Fighting the new drug: LSD vs pornography

[awesome31311]

Every time I have taken a heroic dose of acid, I seem to have "lost" a compulsive habit for good. 3 years ago it was stimulants, and that's what made me fall in love with acid. No, I didn't replace acid with my stim addiction, I stopped doing stims altogether, including caffeine after just one profound acid trip.

In recent times, I've noticed that a heroic dose of acid helped me "reset" my porn watching habits. When I last watched porn after my acid trip, it wasn't any of the rough, nasty stuff I had become accustomed to to cope with my dopamine receptors that were numbed to softcore porn. Instead, it was a softcore clip, and I lasted the whole fifteen minutes of the clip, but that's TMI.

I came clean to my girlfriend after my trip about my porn addiction, and how I was letting it go. It has been nearly a week now. I don't really believe in movements like "NoFap", because I think masturbation is innate and part of being human.

What's not "normal" is edging for hours to hardcore porn, being able to watch/hear/read whatever kind of odd messed up fantasy you may have and live it in your head, and rewire your brain to get off on it. It sets unrealistic expectations and that makes you a failure in bed.

In just a week my orgasm control abilities have improved, my gf and I are way more intimate (Though that may also have to do with me being honest with her warming her heart, and my brain receptors in the post-acid-empathic phase).

And no, I'm not saying that acid will cure your addiction and therefore you should try it. I'm only saying that it has helped me get rid of many compulsive habits, that I was willing to make an effort to let go (In other words acid was merely a trigger).

 

[FreedomCalls]

Interesting post, I quit nicotine for about 6 months after a shroom trip. Haven't used LSD ever, or any psychedelics lately but maybe this could help with my drug addiction issues

 

[Engage]

Don't have anything to add but that's awesome! Good for you!

I think the hard part for many people exiting the psychedelic mindspace is holding onto those insights and carrying them through to fruition so, well done!

 

[Jekyl Anhydride]

Hey awesome31311,
I'm going to move this to psychedelic drugs as I think you'll find others there who've experienced similar lasting effects from psychedelics.

BDD--->PD

 

[Ganjcat]

Never watched porn once or read a playboy magazine I like my women clean and classy

 

[yepyepwoah]

I, and most likely 90% of guys here, can feel you on the pornography addiction.

I have never had a legitimate, loving sexual encounter. I have fucked proably about 15 women, but it mostly involved drugs. Add in shame from growing up southern baptist and sex being demonized. Never knowing anything about loving sex. I feel you on looking at more and more fucked up porn just to get off.

Earlier in the year I could barely get fully hard before nutting watching porn. It was some weird feedback loop of "wrong" excitement, then shame. I quit masturbating for a few months. I guess I let my receptors reset as far as that goes. I started taking Catuaba and Muira Puama. South American herbs/roots with aphrodisiac qualities, that, I believe, also reset a lot of nervous system/brain pathway type things.

Anyway. I can actually achieve a legitmate erection now... without fucking porn! No more nutting in like 2 minutes like basically my whole life before this. I can sit there and jerk off for 20 min-1hr. Actually, I think most of that is due to bringing my sexual energy into my body and channeling it into life force/kundalini spine energy. That is a whole nother story though.

Porn/shameful sex addiction is a pretty fucked up thing that most people don't talk about. We are supposed to be big tough strong men, who bottle up all our thoughts and feelings, cut our hair, get a real job, then die in sorrow after our wives leave us, take the kids, and saddle us with child support.

Take back the divine masculine!

 

[Ganjcat]

What happened to good old imagination no pictures no videos just, nothing

 

[Xorkoth]

I cut out watching porn a good while ago... it's pretty fucked up, especially these days. It gives a completely false and unrealistic idea of what actual sex with someone is like, and it's so degrading most of the time. I can't say it's because of psychedelics necessarily, however psychedelics inform pretty much every aspect of my life so they probably had something to do with it. I actually prefer my imagination now when the mood strikes and my girl isn't down or is away. Guys who watch too much porn I think have a tendency to view women differently, and to view their role in sex differently. The best part about it is making a woman feel good, not getting off.

But yeah porn can certainly be addictive, I've felt it. It's a pretty big dopamine rush. But I think it's bad for you, and bad for society. At least how it is today, it's so exploitative and abusive. And aside from that, like the OP says, it ruins good, wholesome, real-life sex for you.

 

[Aeon Psyche]

I don't know about y'all but I enjoy a few hours of porn untill I cum on acid and then just focus on something else for fun to do.

 

[Cream Gravy?]

I actually trip sometimes (especially with acid) to intentionally spend hours watching dirty porn and getting off multiple times. The sensual nature of it really enhances the experience. Couple that with the fact that my preferred fetish is something my wife can't physically ever help me with, and it becomes a fantasy experience, an attempt to live realities that can never be.

I don't think I'll ever stop masturbating to pornography, because I see it as one of the only things stopping me from pursuing extra-marital affairs.

 

[awesome31311]

Couple that with the fact that my preferred fetish is something my wife can't physically ever help me with, and it becomes a fantasy experience, an attempt to live realities that can never be.

Bruh, doesn't that worsen the existentialist hell of negative thought loops during the trip?

 

[Cream Gravy?]

Bruh, doesn't that worsen the existentialist hell of negative thought loops during the trip?

Well, surprisingly not. I don't quite know how to explain it. Also it's not like I spend my strongest trips beating off; if I'm tripping hard enough, that's the last thing on my mind. It's more for the recreational trips.