Porn Addiction Support Thread

[dick brain]

I don't look at porn anymore but I have a history of using sex to make myself feel better and I'm currently six days into a fast and noticed that those urges are almost completely gone and also I don't think I've had a hardon since Tuesday so maybe y'all should try fasting.

 

[Squanto Airi]

With Lent starting, it's never a better time to stop looking at pornography and images that provoke lust. Just remember not to count the days of your streak of touching yourself/abstaining from pornography, as that'll easily allow you to slip up.

 

[Squanto Airi]

Doublepost, but Fr. Truebenbach is doing a video series on conquering lust and the shame of lust:

 

[Getmeout]

I feel like the idea that porn automatically equals addiction and addiction automatically equals violence is a cope to try to get people out of addiction. When I wanted to stop, I literally just stopped. It was possibly the easiest thing I have ever done in my entire life. I told people "I can stop whenever I want to" and it turns out that was 100% truth. I think what made it so easy was the neutral approach, most people go "Porn is EVIL and will DESTROY YOUR LIFE and make you KILL YOURSELF and anyone who looks at porn is PROLLY A PEDO" but I just shrugged and went "Guess it's just not for me" and keeping that attitude just makes it very easy to stay away.

Spoiler: stuff

One thing I find interesting though is after I quit porn, I didn't become happier or have more time to do anything. It didn't make me better at sex or dating either, I just lost an interest in sex and dating soon after losing an interest in porn. The time I used to watch porn, now I just use it to lay in bed staring at the ceiling. The only big change I noticed is, like I said, losing the ability to understand attraction. The idea of sitting down and watching some girl be naked sounds insane to me now, but so does the idea of sitting down with a girl you love and inserting yourself into her, let alone looking at a girl and genuinely thinking you want to kiss her. Or vice versa, a girl thinking that way towards a guy. Sex and romance just sounds so fucking weird to me now, I can't imagine looking at someone and wanting to have sex with them. Or marry them. Or kiss them. It just sounds so... Weird. Idk. Anyway I got a little away from myself, ya, just don't expect your life to change automatically or whatever.

The only advice I can give is
1. DO NOT USE SCARE TACTICS. Every time I've seen someone use scare tactics to get out of porn, they quit porn, but become significantly worse of a person. Either by replacing porn with a different addiction, or they just become an antisocial psychopath. This includes shame, shame also just worsens you. Just quit cause you want to, not cause you feel like a naughty boy that needs to stand in the corner.
2. Don't do it for a girl. Just don't. Girls ain't shit, never change your life for a girl.
3. Don't participate in porn addiction support threads. Including this one. That's replacing one addiction with another addiction (Internet validation). This also includes NNN, do not participate in NNN.

Tl;Dr - If you wanna stop just stop. This thread was very entertaining kek, funny to see everyone argue.

 

[Squanto Airi]

 

[Lone Wandering Courier]

Tl;Dr - If you wanna stop just stop. This thread was very entertaining kek, funny to see everyone argue.

I got into porn at a very young age and I was able to quit last year cold turkey without really any issues. Like sometimes I dream about watching porn, but I never actually felt any real urge to go pirate some porn since quitting. People act like quitting porn is the hardest thing in the world, but it really isn't.

 

[Getmeout]

I got into porn at a very young age and I was able to quit last year cold turkey without really any issues. Like sometimes I dream about watching porn, but I never actually felt any real urge to go pirate some porn since quitting. People act like quitting porn is the hardest thing in the world, but it really isn't.

I also sometimes have dreams about porn, but they're not me watching porn, just scrolling the internet and accidentally coming across it on twitter or something. I also got into porn at a very young age, and people always paint it as if the younger you get into it the more likely you are to be ENSLAVED to it and to have your LIFE RUINED but I literally just. Stopped. All you have to do is want to stop, I think the reason why it's so hard for people is cause they don't actually want to stop watching porn. They just got bullied into stopping by some looksmaxxing alt-right discord they're parasocially attached to.