Why am i having more sexual thoughts?

Discussion in 'Rebooting - Porn Addiction Recovery' started by Ghost101, Apr 26, 2024.

  1. Ghost101

    Ghost101 Fapstronaut

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    I haven't watched porn in 2 months, yet I'm having more sexual thoughts then ever. I'm also imagining women naked constantly when I see them walk me by.
    I'm worried I'm become a creep. What's wrong with me?
     
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  2. go easy on yourself, brother. Your P brain is going to be working overtime trying to re-hook you back into the addiction. It's fiending for the dopamine and looking for ways to trick you and sabotage you back into wanking to pixelated fantasy women.

    Most men are "creeps" since most men watch disgusting, violent porn and justify it as "normal." What are you doing that is "creepy"? Staring at someone too long? having lustful thoughts? That's called being human.
    As time passes and you practice sobriety, this will fade.

    I suggest limiting exposure to any sexual stimuli if you can, especially social media stuff. You may be getting triggered by a lot of things youre not conscious of. Also, I find it helps a lot to read stuff on womens perspectives- blogs, articles, (safe) videos, whatever. - if you humanize women more and listen to them, your brain is less likely to view them as objects. In my experience.
     
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    Once we get full control of our brains, it will serve us way better. Just think about this.
     
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    In my experience, less intentional engagement with erotic stuff tends to increase involuntary activity, like fantasizing about nearby women which is creepy btw but we're not responsible for intrusive thoughts, just what we do with them.

    The reason why is just a hypothesis. I think the body requires a minimum amount of dopamine to stay sane. If we don't get enough, the joy gets sucked out of life and we want to kill ourselves. So you stop looking at porn which generates a lot of dopamine and after a while your baseline gets low, and your brain wants to bring those levels up so it goes to the thing that earned it a lot of dopamine before; porn. If you have sufficient discipline and willpower to avoid the prompts for porn, your brain starts turning things that aren't normally porn into porn, and your intrusive thoughts get even more creepy than when you were using, since your brain is now trying to turn every woman it sees into a sexual object.

    The answer is also a hypothesis, but for me it seems to work. You've got to look for a different source of dopamine. I have two proposals, both rooted in exercise.

    First, I run. I know, running sucks. If I do it every day, though, urges and creepy thoughts reduce. Other guys lift, if that works for you that's fantastic, go for it, but I find running is pretty easy. Hydrate, put on my shoes and go, very little prep or fuss.
    Second, jujitsu. I know it might not be available, and it might be too expensive, but if you can pull it off jujitsu is an excellent discipline to get into. It's exercise, you're touching people, you're cooperating with people, using your brain and your body, competing, but at the same time learning how to put your ego aside. Go long enough and you get to be part of the community. It's an excellent balance of competition and cooperation, I can't recommend it highly enough.

    There are loads of other ways to get dopamine. Touch grass, do something creative, listen to music, eat some good food, clean your room, the possibilities are endless. I strongly recommend running or some other form of exercise in your daily routine, and then supplementing that with some other positive behavior when you get the urge/find yourself objectifying women. You need to reinterpret that signal from thinking "I am a creep" to "my brain is asking for dopamine," and take appropriate action. If you do that often enough, your brain is going to retrain into understanding that porn is not a good source of dopamine anymore, but there are other viable options and it will start prompting you for those instead.
     
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