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I get morning wood daily. But, I never get hard seeing women IRL, and with porn it’s not much better. Where on the PIED-severity scale does this place me, and what does it indicate about my road to recovery?

I’ve started my journey of quitting porn this past week, because I’m addicted but also have PIED. Ignoring porn urges through the day is turning out to be okay, so far. The problems I’m facing at the moment are two things: my morning wood and the urges that are there when I wake up. I do have...

Day 1 To start off, I'm currently in my late 20's. I first joined the nofap forums back in 2017 when I was in my late teens on another account I lost access to. I was introduced to internet porn by a friend at around age 11 or 12. I would mostly watch it and look up images for the first few...

Hi all, I’m currently taking 3mg cialis daily during my reboot. I have tapered down from 6mg to 3mg with great success. I am 23 days into my reboot with two small slip ups of 4 minutes total but did not spiral back into it so I’m happy but still working at it. My question is has anyone...

I’ve definitely healed over the last 90 days BUT: - I lost consistent morning wood recently after having it for most of the 90 days - When I do get MW now it’s incredibly weak again - I’ve had noticeably better erections and some libido over the 90 days which makes it a great challenge...

Wondering if anyone has had a similar experience to me and has any advice. Last year, I went on my first 30-day reboot, no PMO, no sex, hard mode. For background, I'm 35, I've been suffering from PIED for as long as I can remember, compulsive porn use, etc. This 30-day reboot was tough, and I...

I am new to here. I’m only on day 11. I have seen stuff about flatlining and was wondering if that is something everyone will experience or does it only happen to certain people based on the severity of their addiction? I’m just curious. I’ve seen some signs of improvement in my erections in...

TL;DR at the bottom. Hello fellows, I am a 28yo guy who discovered porn in the internet era (~2009) and I am about to unleash all my experiences in a very explicit language and details. As shaming as it might be, I think this drug need more attention since everybody "consumes" it thinking...

Hey All, Longtime lurker and addict. I’ve been on the NoFap train for about ten years with periods of varying success and failure. During that time I’ve suffered from PIED, brain fog, low motivation, and everything in between. This addiction has derailed my life more times than I can count...

Hey everyone. I'm a first-time poster, long-time reader. Wanted to finally start a post and see if I can find a little advice and support in all this. I've struggled with what I believe to be Porn-Induced Erectile Dysfunction (PIED) ever since I can remember. I probably started watching porn...

Today marks my seventh day. I noticed something weird: since the very first few days, I lost my desire to watch porn, and my battle has been mostly against sexual fantasies popping into my mind. But today I also noticed that even if I try to focus on them, they look blurry or they just vanish...

(19 M) Been a masturbation and porn addict since age 12. I remember about 4 years ago once when I masturbated after a long period of absitnence, I lost 70 % of my libido, my penis shrank and erectile dysfunction kicked in, I have developed gynomestesia ( and wide women like waist ) over the...

Hi Community, This is a first for me but I thought itd be a good step to have an outlet. I’m 20M and have faced addiction for about 6 years now with 2-3 times a day not being out of the ordinary. I was around 18 when I first suffered PIED and went, uh oh. It was at that point I realised my...

I was a bed humper as a child (AKA "prone masturbation"), by the time I was 18 I already had severe desensitization in my penis (before I even started watching porn!). At age 19 I started using porn as an aid to learn to masturbate the "normal" way... porn became a habit. I never recovered my...

Yes. I've PIED. Caused due to porn addiction of like 15 years. And its severely bad. I can only masturbate with watching porn. As I begin my journey to recovery, I thought I would share it here. Firstly to keep myself accountable. And secondly as a reference if any other fellow journeymen would...

Having a severe case of PIED from years of porn is really upsetting. I’m 27 and have been watching every single day since I was 12. I’ve had a few streaks before, my longest being two weeks, and right now I’m 10 days clean. I’m definitely in a flatline right now. My energy’s been improving, but...

So fellas, I have PIED. My understanding is that it generally goes away if you just do hard mode long enough, but is there more to it? I've looked up ED online and the psychological type seems to need some additional help? Is this what people mean when they talk about rewiring? Can anyone help...

So I have had it occur multiple times to me in the last 3 years or something that I couldn't get my dick up when having sex with a real girl. I started masturbation at age 11. Now why do I know that I have PIED? Well first of all I have been watching a lot of porn since age 11 and I have been...

I don't know if any of you have any doubts about how destructive the literary side of things is, but I have hit a new low. It turns out I can get a perfectly respectable erection for literary porn, but not my wife. I wasn't even this bad when I had issues with images and video. I'm going to...

Hi, thanks for taking the time to look at my post, I could do with some help/advice if you're able. I couldn't really think of the best title as I had so many fly through my head to represent how I'm feeling. A few examples: " "Is PIED Permanent for some people? "Severe PIED unfixable for me?"...

1. Introduction I’m 22 years old and have been fighting my porn addiction and emotional pain for two years. On January 30, 2025, I finally started a real hardmode reboot—no porn, no masturbation, no sex. At first, I just wanted to break the cycle. But during the process, I realized there were...

This year, I met a wonderful lovely girl. She is amazing and she's someone that I can see myself having a future with one day. Everything is going well, until more recently when we were making out, she noticed that I was only half-hard and the erection doesn't last very long. I confessed to...

Hey guys, Just wanted to write this small post regarding making my first initiative to fix myself and I guess the first step would be to admit I have an issue. “I am addicted to P”. I have tried many times to stop, my highest streak was 10 days. However I’ve never actively joined a group or...

Just a quick log thread. It is now day 1 (Tuesday 27th of May 2025) and I had a really shitty time trying to have sex with my wife last night. Complete failure on my part. Couldn't get it up, then lasted literally seconds. Pretty crap all round. I'm pretty sure I have some form of PIED and I'm...

Hello, i'm new here. I'm a 22 year-old and I've been masturbating to porn everyday for about 10 years. I'm afraid my porn addiction is too strong and I won't be able to recover in 60/90 days like you all. I'm also afraid of permanent damages to my brain and my genitals (I only get morning woods...

First of all, greetings to everyone. I just joined this forum and wanted to share my desparate experience as being a 27 years old man. I've been watching porn since a long time ago, almost like 13 years as far as i can tell. I always been a shy guy but people around me always said that i'm a...

Hi everyone, I discovered NoFap about a year ago, but I haven’t been able to build a consistent streak yet. I’m 28 years old and I’ve struggled with a masturbation addiction for about 10 years. For as long as I can remember, I haven’t been able to get an erection without using my hands and a...

Hello, I’ve known nofap for nine years maybe. At first, I tried nofap by myself when I first experienced PIED 7 years ago maybe for the first time, I was so afraid that I won’t be able to perform and since that time I couldn’t say I had 100% of my erection back it’s been up and down but never as...

A few people have told me that in order to cure my pied as quick and smoothly as possible i need to starve my libido, and i need to stop all forms of visual and audio sexually stimulating content-real or screen images/videos. And to stop listening to any to sexually explicit music, stop looking...

So i have pied. After about a year of watching porn and beating my meat about 2 times a day, i have pied. What a huge suprise right! haha. I started watching porn very heavily (2-3 times daily) at 17 and i am currently 18. But i have been watching porn since 13, just not on a daily basis. Id say...

So i have pied. After about a year of watching porn and beating my meat about 2 times a day, i have pied. What a huge suprise right! haha. I started watching porn very heavily (2-3 times daily) at 17 and i am currently 18. But i have been watching porn since 13, just not on a daily basis. Id...

Good Evening, I have made a post similar on a different threat (porn addiction) but also want to share this question on the PIED thread because it is highly relatable. I am confused on if light porn (such as a women in her bikini on social media showing off her body or a women snapping me a...

Good Evening, I am confused on if light porn (such as a women in her bikini on social media showing off her body or a women snapping me a pic on snapchat with her cleavage showing or showing me her thighs), if that is is ruining or slowing down my recovery process from PIED. I am worried that...

Good evening, At the ripe age of 18, yes 18, i have PIED. Im sure some might be thinking "oh how does a young kid have any problems with their dick working", but it is a real problem with me and im sure their are many other kids my age suffering with porn addiction or PIED. I have been watching...

I am on day 2 of abstaining from PMO. I started PMO-ing every day since I was 12 to fetish porn. Did that up until now. I'm 19. I had the opportunity to have sex for the first time when I was 18 and couldn't even penetrate for over a year. Eventually I took a ton of bluechew and this undid my...

I discovered nofap many years ago but the info I know now I didn’t know back then. I’ve gone back and forth because I’ve never really found the best approach: Some say just keep having sex but forget porn and masturbation. Others say occasional MO is fine. And some others say no porn, MO, or...

Hi, I am a 27 year old male who has been watching porn and struggling with PMO for 17 years. I’ve been going through Nofap and relapsing for a while now, but I have gotten to the point where I can easily go 4-6 days without porn at all. And even seeing porn, or if a girl I hookup either sends...

This is my journal of attempting to free myself of the slavery of pornography, and my experience in overcoming some of the difficulties. I didn't believe in the harm of pornography (P), because I had naively mistaken masturbation (M) to be the same as sex physically, without knowing porn is a...

Hi guys, I have been in recovery for quite a few months now but thought it would be good to post here, to receive some support and document my journey. I am 33 years old, soon to be 34 and I have watched porn since 15 years of age. I guess I have known this to be a problem for some time, but...

I would like for people here to share storyes and give each other a support so we can grow together in recovery. And maybe tell what we expetc of our lives in future. 1. I live in a beautifull city with great weather. But that doesn't matter becaouse I make my days dark. My life is messy. I...

Hi everyone. I’m 70 days completely free of PMO. I have experienced intense withdrawal symptoms in the form of consistent P flashbacks and intrusive thoughts. It’s distressing but I haven’t even been close to a relapse. What I need help with is that I am currently unemployed due to a health...

Hi everyone, So I’m coming up a month without PMO. I’m doing ok, but one huge withdrawal symptom I have experienced is flashbacks. These flashbacks can range from vivid to dull, intense on one day to less common on another and on some days they are just lurking, constantly, ready to spring into...

Hello Guys, im 20 y/o. Quick recap of my addiction: First porn at 10/11, addiction started at maybe 16. Up to 3-4 times a day sometimes, mainly every day min. 1 though. At 17 I started viewing T-Prn, which resulted in weird fem*om, S**sy and porn of that kind. 4 Months ago, i got a...

Hi there! So quick question out there to rebooters and also those that have rewired. I’m 20 days into this reboot and have experienced strong MW (75-100% strength) consistently for the last week-2 weeks. Is the return of strong MW a good sign that positive changes are happening and is this a...

Hi guys, just wanted to share my progress with you. I started on this platform around 2018, when I couldn't put a 2 day streak together. I didn't realise how detrimental PMO was. It messed with my brain, my mental wellbeing and of course my dating life. I just wanted to share my story so far...

Warning!: I'm new to this forum and I have no idea what counts as a triggering subject, so be warned. Honestly, I don't even know how to properly start this, but I will try my best. [In a nutshell at the ending] I'm 18 years old now, but I started watching porn when I was really young...

I have been user since years (10+). 4 years ago my consumption increased significantly and escalated. I have tried to quit several times, and I have faced numerous challenges along the way. I have successfully reduced my PMO (Pornography, Masturbation, Orgasm) habits over the past few years...

Hi so I have recently discovered that I have PIED and it was a shock because Im used to having rock hard erections when I masturbate. But I have been trying to sleep around and so far when im with a partner it turns into a confusing mess on why Im unable to stay hard if im able to stay hard im...

Hello everyone Im new to this Nofap life and I only recently discovered that I have been addicted to porn ever since I have been having more regular sex with actual people. I am most scared of the fact that I have discovered that I have PIED. Im really trying to overcome that and allow myself to...

I am 35 and I have been struggling with porn addiction for at least ten years, probably more. In 2018-19 I had a series of failures in my relationship and career. I returned to my hometown to start from scratch. But then my father got cancer (he died two years ago) and then it was the quarantine...

Here's my story, followed by my question... that I would kindly appreciate your opinions on: 48 year old male, estranged wife, and I have 3 kids. Wife turned off sex and intimacy 6 years ago and I immersed myself in porn and MO. I've never really been into vanilla porn before this but very much...

hi! first of all, this is such an great initiative and I'm so relived to finally join something like this. I have been masturbating almost regularly for more than 2 years (M 20 in college). I usually use soft-porn (hot reels on insta/fb) or masturbate with my significant other (SO) (for last...

I have been dating my girlfriend a few months before I deployed. I go home in a couple weeks. When I get home, I’ll be 63 days into my second no PMO reboot (the previous one was also 63 days long, the two were broken up with an MO session). If I am capable enough to have natural sex, will the...

What do you think are good signs to begin rewiring with other people? I am 23, currently deployed, and come home in a couple weeks. By the time I’m home, I will have had two back to back 63 day no PMO streaks broken up by a MO session. I am anxious about my recovery because I haven’t been able...

To preface, i'm 16 and fighting a porn addiction. I started around 11-12 and struggle to quit. From what I can remember, when I first started watching porn women did turn my on, but I can't recall a time where I had a strong erection with a real women. When ever I'm with a real girl my erections...

Hey guys, Quick backstory: long history of porn use since I was in middle school, had sex in high school into freshman year of college (2016), nothing since then until this year. I relied heavily on femdom/findom stuff. At least once a day, often times multiple times a day for hours, you know...

I am currently over 90 days porn free. 60 days into my PIED reboot I MOd once, and haven’t since. Ever since I MOd, I’ve had 0 libido. Not a deadline exactly, just no libido. Why? My theory is that I have no libido cause I am no longer turned on to porn, like I was not turned on by actual women...

Hi everyone, I m new on this forum, i'm French, and even if i often use English for work, i can make some mistake as it's not my native language. I am 37 yrs old, single for 1 yr, and stuck with PIED since i was a teenager, because of porn i started to watch when i was 13. As i remember, i've...

Hello, I have always had PIED, I started watching pornography when I was about 13, I had my first sex with a woman when I was 20. My sex with women has always been such that : its not easy to have erection but sometimes I have erection just for a while and I have to hurry and put my dick inside...

When I first started my reboot, I experienced an ache in my penis during a flatline. Now, a few months in, I am experiencing that same ache/pain in my flaccid penis and morning wood erections. I have PIED; I only MO once two months into no PMO, and am three weeks past MOing. I initially thought...

I am male, 23, and started PMO around 12 years old. I have had sexual encounters numerous times in the last few years, but all one sided/fails because of PIED. Now, I’ve been hardcore free for about 5/6 months, soft core (social media) free for a little over two. I recently decided to...

I'm 21 years old. Struggled with severe PIED for a while. I've improved but relapsed and now I'm around 50%, but it just doesent seem to improve. I've been in NoFap for around 6 months. I've taking finasteride for almost a year now. I've had erections while on finasteride although not 100%...

Hi all, thought I would share ways that have worked for me getting over PIED and what I have observed from people trying to recover. I will start with the below because people are going to ask “but how sever were you?” Or “how long did you PMO?” Or “what type of porn we’re watching?” I am 35...

So it’s been around 10 days that I’ve started to abstain and before this I have tried to abstain multiple times but I failed miserably in that. But this time I’m feeling a lot better than my previous tries and my urges are very low this time. Now I don’t know what’s happening me to me, but I’m...

So I went to meet my gf yesterday and we got intimate. So I have a history of 10 years PMO and PIED. So last two times when I tried to have sex with her, it got failed because of my weak erection due to PIED. So I decided to abstain many times but failed miserably. But recently I started...

I don’t know why it’s happening but whenever I see a real naked woman(my gf) in front of me, I don’t get that hard and it doesn’t give me that excitement which I used to get before. I have been consuming porn from like 10 years now and stopped it 6-7 months ago. I have PIED and I’m fighting with...

The last night, I had 2 wet dreams, wich is very unusual lol, I had the first one, woke up in the middle of the night after ejaculating, went back to sleep, then had another one in the early morning before waking up, I remember in the 2nd wet dream, I'm not going to go into graphic details ofc...

So recently I just got to know that I have PIED. I have been consuming porn since 14-15 years of age and now I’m 24. I have a gf from like 3 years. I love her immensely and she’s the kindest soul I’ve ever come across. So I have told her that I’m dealing with this issue and she’s very...

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i can only get and maintain erection to porn and moment i shift my focus it go flaccid, is it severe pied or something else ?

Completed 30 days Successfully completed 30 days officially today and after only a short period of time and a 1/3 into the 90 days challenge I’m already seeing the benefits. Quick analysis of who I am and my journey of how I got to this landmark. I’m 22 been PMOing since I was about 12...

PIED cured after 120+ days PIED CURED after 73 days! After 87 days of Nofap, PIED is cured Success Story, Finally Headed from PIED!! How I cured my pied, and got my brain and libido back! PIED CURED. 1 year nofap PIED CURED AFTER 3 MONTHS!!! 90 days. PIED cured [26m] One Year NoFap - Severe PIED...

This month marks 56 months since I first started recovery. Over the past few days I have been experiencing bouts of morning wood and deeply vivid dreams. Morning wood is at around 65% but still not 100%. What is interesting is that when flaccid it is still small, but last night I woke up in the...

Hey fellow Fapstronauts, wow, I'm nervous. It's the first time ever that I introduce myself in an internet forum and pretty much the first time I write to the interested public, what's cracking, what's wrong (?) with me. Hm, don't know where to start - so emberrasing ... maybe start like this...

Hi all, I have been meaning to write an update on my overall progress: This month marks 4.5 years (or 54 months) of recovery. The good news is that I am 100% healing, however 99% of the time it simply does not feel that way. A few weeks ago I woke up out of the flatline. No brain fog, a clear...

Day 32 at age 32, I am a PMO addict of 20 years. Still no morning wood, no libido. Brain fog seems about the same, although it is xmas holidays so I'm not really using my brain too much lol so its hard to tell. Overall, I feel determined like I never have before. I will reach 90 days and...

I'm just trying to understand, how death grip cause desensitization and ED? Everything online simply says that it's "too much pressure" on the penis. Okay, but what is the mechanism that causes desensitization? With PIED, it is explained that sheer overstimulation leads to neurochemicals...

I'm officially at my breaking point. I'm 35 (holt shit) and I'm dealing with soul crushing loneliness. It's at a point where I'm reaching new depths of depression I didn't know were possible. It's to the point where I'm just losing hope. When time keeps passing by, and nothing changes, despair...

Hi everyone, I am 33 and have been watching porn for 15 years. I noticed early signs of addiction (e.g. having the urge to watch a cpl of times a week) several years ago. And I have been watching it 5-6 hours a day for the past 5 years. I am partnered and I have PIED and PIPE. So, here I am. I...

At what point in the recovery process should you start pursuing women and having sex? Should you wait until you feel totally healed? How do you know you're ready? Or do you need a partner as part of the recovery process to help you heal and rewire your brain to healthy sex? I've heard...

Hello! Short story about me: Im a 23 year old guy. My ed problem began at 19 years old. Started watching "stuff" from the age of 12-13 like most of you. One day I just woke up without morning wood and could not have intimacy with my now ex girlfriend. PIED was at the back of my mind, however...

I'm 25 years old, i was doing PMO since i was 11 , in the last 3 or 4 years i started to watch more more more intense porn. and this intense porn started to be more frequent in the last year. in the last few months maybe 4 or 5 months i started to suffer to maintain erection during PMO...

I've tried for over a decade to recover from PIED, but I always relapse. My longest streak is 7 months, but I need at least 1.5 - 2 years for a full recovery. I've tried all the usual recommendations: exercise, diet, hobbies, outdoors, therapy, etc. I'm at the point where I'm desperate for a...

G'day fellow brothers. Background: Close to 30M, 10+y of extra ordinary stimuli. Categories: Exposure to the worst most addictive categories is not good to your receptors. One can recover from all the categories, No matter the amount of time you spent with them.Well that doesn't mean that you...

My age is 25 years, I'm a virgin and I'll get married to a beautiful lovely girl after few months maybe 4 or 6 months from now (we are still arranging) and according to my culture it's not normal to have sex outside of marriage. I'm diagnosed with OCD and borderline personality disorder. I...

Just curious, I suffer from PIED and currently in the process of doing a reboot and keeping the porn to zero and only masturbated once this month currently on day 25 streak which I'm very impressed with and know I'm not going to break it as I'm proper committed and am not suffering due to poor...

(English is not my mother language, so down there is google translate, sorry for my lacks of English) Hi everyone, I think myself needs a bit of advice from you. First, a little background and my Nofap process. I know starting masturbating with Porn about 9 years. With the frequency I follow...

Hi so basically im 15 and started masturbating when i was 12. Went fine until i was around 14ish and started escalating in what i was watching and my erections got weaker and i developed pied. I had many failed attempts till late march in which i have begun a long streak of nofap *have...

Has anyone with pied taken ciali$ and over time noticed it has become less effective? My understanding is it is not a drug that the body builds up a tolerance for, so you shouldn't even have to increase the dosage. I took 20mg on the weekend, ended up getting lucky, but my erections came and...

Greetings I'm 21, college student and currently trying NoFap PMO in ordrer to cure my erectile disfunction. I started NO pmo in order to cure my mood, harm caused by masturbation overall... But as i naturally increase my exercice these secundary effects completely faded away to the point that i...

Semen leakage, when arousal occurs. It can literally be just seeing a hot girl irl and getting a bit aroused by her, then I notice when I go to take a pee after, there is some semen discharge in my boxers. This also happens during sex and pmo, semen will leak during arousal and it will cause my...

Hey, I am a (21 M) who has been PMO since 11. Although I have had plenty of sexual encounters throughout my teens, with only problems being lack of satisfaction in the bedroom, after COVID hit I reverted to PA which tbh has spiralled out of control. Ever since then I have noticed slight ED and...

Dear readers, Greetings! I am a 33 year old married husband. I have been married for three years but have been suffering from severe PIED. I have been a porn addict since I was around 19. I realized about porn addiction and its adverse impact on sexual health and embarked on the recovery...

Hello fellow nofappers. I thought I'd check in to journal this fight I'm STILL fighting, register some minor victories and ask anyone if they have any advice about my situation. I'm 28, been trying to go 90 days seriously for around a year and a half now, have experienced what I think is...

Hi there, Has anyone successfully rebooted (or in the process of rebooting) and played video games during? Was just wondering if playing video games hindered anyone’s progress or led to relapses? If you did play video games did you play them regularly? Thanks for the help rebooters!

So I haven't posted yet, this is actually my first post. And I'm so proud that it is. So this is also an intro post, so buckle in, it's a long one. Background: 27 y/o, in a committed 3 year relationship, and kinky individual having dabbled in nonmonogamy prior to. I am one of those who has gone...

Hello everyone, I registered today and I am proud of being an officiall fapstronaut now. I started consuming porn at around age 12, really cant remember anymore. First there werent really any changes in my mood. Back in this time (around 14) i was fit, extroverted, did well in school, and had...

I'm now 30. Started nofap at 25 years old and managed a full year long streak. Since then, I've been having sex with mild success. I've always dabbled with porn the last few years, but nowhere near as much as i was when I was an addict. Maybe watch one every 2-3 months, and not like full blown...

Hi, everyone. I'm new to NoFap, although I've attempted porn and masturbation abstinence several times. I started watching porn and masturbating when I was 12. Now 22, it's been nearly 10 years since I got addicted to PMO. Watching and masturbating to porn and other sexually arousing content...

The flatline is and has been a commodity that not many of us truly understand. We dip in and out of it throughout our reboot, and it can last anything from a few days to months. It is essentially an emotional rollercoaster that we not only fear but struggle to understand. In this post I will...