hey!

just in. still finding out how this works

 

why cant i see the signature?

 

it feels great. I have always had weird coincidences in my life. Until 3 days back, even after being a doctor, i didnt know that excessive PMO could lead to ED. And yesterday, after i became a member of the NoFap fraternity, a friend confided in me that he had ED like symptoms and found it hard to be aroused even with porn. I explained to him the findings from the great porn experiment and advised him that it is reversible and all he has to do for now is try hard in giving up porn. felt good to help someone with what i knew.

 

Just had this incredible urge. I must admit that it felt like i would break it. I would have. If it wasn't for this community.
Hey, blackstones! welcome man!
And the only reason I could hold back now was reading the success stories of the Fapstronauts.
And I thought I would tell my story as well because I found that reading stories that I could relate to helped me.

 

I am a doctor. I am 25 years old. I am from India. I started MOing at 15. I know that it may seem surprising. But back where I live, porn wasn't that available(i consider it a good thing). I discovered the miracle of MO(ha ha) by myself on an exam eve. Since then, I regularly MO'd. But I didnt watch porn back then. This was mainly because of the lack of availability. In fact I had very little exposures to hardcoreporn till i was 18.5 years old. Then, porn CDs became available and then India had its mobile phone explosion. Then, internet became faster and then it was everywhere. I consider myself lucky that I didnt get exposed to hardcore stuff that young. I have been regularly MOing since I was 15. Due to y faith, i thought it was something wrong and would try as a teenager to quit every now and then. I succeeded very little. A few days at the most.
My longest streak was 30 days which I achieved in 2012, when I had embarked on a 40plus day journey across India. I broke the streak at day 30 mainly because I got scared from the plateauing. I didnt know it was just a phase. I used to watch '21st century guide to sex' for maintaining an errection every now and then, so that I could be assured that everything was still working. At the end of 30 days or 31 , I couldnt take it any more and stopped my streak. I had noticed many things at that point. That it was easier to get hard, that hardcore stuff was a bit repelling at first etc. It wasas if my mind had beacome a bit cleansed.
Since then I would occasionally go without it for 4 or 5 days. But I never had a reason to quit PMO until I saw the 'great porn experiment' ted talk, which i found out while searching 'porn' in youtube! That video scared the shit out of me. After some more searching, I found NoFap and here I am.
I had always assumed porn was a problem of the teens.Then I thought it would go away by early 20s. And now that I'm heading for my late 20s, i wondered when I would stop.And then i saw in the forums that men 40+ are still struggling with the same and i fully understood that what I'm fighting against is an addiction.
I am a virgin. I know what you guys are thinking. Its not that weird in India to be one till you are married. And so, I will be entering the hard mode!!

 

thank you vertigo!
I've reset my counter to include edging as well. I wasn't doing it anyway. Didn't know how to use the counter!

 

day 5

i have started working out. feeling good. as a possible side-effect, i'm flirting more. and it feels just wonderful.

 

day 6
it was much easier than the previous days. and i'm now flirting away shamelessly with real life girls. and i'm working out. and i am preparing hard for the exams ahead.