FitnessMike
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overstimulation of the dopamine
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Do you notice any changes with attraction or behavior of women on large streaks? I think there is something around week 2I think the superpowers thing is overhyped as well. What's weird is I have had 80 day streaks of no porn/no ejac with only a small/moderate libido improvement.
Do you clench you pelvic floor to get harder when you are choking the chicken? I think this is also a big problem for many porn users, including myself. I have developed a wicked pelvic floor tension from this that has hampered my sex life for at least 10 years. I developed this condition called hard flaccid first and then I developed an even worse condition where my pelvic floor muscles literally became all twisted up and literally strangled my d and contorted it. Spent years trying to figure out what the cause of this was.
Recently I have loosened up the pelvic floor a bit (long way to go still) and legitimately as my physical symptoms are decreasing so are my mental symptoms. And I'm still watching porn like a sicko. Libido is coming back too. It feels like a big part of the puzzle. Physical erectile dysfunction from pelvic floor dysfunction is a no brainer, as the muscles are involved with getting and keeping an erection. But, maybe having a chronic muscle cramp in the body is a strong enough stressor to release serotonin and give you mental problems and lowered libido as well. Might explain why some people watch porn and are perfectly fine and others get all screwed up.
Yeah and the sheer number of women in the fantasiai think in porn we develop an emotionless and effortless sense of control over the subject of our desire, and we maintain this from a voyeuristic POV. And then when we go to bang a IRL person, we return to the headspace of not being "there". But the issue is that real life stuff requires us to be an active participant, rather then distractedly thinking about things that arent there. Thats only part of it though, the other part is that we grip our weeners super hard during masturbation and jerk them aggressively while edging ourselves. The female touch is a lot more delicate and doesnt provide the same constant stimulation. And on top of that, with porn we scroll through pages finding the most sexy babes ever and choosing them, which our real life babes might not conpare too, even though we love them. Basically porn simulates a standard that is hard to achieve in real life. Idk the exact horomonal mechanisms, nor if my theory is even accurate, but at the end of the day porn makes real life banging less good, and should be avoided for that reason.
I had an idea that in the days of porn magazines, the magazines chose the women but now men can hunt for what they desire in terms of female form because of the sheer variety available online which raises the bar for what stimulates them. What is at their disposal in the real world isn't always reflective of what truly stimulates them.I guess I'm just curious what the mechanism is that's causing it not to respond to normal stimuli. It was previously supposed to be down regulation of the dopamine receptors as is the case when abusing dopaminergic/stimulant substances. But that has been disproven by this most recent study. So I'm puzzled.
We have recently found out that the dopamine d2/d3 receptor downregulation is a myth.
View: https://www.reddit.com/r/NoFap/comments/p1kvvd/porn_d23_addiction_study/
So what would it be you think?