Abstinence for 3 weeks increases testosterone in healthy men [17]. Which is good, considering average testosterone for us guys has been dropping by about 1% per year for the last 30 years [18].
Sex (not orgasm) increases testosterone by up to 72% [19,20]. Sex-related thoughts boost it too. I had a lot more of both when I abstained – my sex drive was off the charts. Abstinence can also lead to greater life satisfaction and, oddly, more attention from women. No studies for these, but there is a lot of personal and anecdotal evidence.
Watching porn is a lot of intense, rapid-fire sexual gratification. It’s also a lot of dopamine flooding into your brain.
The problem is that your brain isn’t equipped to handle that kind of stimulation [1,2]. It responds to porn much like it does to cocaine or alcohol – a big rush of pleasure, with diminishing returns over time [1,2]. And like with addictive drugs, porn seems to cause tolerance. In a survey of 434 people, half of them eventually began watching porn they used to consider disgusting or unappealing [3]. They turned to more intense scenarios to get them off.
A good theory is that the more you watch porn, the more stimulation you need to turn you on. Seems likely – regular porn users have smaller, less responsive reward pathways [4], and a study found that 60% of men who watch porn regularly couldn’t get erect with a real partner, while they did with porn [5].
In other words: when you’re used to watching three French maids in a room together, the thought of sex with your wife may stop being enough to excite you. Quitting porn can reset your arousal and get you back in touch with real, intimate sex.
Not convinced that porn is that big a deal? Try ditching it for a month. It might be more difficult than you expect.
Can relate, starting watching vanilla thinking it was extremely hot, now I'm watching femdom toilet slavery even though I would never act on it nor do I crave it irl
Help me it can't be stopped
Joshua Nguyen
Good stuff. Thanks for the post.
Charles Walker
DONOT DO THIS after three weeks no fap I could smell every girls hair in my lecture hall I even started playing with some of theirs I approached a girl I liked and told her "I need to Fuck right now, come with me" at school We were cool, she even liked me back a bit But after that she told me never to talk to her again No fap will make you crazy
Jaxson Nguyen
>"I need to Fuck right now, come with me" at school Woah, leave some for the rest of us, stud.
Caleb Bailey
Yeah but now she thinks about you when she masturbates and gets wet when you are around.
Austin Baker
I am doing it right now. Day 5/90 of no cum (and of course no porn/edge either). After 90 days I will have normal sex, and hopefully not struggle anymore to quit porn/fapping.
Brody Reyes
Holy shit, is this how you obtain studmode?
Christopher Collins
what a stuck up bitch!
Juan Cruz
bump
Noah Ward
nocumlets cant recover
Grayson Carter
>be high test and gap regularly >tfw no gf >don't cum for 3 weeks >test skyrockets even more Do you want me to rape someone? I jerk off for the sake of others not myself.
Luke Brown
the trick is to channel this energy into something creative, user
its called sex transmutation
Jason Perry
sex energy transmutation*
Hudson Sanchez
I'm in baka
Gabriel Ward
I edge everyday but dont cum. Does this count? I have no sex drive because im quasimodo with gains and i hate myself.
John Jackson
Shut your faggot ass up
Wyatt Jenkins
Fuck, I lost. Okay here we go again. This time is serious.
Anthony Young
How long does it take to 'reset' I just want to be able to get a boner during sex
Owen Martinez
7 till 30 days
Jason Edwards
I get this feel. I really wanted to fight someone or fuck a hole into something. Just exert myself until that energy is released.
After a short nocum session I need a few cums to chill the fuck out. One never does it.