"I decided that I'm going to become celibate."

Well, AvalancheMan, I don't know whether you address your request to me or someone else, but I'll try to answer.

I have no spiritual or moral objections to masturbation, but I do to porn. Although I wasn't addicted to it, and I didn't often use it during masturbation, I still enjoyed viewing it. I was subject to occasional all-night binges of watching ever-raunchier stuff, and I wasn't proud of that at all. I was also into uncummed edging (without porn), in a very big way. I didn't consider that a problematic addiction, but I knew that I needed to get free of the desire to look at porn. After stumbling onto NoFap and learning about it, I felt like giving it a try. I'd have to give up some stuff; but it would be a new and different sexual experience, and that also attracted me to it. Once into it, I found that I'd learned to like it. The feelings of self-mastery and accomplishment were amazing!

To use your terms, my brain is definitely wired to my parts! I've always had (and still have) a libido that I estimate to be somewhat stronger than average. (None of us can directly compare our libidos, but my testosterone has been measured at the high end of the normal range.) So, did I miss the physical pleasure and release of orgasm. Heck, yeah, but see my signature line in blue below! From the shared experiences of other Fapstronauts and YouTubers, I realized that I was beginning to redirect my sex drive into other things. I was getting things done. I exercised more. I lost 15 pounds that needed to go. I slept better. I wasn't viewing porn. I was a better and happier man. When I experimentally resumed masturbation (only three orgasms over 16 days), it wasn't nearly as fine as I had remembered. I had to ask myself, "Am I enjoying fapping as much as I enjoyed not fapping?" The clear answer was "No." Hence my decision to go back into fapstincence indefinitely. Nearly three months later, I'm still glad that I did. I'm a happy man!

You say that addicts don't recover by simply abstaining, but by addressing the behaviors that got them addicted in the first place. I don't know what that means, but maybe I wasn't actually addicted. I did need to change some behaviors thought, and I did. Someone once said that the way to break bad habits is to replace them with better habits. Maybe I'm now addicted to abstinence from P, M, and O. If so, I'm happy with it!

 

"Abstinence" is probably a more accurate word than "celibacy," but (as I explained in the opening post of the topic) they're no functional difference for me between Hard Mode no-PMO and celibacy. This is because I'm single, and I don't sleep around (the latter due to moral/religious reasons). As for whether I might fall in love... I'm something of a MGTOW, a happy loner; so I don't plan for that to happen.

 

I'm no expert, but my understanding is that a brahmachari (practitioner of brahmacharya) who has taken the vow before puberty and grows up schooled in the practice is permitted to marry about twelve years after puberty, if he wishes, but his vow of brahmacharya extends through his marriage as absolute fidelity to his wife in thought, word, and deed. Many brahmacharis choose to remain single for life, and a male may take the vow of brahmacharya at any age. Gandhi did so around age 37.