Discussion Took a Break! (1 Viewer)

[Arcolyte]

At the beginning of the year I decided to take a total cold-turkey break from all sexual videos, pictures, everything. My consumption was getting a little bit out of control, and I spent more time looking at Keds and OnlyFans and everything else in what felt like a worsening cycle. I've been this way since I was 16 with an internet connection, and now a few decades older it got increasingly severe little by little to where I felt like it was overshadowing all my other hobbies.

So I quit. Hid all my bookmarks, turned off my stash server, cancelled all my subscriptions. I told a couple friends I was doing it, and they actually felt the same way and joined with me. We made a little support group.

It was kind of incredible to re-set. I still haven't gone back, after a little over four months. I formed a much healthier mindset around sex and feeling horny, reduced cravings, and it just feels like my mind is able to go after different things when given the space to do so. I don't feel so "thirsty" all the time.

As an added bonus my wife got at least 10x hotter, and she was great before. Our sex life is better than it's ever been.

Around when I started, I read an article about the way porn really hijacks the dopamine in your brain, and starts doing bad things to your dopamine sensitivity to where normal things just aren't pleasurable anymore. It really is, basically, a drug.

I'm very far from recommending this on any moral or religious grounds, really not my thing, but just as a human psychology experiment I think many of you would find it as interesting as I did. I didn't expect it to last this long, I figured a couple weeks, a month, maybe. I don't know where it will go from here!

 

[Seeker]

At the beginning of the year I decided to take a total cold-turkey break from all sexual videos, pictures, everything. My consumption was getting a little bit out of control, and I spent more time looking at Keds and OnlyFans and everything else in what felt like a worsening cycle. I've been this way since I was 16 with an internet connection, and now a few decades older it got increasingly severe little by little to where I felt like it was overshadowing all my other hobbies.

So I quit. Hid all my bookmarks, turned off my stash server, cancelled all my subscriptions. I told a couple friends I was doing it, and they actually felt the same way and joined with me. We made a little support group.

It was kind of incredible to re-set. I still haven't gone back, after a little over four months. I formed a much healthier mindset around sex and feeling horny, reduced cravings, and it just feels like my mind is able to go after different things when given the space to do so. I don't feel so "thirsty" all the time.

As an added bonus my wife got at least 10x hotter, and she was great before. Our sex life is better than it's ever been.

Around when I started, I read an article about the way porn really hijacks the dopamine in your brain, and starts doing bad things to your dopamine sensitivity to where normal things just aren't pleasurable anymore. It really is, basically, a drug.

I'm very far from recommending this on any moral or religious grounds, really not my thing, but just as a human psychology experiment I think many of you would find it as interesting as I did. I didn't expect it to last this long, I figured a couple weeks, a month, maybe. I don't know where it will go from here!

Very good and welcome back. You may have noticed over the years I've taken several breaks much like you and only did the tech stuff to keep things running. Its good for the mind and spirit.

 

[Northerngrizzlybear]

At the beginning of the year I decided to take a total cold-turkey break from all sexual videos, pictures, everything. My consumption was getting a little bit out of control, and I spent more time looking at Keds and OnlyFans and everything else in what felt like a worsening cycle. I've been this way since I was 16 with an internet connection, and now a few decades older it got increasingly severe little by little to where I felt like it was overshadowing all my other hobbies.

So I quit. Hid all my bookmarks, turned off my stash server, cancelled all my subscriptions. I told a couple friends I was doing it, and they actually felt the same way and joined with me. We made a little support group.

It was kind of incredible to re-set. I still haven't gone back, after a little over four months. I formed a much healthier mindset around sex and feeling horny, reduced cravings, and it just feels like my mind is able to go after different things when given the space to do so. I don't feel so "thirsty" all the time.

As an added bonus my wife got at least 10x hotter, and she was great before. Our sex life is better than it's ever been.

Around when I started, I read an article about the way porn really hijacks the dopamine in your brain, and starts doing bad things to your dopamine sensitivity to where normal things just aren't pleasurable anymore. It really is, basically, a drug.

I'm very far from recommending this on any moral or religious grounds, really not my thing, but just as a human psychology experiment I think many of you would find it as interesting as I did. I didn't expect it to last this long, I figured a couple weeks, a month, maybe. I don't know where it will go from here!

I think I need to take a break too. Probably for a month from the sneaker girl content. Been binging on so much sneaker girls pictures through the internet that I’m starting to get bored and my interest is turning dull.

 

[jeffy4keds]

I've been also prone to long breaks. It gets a little hard to find new content after a while and sometimes spend unhealthy amount of time looking for it. Sometimes you have to balance life the right way.
Cheers!

 

[reynolds1]

Good on you for taking a break. Sometimes it can really consume you a bit from time and mental health and all that.

I'm about to have a forced break, I think, as I'm temporarily moving to a country where all of these sites are banned. I think it will be nice to have a break, though, and hopefully can come back to the US with a better outlook on it all.

 

[Mule]

This sounds like it could be an article in Psychology Today - Fetish: Friend or Foe.

Keds sneakers have always been a fetish for me. I masturbated with them as a teen. Then I got married. I finally outted my fetish to my wife and she accepted it. Since then it's been a part of our sexual play. It's not a substitute for it and we get along just fine without them.

I kind of have the same outlook on materialism: there comes a point when you stop owning things and they start owning you. I guess the same can be said about power. The question is: who is the master and who is the slave? Who or what is in control?

Taking a break may be a way to strengthen your control.