Addicted to bondage porn, could rebooting help me change this?

Discussion in 'Rebooting - Porn Addiction Recovery' started by Looking for advice, Jan 29, 2020.

  1. Looking for advice

    Looking for advice New Fapstronaut

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    Ever since I can remember I've enjoyed seeing women tied up. I must have been as young as 7 when I realised this. For some reason I was drawn to the whole "damsel in distress" theme when watching TV or reading books. This eventually led to me viewing bondage porn when I was around 12, and I have carried on this habit for 9 years.

    The initial videos were only light hearted, there was often no nudity or sex. The bondage in the videos got more intense as I got older, but I have never been appealed to anything involving pain. The porn I watch still rarely contains sexual acts, as in there's no penetration, more focused on restraint. I have watched these videos routinely, a minimum of once a week over 9 years.

    Now to the reason I'm posting. I hate this fetish. It is preventing me from having meaningful relationships with women and I feel shame after watching it. I don't want to pursue anything like this in real life but at the same time am not attracted to the thought of having sex with my partners. This mindset has ruined several relationships and caused a lot of embarrassment. This is awful because other aspects of past relationships have been great, I've connected really well with people, but a relationship can only go so far without intimacy. I never want to tell my partners about the underlying reason so I've always came up with excuses. At this point I have started actively avoiding relationships.

    Could NoFap solve this problem? Is there still a possibility of maintaining a normal vanilla relationship in the future? Has anyone else had any experience with a problem similar to this? This is my first time ever telling anyone my story, its not something that you can discuss with people close to you. I just really want to make a change and don't think I can do it alone.

    Any advice?
     
  2. dogeatdog

    dogeatdog Fapstronaut

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    Supposedly after 90 days, your brain will experience a full 'reboot'. This means that your brain should no longer entertain the idea of PMO excessively and should reverse the effects of years of PMO on your brain. So doing a full reboot or going even longer should bring you back to the way you were before this kink.
     
  3. magic05

    magic05 Fapstronaut

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    I'm still an addict who is in his early days of nofap, but I can tell you this experience:

    When I was in my youth (14-21) I was heavily addicted to very rough, fetish porn, including BDSM, really degrading stuff. At 21 I slowly switched to "regular" amateur porn, still heavily addicted, but to more tame porn. I'm 29 now and my desire for very rough fetish porn dwindled, much less arousing now. It was a porn-induced fetish. I highly suspect the same will happen to you once you switch (or even better quit altogether).

    However, it sounds like you had this preference already before you watched any porn? In this case, it could also be just a part of your sexuality that you want to experience in reality. You shouldn't suppress it if it's genuinely part of your desires. But you can only find out if you quit porn. I also had a preference (foot fetishism) that I developed already before porn. Of course porn strongly enforced it, but after quitting/switching I realized that it's just a natural preference.
     
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