I think I have finally stumbled upon the middle-path.

First off I want to say that I think SR is a noble pursuit, and certainly has its benefits. I also want to emphasize off the bat that I believe porn is evil, full stop.

But I also think that the SR community, particularly this board, suffers from a bipolar mentality that results in personality-incoherence. Basically, you're either on a streak, meaning you're constantly fighting or suppressing your natural urges, or you're gooning to porn, which is allowing your sexual nature to be hijacked to the point that you lose control.

Anyway, I've been scouring every site and forum trying to figure out a pattern to all of this. I ended up reading SR threads on the Ray Peat forum, and I found this comment on page 12 of an SR thread. Pic related. It only had one response, which I will post.

But yeah. It made sense to me and I tried it out. It worked exactly how it said it would. There was no energy crash or shame or anything. I went for a walk afterwards and everything felt quite good and peaceful.

And then today, I just feel... balanced, coherent.

I've talked to multiple attractive women today and made them laugh right off the bat. This is unusual for me even on SR because I'm usually a neurotic self-conscious nutjob. Also: Eye contact is effortless. Everything just feels... smooth.

Call me a shill if you want. I'm not discouraging SR. I will say, if you are going to relapse, which let's face it, is inevitable for any number of you, if you follow the protocol in the screenshot, you'll find yourself in a much better place mentally.

I'll post the response as well.