Conspiracy Theory

No it's not a Conspiracy, sorry for the sensationalist title, but it sounds like one.

Exhibit 1: A lot of guys, young and old, watch Porn, a lot of Porn.
Exhibit 2: Porn is addictive. A lot of guys young and old are addicted to Porn, unbeknown to them / denial. I was one of them, I used to say: "That's not me"
Exhibit 3: Big Pharma is making Billions of dollars selling those Magic Pills, you know the C-vitamin, the V-vitamin, the L-vitamin. My experience is that they work for a while, when I started using it, 5mg of C-vitamin was rocket fuel for 2-days; 2 weeks ago I took a stack of 20mg of C-vitamin AND 25mg of V-vitamin and did nothing, I was naked in bed with a new woman and I could not get it up.
Exhibit 4: Despite enough scientific studies in PIED and a lot of empirical evidences, the established scientific community goes out of its way to discredit and ridicule PIED.
My Theory: PIED is real, and rebooting is a real solution to PIED. I believe that the vast majority of ED is actually PIED or highly influenced by P & Fapping to P; but Big Pharma industry is doing all they can to protect their multi-billion dollars industry of magic pills.

Kudos to the pioneers of NoFap.
Kudos to the people who made the NoFap community possible.
Kudos to everyone in here who is using their critical thinking skills and researched their issues, overcame denial, and have the humility to see that we ourselves were the problem, and we are also the solution.

Thank you NoFap, fuck you Big Pharma and your cronies.

I have no harsh feelings towards P, it's protected under the 1st Amendment and freedom of speech. Personally I have cut it off from my life, once and forever.

 

Antti, thank you. You know and I know and everyone else knows that it's not a conspiracy theory per se, nobody conspired to create what we have but.... it's like when someone walks down the street and sees a crisp $10 dollar bill on the ground, with nobody in sight.
Sure you can leave it there . . for the next person to walk by.... it's tempting to pick it up and pocket it.
I've done it.
And I think I am an honest person. Not a god fearing person since like you I am not religious.

Big Pharma companies have found themselves on a winning streak at a casino-like table.
They are not going to do anything to kill their cash cow, and they are going to do anything in their power to protect those cash cows. Who wouldn't?

I also believe in the First Amendment and freedom of speech, so I have a philosophical aversion to banning porn.

That leaves you and I and everyone else in this forum puzzling on what to do.
Well, fist and foremost do the NoFap thing. I am at day 1o myself of P-free and I feel great. And then... I am not the type to go door to door knocking "Want to talk about Porn and Fapping?"

LOL, that would be funny. Maybe a comedy show, but not in real life, not for me.

But I am going to be vocal online, writing about my experience, my thinking, what brought me here, the struggles etc. The internet never forget, and the more we all write about it, in here, on Reddit, or on a personal blog (this is mine) the better it is, it creates online awareness to some poor guy who googles "Why is my dick not working anymore?" or something similar.

That's what we can do, and that's something, traditional media has run some stories about NoFap, the more awareness the more the traditional media would cover this issue.
Who knows, maybe one day one of the big celebrities will pick up this cause because he was also addicted to fapping and got PIED: Bradd Pitt? Geroge Clooney? Matt Damon? Chances are that one of the big names is one of us.

Let's all keep up the NoFap, and spread the word as much as we can.

See also my other post: Porn Addiction / PIED: what we can all do to help