Originally Posted by Derwood

For various reasons, i decided Thursday night (10/30/08) to go cold turkey off of porn and masturbation. I was a daily (if not twice daily) masturbator and almost always used porn to get off. I felt like it was making me complacent about real sex, didn't really satisfy anything other than a physical urge, etc., etc.

So yeah, here I am, 4 days later. There are definitely some mild "withdrawal" symptoms, mostly mental I think. When you've been satisfying whatever mental/chemical urge your brain has given you for 20 years, you're bound to feel something. Basically, I think about jerking off all day but refuse to cave.

I'm hoping that increasing frequency of real sex (with my wife) will redirect those urges in a more positive manner.


All that said, has anyone else tried this? Is it realistic to think I can go long stretches without masturbation/porn when it has been a near daily part of my life for close to 2 decades?