37 y/o male here, been addicted to PMO since I was 15 y/o

Dear NoFap community,

Just a quick intro about myself since I just discovered your community online and I've been unsuccessfully trying to break the porn watching obsession since many years now.

I'm a 37 year old male, have been educated in Ivy League schools for my bachelor's and master's degree and well travelled across the world. I discovered masturbation almost by accident as a child and used to pleasure myself and had guilt about it from the very start (for some weird reason I obtained guilt after orgasm even as a child). First came across porn in novels and magazines as a 15 year old but didn't really get hooked on until I started watching porn pics on the internet as a 18 year old fresh in college. I had few interactions with the opposite sex and didn't really date any girls until I was in college.

I remember wasting entire nights in the college dorm just staring at porn pics during the early days of the Web (early 2000's) and then the high-speed internet came which made access to live cams, streaming and porn sites even easier. I've been hooked onto them and need to look at porn to masturbate since then in 2005. It's a bad habit that I have been trying to break due to shame and guilt surrounding my use of porn but I met a lot of young women who didn't discourage it (they even considered fapping and mutual masturbation as a healthy practice!)

Anyway, that's how it all got started and here I am like 15 years later still trying to get away from the grips of porn and porn addiction. I have been a very heavy user of it on a daily basis in the last 6 years and really need a safe community to support me and help me personally on my journey to break free of this habit. I hope I can find the right people, support and community here at NoFap and even though I'm not a premium member yet on NoFap, I'm always happy to take answer pm's and seek individual replies to you all. I'm sure it would help tremendously in keeping me on my no-PMO streak for the next 30 days and beyond.

So if anyone wants to give a shout out to me or reach out and support me with even a simple "Hi there!" I would be immensely grateful. I feel that what made me relapse in the previous attempts was a lack of community and support from other NoFappers (as I had been quite shy and reclusive). So here I am, started my no-PMO streak today and seeking your blessings! Reach out to me in anyway or form and I will gladly reply back....Thank you all.

a pink elephant

 

Yes, I do! It would be great to stay in touch with someone here and monitor each other's progress over the weeks. Please let me know....

 

Yes, please message me jw2021. It will bolster my self-confidence and potential to find the human support I need on this journey. I'm aiming at a hard reboot of 90 days starting Oct 30!

 

Thanks man! It's been 4 days and I'm going along well. Thanks for the shout out.