85 gigs, gone.
 

That's it. I deleted 85 gigs of porn from the computer. the damn dog must have put it there. Actually my attachment to porn has long been unhealthy. It takes time from my life and my wife. Spending 5 to probably 15 hours a week chasing porn and jerking off was and is ridiculous. A good healthy wank is ok, but this was too much. So I have cleaned out my computer, and trying a little wank-free experiment, for a little mental toughening.
One of my favorite authors is Neal Stephenson. In his book Cryptonomicon, one of his characters forgoes masturbating for a while. He figured that Victorian oppression was one of the reasons Victorian men were so tough, and did things like go exploring in Africa. So here is to a little self-denial and focusing of the mind.

Ya know, this is inspiring....I bypassed the porn for about a month not so long ago, just to see if I could do it. It wasn't as bad as I thought, and finding stuff to fill in that blank spot wasn't tough either. I do look at porn fairly regularly at this time, but I may have to try that again. I've got a lot of stuff in my life that I need to focus on instead of that......

And oh yeah, best of luck!

yeah, I think I'll give up wanking as well. At least for tonite. You have to start somewhere. Don't think it will toughen me up enough to go to Africa, though.

There's nothing wrong with wanking... it's the obsessive/compulsive habits surrounding porn you should watch out for.

Eh, I go on a lil break occasionally.

I don't think you have to give up wanking necessarily, but going on a good break from porn can be good. Using your own imagination when you're Captain Mega Horny can yield some amazing results :p

Well I do believe that understanding your sexuality is important, and I will never give it up for life, but I need a little discipline and control (not that type, so no whips and chains). A little reality check is in order, that's all.

Kudos to your recovery of a habit that can become obsessive in short order.

I found myself doing the same a while ago, though it was not nearly of that size and volume, nor was it really per se porn, but artistic nudes that I came across and photographer friends' sent my way. :oogle:

I find I am getting more in touch with my creative side, in music, art and physical activity with less of a hold being on me by having a storage of porn on my laptop(not much space for it anyway :p).

I am actually going on a little sojourn, so in addition to foregoing the handy-habit, I will also be relenting basic commodities that are afforded to most. It is best to revisit reality for a realization of what is really going on in one's life, so here is to your small epiphany. :thumbsup:

Why keep it? I mean... Jesus...

The internet is full of it. You can't even check your email without giant fake boobs getting crammed into your face.

Yeah... I never did understand that. I kept a good amount of porn on my computer for a while but one day it hit me. I never looked at it. If I wanted to look at porn I got on the net and found some. So, I erased it.

Exactly.

That and you needed more room for all those illegal MP3s.

(high five)

I looked at it. I had my favorite scenes. I had a few favorite topics to research.

You ever sit on your hand for half an hour until it falls asleep? Cause when you masturbate with it it feels like someone else.

It has been since Saturday, so I am hanging tough. Of course, I am spending "quality" time with my wife, but that is a little more appropriate.

<- hasn't had sex in MANY MOONS

Yeah, I'm still not that bad. Yet.

I'm relatively picky, and it's not often that I find high quality stuff. Sure, your email is crammed with it and there's a million sites out there with pictures and videos, but I like to save the high quality ones; especially from passworded sites.

There's a lot of really bad porn out there.

Yeah, 5-15 hours a week on porn is a bit much, I gotta admit.

Now, 5-15 hours a week on TFP, is something else. ;)

I used to save stuff, usually only things that I grabbed while leeching a password for a paysite. I had lots of oral Amber vids for a while.

85 gigs is a whole lot, though. Like others have mentioned, theres so much for free it seems silly to save it.

I've been without sex for a long time, after my wife decided to leave. I deleted ALL my porn though, and whatever is back is minimal, and should probably go. I try to not look at much. It doesn't do much for me anyways...I'd rather be with and around the real thing. My ex-wife preferably...but that's neither here nor there. I try not to whack one off too often, though.

15 hours a week? That's a whole waking day. It's best that you deleted it.

I save everything I download. Why, because I worry that someday the government or ISPs will clamp down on everything or just hardcore stuff. Or the Internet won't be anonymous anymore. I would never download porn at work where my idenity is known, I wouldn't be able to do it if my ISP knew who I was (I don't have a monthly fee ISP ;) ).

I measure my collection in terabytes though. I think it is around .4 - .5 TB right now. :lol:

Good god. You do know that even if 98% of the human race dies from nuclear war, there will still be porn, right? It's like food and water.

The internet is anonymous now??

hi,

I'm new and this is my first post.

I'm 41, been married for 5 years and lost my mojo some time ago.

last weekend, my wife was away and I had a porno wank fest. I watched all the chapters of a film and stopped myself cumming at the last minute until the last scene. I was in agony and felt like I'd been kick in the balls. felt like a sad bastard.

the funny thing is, as of the following day and as I write on the following thursday night, I've not only found my mojo but have been cooking on gas!

I've been a twice a day man (that's with my wife!) since and before it was almost like twice a month.

I offer no explanation but vive le porn!

oh, er..........nice to meet you

It is if you use random open wi-fi access points around the world on a computer you paid cash for, and not log in to any accounts that you have. You can be fairly anonymous if you want to be.

If I had to login using my 'National Internet ID' number which I have to register with the government to get, and it will become like Iran or Saudi Arabia in the restrictions on internet porn.

yeah when i was 16 i gave it up for lent. i managed to go 40 days and nights without jerking. it was a very tough and enlightening experiance however when i finally did pleasure myself it did hurt

Same here lol....i was around 1.2-1.4TB for a while but i did some cleaning and am down to about .3TB

i download because some times there is a specific movie or scene i want to see and i dont want to wait to d/l it again lol.

also my some of my roomates are not very good with the internet and i'd rather d/l porn for them to look at then have them find it on their own off of some random popup

I need a roommate like you.

Teach a man to fish! Eventually they won't be your roommates any more and then they'll be lost.

I agree. Probably 95% of the porn I see doesn't do it for me, so if I find something I like, I keep it.

I do spend an awful amount of time culling it, though. I also got up to about 80GB's worth, then made a rule - for every gig of new stuff I download; I've got to delete a gig of old stuff. Most of it is full-length movies I need to put on CDs.

After all, even good porn loses its usefulness after a certain number of viewings.