It's been 7 days of me not watching porn, be it videos, pictures, ecchi manga, hentai or anything else. Wanted to share with others.
1) After the first couple of days, my libido has gone down considerably. I'm not horny for majority of the day anymore, I no longer instantly pull a r34 whenever I see a girl in any medium (still haven't gone outside to test... that will happen in a couple of days cuz I have an exam).
2) I feel mostly numb. If I were to give an accurate description, it's like I cannot be made to feel emotions for a meaningful amount of time by anything. I can't even feel sadness listening to depressing songs.
3) While I gooned for usually 3-4 hours a day (in 2-3 sessions), I have more time in my hands now. Still, I haven't been doing much of anything besides mining from manga but I think that is a separate issue of mine, that of never being able to consistently cultivating my hobbies. I am not sure whether quitting porn will have some kind of effect on that, and I do not really expect it to have it either.
4) Possibly unrelated, but my hunger has considerably diminished, and probably my GERD has acutized once more.
5) I have had trouble getting an erection (keeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek), so I have basically nofapped for the past week.
6) I feel like I am no longer attracted towards some of the more extreme fetishes I used to masturbate to. Might just be a hallucination doe.
7) I still feel more overall attraction to anime/manga characters than real people. Don't know if that is a result of frequent hentai consumption and my social isolation or not (though instinctually it seems more likely to be due to these factors).
Decided to quit because of the shit it does to your brain and because I have realized it eats away a lot of time where I could be studying for exams. Perhaps it starts improving other aspects of my self like the total lack of capacity of maintaining hobbies consistently even though I like dedicating time to them, or my (nearly non-existent) self esteem. Even just refreshing the dopaminergic system would be enough.
1) After the first couple of days, my libido has gone down considerably. I'm not horny for majority of the day anymore, I no longer instantly pull a r34 whenever I see a girl in any medium (still haven't gone outside to test... that will happen in a couple of days cuz I have an exam).
2) I feel mostly numb. If I were to give an accurate description, it's like I cannot be made to feel emotions for a meaningful amount of time by anything. I can't even feel sadness listening to depressing songs.
3) While I gooned for usually 3-4 hours a day (in 2-3 sessions), I have more time in my hands now. Still, I haven't been doing much of anything besides mining from manga but I think that is a separate issue of mine, that of never being able to consistently cultivating my hobbies. I am not sure whether quitting porn will have some kind of effect on that, and I do not really expect it to have it either.
4) Possibly unrelated, but my hunger has considerably diminished, and probably my GERD has acutized once more.
5) I have had trouble getting an erection (keeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek), so I have basically nofapped for the past week.
6) I feel like I am no longer attracted towards some of the more extreme fetishes I used to masturbate to. Might just be a hallucination doe.
7) I still feel more overall attraction to anime/manga characters than real people. Don't know if that is a result of frequent hentai consumption and my social isolation or not (though instinctually it seems more likely to be due to these factors).
Decided to quit because of the shit it does to your brain and because I have realized it eats away a lot of time where I could be studying for exams. Perhaps it starts improving other aspects of my self like the total lack of capacity of maintaining hobbies consistently even though I like dedicating time to them, or my (nearly non-existent) self esteem. Even just refreshing the dopaminergic system would be enough.
