap to see if that changes anything either.
LINK – My thoughts after 90 days without porn
by Ahxah0Of
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