I believe I have discovered something profound - for those dealing with fetishes

The problem I'd been having during my streaks was the fetish. I fap to fetish porn so I took up NoFap to get rid of that.

Now for a while every time I relapsed it was to fetish porn. I wanted the normal sex drive. Well lately I tried something and noticed something profound.

I changed my diet to shed some pounds and I ate quite low calorie (about 1,000 below maintenance). For a few days, all horny thoughts disappeared, but then they started to re-appear. But this time the thoughts that re-appeared were more vanilla thoughts, instead of fetish ones.

In my previous streak, it took a few months to get rid of the fetish, and I had to battle the urges. I was eating at maintenance, but now this time, it's almost as if a sharp 1000+ calorie deficit has sped up my reboot.

What I think is happening is that the urges go away once I eat less, but on days where I eat back at normal calories they'll come back. Urges that re-appear after maintenance are vanilla ones, not fetish ones.

Obviously this isn't healthy but it may be helpful for those who are desperate.