Would like to hear how ya’ll view masturbating without porn or visual stimulus. I acknowledge that masturbating to porn, bikini pics, the typical “dirty stuff” is unhealthy. Ideally I’d like to get to the point where I can retrain my brain to enjoy masturbating for what it is—without the need of visual stimulus. Any thoughts on this? Is all masturbation bad masturbation?
Yeah man those thoughts are probably jsut validating your struggles. A large part of the physiological benefits come not masturbating due to it being the only think that had a direct impact on hormones and such.
I think all is bad. I used to think about that and I think that was me trying to justify my problem and make it ok, but to get the full benefits I believe you have to drop it which is hard :(. I hope the urges go away soon because they are very strong :(.
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I think it can be good in the future. My goal is to not need visual stimulus anymore as I had been able to in the past, and not masturbate as often. However, at this point, for me, masturbating just makes the urge to watch porn a lot worse and it's made me relapse. I felt brave when I got to a 7-day streak but I struggled to finish, I was too much in my head, the urge was so hard to fight and it's just not worth it. I think it's worth a try to quit both porn and masturbation at least for now. When will it be OK again? I don't know, I guess I'll try to gauge my progress in terms of a healthy libido, arousal and pleasure, exploring with my partner and not alone until I'm confident enough to try again.