For those who are wondering whether you can still have sex during a reboot, from my experience I would say yes. I'm 29, got a long term girlfriend. Started watching porn at 13 and was hooked and struggled with social anxiety until my early adult years. Was able to get a handle on it in my 20's when I cut down to once a week PMO where I'd reap the benefits of NoFap from Wednesday to Sunday and then binge all Sunday night and I'd be all socially anxious again until Wednesday. I'm also a POIS sufferer- After O I would find I get heavy brain fog for a few hours and then the next day I'm not so good with words, my voice is higher and shakey, I sneeze and break out into hives and I feel intense fatigue. I just always thought my social anxiety was caused by POIS as well until I recently decided to try giving up P and M while still having sex with my gf. I'm 13 days in and I've had sex with my girlfriend on 3 different days and I have almost no social anxiety the next day as if I never O'd. I still experience the other POIS symptoms such as brain fog and flu-like symptom but the crippling social anxiety is gone. I'm also lot more attracted to my girlfriend and other 'real' women as well. I guess all that dopamine binging from porn really is the cause for social anxiety, or mine at least. Hope this helps others wondering because I always questioned whether porn or orgasm was the real issue
Orgasm with a partner, especially an emotionally intimate one, is incredibly healthy. The only reason to avoid real sex with a committed partner would be if you need to reboot in order to restore full sexual functioning, OR if you get such a bad chaser effect that having sex drives you back to porn afterwards.
