Edging

It doesn't matter, because if you let yourself be pushed that far, you will soon go all the way anyway.
Unless you make a real change right now.

 

It does matter. Especially if it's to P or any other artificial stimulus.

It is the stimulus (P, instagram pics, whatever) what makes us addicted. If you're edging, you're flooding your brain with dopamine, man. It's exactly the root of the problem right in there.

And of course, at the end you PMO all the way. But edging to P, pics, hot instagram babes, facebook friends... no matter what, is relapsing.

 

I actually have found that edging is worse than pmo. For me, personally, one of my main goals in the whole reboot process is to become more productive. With pmo, I may waste a little time (too much for sure), but with edging, it can go on forever. I can literally waste a weeks' worth of free time. My last binge was one of the worst I've endured in years, and edging played a big part. Of course, everyone is different, and everyone's goals are different. But for me I say thumbs down to the edging, it's just as bad, if not worse than pmo (for me... not judging at all!). Good luck with your goals!

 

You caught yourself edging? Was it one of those times where you were just playing with yourself a little without even being hard? Or were you actually M'ing close to O then stopping? The latter is what I consider edging.

 

I'm 100% with you man. One of my problems is that I edged way too much. For one fap I would spend one hour... That's why I have very clear that it's so bad and needs to be avoided.

I did a distinction list in another guy's thread. I'll paste it here:

• PMO: relapse.
• (Substitutes of P)MO: relapse.
• Edging to P or substitutes: relapse.
• Edging to sexy pics on Twitter, Instagram, etc: relapse.
• Watching P or substitutes: relapse.
• Watching sexy pics on Twitter, Instagram, etc: relapse.
• Fantasizing to P or substitutes: relapse.

• MO: That is NOT relapsing. Many guys count it as relapsing because especially at first it's recommended to do some weeks/months of hard-mode abstinence to break the old pattern. But that's up to your rules.
  [*]Edging without artificial stimulus (just M): That makes no sense, because my bet is guys who do that are also fantasizing, but in case they're not, it's just like MO.

That's not my take because I'm a nofap authority. That's based on understanding the root of the problem here, which is addiction and increasing tolerance to artificial stimuli:

http://youtu.be/EHHyt6z0osA