My girlfriend is coming back from a work trip after a month. We’ve been having issues because of my erection problems so I decided to join the app. I’ve been fairly consistent with doing my daily tasks currently on a 15 day streak. During this I’ve given up masturbating recently (5 days in). I saw in a post that doing so might lead to a build up in sexual urges which I would hope that when my girlfriend comes back, it would lead me to being extra horny. However, occasionally I would see some sexually suggestive content on social media and can’t help but feel like I’m cheating my goal. Yah sure I’m not cumming to these post but I look at them and can’t rationalize if this is counter productive to me? Can anyone give me some insight? My girlfriend is back in 10 days so I’m hoping if I can’t last till then, it would yield good results for me.
I understand this struggle, I don’t think you’re cheating your goal but I think that having boundaries for yourself is important if that’s a goal you are serious about. With the sexualized nature of social media and how it feeds us what we think we want its pretty unavoidable but what is avoidable is how much attention we give it, don’t let it control you just acknowledge that you find what your seeing as attractive, then move on, in that way you are storing up that desire for later. Do no tease yourself though, don’t go looking for sexualized content and don’t masturbate while viewing it. Thats like playing with fire.
Thank goodness, I thought I was going crazy, it’s so hard to avoid it now, I’ve set my instagram to show less explicit content but somehow they always leak through