I’m about a week free from porn and masturbation after I relapsed and I’m noticing my libido and sex drive has plummeted. Is this normal? I have a gf of about 3 months now and we were having regular sex but I usually lost my erection cause I got tired but now that I stopped again my libido went down. Just want to know if anyone else has experienced this? I talked to someone on reddit who told me to focus on masturbation and self pleasure without porn a couple times a week to help this flatline situation.
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I have experienced this myself actually. I stopped masturbating for about a week and noticed that I wasnt getting as hard or hard at all, as though my brain rejected my libido entirely. I realized that when I stopped masturbation, I was implicitly pushing down my libido entirely—to the point that my brain associated having a boner with bad. Funnily enough the directed masturbation helped me a lot. It made me realize its ok to masturbate in moderation, just to do it in a way that is healthy
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Yeah for sure. I started masturbating without porn and trying to feel the sensations and using my imagination.
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