After my wife started letting me film us (to keep for our private viewing) I found I started being more interested in watching those when I jerked off instead of porn. Now with a good size collection of videos of her and us, I don’t need porn anymore.
You’ve gotta get a lot of things going for you to really hammer the point home in your messed-up brain. All of them require some intentionality, and if you’ve been using it since you were young, you’ve gotta understand it’s not gonna just “go away,” treat it like an actual addiction, because it is.
Here are a couple of things that helped me. Be more active, just in general. Do more things where you’re not just sitting in front of a computer all day. If you are going to be sitting in front of a computer, find some friends to hang out with consistently, and find people to talk to on the regular.
Get off sites that entice those feelings. If it’s reddit, get off the subreddits that post lewd things occasionally, because congratulations, you have actual triggers now.
Think about the fact that those women are someone’s daughters, sisters, sometimes mothers. It’s almost impossible to not treat those women as objects when you’re watching and using them like that. Don’t dehumanize them. Furthermore, so many women are pushed into those things from abusive childhoods or trauma suffered in the past. Whether it’s an incalcuably small part or a massive part, you contribute to the internal suffering that is going on every time you watch them in that way.
You gotta pray, meditate, journal, something that reaches into your inner life in a way that’s intentional. And you’ve gotta do it regularly and keep yourself accountable. If you pray, pray for help in overcoming something you know is wrong. If you meditate, clear yourself of those feelings and buttress your mind against those cravings. If you journal, journal about why you masturbate, get to the bottom of what issues you have that feed into the addiction.
Found it easier to switch triggers, from hard to get over to easier to forget, i left the hub and stuff and started reading comics, two weeks later my excessiveness decreased and then i left comics for novels, now i dont masterbate because theres no images, and some novels get intriguing
Stay busy. Exercise, work, school, etc. Remove influences that will cause you to stumble, such as porn sites or online thirst traps. It’s going to be rough for the first few days, and weeks. But I promise that it does get better, and you’ll be better for it.
Depends. Most people who talk about ‘porn addiction’ are actually refering to a non addiction, they just think any porn is an addiction, because they have a belief system based on nonsense.
It’s a bit like the evangelical preachers who are vocally highly against gay sex, out-of-marriage sex AND porn, who have gay sex, out-of-marriage sex, and/or outright illegal porn.
Sometimes the loudest complainers are the problem.
“Idle hands are the devil’s playthings” or something like that. Nothing wrong with having free time, but the more time you have not doing something else (doesn’t even have to necessarily be productive) I have found leads to boredom and the urge to watch to fill that void. Also eliminating triggers, e.g. softcore or Instagram models has helped too. Ultimately, it is like any other addiction. As far as the masturbation part that usually comes (no pun intended) with it, is fine, just try using your imagination instead.
Now, when you say addiction, what exactly do you mean? A lot of people confuse the idea of enjoying something frequently and being addicted to it. Addiction can mean several things though. Let’s dig into it a bit. Being “addicted” to porn means you will sacrifice things in your life to satisfy the need to consume pornography. Are you sacrificing things to consume it? Also, an addiction usually has some downside. While consuming porn can fundamentally effect you and can even lead to parasocial behaviors where the people you consume porn of start to take the place of real life social interaction. This is where it becomes an addiction. Enjoying pornography is not in any way a negative thing. Enjoying pornography in a non healthy way is addiction.
i watched a bunch of documentaries behind the scenes. Once you see how the sausage gets made you’re a lil less hungry – after porn ends and meet my porn star were particularly effective and Louis Theroux’s porn docs were strong as well
How do I know if I’m addicted to to porn? I mean I watch it during an activity. But not all the time. I don’t need it. I can have sex and get off pretty easily. I can get off without sex or porn if I need to. It’s just more stimulating to use porn. I just don’t know what porn addiction means honestly.
I did it the same way my dad got me to quit smoking when I was 14. He sat me down on the back porch, slapped a whole carton on the table, and made me smoke every dart. It took all day and I felt so sick by the end, but I haven’t touched one since.
When I realised I was addicted to porn, I did the same thing. I sat on my dad’s back porch with my laptop, and relieved myself several times for hours while he watched silently. My pipes were completely drained, and I was totally raw. He won’t look me in the eye anymore, and has taken up smoking.
I unfortunately had no internet restrictions, so somewhere at the age of 9 or 10 i got curious what that so called „Sex“ is all about.
So i typed it in and boom it got me.
It got really bad when i was 15, „regular“ porn wasnt enough anymore, aaand it got even worse.
Now im 19yo, quit porn completly about 100 days ago.
It took me this long to understand how fckd my brain was because of that shit.
So i blocked all the sites on my Broswer to make it harder to access them.
After 2-3 weeks, the Lust for Pornography was gone completely.
Now 100d later i start to notice how im healing from that shit.
I feel much more confident in public, i hit the gym more often.
And i masturbate 10x less then before.
Now its less then once a week.
I think some people’s perception of “porn addiction” is rather skewed. If you’re just wanking once a day then that’s not really an issue. If you’re sacrificing everything to go goon for several hours a day then you need to get your shit together.
Best thing to do is remove yourself from that environment. Delete accounts/uninstall apps that you use for porn. Block sites, etc. Find something else to do to fill the void of time you once used for watching porn. Start a new hobby, go out and meet people, exercise, whatever you want to do. Find a healthy balance for how often you jerk it.
Addiction means it’s preventing you from doing your job, affecting your relationships, and preventing you from having hobbies. I feel like a lot of people assume watching porn daily is an addiction
It was hurting my relationship with my girlfriend. I decided she’s more important so I stop. Been feeling great ever since and no withdrawals(except the first month)
Replace it with other addictions, like drugs and alcohol. Occasionally I use my depression as a tool to suppress my sex drive and instead just nap 7x a day.
I read that “Easy Peasy” method thing, and I thought it was bullshit.
I literally never thought about it again.
But slowly stopped watching porn and jerking off. I still do, sometimes, but days apart.
Legitimately didn’t think about it until like… right now. Idk if it had anything to do with it, but I’m not discounting the possibility. Or I just turned 30 and somehow stopped being interested in porn (and more interested in real sex).
Define “porn addiction.” Because I’ve seen several definitions.
Dedicating a significant portion of your time to watching porn, to the detriment of normal functioning. When not watching porn, you’re constantly thinking about getting back to watching porn. That is real porn addiction.
Watching a lot of porn. That is not addiction.
Being unable to masturbate without the aid of porn. Not addiction but I’d say there’s an issue there.
Watching any porn. Not addiction and I’d say people who call that a “porn addiction are the ones who need help.
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I started heroin.
Make sure you are always busy and fill your days with other stuff, eventually the urge will go
Get out more and try to meet real women. I watched way less porn after I got out and started dating.
One stroke at a time
Easy. Take SSRI’S. Kills any want to spank it 🤣
Depression killed my sex drive
I live in Texas. The government helped quite a bit.
I can quit anytime I want
Seen them all…
Watching porn gets me over the addiction for a few hours
Works 69 percent of the time….
turns around and makes another therapy appointment
by overcoming
What is considered porn addiction?
People who believe porn is morally wrong are more likely to be addicted to it.
I just lost total interest in it once I got with my girlfriend.
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After my wife started letting me film us (to keep for our private viewing) I found I started being more interested in watching those when I jerked off instead of porn. Now with a good size collection of videos of her and us, I don’t need porn anymore.
Step 1. Realize you masturbate not because you’re addicted but just because you want to and you’re horny.
Step 2. Continue doing it with no worry
You’ve gotta get a lot of things going for you to really hammer the point home in your messed-up brain. All of them require some intentionality, and if you’ve been using it since you were young, you’ve gotta understand it’s not gonna just “go away,” treat it like an actual addiction, because it is.
Here are a couple of things that helped me. Be more active, just in general. Do more things where you’re not just sitting in front of a computer all day. If you are going to be sitting in front of a computer, find some friends to hang out with consistently, and find people to talk to on the regular.
Get off sites that entice those feelings. If it’s reddit, get off the subreddits that post lewd things occasionally, because congratulations, you have actual triggers now.
Think about the fact that those women are someone’s daughters, sisters, sometimes mothers. It’s almost impossible to not treat those women as objects when you’re watching and using them like that. Don’t dehumanize them. Furthermore, so many women are pushed into those things from abusive childhoods or trauma suffered in the past. Whether it’s an incalcuably small part or a massive part, you contribute to the internal suffering that is going on every time you watch them in that way.
You gotta pray, meditate, journal, something that reaches into your inner life in a way that’s intentional. And you’ve gotta do it regularly and keep yourself accountable. If you pray, pray for help in overcoming something you know is wrong. If you meditate, clear yourself of those feelings and buttress your mind against those cravings. If you journal, journal about why you masturbate, get to the bottom of what issues you have that feed into the addiction.
You got this.
Still working on it, but Buddhism has helped me.
Never overcame, do not care to.
I started calling it a “hobby” instead of “addiction”.
Perspective is everything, and perception is 90% of reality.
Got a girlfriend
Beat it single handedly, it was hard
Had more sex
you just age out of when you dont have the time
Went blind like my teachers said!
I think over coming is the exact problem here.
Not by browsing this subreddit that’s for sure
Found it easier to switch triggers, from hard to get over to easier to forget, i left the hub and stuff and started reading comics, two weeks later my excessiveness decreased and then i left comics for novels, now i dont masterbate because theres no images, and some novels get intriguing
Bro can I ask you something? Why do you want to overcome porn addiction?
I feel like there is another issue and you’re blaming yourself fairly about it
Stay busy. Exercise, work, school, etc. Remove influences that will cause you to stumble, such as porn sites or online thirst traps. It’s going to be rough for the first few days, and weeks. But I promise that it does get better, and you’ll be better for it.
Depends. Most people who talk about ‘porn addiction’ are actually refering to a non addiction, they just think any porn is an addiction, because they have a belief system based on nonsense.
It’s a bit like the evangelical preachers who are vocally highly against gay sex, out-of-marriage sex AND porn, who have gay sex, out-of-marriage sex, and/or outright illegal porn.
Sometimes the loudest complainers are the problem.
“Idle hands are the devil’s playthings” or something like that. Nothing wrong with having free time, but the more time you have not doing something else (doesn’t even have to necessarily be productive) I have found leads to boredom and the urge to watch to fill that void. Also eliminating triggers, e.g. softcore or Instagram models has helped too. Ultimately, it is like any other addiction. As far as the masturbation part that usually comes (no pun intended) with it, is fine, just try using your imagination instead.
Now, when you say addiction, what exactly do you mean? A lot of people confuse the idea of enjoying something frequently and being addicted to it. Addiction can mean several things though. Let’s dig into it a bit. Being “addicted” to porn means you will sacrifice things in your life to satisfy the need to consume pornography. Are you sacrificing things to consume it? Also, an addiction usually has some downside. While consuming porn can fundamentally effect you and can even lead to parasocial behaviors where the people you consume porn of start to take the place of real life social interaction. This is where it becomes an addiction. Enjoying pornography is not in any way a negative thing. Enjoying pornography in a non healthy way is addiction.
How do you define addiction?
i watched a bunch of documentaries behind the scenes. Once you see how the sausage gets made you’re a lil less hungry – after porn ends and meet my porn star were particularly effective and Louis Theroux’s porn docs were strong as well
How do I know if I’m addicted to to porn? I mean I watch it during an activity. But not all the time. I don’t need it. I can have sex and get off pretty easily. I can get off without sex or porn if I need to. It’s just more stimulating to use porn. I just don’t know what porn addiction means honestly.
Assumes facts not in evidence. One way or the other.
I was supposed to stop?
I did it the same way my dad got me to quit smoking when I was 14. He sat me down on the back porch, slapped a whole carton on the table, and made me smoke every dart. It took all day and I felt so sick by the end, but I haven’t touched one since.
When I realised I was addicted to porn, I did the same thing. I sat on my dad’s back porch with my laptop, and relieved myself several times for hours while he watched silently. My pipes were completely drained, and I was totally raw. He won’t look me in the eye anymore, and has taken up smoking.
It didn’t help me quit… New fetish unlocked.
By using prostitutes more often.
I unfortunately had no internet restrictions, so somewhere at the age of 9 or 10 i got curious what that so called „Sex“ is all about.
So i typed it in and boom it got me.
It got really bad when i was 15, „regular“ porn wasnt enough anymore, aaand it got even worse.
Now im 19yo, quit porn completly about 100 days ago.
It took me this long to understand how fckd my brain was because of that shit.
So i blocked all the sites on my Broswer to make it harder to access them.
After 2-3 weeks, the Lust for Pornography was gone completely.
Now 100d later i start to notice how im healing from that shit.
I feel much more confident in public, i hit the gym more often.
And i masturbate 10x less then before.
Now its less then once a week.
Can’t give good feedback. Wife and I watch porn together occasionally.
I think some people’s perception of “porn addiction” is rather skewed. If you’re just wanking once a day then that’s not really an issue. If you’re sacrificing everything to go goon for several hours a day then you need to get your shit together.
Best thing to do is remove yourself from that environment. Delete accounts/uninstall apps that you use for porn. Block sites, etc. Find something else to do to fill the void of time you once used for watching porn. Start a new hobby, go out and meet people, exercise, whatever you want to do. Find a healthy balance for how often you jerk it.
Decided to rename it a porn habit.
Got a prostitute addiction instead. 😏
Addiction means it’s preventing you from doing your job, affecting your relationships, and preventing you from having hobbies. I feel like a lot of people assume watching porn daily is an addiction
It was hurting my relationship with my girlfriend. I decided she’s more important so I stop. Been feeling great ever since and no withdrawals(except the first month)
Found a girl who has a high a drive as i do… maybe higher.
You can’t jerk off if your tank is always empty.
I watched it all.
There is simply none left
Replace it with other addictions, like drugs and alcohol. Occasionally I use my depression as a tool to suppress my sex drive and instead just nap 7x a day.
Serious answer:
I read that “Easy Peasy” method thing, and I thought it was bullshit.
I literally never thought about it again.
But slowly stopped watching porn and jerking off. I still do, sometimes, but days apart.
Legitimately didn’t think about it until like… right now. Idk if it had anything to do with it, but I’m not discounting the possibility. Or I just turned 30 and somehow stopped being interested in porn (and more interested in real sex).
Focus on GOD and the things of his kingdom and will. Replace all the porn and sinful things with holy things.
Overcome? I don’t have any cum left!
Define “porn addiction.” Because I’ve seen several definitions.
Dedicating a significant portion of your time to watching porn, to the detriment of normal functioning. When not watching porn, you’re constantly thinking about getting back to watching porn. That is real porn addiction.
Watching a lot of porn. That is not addiction.
Being unable to masturbate without the aid of porn. Not addiction but I’d say there’s an issue there.
Watching any porn. Not addiction and I’d say people who call that a “porn addiction are the ones who need help.
Clean your Instagram and Tiktok first.