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Discussion in 'New to NoFap' started by Nate007, Mar 18, 2014.

  1. Nate007

    Nate007 Fapstronaut

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    YOU DONT HAVE TO READ THE WHOLE THING BUT A COMMENT OR TWO WOULD BE EXTREMELY APPRECIATED THANKS :)

    Hi!

    I am 15 and have been playing with myself since around the age of 7. I had my first wet dream when I was 11 and have been masturbating ever since. I masturbate on average 4 to 5 times a week, sometimes i masturbate more and sometimes less. I have tried stopping before and have never been able to abstain for over a weekend a half. I believe that part of sexual health could potentially involve the odd masturbation but I am doing it to much in my opinion. Another reason for joining NoFap (aside from curbing my masturbation habit) is that I have a bit of a bend to my penis that has evolved over time, it is only about 15 degrees and decreases when I have a hard one but it still worries me abit and I attribute it to my masturbation habit. (I have read that lots of guys have bent penises so it doesn't bother me to much.)

    Now for the real reason that drove me to join NoFap. The number one reason that i have joined NoFap is because I have experimented with porn and I am really ashamed of it. The first time that i started to look at pictures of women on the internet was when I was 11. I just did it a few times and all I looked at were pictures of women in bikinis. Then I stopped (looking at women on the web) for almost a year. A year later though I did it again, this time I found some late night porn shows when I was staying with my gram and I couldn't control myself, I would masturbate to them on average twice a night. I did this maybe 8 times over a three week period. After each time watching the late night porn shows I would feel like complete crap and vow never to do it again. Well when I got back from my grams I stopped watching porn and went back to occasionally looking at bikini girls on the web. this occasional viewing went on for about a year. Then in the second half of grade 7 a friend googled pictures of a hockey team and found a picture on a naked girl in the results. Well I went home and found that picture and masturbated to it. I wasn't quite sure what I thought of it but over the next 6 months it became a habit that when I would get home from school I would go on the computer and look at pictures of women in various stages of undress. Than the summer came around and I went back to my grams, and once again I ended up masturbating to late night porn shows. Well after coming home from my grams I vowed to never watch or look at pornographic content again. That vow lasted about a month and before I knew it I was back in school and was back into my old habit of looking at women on the net almost every evening. It was during this year (grade 8) that I discovered sports illustrated swimsuit models. I continued this habit of jazzing to pics of nearly naked women on the web until the fall of grade 9 where it went a step further. It was during that autumn that I found page 3 british glamour models. Now I was masturbating to truly naked women with fake unnatural breasts. I only looked at the glamour models about 4 or 5 times because I would get so ashamed each time that I did it. I continued to masturbate to bikini clad women throughout grade 9. It was during the spring of grade 9 that I discovered Chive.com and Tapiture; these two sites are basically soft porn (barely any nudity) but they still reduce women to objects that men drool over and objectify. These two websites became my sources of arousal during the summer leading up to grade 10 (2013).

    Well in grade 10 I decided to quit public school and (legally) become a home schooled kid. With the support of my parents that is what I did. well in september I got into playboy a couple of times and watched my first ever striptease. I was super ashamed of myself and this is when I decided to start stopping completely. well each attempt would only last a few weeks. In november I discovered that Bing(the search engine) did not save your history and had a video search that brought up porno's from different websites. I watched more striptease in november and then I decided to quit and this time I really tried my hardest. Well it lasted until christmas breach when I looked at strip teases again. Then I vowed to stop again. This time it worked and I went back to watching sports illustrated swimsuit videos. I would watch these videos on average 2 times a week. this continued until a couple of weeks ago on march break. During this weeks I decided to stop masturbating and doing anything on the web that I would not do if my mom was in the room (watch stripteases). Well it worked until this past saturday when I had two wet dreams in one night. I only wet dream when I don't masturbate for over 6 days so this was the first time that I had wet dreamed since last september. I thought that two wet dreams in one night was a bit much but I was still determined to see how long I could last without masturbating. Well I was really horny for the rest of the weekend; then yesterday morning after my workout I went to the washroom to go poop and I masturbated while on the toilet. I was pretty bummed out by the fact that I had masturbated but I was able to recover: or sort of. I say sort of because later that day I ended up watching strip teases for about 3 hours. the longest period of time that I have ever spent looking at pornographic material. At the ned of which I masturbated. I also noticed that my penis really hurt from being hard for 3 hours straight and I doubt that it was healthy. Well I wrote six pages in my journal last night describing how I would never let myself do something like that again. This morning however I ended up doing the same thing that I did yesterday; masturbating to a strip tease (on Bing videos). After I masturbated I knew that my will power alone would not stop me from watching porn again. With this in mind I decided to go looking for help. It is than that I stumbled across this community :).

    I am seriously considering telling my parents about all this (I have never told anyone before) but I don't have the balls yet and I come from a family that has a deep respect for women and believes that pornography is extremely unethical and disrespectful (ideas that I believe in full heartedly) so I am going to try to use the support that I find in this community to change my habits and illuminate the only real vice in my life.
    I have never actually been on a porn site (pornhub etc) but that doesn't mean that I have not struggled. Porn is not the only part of my life. I also have been woodcarving birds for 5 years, take blacksmithing classes, sail and row in the summers, go for really long hikes in the woods and help out around the house and hang out with my family daily.

    I would really love if someone would take the time to read this and reply to it, it would really boost my self confidence and reinforce the fact that what I am doing is the right thing to do. I know that this post is long and their might be another forum where people post their life stories but I have not found it yet. I have never told anyone any of the information in the above story before, so it takes a lot of guts for me to post this. I will probably regret the decision to post this story to a public forum but I know that nothing will change in my life if I don't post it and become an active member in this NoFap community. Last but not least I would ask that if you cannot treat this post with respect then would you please not reply and leave it alone.
     
    Last edited: Mar 18, 2014
  2. Just letting you know wet dreams don't count as fapping. They are natural, healthy, and something you can't control. They are also just part of going through NoFap. Enjoy your wet dreams!
     
  3. Nate007

    Nate007 Fapstronaut

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    I have no way of controlling when they happen and there part of life as you said so I have no worries about them. Thanks!
     
  4. Nate007

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    Thanks for the advice chase, Im gonna try the cold showers, sounds like a good idea. You have a 1 day head start on me but I challenge you to reach Base Camp (100 days without PMO) before me :)
     
  5. freedomwarrior

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    Nate, welcome to the best place on Earth. Thanks for sharing. You are a brave man for doing so. No worries on this site. Everyone is respectful and understanding.

    How in the world do you remember all the historical details from all those years? You amaze me.

    Telling parents, huh? For what reason? You need to determine what you want to gain from telling your parents. I am not saying it is a good idea or a bad idea, just that you need understand your motivation behind telling them.

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  6. AnythingIsPossible

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    Couldn't help but butt on this, as a parent FW, would you want your kid to tell you? I mean obviously you're biased but you'd want to know whatever was causing your child to be upset right? Personally I'd love to be able to confide in my mum, I'm sure she'd understand but it would change the way she looked at me, it's difficult to tell whether it'd be for the better or worse and I guess the risk is too great.

    Also welcome back :)
     
  7. freedomwarrior

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    Jakob, Absolutely, with a doubt, I would want my kid, son or daughter, to be able to confide in me and share with me any pain or heartache in their life just as easily as they would share a joy.

    Nate knows his parents better than we do. I hope and pray his parents would lend a listening ear and support him. Nate can preface his parent talk by saying he is struggling with a problem and needs some help and ask his parents to help him or get him the help he needs. He needs to tell his parents what he neeeds from them...a listening ear...no computer in the bedroom...no time home alone on the weekends...more chores...K9 filters...love and hugs...etc. His parents probably have never done this before either, so probably are no more of an expert than my parents. If his parents are the loving, supportive, non-judgemental parents, Nate could probably speak easily and share with them. It can be very bonding. If his parents are not, Nate already knows that.

    Said another way, a parent talk cannot just be....Dad/Mom, I have a problem and I need some help. I watch porn on the internet. It needs to be deeper, to include...And I need some help and am hoping you can help me, or know someone who can help me.

    Nate, you have already told us. If you are even thinking about telling your parents, you probably already know they will offer you love and support. If you doubted thae love and support, you probably would not be thinkking about telling them.

    If telling them seems like too big of a mountain to climb, you can put your words on paper and either read it to them or give it to them to read. Keep it short and simple and to the point. Too many details to begin with can be hard to handle. You have all the details in your head because you have lived it. Your parents do not.

    If you need new parents, let me know.

    FW
     
  8. AnythingIsPossible

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    FW I hope your kids realise that they can come to you and tell you anything. I also hope that you tell them they can. Speaking truthfully, I wish more than anything in the world that my dad would tell me he loved me, and that I could tell him anything and he'd still love me. You might think they already know it FW but please go into their rooms or whatever and tell them this now. I'm crying haha, I just know how much it would have meant to me if he'd actually spoken the words and said it.
     
  9. HiFlyerPeter

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    Nate, as you can probably tell from previous replies, everyone on this forum is here to help each other, so I won't spend too much time reiterating that point. I hope you don't regret posting your story; I wish a community like this had been around when I was your age as it might have saved me some difficult years. Having been in your position not too long ago, I'll give you my two cents on the subject: When I have kids one day, I hope that they would be able to come to me if they had a problem like this. I didn't (and still don't) have that kind of relationship with my parents and as a result it took me over 13 years (!) to finally admit to myself, let alone anyone else, that I had a problem. Now, no one here can tell you whether or not to tell your parents; that's a decision that you need to make yourself. However, here are some points to consider from someone who's been there before:
    1. If you go to your parents willingly, you're already telling them that you know you have a problem. I'm sure they'll be upset (or at the very least surprised), but they'll probably also admire you for taking the first step. If they catch you in the act, they'll just be upset and may be more focused on punishing you rather than helping you.
    2. Don't make them do all the work. Come up with ways in which you can overcome this and share them with your parents. In this way you're taking the lead and simply asking for your parents' assistance.
    3. It may not always seem like it, but your parents really do want what's best for you.
    4. If I had gone to my parents for help when I was your age, I might have saved myself 8 years of porn addiction.
     
  10. HiFlyerPeter

    HiFlyerPeter Fapstronaut

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    Kudos! I'm out on my own now and I'm still afraid to tell my parents certain things. To all the parents (and future parents) out there, make sure to TELL your kids that they can come to you with anything. Don't assume that they know!
     

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