I am working towards thirty days and I am getting super sensitive if I come across anything remotely provocative. I do well staying away from porn but now and then something stimulating pops into view and something else pops up downstairs...if you know what I mean And I mean instantly....I get a rush a of stimulation. I am hoping this is a good thing but man the longer I don't fap the more intense this is getting. If it keeps going this way I feel like I might explode without even doing anything. Anyone else getting this. Will it level out should I start carrying tissue with me (jokes)
I remember getting an erection some month ago from looking at a young chick in a skirt at my local grocer arranging things on a rack. I felt like a rapist or a pervert at best. Day ~60 here.
You have to fight it, its the world working against you! your here for a reason, you can do it dbubman were all in this together
I've had this problem and there is a simple answer, that is stop looking at it all. Of course you'll notice billboards or tv shows that have provocative imagery but noticing is a whole different beast from looking. Every time you feel the need to look, to search, that is a pathway in your brain who wants to be strengthened by you submitting to the desire, every time that pathway is strengthened then you goals get a little bit harder to achieve. Have you ever been in an argument where you realise that the person you're arguing with is only saying things to get a rise out of you and as soon as you don't take the bait they become frustrated and you win the argument? That's what your brain is doing with the multitude if stimuli out there and as soon as you deny your brain what it desires, you knock it down a peg (and the bigger desire you resist the bigger knock it takes I like to think. I like to remember the Rorschach quote 'never compromise, not even in the face of Armageddon', even if it is slightly over the top). It's tough and hard and sometimes even a little boring but it does work, I think at least. Fact is that there are no quick fixes with porn, you either give it everything you've got or nothing at all. The most important thing of all is that you take all that energy you normally expend in looking and you use it in another way, a better way, like talking to someone instead of staring at them, like devoting yourself to the person you're already with or some other thing to be figured out by you.
My sensitivity after 8 days is better. I wouldn't say it's an insane amount more sensitivity but it's a clear improvement already.
