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Porn Reboot is the #1 addiction recovery resource guiding ambitious men to freedom from compulsive porn and masturbation.Join Sex & Porn Addiction Recovery Coach J.K Emezi every week of your recovery journey.Learn more at www.elevatedrecovery.org. About Porn Reboot is the #1 addiction recovery resource guiding ambitious men to freedom from compulsive porn and masturbation.Join Sex & Porn Addiction Recovery Coach J.K Emezi every week of your recovery journey.Learn more at www.elevatedrecovery.org. Information Creator J.K Emezi Years Active 2018 - 2025 Episodes 637 Rating Explicit Show Website The Porn Reboot Podcast You Might Also Like To listen to explicit episodes, sign in. Stay up to date with this show Sign in or sign up to follow shows, save episodes and get the latest updates. Select a country or region Africa, Middle East, and India Algeria Angola Armenia Azerbaijan Bahrain Benin Botswana Brunei Darussalam Burkina Faso Cameroun Cape Verde Chad Côte d’Ivoire Congo, The Democratic Republic Of The Egypt Eswatini Gabon Gambia Ghana Guinea-Bissau India Iraq Israel Jordan Kenya Kuwait Lebanon Liberia Libya Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritania Mauritius Morocco Mozambique Namibia Niger (English) Nigeria Oman Qatar Congo, Republic of Rwanda Saudi Arabia Senegal Seychelles Sierra Leone South Africa Sri Lanka Tajikistan Tanzania, United Republic Of Tunisia Turkmenistan United Arab Emirates Uganda Yemen Zambia Zimbabwe Asia Pacific Australia Bhutan Cambodia 中国大陆 Fiji 香港 Indonesia (English) 日本 Kazakhstan 대한민국 Kyrgyzstan Lao People's Democratic Republic 澳門 Malaysia (English) Maldives Micronesia, Federated States of Mongolia Myanmar Nepal New Zealand Papua New Guinea Philippines Singapore Solomon Islands 台灣 Thailand Tonga Turkmenistan Uzbekistan Vanuatu Vietnam Europe Armenia Österreich Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czechia Denmark Estonia Finland France (Français) Georgia Deutschland Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Italia Kosovo Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg (English) Malta Moldova, Republic Of Montenegro Nederland North Macedonia Norway Poland Portugal (Português) Romania Россия Serbia Slovakia Slovenia España Sverige Schweiz Türkiye (English) Ukraine United Kingdom Latin America and the Caribbean Anguilla Antigua and Barbuda Argentina (Español) Bahamas Barbados Belize Bermuda Bolivia (Español) Brasil Virgin Islands, British Cayman Islands Chile (Español) Colombia (Español) Costa Rica (Español) Dominica República Dominicana Ecuador (Español) El Salvador (Español) Grenada Guatemala (Español) Guyana Honduras (Español) Jamaica México Montserrat Nicaragua (Español) Panamá Paraguay (Español) Perú St. Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia St. Vincent and The Grenadines Suriname Trinidad and Tobago Turks and Caicos Uruguay (English) Venezuela (Español) The United States and Canada Canada (English) Canada (Français) United States Estados Unidos (Español México) الولايات المتحدة США 美国 (简体中文) États-Unis (Français France) 미국 Estados Unidos (Português Brasil) Hoa Kỳ 美國 (繁體中文台灣)

Two-dimensional for the real deal.Eliminating artificial or synthetic means don’t engage in “cam to cam” or chat rooms.Surfing Facebook, YouTube, or dating sites for pictures and sexual stimuli is like an alcoholic switching to lite beer.Fantasizing about porn is nearly the same as watching it, as you are activating your brain’s addiction-related pathways.Reading “erotic” stories counts as porn fantasy“What about fantasizing about real women?” It’s hard to say. If you are simply replaying porn scenarios, then absolutely not. Read below about fantasy.For some, cutting out real-life fantasy sped up the process and made it easier. However, there may come a time, during your reboot, where fantasizing about real-life partners is beneficial, and important for rewiring the brain to the “real world”. This usually applies to younger guys with little sexual experience. (See: What about fantasizing during a reboot?)This guy finally figured out that ‘peeking’ at porn was what slowed down his recovery: Age 24 – ED cured, even when I thought it would never happen (20 months)What is “allowed,” and encouraged, is contact with a real-life partner. Smooching, touching, fooling around, maybe even gentle intercourse. Many guys suggest avoiding orgasm with a partner at first, but it really depends on your goals, if you have porn-related sexual dysfunctions, and what stage you are in the process. Erections are great, but should not be forced through vigorous stimulation. If they happen, they happen.You have spent years allowing your brain to view anything it wants, and to revel in any sexual fantasy it can conjure up. There’s nothing morally wrong with fantasy. But now, you are attempting to unravel years of brain training induced by unbridled porn use. There’s also nothing wrong with building mental muscle, and choosing where to direct your mind.Wherever water flows it creates ruts. Where is your mental

For change “The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” – SocratesFor many, leaving a porn addiction behind involves changing several aspects of their lives. Willpower and “white knuckling” are rarely sufficient to recover from this addiction. While we don’t have a “recovery program” at YBOP, the tools for change in this section contains suggestions and tools employed by those who successfully rebooted. A collection of the best “rebooting advice” posts are located here – Rebooting Advice & ObservationsThe links at the bottom of the page contain many sub-links. Also see the support tab for sites and therapists that do have recovery programs. And:Solo ToolsTools to Connect With Others1) Gain a clear understanding of how porn has affected your brain and why you need to rewire your brain and return your reward circuitry to normal sensitivity.With a clear understanding of how you became addicted, what occurred in your brain, and how healing progresses, you are better prepared to steer your own course to recovery.If you haven’t already, please watch Your Brain on Porn: Porn Addiction, and Adolescent Brain Meets Highspeed Internet Porn.If you have porn-induced ED, watch Porn-induced Erectile Dysfunction, and explore this FAQ – Is my erectile dysfunction (ED) related to my porn use?To understand clearly how today’s Internet porn differs from sex or porn of the past, read the following articles in sequence: Porn, Novelty, and the Coolidge effect, Porn Then and Now: Welcome to Brain Training and Why Shouldn’t Johnny Watch Porn If He Likes? 2) Understand rebooting and what it entails.Tools for change start with the Rebooting Basics article. The best way to understand rebooting is to read the stories of others who have recovered from porn addiction and porn-induced ED. You will find numerous rebooting accounts here, including the majority of ED stories. Our best resource for what to do and not do: Rebooting Advice & Observations contains the cream of the crop advice posts by those who have been there and successfully recovered.Rebooting is our term for taking a time out to recover from porn addiction and associated symptoms, including erectile dysfunction and porn-induced sexual fetishes. If you are addicted to porn, your brain has undergone the same fundamental physiological and structural changes that all drug and behavioral addictions share: desensitization, sensitization, hypofrontality, and altered stress system. Porn addiction may affect the innate sexual centers and circuits of the brain, as evidenced by porn-induced ED, DE, loss of libido, and a flatline during withdrawal.Rest the brainThe quickest way to reboot is to give your brain a rest from artificial sexual stimulation—porn, porn fantasy and masturbation. Some guys eliminate or drastically reduce orgasms during their reboot period. There are no hard rules as everyone is in a different situation. On the other hand, sensual contact with a real person can be beneficial, as long as you don’t fantasize about porn.With your brain in balance you will find it much easier to avoid

What pathways and stimuli must I avoid during my reboot and how will I know if I relapse? Simple but important questions, with sometimes complex answers. Lots of different pathways are available.Recovering porn addict:Get this: When I see a poster on the bus station of a girl in a bikini, my boner doesn’t react at all. If I deliberately search for it online and see it on my computer screen, I get one.That tells me that it isn’t really the image per se that’s arousing for me, but that my addiction is deeply linked with my computer (which is my choice).I don’t have a problem with advertisement, as long as it is offline. Weird, right? (LINK)See this video – Rebooting: What Counts as a Relapse? – by Noah Church.My advice is to avoid actively seeking all artificial sexual stimuli during your reboot. If it’s not a real person, just say no.As odd as this may sound, there’s no such thing as porn. The brain knows exactly what alcohol or heroin is, but the reward circuitry has no way of recognizing porn. Instead, higher portions of the brain relay nerve impulses associated with sights, sounds, smells, and memories to the reward circuit. The strength of these very complex signals determines the excitement levels measured by your reward circuit. What really matters are spikes of reward circuit dopamine (and other neurochemicals), not what’s on the screen.The key questions: Is your behavior reactivating sensitized addiction pathways, and are you overstimulating your already numbed dopamine system? (Read “Porn, Then & Now: Welcome to Brain Training” and Why Do I Find Porn More Exciting Than A Partner? to better understand that it’s more about brain-training than the content.)We receive daily questions about what’s “approved”, or what’s a “relapse”, or whether X, Y, or Z, will

The lure of mind-altering habits and substances. Please note that for those with porn-induced ED, Internet porn is the addiction and the cause of ED, not masturbation or orgasm. However, temporarily eliminating masturbation and orgasm may be the way to go as it initiates a withdrawal, un-wires porn from masturbation, reduces cravings, and most important – works.Rebooting seems to involve the reversal of two relatively distinct brain changes: desensitization and sexual conditioning (sensitization). As you reboot your brain will return to its prior sensitivity which allows you to feel arousal and satisfaction more normally.Addiction leads to the strengthening of sensitized “go for it” neural pathways, and weakening of rational “let’s think about this” neural pathways. There’s a tug of war between the craving pathways (sensitization) and your executive control, which resides in your frontal cortex. Weakened frontal cortex pathways (hypofrontality) lose the tug of war to cravings, resulting in your being unable to control use. It takes time for your brain to return to normal. See – Unwiring and Rewiring.3) Converting your computer to an allyDo you think it’s a good idea for a recovering alcoholic to spend his/her free time hanging out in bars? Since you are hanging out on the Net, you may want to employ more than sheer willpower. It can be easier to reboot if you block porn from your computer (or at least images) for a while. When porn is available at a click, its looming presence can produce intense inner conflict, and stress makes relapse more likely.Start with Taming Your Computer and Phone, an overview of several methods employed by successful rebooters.Web Filters – Instructions for ways to filter out porn and erotic images. Almost everyone who recovers successfully uses this tool (eventually), so save yourself some time and use it immediately.Use Your Computer Effectively and other tips – Men share their tips for managing computer use.Change Your Email Address – Prevent emails that could trigger porn use.Get doctor-recommended apps for your computer to speed brain reprogramming. (Links to apps are embedded in article)4) Replace porn use with naturally rewarding activities.As you select the tools for change you feel drawn to work with, keep in mind that humans are tribal, pair-bonding primates. Our brains didn’t evolve to regulate mood very well when we’re not interacting with others. That is, it’s normal to feel anxious when you are isolated. I suggest reading this post by host of YourBrainRebalanced.com – My Thoughts On Rebooting.Unfortunately, heavy porn users often find they don’t feel like socializing. They may even have developed intense anxiety at the very thought of socializing. Nevertheless, as soon as they can, they benefit from finding ways to connect with others even if they have to push themselves. If you’re shy, give extra attention to the tips under Tools to Connect With Others. Once off of porn, their brains soon rediscover some of the prime natural rewards that they evolved to thrive on: soothing close, trusted companionship and regular, affectionate touch. Read users’ comments about