I completed 31 days of the NoFap challenge with my NoFap buddy

WE DID IT!!! 💪💪💪

Yes. That's it. You can go back to what you were doing now.

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Okay okay, I was just kidding. I'm sure you want to hear a little more about my experience. I, in my innate gracious manner, shall now oblige you with more details.

First things first, around the beginning of this challenge, I wrote a post, so you might wanna take a look at that to get up to date.

Now let's get right into it.

How difficult was it to achieve this?

You might not believe it, but I must admit that it was not very hard to stay committed to my goal of staying away from porn and masturbation during this challenge. For the 31 days of this challenge, I would say I got really tempted to fap (jerk off to porn) at most 5 different times. Every other time, I was either not at home, too tired or mentally engaged with something or someone to think about fapping.

You know, I would never really know how much of a role that going into this with another person (my NoFap buddy) played in my success. For one, he was for the most part, always available to talk when I needed to talk to someone. And the thing I've noticed so far about me is that when I really connect with someone, the thought of fapping never comes to mind. Fortunately, I and my NoFap buddy (hopefully to become real-life long-term buddy) have some good conversational chemistry that I've only been able to achieve with a handful of people in this lifetime. For that, I am grateful.

What major changes in my life did I make to help me achieve this?

Nothing, really. Apart from having a new friend come along with me this time (I've tried and failed many times before), there were no other drastic new changes in my life to help me achieve this goal. I didn't uninstall Grindr (well, I did for a few weeks but not because of NoFap). I didn't install a porn site blocker. I did not stay away from home more than I used to before starting (I'm never at home anyway). And I did not reduce the time which I spend on the internet, because I literally cannot.

What's next?

On my 31th (*winks* to NFB) night, I discussed this topic with my NFB. And interestingly, neither of us was exactly keen on getting right back into fapping at the end of the challenge. Undeniably, our discipline during this challenge has changed us for good. And irrespective of what happens next, I would not change anything about this journey I just completed. *stops self from rambling on*

Having said that, I'm happy that once again, I have the freedom to do whatever I have with my hands and my eyes and my dick. 

Personally, if I'm able to get porn out of my life for good, I would have achieved a feat that I believe would raise my self-confidence several notches. I first got hooked into porn about 11 years ago and since then, I've jerked off to porn an average of 3 times a week, excluding when I absolutely didn't have the opportunity to do so (like in the NYSC camp or in the boarding house). 

I believe that fapping so frequently has trained my brain and penal nerve-endings to find less satisfaction from sexual activity with a real life person. On a similar note, I find that my pure fantasies alone are never enough to get me excited to the point where I can get off on them. So yes, those are major reasons why saying goodbye to porn forever would be a big deal for me. YOLO and good sex is undeniably one of the best experiences you can have for free in your lifetime. Hence, being a positively-oriented person, I'd love to do what I can to increase the chances that I will experience a lot of it in my time.

It's two days after the challenge and I'm still on track. Well.... except that this morning I woke up with a woody that wouldn't go down (read I was extremely horny) for reasons beyond my logic. Before I got up for the day (after trying the think of Jesus/grandma trick to no avail), I ended up rubbing one out. It felt so good. And so damned good did it feel, that the session lasted for just 10 seconds. I've never cum so fast from jerking off in any recent time, not even while watching porn.

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Would you like to know more about my 31-day NoFap experience? Please leave a comment below and I would be more than happy to give you the best response I can muster.