No PMO: 90 Day Challenge Completed

Hi everyone,

I just completed my 90 Days of NoPMO and I thought that I'd share my story. Before I dive into my experience and opinion of it, I just want to preface my story to say that one of the main reasons I decided to do this is not because I have anxiety or because I felt like I watched too much porn growing up. Although both of these are true, the main reason I took on the 90 days was because I have been taking part in a lot of challenges and bets to improve my overall health. For example before my NoPMO challenge, I took part in 30 days of sobriety, 30 days of eating healthy (calorie deficit, no eating out, etc), and one month I made a bet with a friend to run 15 times in the month of April. So long story short, I like challenges.

Ok. So, I stumbled upon NoPMO on accident somehow. I don't really remember how exactly. I think my friend tried to not masturbate for a time period and then I decided to google it and see if there were actually any benefits related to not masturbating. When I found this forum, I was astounded by the success in all of the different aspects of life. People were coming out of depression, getting smarter, becoming more successful, and curing more ideologically related issues such as Porn Induced Erectile Dysfunction. When I discovered all of these things I jokingly sent a few forums to my friend because WOW some of these success stories seem exaggerated. I'm pretty sure I read one where buddy said he could lift a car and felt like he could fly. Regardless of the overemphasized success, I was interested. How could this many people report such crazy amounts of success? How has noone heard of this? How could I not try it? This is where my story begins.

Although I was VERY skeptical, I decided to try it out to see how I felt. Whats the worst that could happen? A few wet dreams? Just for reference, I did hard mode which means no porn, no masturbation, no orgasm, and no sex. I'm not gonna lie there were times that were definitely tough. I noticed the first month was difficult and days leading up to wet dreams were a little difficult. I can only assume because I was reaching maximum capacity, but what do I know I'm not a doctor. Haha. It was also difficult as I felt like I had to avoid social media at times as a lot of posts are very close to porn, but besides that it was not too difficult for me. It was mainly a lot of discipline and self-restraint.

Ok here is what I learned from NoPMO. I learned that you do not NEED masturbation or orgasms to get by in day to day life. It does not necessarily make you happier. However, I did not find it makes you less happy. I did not really notice much of a change in terms of happiness when I stopped PMOing. That being said, I do not and did not suffer from depression or any mentally depressing ailment. In addition, one success I found is that you totally have more time for other things when you don't masturbate. I don't mean I need less sleep or I have more drive for other things BECAUSE I'm not masturbating, but rather just the time originally put towards masturbating can be put towards other things. Before NoPMO, I might take 30 mins or 5 mins to masturbate depending on the day or the porno. I also didn't masturbate every day, mainly just when I'd find time and had an urge. Now the biggest thing I think someone can take away from NoPMO is merely the discipline to do it. Discipline is not something everyone has, and I think it is the reason a lot of people on this forum have success in other aspects of life. The self-restraint and discipline in one aspect of life (no pmo) reflects into other aspects of life (work, school, diet, gym, etc). With NoPmo it is all about resisting urges and finding will power to say no to things that you want to do that may be unhealthy. Discipline is a great trait to have in general and resisting from PMOing is an excellent way to build this. So to sum up, I learned I don't need to masturbate to be happy, It gives me a little more time in my days, and I feel like I found a greater level of discipline.

Sadly, I didn't find any superpowers like some people say they found. I didn't cure my anxiety (I believe this stems from other aspects of life). I didn't get smarter. I didn't have more success with women. I didn't get stronger. I didn't acheive more confidence. I didn't see much of a difference at all. I don't know if I necessarily needed help in any of the aspects noted above as I am pretty well off and am extremely grateful for it. Sure I have some anxiety, but that's about it. I'm in a good spot. I'm confident, social, have a degree, decent with women, and I work out regularly. I can totally see where introducing discipline, self-restraint, and challenges can better multiple facets of life. However, I did not see any of these successes myself.

Again, this is all just my opinion of the process and I apologize if it seems as though I am bragging about my life. This is not my intention. If you got some "superpowers" doing this, all of the power to you. That's awesome! Good for you! I'm just sharing my experience of NoPmo. Moving forward, I do not think I will be continuing the no masturbating, but I feel like cutting out porn is still a good idea as I have had past girlfriends dislike that I watch it. So that's a good habit to keep up. Further, I will also be attempting another challenge to better myself soon. I'm either planning to do Jia Jiangs rejection therapy: 100 days of rejection (Check it out on YouTube it's awesome!) Or 100 days of doing something that scares me every day. They are kind of similar but hey it prolongs the challenges. Oh ya another one I'm doing for discipline is not cutting my hair for a year. That's gonna be tough but I believe in myself haha.

Anyways, thank you for reading. I look forward to your comments.

 

Thank you. . I tried to be fairly open and honest about it. I wish something crazy happened that I could share but it didn't. I wanted to quit porn so this was also helpful in that aspect which I didn't really include in my original post. My ex-gfs had issues with me watching porn which I kind of disregarded. I don't want it to be an issue in future ones. So that's another big positive is cutting out the porn.