First off, let me start by saying PLEASE IGNORE MY USERNAME.
Now then, I was first exposed to pornography when I was ~6 ½ years old, nearly 15 years ago. Since then, I’d had a very unhealthy obsession with porn. It started with just watching it passively, then when I was 12 I started masturbating to it, at first once or twice a week, but then it got to the point where I was doing it just about every single day. And then regular porn wasn’t enough, so I’d look up more and more intense stuff to the point where I’ve become desensitised to a lot of what the internet has for offer.
In total, I’d say I’ve spent about a third of my life just consuming porn. It’s genuinely a problem for me cause it interferes with my daily life, making me miss appointments, isolating from my friends, killing any chance of a relationship.
Does anyone with even a little experience have any tips or solutions for me?
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Looks at username…. Uhhhhh
You just gotta cold turkey it bro.
Start off slow maybe, try going for a week. You’ll feel better for it.
Also, i had to google what the hell futa porn is. You are a complete gooner my friend 😂
Porn addiction is very similar to any other addiction. Your brain is hooked on the juice it’s getting from that source. Just like with certain drugs, you do also build a tolerance that leads you to need harder and harder content to get the same satisfaction.
My advice would be to seek support. Google it. Read serious articles, and evaluate their sources. Learn everything you can about porn addiction from a factual standpoint. Knowledge truly is power.
You can also research and evaluate different treatment approaches and decide what’s right for you, then pursue it with all the fervor you can muster.
Good luck.
you good?
So many people on here say they have an addiction yet they still function in life. They still eat, shower, get dressed, go to school/work etc.
Addictions take over, they aren’t just there when you have free time
Find some physical activity to do – join a rec sports team, start going to the gym, or even just add a daily walk into your routine. Doing stuff outside of the house will make it harder to watch.
Additionally, put content blockers on everything. Consider where you watch the most – if it’s on an incognito browser, look into if you can disable said browser. If it’s on Reddit or X, delete your account.
It sounds like early exposure has caused hypersexuality (I have the same issue) and you just have to slowly use it less and less. Therapy is recommended for these things but obv is expensive 🙁 I wish you the best of luck on your healing joirney
This advice is roundabout and stupid, but if you can figure out how to get through two straight weeks without any type of adult material consumption, your cravings will severely diminish. Same can be said do almost any addiction. Obviously the problem is how do you get through those two weeks. That’s the hard part and it varies from person to person.
Start by making a different user name
Based on my experience, the best option is to simply stop opening any porn websites (if you do it compulsively/automatic – use a blocker for such websites).
BUT, and this was a crucial step, do not stop masturbating.
Without the porn as stimulation you will start masturbating less with time (bonus points if you will think about real people with realistic scenarios), and you will not feel as much as doing so because of simple boredom.
Oh, you will be tempted to look at “just one picture”, but beware, this is just your porn-junkie brain trying to pull you back into the habit.
Well, so much from me and best of luck!
Make sure you are around with people most of the time. Dont be alone, make yourself so tired (Run for a while) before going to bed so that you sleep instantly.
Stop using or atleast reduce your screen time for a while. Keep yourself busy
All the best, you can overcome ❤️🩹
Review your life and think of what you want to be vs what you are. Do you want to tell your future spouse you can’t get it up because your brain is too used to seeing women with cocks? Do you want to tell them you spent 1/3 of your life watching other people have sex? Maybe that won’t be a motivation. Do you want to die knowing you wasted precious time that could’ve been used for self improvement instead watching humans copulate? You probably don’t.
It truly takes motivation to quit, I have never been addicted to pornography but I have had cigarette addictions and once you become disgusted because of a negative side effect suddenly your urge to smoke goes away (not speaking for everyone). You have to keep coming up with the pathetic negative side effects of the addiction and feel that guilt so you’ll be motivated to do better for yourself.
Hope this helps, sorry if it’s harsh 😛
I’m in the same situation as you.
My porn addiction has lasted for 12 years. No matter how hard I try to stop, I keep going back to it.
It doesn’t even bring me satisfaction — I feel empty afterward, yet somehow I still do it. 😭
What I’ve realized is this:
When our dopamine levels drop too low, our brain will act on its own — without us — and go for porn, because it’s the easiest and strongest source of dopamine.
As long as I have enough dopamine and can think clearly, I’m able to resist the addiction.
But as soon as there’s even a slight drop, I fall back into it again.
Make yourself busy and tired. Go out more or therapy.
Don’t be alone; always be surrounded by people. Feel shame. Be a person. Be straight. Respect yourself. Take it as a challenge, and feel the strength to make your own decision to leave this unstraightness. Experience the feeling of restraining your desires by rejecting them. Porn is disgusting.
Go to the military. Lol
If therapy is not an option at this time, consider reading some books and joining a Sex Addicts Anonymous support group; they can be very helpful.
https://archive.org/details/sexaddiction101b0000weis/page/n9/mode/1up