porn addiction

I am married, have a 6 year old child and a smoking hot wife. I used to be very active but really since I started using porn as a crutch I have been lethargic. I don't know where to begin. I hate myself for watching porn, my wife hates it and it breaks her boundaries. Sometimes I have the urge...

The longer I do this, the more I'm convinced that porn (and possibly other addictions as well) are more a symptom than a disease in their own right. Yeah, I'm sure some of you will want to shout me down over that, but here's my reasoning: I'm not super happy at the moment (see my journal...

As someone who was insanely addicted from the jump, no build up no slow start, just almost as soon as I started jerking off and watching porn, I became addicted. I couldn't quit for years as I would get insanely big urges and couldn't make it past day 4 or 5. I was insanely agitated and...

Hey Brothers, Today is 16th day of my journey. It's going good. I had decided not to goto insta reels but as I'm doing night shift after shift I was trying to sleep but I couldn't out of boredom and I went on Instagram reels. I was scrolling for straight 19 mins and most of it they were showing...

this is the first time I have ever written in a forum about my struggle. 18 months ago me and my wife went through our D-Day and everything came out about my porn addiction, infidelity. I have been with a therapist since then every week since and have moved a long way from where I was, I quit...

I will not watch porn and not masturbate till i go for 90 days this addiction ruined my career ruin my life ruin my studies ruin my college life I get fed up of this addiction this is the last time the 30 days is my first step 11 June 2025 wednesday 90 days 10 AUGUST 2025 sunday last step will...

Hello, I am seeking an accountability partner to help each other with abstaining from pornography and masturbation. A little about myself: I’m 24, male, and have been struggling with porn addiction for about half my life now. It has ruined relationships for me and I don’t want this cycle to...

I´ve tried to recover a lot of times in the past and failed. My personal best was 10 days without porn and masturbation. It all started when I was 12. Now I´m 18 and I´d like to recover progressively. I want to first get rid of porn addiction progressively (watching lighter content) for one...

Before I begin, I am not trying to convince, convert or persuade anyone into any religion, spiritual teaching, cult etc. I just want to offer a spiritual perspective to addiction. I had a porn addiction that was literally crippling me. I was into fetishes that were shameful and disgusting...

I don't know if this is allowed, but at this point I'm just concerned and afraid? So, I've been watching and reading porn since I was like 10, but was first exposed at 7/8. I've been worried about this for a year now, but the past few days have really worried me because I learned about this...

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...

Just started my journey and it's been 7 days. I feel ashamed to say but I've been a casual consumer of porn since I was around 9-10 years old, I am currently 22. I have tried to stop many times and sometimes I abstained from porn for months but I kept coming back. Now that I've been with my...

That's my problem. How should I overcome Porn Addiction. I don't give a fuck about MO. I didn't relapsed too much last year. But i was dealing with porn addiction. Any ideas can be helpful. Age - 19 years old. Highest streak - 65 Days (No MO) Forever Grateful to you guys.

Hi all, I've starred at this blank form for the last hour, overwhelmed by everything I want to say, yet not knowing where to begin. Apologies in advance for the incoherence, I'm just going to write what comes to mind. The first thing I'll say is that I'm incredibly grateful to have found this...

I used to think of my life story as a complex and messed up web of events but after deeper consideration, I realized that it’s way simpler than I realized. My story with the addiction is the following: It all started very similarly to the story of countless users on this site. With a...

was just wondering if anyone has any success stories with just abstaining from P&M but still having occasional O from a girl? also a few nights ago I had my GF over and we "dryhumped" for hours. I guess this is a type of edging. Will this hinder my progress? I suffer from self diagnosed PIED bc...

Hello everybody, I’ve been a porn addict for 17 years and I want to share my story. I’m 30 years old now and I discovered porn when I was around 13 years old. I still remember the scene that got me into porn : I thought “wow, this is amazing”. Porn became an obsession, almost a passion for me...

I will be writing you everyday to tell you if I am still going strong starting 27th of September! When I relapse I will tell you truthfully what happened. I don’t wanna let you down though! Anyone who wants to join me a long the ride is welcome like a brother or sister. Encouragement is also...

Hello world. I am a born-again Christian American male. Long story short, I started watching porn after high school, more specifically when I started drinking. I just kind of went into this hedonistic way of life but by myself with my alcohol and my computer, and it continued like this until...

I relapsed during monday, week ruined again. I've made my mind to change my life from now on. I'm sick of this. about me : 25 years old from Romania. Orthodox christian. But I like anime and a bit of occult. odysee.(dot)/THE-MOST-IMPORTANT-NOFAP-LESSONS-I'VE-EVER-LEARNED---Gabe-Dawg:9

I am a 26-year-old male that has no interest in sex with real people, and who has never had a stable relationship. I know my compulsive porn usage and masturbation has negatively impacted my sex life and relationships, and after trying many times unsuccessfully in the past, I am ready to commit...

Hi All, I overcame my Porn addiction. Been sober closed to three years now. This is my success story. What helped me over come it is Meditation. It wasn't easy at first. But once I got used to this practice and dedicated to it every day, I started observing my mind, my thoughts whenever...

There are many reasons why I am quitting my porn and masturbation addictions. when I was approximately 11 years old I used to go to my friends house and we used to masturbate together to porn often hardcore with a back massager as a vibrator. These were extremely arousing events and at the time...

Hello, I'm not sure if i can say this, but im still a teen, 15yo. I workout at home, im trying so hard to stop PMO, my longest streak was 1 week and that was in 2023. i started to discipline myself to workout at home with some adjustable 10kg dumbbells. I do pushups, bicep curls, etc. I just...

I’m going to be honest, I am currently 12 - and I am very aware that I’m going to get banned - and I have been addicted since I was 9. It’s a really long story, but long-story-short; I was scrolling through various images until I found pornography, and ever since then I’ve kept looking at it...

The Liftoff Challenge – Flexible Recovery Tracker How far can you fly? For those who wish to recover from their problems with Porn and/or Masturbation while simultaneously pursuing life goals, the Liftoff Challenge is the challenge for you! Reach 1500 points to blast out of the Solar System...

I ACCEPT THAT THESE 5 THINGS (EGO, ANGER, GREED, LUST, ATTACHMENT) ONLY BE DEFEATED WITH THE HELP OF THE GOD'S NAME, WAHEGURU ੴ I ACCEPT THAT I AM FREE FROM PMO ADDICATION. I ACCEPT THAT I AM ENTERING MY 30S NOW AND A LOT OF THINGS GONNA CHANGE. CAUSE CHANGE IS INEVITABLE. I ACCEPT THAT I...

Intro First off, let me get a lot of you to stop reading right here because you're hoping to find a recipe in this post on how to quit porn. I haven't quit. But I have reached a place where porn isn't a problem in my life anymore. By that I mean my sex life is healthy, I have a great...

What's up people. I am just writing to ask whether anyone knows a good blocker I can install onto my iPhone? I have Cold Turkey Blocker on my Windows Computer, which is sublime, but it cannot be used on iOS. I am looking for the option to block particular words from search queries, block...

I have a lot of friends that watch porn and they all agree that it is harmful. However, they seem less affected by it. After talking more with them, I found out that our habits were very different. They usually use porn as a physical release and masturbate while watching it. For me, it's really...

Hi, I just wanted to post and get some much needed help. I feel masturbation can be healthy. But porn has completely rotted my mind. I have tried to quit a few times, longest I've gone with out masturbating was 11 days. I did feel hornier , but ultimately fell right back into porn. My porn...

Are there any substitutes or healthier activities y’all suggest instead of pornography?

When I was in about 5th or 6th grade, I discovered pornography. Over time I grew addicted and as the addiction grew worse, as did the pornography’s subject matter. Though all of it was drawings, I’m still deeply ashamed. I stopped looking at bad porn months before I met my new and wonderful...

This is not my longest streak, but I would say this was my easiest long streak. I’ve done 119 days before, but with a lot of efforts , temptations and difficulties. This time I reached 76 days ( before binging porn and edfing yesterday) with minimal efforts yet with a lot of benefits and clear...

Maybe a silly question, but I don't know... Anybody here who has fully rebooted? How did you know? Do you judge by whether you get urges to watch? Do you judge by whether you think of porn at all? Is that even possible not to think of it sometimes, cause we can't erase our memories after all...

I wake up, literally the first thing I do is fap right before I sleep I fap in the evening if im doing nothing I fap, this is getting insane like please just tell me what do i do

Hey guys. So for the past let's say something like 2-3 weeks ago, i've had this question in my mind before starting the journey. But personally, i don't really care about streaks as long as i achieve my goal, which is removing porn out of my life so i just started the journey without minding it...

Guys, I'm on no PMO for 45 days, but suddenly watched porn today for hours, but didn't jerk, I don't get feelings when watch , sometimes I get urges, It's just like watching TV, staring but doesn't satisfy. How can I get rid of this porn watching habit? . Everything was ok for 45 days. Regards!

Hi everyone my name is Sam I am 15 years old .I started watching porn from 2 years . Before I was not knowing that it is wrong or write . Soon my cources getting harder it was difficult to focus on both things soon i realized that I have to remove porn addiction from my life it was destroying my...

Below, I am quoting text from an article on GoodRx (GoodRx Health): What Is Porn Addiction Withdrawal? Symptoms and Guide to Recovery Feel free to share your opinions and discuss.

I am 23/m, attracted to women for as long as I can remember. So I have been dealing with a fetish on and off recently. It's not anything too crazy, at least not when I compare it to some of the other things out there. But I think I am into the 'Furry' art thing. Mainly involving male...

Hey i have a porn blocker on my phone but because im so heavily addicted i just turn it off when i feel the urge, are there any that just straight up permanently block it.

As a porn addict, how do you respond to scandals, particularly sex scandals? Do you feel bad for the person being accused? Or do you side with the victim? This week there has been another church scandal with yet another evangelical church leader being accused, amongst other things, of behaving...

Hi everyone, I'm new to the NoFap community and I wanted to introduce myself. For the past few years, I've been struggling with an addiction to pornography. It started off as something casual, but soon it became a daily habit that I couldn't seem to break free from. I've tried several times to...

So, a few days ago, Dr. Sabine Hossenfelder, has made a video discussing the topic about dopamine and behavioral addictions, specifically social media addiction. Although she didn't discuss porn addiction specifically, I think it might be relevant to discuss here and what you think of her video...

Hi all, I'm new to the website and am looking for software that blocks all websites except the ones you want. I'm told that there are filters out there called "reverse filters" that do just that. I've also heard of whitelists that help with this too. But I really need a program or software or...

Once upon a time, there was a young man named Jack who was 21 years old. Jack had a difficult childhood, he grew up in a broken family where his parents would fight constantly, and eventually, they got divorced when he was only 10 years old. Jack was left to live with his mother, who was always...

Hi, as i said in the last post, I am a 29 year old French woman and I have been addicted to porn for 2 years. I'm a little special : I have a boyfriend and i'm a libertine that is to say that I like to exchange sexual partners. I can't get out of this addiction to porn and now also money as...

Dear community, I'm a 28-year-old man from Poland (so please, excuse my English). I've been struggling with porn addiction since I remember. I have had multiple attempts to break up with it and they turned out to be more or less effective. The longest one was for about 6 months. But around 2018...

I’m 5 months in and after some weeks of intense withdrawals I started feeling a little better but not that sense of enthusiasm and inner peace people talk about when they reboot Anyway, recently I started thinkin about sad things and scenarios almost like I did in the first part of my journey...

Lately, my urges have been very psychological. I watched this Ted Talk video on porn (link down below) and it's educational and helpful. However, one part in the video talks about real sex (at the 3:08 minute mark). Real sexual interactions includes: courtship, touching, being touched, smells...

Hi community, I’m almost 5 months in my recovery and have to say it’s been a very difficult journey so far I experienced a lot of withdrawals (especially psychological ones) that made me think I was getting crazy I was literally living in my own head thinking nothin made sense in life...

Hi community, I’m almost 5 months in my recovery and have to say it’s been a very difficult journey so far I experienced a lot of withdrawals (especially psychological ones) that made me think I was getting crazy I was literally living in my own head thinking nothin made sense in life, couldn’t...

Hi community, I’m almost 5 months in my recovery and have to say it’s been a very difficult journey so far I experienced a lot of withdrawals (especially psychological ones) that made me think I was getting crazy I was literally living in my own head thinking nothin made sense in life, couldn’t...

it's my first day of NoFap, i try a lot time but i failed everytime after 3-4 days, please anyone share your this journey i will be motivated. i just soo ashamed I can't even face my myself, my face glow is gone, just everything fuked up. wish me luck .

I have gone on 15 days, I have gone on 10days, now I am going 50 and I would be checking in every 5 days If you want to do the same with me Please I am down it will even make me more motivated and committed to the streak. So let's do it together and check in here every 5 days

Hi community, I’ve been sleeping for 4 hrs in the last weeks, always wake up in the middle of the night, I never did in the past so it must be withdrawals induced I had a wet dream and I’m scared this will slow down my reboot and worsen my withdrawals, is this possible? I want to go hard mode so...

Hi community, if someone considers himself healed after 3+ years (or even 1 year if that’s their case) of no PMO and never relapsed again, so if someone actually managed to overcome for good P*rn, can he tell me when did he realize he was actually healed? And how did he know that it wasn’t just...

Can S*x toys (m*sturbators, str*kers, etc.) be helpful in breaking a p*rn addiciton? I think that just using these toys instead of using p*rn would be helpful. What do you think?

Hi, I’ve been feeling strange for the last month, one day out of nowhere I woke up and nothing made sense in my life, felt hopeless, depressed and felt a sense of existential void Assured that I never suffered of depression/anxiety before I started this reboot (19th September) is it bad if I...

My self-improvement journey has taken a bit of a set-back this year, so I wanted to post a thread discussing where I've lost myself and what I've been able to fix. Problems: - Porn Addiction - Bad performance - Gaining weight - Bad mental health - Poor hygiene - Lack of motivation - Falling...

I have been addicted to porn for the last 3 years. Now decided to quit this damned thing. Let's do this. I am 14 and got addicted to this thing in my late 11 years. Please help me reach 100 days and even more.

Hi Community, I am a 31 years old guy who is not new to this space, like many of us. And just as many of us, I underestimated how deeply an addiction can take root in your body and your mind. In fact, I had already joined this priceless forum a few years ago, when the feeling of having hit...

Hi i am anonymous i am now 22 but i am not enjoy my life in last 9 years I started watch porn in i studing 8th standard that time i dont know i lost my life 9 years i lost my mind control i dont have more friends i lost my feelings also porn and mastrubation addict is destoyed my life , i am 22...

Every week is the same for me. I browse porn daily, often masterbating almost each day of the week. I lurk the forums daily, looking for "That one perfect post" that will turn a lightbulb on in my head, and give me the motivation to change. Despite this, I realise no one can do this for me...

You have the power to choose: day 1 of sobriety or 1 day of giving into temptation. I choose sobriety. I choose freedom from the grips of this addiction.

In an interview she said: "If you get your release to the same adult actress too many times I do believe you're going to become and you're supposed to become coz that's how we fucking maintain families addicted to that person for a period of time... So like gambling Facebook and Instagram when...

This week, “Is there hope for porn addicts?” was one of the most popular Google search terms in this genre. Clearly, a lot of anti-porn types are having a hard time breaking their habit/addiction, and some have lost all hope that change is possible. The following list is based on my personal...

Can Willpower be effective to break free from porn's grip, or do we need something else?

Hey there, I'going for my final reboot, I'm more motivated than ever. The longest streak in the past were 155 days. But this time it's different because my wife knows about and want to support me. I wonder what experiences you guys have made with supporting partners. Maybe you have some useful...

hello i am a 14 year old boy i started doing porn for 5-4 years and i want to recover so that was my 10th and 7th day on recovering i had a dream?? i came in my bed (idk called wet dream or smth) will it do something to my recovering? and will it stay with me forever? or until i recover?

Hey guys, I'm new here. I've been trying to quit for years without success. After a crisis in August, when I reached rock bottom, I developed reflux and my anxiety spiked (depersonalization, death anxiety, fight flight freeze mode all day, intrusive thoughts, etc.). In October, still recovering...

When I watched porn I never watched sex-focused porn. So I never watched porn featuring guys, just porn that was women getting naked, but not doing anything like masturbating or dildos or any of that shit. No penis-in-vagina porn, nothing like that. To be honest almost all of the “porn” I...

Gaming and porn (though night and day when it comes to the damage they do to your brain) have similarities. Novelty, fast rewards, ever-increasing challenges that move in lock-step with the size of the rewards are some of them. I have observed two schools of thought. One is that gaming is...

Dear, i am 27 years old now. And ever since i was like 11 years old i mastrubate for like 2-4 times a day. i used to have great and rock hard erections during sex but now for a few years i keep having problems with 70% hard erections. When i change positions it goes limp. i read that tight...

Current streak: 614 days no PMO, semen retention Fasting If you control the need to eat controlling the need to PMO becomes way easier. It'll help the body and mind heal faster from PIED and fetishes. I advice 7 day water fast and if longer be sure you are healthy. I also do a once a week water...

Hello, [Trigger warning, my story will be told as honest as possible] I have been watching porn almost on a daily basis since I was 11-12 years old. It started with only pictures of nude women and quickly escalated to videos during the first year. During my third year of middle school...

So I suffer from pretty severe OCD (diagnosed) and I'm constantly getting bombarded with sexual intrusive thoughts/images, either from porn I've watched in the past or just sexual intrusive thoughts/images in general. No matter what I do I can't seem to shake these thoughts off. I've tried...

I had a 20 day streak and a week ago i relapsed because i had a lot of exams i felt frustrated and just watched one porn. Then it kept going and going and last week thru monday to tuesday i watched a lot of fucked up stuff i used to watch. i didnt watched anything after that but i was still...

Self respect, freedom, search of truth and health. And for you?

I have been an OCD patient for a long time. I have been suffering from POCD for a while. Recently I was browsing the homepage of a porn site. I saw a video, the girl's face was invisible, but her body was petite. Then unwanted thoughts came to my mind, but I previewed the video, just for a few...

I've been at it for 15 years. I started when I accidentally mistyped a songs website which took me to a porn website when I was in 7th grade and never permanently stopped. Last weekend I started reading the book Your Brain On Porn. And it jolted me into reality. One sentence of the book says...

Hello everyone, As the title says, for about 10 months, I've noticed a drop in sexual desire. When trying to have sex with my girlfriend, it didn't get fully erect and worse still didn't stay that way for long, which of course frustrated me. Yes, I've been watching porn for the last 10 years...

Okay I for some reason have developed this really bad habit and its killing me everytime I try to restart. I keep trying to look for loopholes in my blockers to see if there is the slightest chance that I can watch some good P. As JK Emezi on youtube said You already know when you are going to...

Well here we are yet again........ Ya know most of these relapse posts are people venting about how angry they are at themselves for relapsing. I am usually one of those but I am going to try something different this time. I am going to look at the positives. I have made some huge progress this...

What if every time you bust a nut watching porn a child is born and you'll have to pay child support until he/she is 18 years old. This will end porn addiction for sure.

Hey everyone! I've been in recovery for sometime now, and it's about time I get a sex therapist. I've been looking around for sex therapists that can treat/are experienced in porn addiction, but without much luck. I was wondering if anyone has any ideas about where to find a good (accredited...

This may be a slightly long read but it’s because i want to let you know all the details as I’m in DIRE NEED for HELP. So I’m a brown guy around 22, Pretty muscular and a handsome dude. I’ve never had any issues flirting with and picking up girls. In fact they’ve even admitted to me that I was...

Have you ever been tired of failing over and over again with overcome this addiction? These urges are killing me! I have been watching mast., porn and hookers over 10 years. I have been reduced doing all that activity. What I mean being sick of tired of being tired is putting all the effort to...

Current streak: 437 days no PMO, semen retention The main reason porn is bad is you are mixing a physical activity (sex) with a mental activity(porn) A woman with emotional burden, a psychological trauma, specially related to sex or romantic love and has this memories constantly in her mind...

iam 20 and I started researching about nofap, retention, no pmo and about brain on porn last year and i started several times without proper knowledge so i relapse several times due to no reason. its just a try but i started again last week with proper knowledge about how to do it because i...

This is my 4th attempt at a reboot. I originally started the program because of issues with my relationship. My porn addiction ended up escalating and I was in chat rooms I should not have been in. Now I have pending charges based upon what was sent in that group and what I had at home. I lost...

Hey, I'm Joe, 16 years old. I started NOFAP back in September and it has helped me. Before I was fighting the urge, and the longest streak I had was 18 days. I am no longer counting the days, and I have realized that I should not fight the urge, but learn to manage it and use it. I now have...

Hi, I'm pretty new to NoFap, but I've been doing a lot of research lately, and something I've become well aware of over the past few weeks is how unhealthy scrolling and scrolling when you watch porn until you find the "perfect video" is, and how it feeds into a person's addiction to novelty...

Current streak: 380 days no PMO, semen retention More than a decade ago I almost did 3 years streak of no PMO, semen retention and no sex. When I started the streak I was obsessed into getting in medical school and learning to play the violin. That was my only focus I was distracted by nothing...

Counter: 378 days no PMO, semen retention It's been some weeks since I started to make cold approaches, it's my first time doing it. I used to be more into dating apps. So far it's being a success and I've become better and better as I do it more. But after the first approach to a girl I...

Hey guys, I'm new here but I was motivated to join after what happened. Yesterday was my 21st birthday and I decided it would be funny if I joined a cam girl website (Chaturbate), considering I've had a relatively healthy porn habit and could handle it, (I know a lot of you don't agree that...