u/iSailor

Hi guys. I'm not much into phones and honestly my S23 has been serving me just right. I didn't see any reason to change my phone and was very happy with battery life, but recently I noticed that my battery life has been draining like crazy. I've had it for 3 years now, charging at least once per day, so it's been around over 1k charging cycles, perhaps closer to 2k. My first thought was to change the battery, but I read here that recent software update is to be blamed.

So, is it worthwhile to change the battery? Or will the issue persist regardless of change as it's supposedly induced by software? What are your experiences?

Disclaimer: I do not support abuse or human trafficking and do not support using escort services outside legal and mutually safe environments. I acknowledge this industry is problematic for many reasons and I understand why some people may be repulsed by my life choices.

Hi, I wanted to tell my story and share my experiences because I know there's lots of guys out there that consider doing the same and there's a lot of assumptions about positive/negative results of doing so. There's this very romantic idea of your first time and both a lot of negativity about not losing it early or losing it to a "wrong" person. So I'd like to tackle this issue in my testimony. Just note that everybody is different, I'm speaking strictly about my circumstances.

For starters, I have never considered myself to be a part of neither incels nor redpill or any other group like that. I would say I'm rather average and had some average female attention in my life. There's been girls that liked me and there's ones that I did but they didn't like me in return. Even when at that time, I had a relationship in development (which ultimately didn't work for unrelated reasons). That being said, I've never had a girlfriend. Maybe it was my high standards. Maybe it was my anxiety and depression. Maybe I just didn't get to meet the right person. Who knows. Ultimately I found myself being 27 years old and not having had proper sex in my life. It didn't bother me that much personally to make me insecure, but I felt like I was missing out on something that I "should" had done by that point in my life. I didn't want to seek one night stands or short-term relationships for the purpose of sex, because it felt very dishonest and not fair to the other person to me.

So fast forward to June last year. I was on a vacation, sightseeing, resting and catching up with my friends that live abroad and whatnot. Suddenly on one random day, an idea popped into my head: why not give it a go? It was legal in that country after all. After consulting my bros, I decided to try. So the first place I tried was a big miss due to unrelated reasons, but then after trying a different place few days later, I was pleasantly surprised. I won't go into details unless it's necessary but let's say it was wild and a great success. So much so that the girl even asked me to exchange our private socials. We did become friends of sorts. I did visit her again when going back the same year due to my another personall issue that made me come back there (related to my friend who was leaving permanently), but our boundaries remain clearly established.

I must say that in my case, the aftermath was wildly positive. My immediate circle reacted very positively to my actions, and stopped seeing me as weird in that regard anymore. I stopped being anxious about women at all and my interactions with them are now much better since they became demystified to me and I'm confident that I can decently deliver. Even though I wasn't necessarily insecure, I don't think that I'm missing out on anything anymore (tbh sex is good but greatly overrated). I made a "friend" of sorts. I did not catch get an STD, which is as much of an issue with escorts as with one night stands. I am not ashamed of this situation and I don't think it will impact my life negatively as it hadn't already and it's been a year now. So yeah, in my particular case I think it was very much worth it. I'm open to answering your questions if you have any.