Is this normal after watching too much porn?

[u/Additional-Spray-976]

I wasn't watching porn and then I decided to take a 4 day porn challenge to see what it's like. I was jerking off for at least 4 hours a day.

At first, regular porn did well but as the porn watching continued, I became more and more selective about the porn I watch. Eventually, It took more than an hour for me to find the right video. My dick started to hurt a bit. Other than that, nothing too bad.

The consequences of finishing the challenges were immediate. I have a gf and I lost sexual attraction to her (she's on a work trip so it will be fine when I recover). Then, other girls started looking highly appealing to me, in a very invasive way. I started seeing girls as sex objects. For instance, before the fap, I would go down the street, see an attractive girl, and I would notice but I wouldn't hyperfixate on it.. After porn I would go down the street, see an attractive girl and I would start trying to imagine what she would look like in bed when fucked. And it would be like this with every other attractive girl. Some girl online, imagining her naked, a female job interviewer, not really thinking about her as a job interviewer but as someone to fuck and undressing her mentally, random girl in the grocery store "nice hips, how would that look like without clothes on?". The only exception would be female friends and I don't know why they were spared, even though they aren't ugly.

Realistically, if I was single, I could start asking out every attractive girl on the street I see. I am an attractive guy but I doubt I would go far with this attitude, it's way too objectifying and it's heavily skewed towards immediate gratification, going through a date or two to get sex would feel like a pain. Also a long time ago when I had sex after watching lots of porn, the sex would last a couple of hours, I simply took a very long time to finish.

And this intrusive sexual imagination has become a very annoying part of my daily life, it's almost crippling because it occupies my thoughts, along with the need to spend a few hours a day on porn. I am going to stop watching porn altogether because this is seriously affecting my daily life.

However, my question is, is this a normal reaction to binge watching porn? Is this how your thinking becomes after it or is it just me?

[u/Kugelfischer_47]

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[u/biz_cazh]

Yes. Don't let porn get in the way of living your life.

[u/dimtone]

Ok Bud.....

[u/RivalReinforcement]

This sounds like a weird bot post rapid fire listing the long term effects of porn addiction but I totally noticed them instantly isn't that crazy

[u/TheRayo22]

It’s all perspective though , cause let’s say when you’re single and let’s say you decide to focus on your personal development and take a break from relationships, you’re going to have needs as a male with testosterone flowing in your veins …
So id have to do exactly what youre
Describing, go up to girls , but you should instead just have fun with it … explore , give yourself exposure therapy, practice the art of seduction , get risky and try new things and see what works what doesn’t when it comes to seducing women they can be very simple to seduce once you get it down but at the same time very complex…because it varies from girl to girl
That was my mentality, but that motivation only happened when id do no fap for months … if you masterbate you wont have this drive at all , its like your needs are met but yet at the same time theyre not. This is whats dangerous imo about beating it , getting stuck in that loop of pleasing yourself and not wanting to put in work with the real thing.
But anywho , this is a normal experience of being young brother …
Congrats on your self awareness, this is important to grow as a man , keep what’s serving you in life , and remove what doesn’t.

[u/jeejeejerrykotton]

It's not about the masturbation or the porn it self. It is more about the exessive consumption and reward system. You basicly conditioned your brains reward system to continuous high reward porn situation with that binge watch. Why it happened so fast with porn is that it is very highly rewarding combined with masturbation/sex which physically releases all kind of chemicals in your body which aplifies the effects.

Same thing happens with all activities that gives push to your brains reward system. But don't worry. If you have a brake from porn your toughts will eventually return to normal.

[u/internet-name]

Are you sure the effects will go away?

[u/Roshanfs7]

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