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Anyone Experienced Intense Urges During Reboot?

Discussion in 'Rebooting - Porn Addiction Recovery' started by Disciplefive, Apr 16, 2017.

  1. Disciplefive

    Disciplefive Fapstronaut

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    I'm nearing 30 days of no PMO, which is insanity, considering that I can recall no period of my adult life where this has been the case.

    Abstaining from porn has been manageable, but I tell you what, when I'm out in public, and I see women, I feel like a drooling cartoon wolf. Legs and butts and cleavage, the urges rise up in me like boiling lava. It feels unbearable sometimes.

    Is this my normal man brain coming back online? Is this the inner beast I've been pacifying with 18 years of internet porn?

    Is this the kind of voraciousness I should be feeling toward beautiful women?

    Anyone else who has experienced the same, please advise.
     
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  2. sparkywantsnoPMO

    sparkywantsnoPMO NoFap Moderator & Yeoman

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    That's interesting. As I gave up visual porn, I found it easier to look at women non-sexually.
     
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  3. GG2002

    GG2002 Fapstronaut

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    I'm a SO whose partner has PIED. Before he gave up pmo he was never one to check out women in a sexual manner at least not in front of me! But since he quit it's all he does even to the point my mother has commented on it several times. For a partner that's freaking horrible. But wanted to let you know it did happen to someone else. I don't know why or what it means.
     
  4. globetrotter123

    globetrotter123 Fapstronaut

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    This was happening to me today actually. I think it's a good thing that at least I'm actually getting aroused by actual women and it gives me a certain confidence, but I also would say make sure you stay aware of it and try to keep it under control. Try to just look at it as evidence that your reboot is working without getting out of control. Don't think of it as a bad thing though. I've found when I accept it for what it is and don't think about it too much it passes after a bit.
     
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  5. J247

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    Yep. Normal. I woke up a few days ago and I could not stop fantasizing. All day it was fantasizing about this and that. Fortunately my dick is still broken from the flatline and knew it wouldn't be worth it to fap, so I didn't. The day after that I felt like what I experienced was a nightmare/dream/wasn't real. I just went back to zero urges.
     
  6. Covert

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    For it happened sometimes and till now it happen occasionally, but not very regularly. It might be the result of myself abstaining from PMO. Sexual urges are normal it differs from person to person that how this sexual drive or urge will manifest. On the other hand I think your inner beast whatever maybe you call it was getting feed by porn. I think if you will continue your journey of NoFap for sometime this voraciousness issue will get resolved.
     
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  7. Mistakesweremade

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    For me, the longer I go on NoFap I too become a drooling cartoon wolf except there is really nothing funny about it since I start doing all sorts of pervy things out in public that's in the grey zone of law. Aleast, if I fap once or twice a day I don't feel the need to go pervy sage mode.

    Your so use to jacking off on porn and suddenly stop doing it real women are gonna be extremely alluring all of a sudden. The longer you don't fap the more it just builds up until you start becoming an obnoxious animal. That inner beast is not natural but reinforced from years of porn and masturbation. The difference between us and normal people are the only things we can think about is sex or anything related while other people have jobs, success, friends & family they can occupy their life with and keep them going. I don't have any of that and an unsightful appearance to boot.

    Everyday I am just drowned in my own negativity and got annoying security guards on my tail for checking out girls in public for longer than normal periods!

    There were many times where a situation called for a change and for about maybe a day I felt some actual peace and goodness in me but that would never last. Always end up in my old habits again. Like I mentioned, there is just not enough to keep me from easily falling apart.
     
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  8. sparkywantsnoPMO

    sparkywantsnoPMO NoFap Moderator & Yeoman

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    Thinking back, what I believe has helped me not jump to looking at every woman I see sexually is that I had my religion to help me write into my moral code that seeing women that way was wrong. Therefore, I've been trying to think of a way to apply the concept non-religiously to this thread's concept - and it might be this: We each made a choice that we decided that PMO (or whatever elements we chose) was wrong, at least for us. We wrote that into our personal code that we want to change that about ourselves. We have motivations we're using to remind us of the changes we are making. No one else was able to change our code.

    And so it is with looking at women. I just realized over the last month it was getting more difficult for me to not look at women sexually. I'm winning because I do believe in changing that behavior. Therefore, decide for yourself, based on your moral influences, on your life experiences, whether or not looking at all women sexually (or however you want to define it) is positive for you right now. And obviously, you should appreciate the sexuality of women, especially over porn, that's not what I'm talking about. But decide whether or not staring at women thinking, "I'd like to bend her over and f*** her" or imagining her naked is helpful for recovery. And if it isn't, then it is probably worth working alongside no PMO.

    This isn't easy, but we can do this. We can overcome our bad habits and our addictions.
     
  9. Activate

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    i am having the exact same experience
    31 yo and almost 30 days.

    try not to judge urself too heavily.
    the beast becomes the passionate lover of integrity, creativity and sovereignty once channelled in the right direction. it is ur fire and dynamic power currently showing u how it has been misused which has led you to repeatably deplete urself and the development of something ugly.
    dont take the bait and act on it. just allow it to do its dance in ur head while its there until ur attention gets bored and moves on to something else.
    its ok to appreciate the beauty of a women.
     

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