31 year old core memory unlocked. I found a floppy disk in my dads desk in 1993 labeled "Battle Chess + Strip Euchre." I was 9, and I learned to play chess and a game I pronounced "oo-tray" from this. I about lost my mind when I finally began to win 'ootray' and saw "porn" for the first time. The character resolution was like one step up from Super Mario Bros. Each nipple was a single pink pixel, and I was entranced. Weird times.
You just made a huge connection in my brain, ever since I started Vyvanse back in September when I got diagnosed, I have such a hard time getting in the mood 😭 (im a woman) I didn't even THINK it could possibly be the Vyvanse doing it.
When I started antidepressants, I couldn't get a boner. It was really lame.
I went to my doctor because he wanted to check how I was doing.
My mental health had improved dramatically, but I had another problem. This dude had been our family doctor for decades, so I thought he'd get a kick out of this.
I also wanted to make sure everything was normal.
Him: "Are you having any issues?"
Me: "Dude, I can't get a boner."
Him (chuckling): "That's normal. It'll come back."
Me: "Thank God. The porn sites are wondering where I am."
He cried with laughter.
100mg of zoloft is a completely average dose. Zoloft dosing goes anywhere from 50-200 mg on average. Although I've heard as low as 25 mg and as high as 300 mg.
100mg of Lamictal is a pretty low dose. I take twice that for seizures and I'm lucky that's all it takes, because many people take 3-5 times that amount (either for epilepsy or mood stabilization).
Shit I had the opposite. My anti depression meds made me unable to cum. The boner wasn’t the issue. I’m ashamed to say I beat it for 45 minutes before almost crying
I replaced my late-night browsing with reading Wikipedia articles on obscure topics—because nothing kills the mood like learning about the history of paperclips
Omg that stack of papers is cannot possibly get paper clipped. This paperclip gonna get real bent up if it.. OH NO! Oh no... Oh yeah! Wow that paperclip can handle much more than i thought. Gotta save this clip for later XD
The problem is that only works for "porn porn". There's so much implicit sexual imagery on the internet. You can't even scroll through most social media sites these days without coming across content that will work just fine as porn for a lot of people.
Ugh! Those disgusting non nude content sites! But there are so many of them! Like, which ones should I be avoiding? What are some specific sites that I need to block?
it’s not about being a puritan. if you are actively trying to stop an addiction, you can’t microdose and still stay youre sober. and on top of that, seeing those things can be constant triggers to relapse.
just like it is suggested that those quitting smoking dont be around people smoking for a while, and alcoholics dont enter bars. even if you dont partake you’re risking that relapse and it can make recovery harder, constantly having reminders of what you’re giving up.
This exact same question was posted to askmen at the exact same time by a different user. u/zealousidealsun9596 replied with the exact same comment and both OP's replied with the exact same response.
This post is clearly just for this user to advertise his YouTube
Edit: a surprising number of users are ok with obvious sockpuppets pushing their malware through social agenda.
Given the prevalence of porn addiction I'm ok with the OP posting this because some of the other replies will definitely help some of the guys reading this thread.
if it’s an addiction, quitting means quitting entirely - at least for now. addiction rewires how you see sex and men/women in general. just like quitting smoking doesnt mean you are perfectly healthy immediately again.
think of an alcoholic. if he’s gonna quit he quits for good. at least for a few years. SOME alcoholics can eventually be like a healthy user, maybe just having a beer with friends every couple of weeks. Some realize every time they partake they start to fall off the deep end again and have to quit for life.
It's more like a food addiction than those things because healthy people are supposed to orgasm I think. You can't give up every form of addiction cold turkey.
Quitting porn does not mean never having an orgasm. Orgasm by having sex or jerk off to your imagination/memory just don't use pictures or videos to do it.
Many people associate watching porn with masturbating, so when they try to quit porn, they also stop masturbating, which makes quitting harder.
I decided to stop watching porn but continued to masturbate without it.
Initially, it felt less stimulating since I was used to the triggers from porn.
However, over time, my interest in masturbating declined because porn was the main driver.
Gradually, without the influence of porn, I lost interest in both activities and was eventually able to quit both, leading to a healthier lifestyle.
Edit: When I said a healthier lifestyle, I wasn't talking about masturbation specifically. All I'm saying is when I stopped watching porn, I continued to masturbate, which helped me stop. But over time, without porn, I lost the urge to masturbate as well (over about 1-2 months).
How is not masturbating healthy?
This is not a criticism. My doctor told me that ejaculating frequently is good and since my wife is not in the mood so often it is actually good to rub one out.
Yeah, masturbating is quite a healthy activity to do, within moderation, of course. It can even help decrease the chances of prostate cancer. People who quit cold turkey, thinking it’s better for them, have it wrong.
but the commentor didn't say they stopped ejaculating, just that they stopped masturbating gradually over time. What if he is in a relationship and seeks out that in the relationship instead of solo now?
In that case, sex takes the place of masturbation, but we don’t know that now do we?
Masturbation, in and of itself, is still a healthy activity, though. One does not need to stop masturbation, and may even be more harmful, if one stops it all together.
I think they’re just saying it’s healthier for them. If they used to be addicted to masturbation, it would probably be hard to do it in moderation, and might risk dipping back into the porn addiction. It’s the same reason alcoholics don’t generally go to bars or drink at all. Masturbation can indeed be healthy, but nothing is black and white.
Porn and porn addiction is one thing but masturbation isn’t unhealthy, quite the opposite. It’s like exercise in the sense that it has mental and physical health benefits, not to mention sexuality is one of our primary natural functions as human beings
This exact same question was posted to askmen at the exact same time by a different user. u/zealousidealsun9596 replied with the exact same comment with a YouTube link and both OP's replied with the exact same response.
This post is clearly just for this user to advertise his YouTube
I just decided to stop.
It was causing problems with my sexual performance, and while there can be many reasons for that, this was the factor I could most easily and readily control (and it worked).
If you gotta beat it, just do so without any visual stimuli. It can be hard (haha) at first, but all it takes is time. Focus on how you feel rather than what you're seeing. It probably also helps if you're actually having regular sex for the best possible management of sexual energy.
Also: less time on problem sites with lots of possible smut (like reddit) unless you're able to curate your feed and can resist doing searches.
> It probably also helps if you're actually having regular sex for the best possible management of sexual energy.
Ok well I'm fucked then. Or not. Wait.
My partner I think has an issue with porn. It’s definitely gotten better at least from what I know. There were a lot of factors that went into it, but I feel like it’s gotten better. When we were first together, sex was frequent and amazing. But about halfway through our relationship it was bad. I felt like they constantly compared me to what they saw and I just wouldn’t add up. It’s been better for the most part lately.
Yeah I've heard, luckily I hadn't really been too deep into addiction and would only do it about once per day, but I'm glad I got with her because it saved me from going any deeper into addiction.
My serious answer. I managed to quit for 2 years, now. But it took me about 5 years, from recognizing as an addiction, and managing to quit porn.
During these 5 years I was into r/pornfree , and later r/nofap.
I also went to therapy, got some meds, identified my triggers and fixed them. For example, I got away from my toxic father, started living by myself etc.
There's no sure path. Just know it's long, it's not linear, but every day you fight to do a little better, it's a win day.
Hell, recognizing the addiction is already the win for the day. Just know you can achieve plenty more, with patience and support
I'm in a great relationship.
I struggled for a couple decades. It killed my desire to be affectionate towards my SOs. I went cold turkey as soon as I had my first date with my now GF. It's been a month and I have never felt so loved in my life as I am giving more in terms of physical affection than I ever have. I feel closer and way more aroused and can go for round two and three, then have glorious morning wood that is put down by an equally driven woman. She has sent me nudes but I don't really look at them.
In my experience it wasn't that hard to do. The reason people fail at conquering their porn addiction is they think they have to stop masturbating as well. That's two addictions at once tackle one at a time.
The realest answer I can give you is to imagine your crush, real, imaginary, celebrity, idc. Imagine the man she is attracted to. Become that man. It sounds really dumb but I swear to god working towards the goal of a real woman is the only way to break away from the fantasy of the internet.
You have to start participating in life dawg. If you find you spend all your time at home resisting the urge, gtfo out of your house. Spend every hour of free time you have building a meaningful life or out in the world until you have something or someone better to do with your time than your hand.
Get rid of passive pornography for at least the first month. That’s all the social media bikini pics or anything that would even make you think about your dick. These things may not help everyone but they worked for me.
Realizing it's not real and the only problem i actually had was my relationship to my sexuality.
Watching porn, enjoying porn, masturbating (even multiple times a day!) are perfectly healthy unless you're putting yourself in debt over it, skipping out on social interactions, or you're unable to work because of it. Otherwise you're perfectly fine, and the actual problem is that someone has taught you to feel guilty for no goddamn reason.
Many would disagree, not sure if I would though. Those that disagree are much older people like Gen X and Boomers along with stout Bible readers. To them any porn is too much. I would agree with the “unhealthy” parts you referred to like unable to work and skipping socializing because of it.
I read the book [the easypeasy method](https://easypeasymethod.org/) and haven't touched porn since.
The book is a copy of 'the easy way to quit smoking' by Alan Carr (which is also how I quit smoking) but they changed all the examples to be about porn instead. After 15 years of every day porn use I was shocked how easy it was to stop with the right advice. It doesn't shame you, and it's not clinically written by some doctor who has no irl experience with porn addiction.
Highly recommend. It's free!
I watched a lot of porn when I was in a relationship and after being single I just replaced porn with sex. It's fixed my relationship with sex and intimacy.
I switched from using videos to only looking at pictures and gifs. After being able to do that successfully for a few weeks, I cut to only using porn to get me started, but would close out of it halfway through and make myself finish without looking at anything. After a couple weeks of that, I switched to masturbating without it at all.
Its been over five years and I have a pretty healthy relationship with porn now. I dont NEED it to masturbate, but sometimes I use it.
I slowly felt the thought of "I don't even want this from someone, I just want someone to hold me close" Sink in over the last couple of months. This helped slowly lean me out of it.
Delete social media. Especially with the scrolling stuff these days it comes to you you don’t even have to look it up. It’s like putting a lit cigaret in your mouth and hoping not to inhale. It was literally ten times easier after deleting.
It wasn't any kind of effort on my part really. I stumbled across a hobby that I really turned out to love. I got more satisfaction from it than I did from jerking off, I could spend much longer doing it without injury or exhaustion, and it gave me something I could talk about with people, which improved my social life. I do still enjoy porn, but I went from several times a day to two or three times a week, sometimes not at all for a couple weeks, depending on stress and how occupied I am.
losing my virginity and taking prozac has really dialed my sexual tensions down quite a bit. i still visit the hub from time to time but it has significantly decreased since i branched myself out into the world.
I probably shouldn't comment on this. Cuz I quit it but then started again.
But basically, when I was with my last girlfriend, I quit because I told her I was tired of it, and putting imaginary sex above the real thing. She understood and she helped me.
We had more sex. We tried more things, like games, roleplay, etc.
I quit it and really stopped thinking about it for at least 2 years.
But when we broke up, I had my heart broken. So I started again.
Maybe quitting is related to doing it for someone else, and not yourself.
Hmm, I think gradual approach is the best. For example if you get off to porn every day, try to keep it only 5 days a week at first.
Then lower it to 3 days, then only use one category, then only once a week. Try to use only images and try to imagine what you would do.
After as a final step… try to use only your imagination, and hey it’s okay to relapse and it’s okay to fail, but you gotta get back on track.
If none of this will work, I have more brutal way- try to think logicaly about this. Would you want to watch random people from the street fuck at their home? If not then why are you watching porn?
Do you know how is porn made? Lots of diseases, uncomfort, it is very hard work, full of pills, destroyed health and sometimes even rape or including very very young girls.
I hope the “normal” approach will work for you and you won’t need to be thinking and reminding yourself of the second one
Became addicted to chess instead
Is that you, Howard Stern?
Hey now
Hey, careful with those bishops
Stupid sexy bishops
especially the one on i9
Love it when the queen overtakes the king?
Misread that as cheese initially. Unironically some great life advice
Is there a pornographic chess set ? Like a playboy chess set ?
31 year old core memory unlocked. I found a floppy disk in my dads desk in 1993 labeled "Battle Chess + Strip Euchre." I was 9, and I learned to play chess and a game I pronounced "oo-tray" from this. I about lost my mind when I finally began to win 'ootray' and saw "porn" for the first time. The character resolution was like one step up from Super Mario Bros. Each nipple was a single pink pixel, and I was entranced. Weird times.
New response just dropped
I watched it all… there’s simply none left
Chad... you reached the end credits... was there a post credits scene ?
Yeah it was like marvels post credit scenes they have dick jousts and shi
Wtf that's wild...Diklympics
I got put on mental health medication and it took my libido away. For those asking: I'm on a combination of Pristiq and Invega.
Yeah, antidepressants can really kill your sex drive.
I took paroxetine. I still had an insanely high sex drive, but could not get an erection. Would not recommend the combo.
man my Vyvanse does the same to me it's so hard to get off or get really good erection
You just made a huge connection in my brain, ever since I started Vyvanse back in September when I got diagnosed, I have such a hard time getting in the mood 😭 (im a woman) I didn't even THINK it could possibly be the Vyvanse doing it.
Had a somewhat similar issue, I could still get erections, but cumming was impossible. I was on Sertraline.
Same problem with the same medication. Don't take it anymore thankfully
Yeah, I stopped about 5 years ago, problems went away after a while.
When I started antidepressants, I couldn't get a boner. It was really lame. I went to my doctor because he wanted to check how I was doing. My mental health had improved dramatically, but I had another problem. This dude had been our family doctor for decades, so I thought he'd get a kick out of this. I also wanted to make sure everything was normal. Him: "Are you having any issues?" Me: "Dude, I can't get a boner." Him (chuckling): "That's normal. It'll come back." Me: "Thank God. The porn sites are wondering where I am." He cried with laughter.
this is gold 😭
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100mg of zoloft is a completely average dose. Zoloft dosing goes anywhere from 50-200 mg on average. Although I've heard as low as 25 mg and as high as 300 mg.
100mg of Lamictal is a pretty low dose. I take twice that for seizures and I'm lucky that's all it takes, because many people take 3-5 times that amount (either for epilepsy or mood stabilization).
Being a zombie sounds pretty fucking good right about now.
It happened to me too when I started sertralin. I didn’t loose erections or the ability to ejaculate, I just don’t need it as much
Shit I had the opposite. My anti depression meds made me unable to cum. The boner wasn’t the issue. I’m ashamed to say I beat it for 45 minutes before almost crying
It was hard but I beat it one day at a time.
Ironically that would be an improvement for some people.
Fuck I’m at one a day now…it used to be worse.
Progress is progress.
So, I'm not an addict?
Depends on whether you're gooning for 5 hours and counting it as "once."
5 hrs is warm up.
What about like 45 mins to an hour...does that count? Asking for a friend.
So ween off slowly but surely
Someone get this man a beer.
they told me "don't you ever cum around here"
Clap clap clap
Avoid the clap
[Beat it!](https://youtu.be/oRdxUFDoQe0?si=nVNkvNIHTqejC63d)
I beat it all at once. Different strokes for different folks, I guess
r/angryupvote
I beat it with Jesus!
Y'all stop!! 😭😭😭
Better than beating it two times a day.
I replaced my late-night browsing with reading Wikipedia articles on obscure topics—because nothing kills the mood like learning about the history of paperclips
WHATS WRONG WITH BEATING IT TO PAPERCLIPS HUH? PAPERCLIPS ARE HOT OK? /j Edit: changed ut to it
Omg that stack of papers is cannot possibly get paper clipped. This paperclip gonna get real bent up if it.. OH NO! Oh no... Oh yeah! Wow that paperclip can handle much more than i thought. Gotta save this clip for later XD
I joined a support group where we discussed our struggles with internet addiction—turns out, group chats about cat memes are surprisingly therapeutic.
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The problem is that only works for "porn porn". There's so much implicit sexual imagery on the internet. You can't even scroll through most social media sites these days without coming across content that will work just fine as porn for a lot of people.
Honestly, non nude content is some of the hottest stuff out there.
Ugh! Those disgusting non nude content sites! But there are so many of them! Like, which ones should I be avoiding? What are some specific sites that I need to block?
For research, and a friend... who is a researcher.
Facebook reels
As depraved as I am, I won't be going back to Facebook, I have standards.
As a teen I masturbated to Wikipedia articles because the only internet access I had was on a school issued laptop with a strong Internet filter.
Those "List of First Ladies" pics are pretty steamy.
Thats honestly one of the difficult things. With porn addicition its so easy to get kind of set off by something you see on the internet.
Yeah I guess if you want to be a puritan, you should probably forgo all modern entertainment. I hear the Amish are nice.
Yeah you can check them out at r/Amish
Damn, don’t sort by controversial.
Nah they wouldn't take me. Too much porn.
it’s not about being a puritan. if you are actively trying to stop an addiction, you can’t microdose and still stay youre sober. and on top of that, seeing those things can be constant triggers to relapse. just like it is suggested that those quitting smoking dont be around people smoking for a while, and alcoholics dont enter bars. even if you dont partake you’re risking that relapse and it can make recovery harder, constantly having reminders of what you’re giving up.
This exact same question was posted to askmen at the exact same time by a different user. u/zealousidealsun9596 replied with the exact same comment and both OP's replied with the exact same response. This post is clearly just for this user to advertise his YouTube Edit: a surprising number of users are ok with obvious sockpuppets pushing their malware through social agenda.
Given the prevalence of porn addiction I'm ok with the OP posting this because some of the other replies will definitely help some of the guys reading this thread.
Does quitting mean you never watch porn? or you limit your time watching? or it’s a thing you have to leave completely alone?
if it’s an addiction, quitting means quitting entirely - at least for now. addiction rewires how you see sex and men/women in general. just like quitting smoking doesnt mean you are perfectly healthy immediately again. think of an alcoholic. if he’s gonna quit he quits for good. at least for a few years. SOME alcoholics can eventually be like a healthy user, maybe just having a beer with friends every couple of weeks. Some realize every time they partake they start to fall off the deep end again and have to quit for life.
It's more like a food addiction than those things because healthy people are supposed to orgasm I think. You can't give up every form of addiction cold turkey.
Quitting porn does not mean never having an orgasm. Orgasm by having sex or jerk off to your imagination/memory just don't use pictures or videos to do it.
Many people associate watching porn with masturbating, so when they try to quit porn, they also stop masturbating, which makes quitting harder. I decided to stop watching porn but continued to masturbate without it. Initially, it felt less stimulating since I was used to the triggers from porn. However, over time, my interest in masturbating declined because porn was the main driver. Gradually, without the influence of porn, I lost interest in both activities and was eventually able to quit both, leading to a healthier lifestyle. Edit: When I said a healthier lifestyle, I wasn't talking about masturbation specifically. All I'm saying is when I stopped watching porn, I continued to masturbate, which helped me stop. But over time, without porn, I lost the urge to masturbate as well (over about 1-2 months).
How is not masturbating healthy? This is not a criticism. My doctor told me that ejaculating frequently is good and since my wife is not in the mood so often it is actually good to rub one out.
Yeah, masturbating is quite a healthy activity to do, within moderation, of course. It can even help decrease the chances of prostate cancer. People who quit cold turkey, thinking it’s better for them, have it wrong.
A wank a day keeps doc’s finger away
Keep a fresh round in the chamber on the reg
but the commentor didn't say they stopped ejaculating, just that they stopped masturbating gradually over time. What if he is in a relationship and seeks out that in the relationship instead of solo now?
In that case, sex takes the place of masturbation, but we don’t know that now do we? Masturbation, in and of itself, is still a healthy activity, though. One does not need to stop masturbation, and may even be more harmful, if one stops it all together.
Define moderation.
“The avoidance of excess or extremes, especially in one's behavior or political opinions.”
if you're doing it for the fifth time that day, out the window of a moving vehicle you're driving, you're not being very moderate
Around 5 times a day should do it
4/week
Wasn't the healthiest like 20 something a month? So 4+ a week
Oh, a month. That makes more sense.
You mean to tell me double digits a day is too much?
Either single digits or triple digits. No in between.
I think they’re just saying it’s healthier for them. If they used to be addicted to masturbation, it would probably be hard to do it in moderation, and might risk dipping back into the porn addiction. It’s the same reason alcoholics don’t generally go to bars or drink at all. Masturbation can indeed be healthy, but nothing is black and white.
Porn and porn addiction is one thing but masturbation isn’t unhealthy, quite the opposite. It’s like exercise in the sense that it has mental and physical health benefits, not to mention sexuality is one of our primary natural functions as human beings
This is spot on. Reducing pornography consumption doesn't mean puritanism.
Yep it necessary for a healthy pelvic floor
This is a weird mindset. Nothing about not masturbating absent a partner is healthier provided you're doing it in a non-addictive way.
And a higher chance of prostate cancer
So...you dont start to itch after 2 days and ache after a week?
You can start by skipping all these thirsty AF /r/AskReddit threads. WTF has gotten in to this community?
Seriously, all the questions I saw on this sub are, "How is sex?", "How is your genital?", "How is your masturbation?"
"What is the sexiest sex you've ever sexed?"
Well now you have my attention
Yeah, it’s damn annoying
I think people don't realize that a HUGE chunk of reddit users are kids from the ages of 13-18
This exact same question was posted to askmen at the exact same time by a different user. u/zealousidealsun9596 replied with the exact same comment with a YouTube link and both OP's replied with the exact same response. This post is clearly just for this user to advertise his YouTube
“Women of Reddit what is one thing an overweight gamer male can do that would instantly make you wanna marry him and have sex”
Summer is out and the kids are on reddit.
Naw it's been like this for a few years now
It's been September for a very long time.
I just decided to stop. It was causing problems with my sexual performance, and while there can be many reasons for that, this was the factor I could most easily and readily control (and it worked). If you gotta beat it, just do so without any visual stimuli. It can be hard (haha) at first, but all it takes is time. Focus on how you feel rather than what you're seeing. It probably also helps if you're actually having regular sex for the best possible management of sexual energy. Also: less time on problem sites with lots of possible smut (like reddit) unless you're able to curate your feed and can resist doing searches.
> It probably also helps if you're actually having regular sex for the best possible management of sexual energy. Ok well I'm fucked then. Or not. Wait.
Start fapping tob your imagination. It’s good for focus, it limits blue light at night … no end to benefits!
My partner I think has an issue with porn. It’s definitely gotten better at least from what I know. There were a lot of factors that went into it, but I feel like it’s gotten better. When we were first together, sex was frequent and amazing. But about halfway through our relationship it was bad. I felt like they constantly compared me to what they saw and I just wouldn’t add up. It’s been better for the most part lately.
It was easy. (It's only been 2 days 😂 help)
They blocked pornhub🤷🏾♂️yep I quit cold turkey
You know that there's at least one other porn site, right?
Now you've undone all his hard work....
His job here is successfully done
There most definitely is but I’m chilling
Who tf is THEY 😂😂😂
OP probably lives in a state with the new censorship laws.
Arkansas just today made it so you can no longer access. It was accessible if you turned off wifi but today that trick doesn’t work anymore :/
Wtf Arkansas? Y'all got some crazy policies going on down there
Don’t blame me lol, I voted for the literal rocket scientist.
😂whoever blocked PH in NC without a VPN
The state republican party lmao
Dang, that was the only place on the internet that had porn! Where will we go now??
Got a gf
Same, now I'm about 8 months clean. The moment I caught feelings for her my desire to watch porn instantly vanished.
Unfortunately this is not the case for many porn addicts. They often replace physical intimacy with porn and it ruins relationships.
Yeah I've heard, luckily I hadn't really been too deep into addiction and would only do it about once per day, but I'm glad I got with her because it saved me from going any deeper into addiction.
This is the exact same thing that happened to me. It felt wrong and was unfair to her so I just stopped entirely.
Worked out every day for like 6 months. Had 2 different jobs. Took up kayaking and other healthy(er) hobbies.
My serious answer. I managed to quit for 2 years, now. But it took me about 5 years, from recognizing as an addiction, and managing to quit porn. During these 5 years I was into r/pornfree , and later r/nofap. I also went to therapy, got some meds, identified my triggers and fixed them. For example, I got away from my toxic father, started living by myself etc. There's no sure path. Just know it's long, it's not linear, but every day you fight to do a little better, it's a win day. Hell, recognizing the addiction is already the win for the day. Just know you can achieve plenty more, with patience and support
I replace it with game addiction. Can't fap if both hands on controller
Not with that attitude!
It was hard… so very hard.. and then it wasn’t..
I'm proud of you for beating it off.
Let's come together and celebrate the climax of his achievement.
This sounds like a message left on the ground in Elden Ring. Works regardless
I'm in a great relationship. I struggled for a couple decades. It killed my desire to be affectionate towards my SOs. I went cold turkey as soon as I had my first date with my now GF. It's been a month and I have never felt so loved in my life as I am giving more in terms of physical affection than I ever have. I feel closer and way more aroused and can go for round two and three, then have glorious morning wood that is put down by an equally driven woman. She has sent me nudes but I don't really look at them.
Im still on reddit so no way my porn addiction is leeving a ytime soon
Fun fact. If you search for Reddit in the Apple App Store, the first app that appears is one to help break porn-addiction
Post nut clarity.
Reddit is not the sample pool you're looking for.
Carpal tunnel
you must have had some real shitty technique for that to happen or you were going like mach 7 with your wrists or you were beating it 10 times a day
You realize there are other ways they might have gotten carpal tunnel and it just hindered masturbating, right?
This is reddit where we only imagine the craziest worst case scenarios.
true but with the context of the post thats the kind of the only thing that came to mind lol
it became mundane
Restrict yourself to only watching scat porn.
I got married.
In my experience it wasn't that hard to do. The reason people fail at conquering their porn addiction is they think they have to stop masturbating as well. That's two addictions at once tackle one at a time.
I got a girlfriend.
The realest answer I can give you is to imagine your crush, real, imaginary, celebrity, idc. Imagine the man she is attracted to. Become that man. It sounds really dumb but I swear to god working towards the goal of a real woman is the only way to break away from the fantasy of the internet. You have to start participating in life dawg. If you find you spend all your time at home resisting the urge, gtfo out of your house. Spend every hour of free time you have building a meaningful life or out in the world until you have something or someone better to do with your time than your hand. Get rid of passive pornography for at least the first month. That’s all the social media bikini pics or anything that would even make you think about your dick. These things may not help everyone but they worked for me.
by the time you become that man she'll be log gone. but at least you'll be desirable to another woman after you improve
It’s not about “her” it’s about you dawg.
Realizing it's not real and the only problem i actually had was my relationship to my sexuality. Watching porn, enjoying porn, masturbating (even multiple times a day!) are perfectly healthy unless you're putting yourself in debt over it, skipping out on social interactions, or you're unable to work because of it. Otherwise you're perfectly fine, and the actual problem is that someone has taught you to feel guilty for no goddamn reason.
Many would disagree, not sure if I would though. Those that disagree are much older people like Gen X and Boomers along with stout Bible readers. To them any porn is too much. I would agree with the “unhealthy” parts you referred to like unable to work and skipping socializing because of it.
True. I have also seen a growing trend of men 16-25 falling into this anti-porn mindset. I don't think it's ALL Gen X and Boomers
Went blind
Yeah, but Helen Keller could still read her own lips.
Got a girlfriend who set that as a boundary
You do realize that most of the information regarding porn addiction is actually mormon propaganda, right?
got a girlfriend
I beat mine single-handedly!
I read the book [the easypeasy method](https://easypeasymethod.org/) and haven't touched porn since. The book is a copy of 'the easy way to quit smoking' by Alan Carr (which is also how I quit smoking) but they changed all the examples to be about porn instead. After 15 years of every day porn use I was shocked how easy it was to stop with the right advice. It doesn't shame you, and it's not clinically written by some doctor who has no irl experience with porn addiction. Highly recommend. It's free!
Some would say to take a hands on approach to tackle the issue. I took more of a hands off approach myself.
I watched a lot of porn when I was in a relationship and after being single I just replaced porn with sex. It's fixed my relationship with sex and intimacy.
I switched from using videos to only looking at pictures and gifs. After being able to do that successfully for a few weeks, I cut to only using porn to get me started, but would close out of it halfway through and make myself finish without looking at anything. After a couple weeks of that, I switched to masturbating without it at all. Its been over five years and I have a pretty healthy relationship with porn now. I dont NEED it to masturbate, but sometimes I use it.
I slowly felt the thought of "I don't even want this from someone, I just want someone to hold me close" Sink in over the last couple of months. This helped slowly lean me out of it.
Don't watch it and find something else to do
Or someone
Changed all my pornsite preferences to "homosexual"
It got boring and it kinda sent me to a mental facility. Kinda.
Bad bot
Stop doing meth.
Delete social media. Especially with the scrolling stuff these days it comes to you you don’t even have to look it up. It’s like putting a lit cigaret in your mouth and hoping not to inhale. It was literally ten times easier after deleting.
I'm no quitter!
It wasn't any kind of effort on my part really. I stumbled across a hobby that I really turned out to love. I got more satisfaction from it than I did from jerking off, I could spend much longer doing it without injury or exhaustion, and it gave me something I could talk about with people, which improved my social life. I do still enjoy porn, but I went from several times a day to two or three times a week, sometimes not at all for a couple weeks, depending on stress and how occupied I am.
losing my virginity and taking prozac has really dialed my sexual tensions down quite a bit. i still visit the hub from time to time but it has significantly decreased since i branched myself out into the world.
One day, and. Day one. There’s a difference
Got old
I joined the porn industry. Can't be an addiction if you're in it, right? /s
I stopped using methamphetamine
I replaced it with another vice and gained 40 pounds, honestly, porn had me in better shape.
I probably shouldn't comment on this. Cuz I quit it but then started again. But basically, when I was with my last girlfriend, I quit because I told her I was tired of it, and putting imaginary sex above the real thing. She understood and she helped me. We had more sex. We tried more things, like games, roleplay, etc. I quit it and really stopped thinking about it for at least 2 years. But when we broke up, I had my heart broken. So I started again. Maybe quitting is related to doing it for someone else, and not yourself.
By forcing my browser to redirect to cornhub every time I get tempted. Note: That is not a typo.
Hmm, I think gradual approach is the best. For example if you get off to porn every day, try to keep it only 5 days a week at first. Then lower it to 3 days, then only use one category, then only once a week. Try to use only images and try to imagine what you would do. After as a final step… try to use only your imagination, and hey it’s okay to relapse and it’s okay to fail, but you gotta get back on track. If none of this will work, I have more brutal way- try to think logicaly about this. Would you want to watch random people from the street fuck at their home? If not then why are you watching porn? Do you know how is porn made? Lots of diseases, uncomfort, it is very hard work, full of pills, destroyed health and sometimes even rape or including very very young girls. I hope the “normal” approach will work for you and you won’t need to be thinking and reminding yourself of the second one
Jesus Christ is the answer. He can redeem us.
Going outside more and finding a better hobby
It was hard, but I beat it.
I beat it.
Cold jerky
I think the first step is realize that no such fucking thing exists.
I didn't rely on anyone's help. I beat it single handedly.
i watched it all. finished it.