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Discussion in 'Rebooting - Porn Addiction Recovery' started by Ramirami, May 12, 2022.

  1. Ramirami

    Ramirami Fapstronaut

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    Good afternoon everyone…

    A month ago, I experienced an incident where I lost my erec**** with my wife.. this was due to so many factors.
    1- I remember that before it happened for a good one month I was watching a lot of femdom porn on twitter.
    2- I didn’t feel enough in the relationship, and was very insecure

    It caused me to overthink and caused severe performance anxiety, I realized that I have been ONLY watching femdom humiliation, extreme cuckold humiliation porn for about 7 years. I feel like this affected my perception of sex and intimacy and also realized that I only crave humiliation scenarios when it comes to sex. I’m okay with being submissive in bed, but not to the extent of being extremely humiliated or cuckolded.

    my sexual life with my wife recently has been good as I explained some of my fantasies and I’m okay with them and she’s okay with them.

    I’ve also managed to not watch porn for 14 days now and this is the longest I’ve been without it. I’ve been feeling depressed, anxious, not knowing what I like when it comes to sex, extra sensitive, im overthinking my relationship and my life, and I don’t know if what I’m going through is because I quit porn or because of other things. I feel like because I’ve only watched cuckold porn and femdom porn, it’s the only thing I know now.
    Any opinions and advice would be great
     
  2. In my opinion, watching cuckold / femdom stuff won't do you any good, especially that you mentioned your insecurities and anxiety. The way I see it, is that it can possibly make you more submissive and prone to anxiety etc. .Watching this kind of stuff can easily get into your mind, so I wouldn't recommend that, if you want to have a healthy relationship.
    The other thing is that your current anxiety may be a result of porn abstinence, a kind of flatline. It is a common phenomenon, that has been mentioned on this forum countless times, so looking it up should be fairly easy. It is simply a momentary loss of sex drive, combined with a bad mood, as a result of your body starting to recover from the negative stimuli.
    To keep it short and sweet, all I'm going to say, is simply stop watching this kind of porn, or even better stop watching ALL porn. You may also try working out regularly, if you don;t already, as well as cutting down on highly processed foods, which can also greatly influence your mood.
    If you feel that your problems are too much for you, don't be ashamed to see a professional, a psychologist / psychiatrist, whose help will be drastically more valuable, than any advice you can find online.
     
  3. Ramirami

    Ramirami Fapstronaut

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    I really appreciate your reply. I’ve stopped watching all kinds of porn for the past two weeks. Sexually, I’ve realized that I can only have sex and get a full erection after having my wife’s foot in my mouth and her instructing me to start getting myself hard. I’m completely okay with this honestly but I’d love to discover new ways of approaching sex I just don’t know how. Thanks for letting me know that the depression/anxiety is a side effect :)
     
  4. As long as you're both fine with it, do whatever you find satisfying (obviously use common sense, not to go too far). Enjoy your sex life with your wife, rather than the online shit.
     
  5. Ramirami

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    Thanks man.. did you experience anything similar?
     
  6. I have experience weaker and weaker erections due to years of excessive masturbation and watching porn, no spontanous erection either. Currently I'm struggling to give up this addiction completely and I can already see that some of my sexual drive is coming back.
    I think the biggest issue is the porn, not the masturbation in my case, as I have gone from normal stuff to quite hardcore genres, of which I was quite ashamed. I needed more and more intense videos to keep myself stimulated.
    I am also back to working out regularly and eating healthy, as my poor lifestyle, combined with porn/masturbation addiction has led me to feeling miserably, especially in recent months. I had no energy, no motivation to do more than the bare minimum I am required to do.
    For last 6 months I've relapsed many times, often binging. Finally I have realised, that if I don't take my life back, it is only going to get worse, so I'm currently focused on regaining my physical strength and stop watching porn once and for all hopefully.
     
  7. Ramirami

    Ramirami Fapstronaut

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    Does anyone know long is the flatline? It’s my first time quitting porn
     
  8. Ramirami

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    I wish you all the best man… and hopefully you can overcome this and everyone that is struggling can overcome this. You seem persistent, and I believe that persistence is key. I feel like once you know that porn is negatively impacting you, then it makes it easier than what it is.
     
  9. Ramirami

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    I think the hardest part of it all is that when you watch an extreme genre of porn, and it’s all you’ve been watching you forget how it’s like to just be natural and get turned on naturally without or when to get turned on naturally or when it’s appropriate to think sexually and when it’s not
     
  10. Jim Mercury

    Jim Mercury Fapstronaut

    I think that no matter what genre of porn you watch, it distorts your image of reality. It might seem 'normal' to you now, but would it still be normal after you've abstained for let's say 5 years... The brain on porn does crazy things with us...

    Perhaps your wife is fine with it, because she loves you very much and puts up with your behavior. Spouses tend to be very appeaseble sometimes...

    Don't worry too much about the failing erection and the flatline. It 'll get better after a while. Focus on abstaining from porn and your life will feel a lot brighter!
     
  11. Ramirami

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    I appreciate the motivation brother.. I agree on that porn really really distorts reality. My biggest issue I guess is when my wife says she isn’t horny, which is really normal but because of porn and because of the high number of one night stands I had before getting into a relationship with her, it’s like a shock to my system and it’s demotivating. Todayis my day 15 of no porn. I keep havingintense dreams of cheating, and theyreally get to my head. I’m very sensitive to anything my wife says, and I have nomotivation to go out, no motivation todo anything really but lay down. Sometimes I feel like I’m overwhelmed,but I know porn isn’t the solution to my problems. Im trying to fight it. Theworst part of it all is that I’vecompletely lost my confidence sexually, I don’t know when to initiate or whether I’d maintain an erection, I stress oversex and I see it as something negative and I don’t know how to fix that. Any opinions on whether this is something NoFappers go through?
     
  12. Jim Mercury

    Jim Mercury Fapstronaut

    I recognize your restraint in initiating sexual activity. But maybe that's really the point. When I talked about it with my wife, she told me that my constant desire, fantasies and lack of emotional presence was actually a turn-off for her. So my advice at this point: let go of sex in any shape or form for now. Focus on other activities, like sports, hobbies, chores around the house, maybe a huge project to dive into. Anything to get your mind off of porn and sex.
    Once you do that for a few weeks, you'll notice you get clearer and more involved with your wife's feelings... And all of a sudden she will feel more attracted and hornier...
     
  13. Ramirami

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    Got it. Thank you! Did you ever feel distance from your wife while you’re rebooting? For me I can’t help but pick on every little thing she does, I don’t have the same craving for her I did 2 months ago. We got married less than a year ago. Is this normal?
     
  14. Jim Mercury

    Jim Mercury Fapstronaut

    Stop worrying so much about your wife and your relationship. Now that you're abstaining, your mind is finding all kinds of excuses and is playing games with you. Get out of your head and start doing stuff. In a few days you will feel much better!
     
  15. Ramirami

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    You’re absolutely right about my mind playing games with me.. it’s driving me crazy and I can’t wait till I feel better. 15 days still very very very persistent on not watching porn and I don’t think I’ll ever watch it again.
     
  16. Ramirami

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    *Trigger words*


    It’s my day 16 without porn, I’m starting to feel a bit better. A couple of weird things I’ve been experiencing which I would love to talk to you guys about.

    1- I’ve been experiencing disturbing HOCD dreams.

    2- I’ve been experiencing dreams about having trouble in bed with my wife

    3- I’ve been remembering a lot of the porn I used to watch when I was a kid rather than the most recent ones

    4- I have a mix of no attraction to my wife, performance anxiety, and HOCD. It’s almost like I’m demotivated to try anything and I’m blaming it on everything else.

    An important thing to note is that I never experienced this problem up until that one incident where I lost my erection and I just spiraled after it. To be honest I enjoy getting humiliated and made to worship feet or do the most humiliating things rather than having sex, and now I’m trying to just enjoy sex without the idea of being humiliated or cucked.
     
  17. Jim Mercury

    Jim Mercury Fapstronaut

    Again, your mind is playing tricks on you. Stop worrying about the specific content of dreams. Your mind is processing all the filth you've pushed through the system over all those years. It's assembled quite a database probably, so you'll experience all sorts of dreams the coming years.
    Focus on the days you've passed without porn and just take one further step the next day! It's really simple, but extremely difficult.
    Congrats on the 16 days by the way!
     
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