If you’ve tried to keep your porn habits in check in the past, what happened?

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With the new information so far, what’s your take on why that happened?

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I have usually relapsed within a fortnight. I feel immense shame and so avoid “burdening” my partner with my sex drive as I don’t know how to initiate sex normally with her anymore. So eventually my needs boil over and I go back.

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When I go “cold turkey” off of porn, every day feels like a second that I’m underwater…1…2…3… I feel like eventually I’m going to gasp for air and watch again.

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I stopped trying to quit years ago. I eventually learned that it never addressed the shame. Now the issue is just not being secretive about it.

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I will quit for a while and be ‘good’ especially if I am busy or physically with my partner for a period of time. Then when I am alone the urges come back and I always eventually relapse, often worse than before and then feel really guilty.

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I got C-PTSD after divorce 20
Year whith my wife who is
Narcissit.after divorce i dress like a woman and have sex with men.I took amfetamin to make my pain go away and all i could think of sex whith men.its 4 years divorce and now i got a womans butt and breast train like a woman reales the pain.This is the only way to feel better dont know why.dont amfetamin now but when i did i had sex whith men.i am traumatisis and go to psykolog

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I don’t really watch that much porn anymore, I started to prefer just having sex over watching others do it. The problem is I became overly addicted to sex and was doing risky things to have it with random people quite often.

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Feel like I have to watch porn or there isn’t a point in self pleasure, feel shame that my partner doesn’t know.

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I’ve tried to quit several times always relapsing, really in two minds how to feel about porn as some people really have no issue so just have to deal with the shame I guess and figure things out.

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I just get the urge, helps me with anxiety but leads to more.

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I use it for boredom and also I’m an extremely horny man

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Im not even sure why I keep going back to it other than boredom

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I’ve been watching porn for so long, I’ve started to struggle with ED at the age of 30

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This is a lot. I have watched porn since I was a teenager. It really impacted my last relationship who didn’t like porn. I tried to stop or limit it but I hid it from her. It was one thing that affected our sex life and I feel guilty because she didn’t know why. As we stopped having sex as much, I retreated to porn more and felt more shame about it. I have since realised it wasn’t the only thing impacting our sex life, and I’ve tried to be kinder to myself about my usage, which has helped bring it down. But I still feel guilty, I can tell it impacts my approach to sex and I feel conflicted about how it degrades women while at the same time, I’m pro sex worker.

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I prefer reading erotic stories to watching porn because it leaves more to the imagination. Plus a lot of porn film is taken up with stock sexual behaviors that last too long

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Porn affects my ability to get hard

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I stopped for a while but go off and on depending on how stressed I am. I’m single and want to be celibate. But I struggle to stop this habit.

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I feel like porn, and the fact that I have been watching since a teenager is contributing to my issues with premature ejaculation

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I like watching porn because I want to be like a pornstar. But I get shy or feel shame when I’m watching it with a girl and then we just have boring sex. But when I watch it with the guy it’s like it helps it or it makes it easier just to hurry up and have sex and get it over with. So then I go and watch porn when I’m alone to please myself.

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stress relief is why I watch porn, but its killing my sex life. Erections are tough. A 45 day fast from porn was the best thing that happened years ago.