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Hello 24 year old guy in the US here. I've been on Nofap going on about 5 years now...but I never got past 38 days. That probably says a lot about how deep this addiction festers inside me. It's depressing how debilitated this addiction has left me. I'm currently on day 4 and honestly, this can't just be a streak this time, it has to be a lifestyle change. Not sure how deeply I should delve into my addiction on here or not...I've browsed a few threads on here where people talk about the same pmo-induced fetish that I have, and for some reason at least two of them went into unnecessarily, vivid detail almost as if they were trying to write an erotic story or something. I'm not sure how that's supposed to help but w/e. Anyways I've ranted long enough. I'll definitely be around here quite a bit!

 

Oh yeah, I definitely know agree that people that don't have the same fetish can be helpful. I was just a bit disheartened to see that a few posters here with the same fetish sort of mirrored enthusiasts on some websites catering to it. I was happy to see quite a few of Fapstronauts weren't entertaining it at all. Even if we don't share the exact affliction the symptoms are the same, and that's the common enemy. We gotta get through this.

 

Thanks for the warm welcome! I'm actually slightly lucky in the fact that seeing attractive women in yoga pants and stuff doesn't really trigger me unless the outfit is really skimpy, I'm talking like near pornographic levels of skimpiness, and the same thing with how the woman poses in pictures and stuff. But when I do come across pornographic images, it definitely does affect me quite strongly. I'm not sure if pornography cause OCD or not, I probably had it prior to porn use, but it definitely exacerbates it by far. And once I get sexual nude images, sexual stories in my head it's just a constant decline. Honestly, I can't do MO either, I've tried that in the past and it always leads back to justifying pornography use. I've done a bit of research on Semen Retention and I think even without pornography, that masturbating outside of the sexual activity with our partner, is squandering our potential. There's just much better things that we can be doing, that being said P is definitely the big bad wolf, I consider MO to be like pups haha. It's awesome that you overcame your porn dependence awesome job man! I hope I can overcome mine soon, right now my dependence for porn is invariably linked to my fetish, makes sense since that where my fetish came from. So giving even a moderate amount of of thought to that fetish causes me to really want to PMO. But whenever I get really strong urges, I'm just going to come right here and for encouragement. That really helps the desire die out.

 

Thanks Nico! This community is so nice and welcoming for the mosr part definitely feels like a place to call home. And great job with the 91 day streak dude! Keep it up.

Thanks for the encouragement. And yeah, I'm definitely getting through this, I've wasted way too much time on that poison. But woah 11 years no P, man that's really awesome. That greatly inspires me. You already beat the goliath now just have to clean up the rubble (MO) you definitely got this. You said you still have the fetishes, so I'm wondering were they porn induced or not?

 

Hi @Starshower, all the best to you! Feel free to join the 'The Matrix' challenge if you wish.