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Username: benmichaell

Date posted: 1y ago

porn

feel like if i stopped watching porn i’d feel like 50 percent better already. it makes me feel so guilty and i get so many intrusive thoughts. last night i couldn’t sleep at all bcuz i saw this video and it didn’t say the age of the girl or anything but i was aroused by it and she looked young. i hate myself sm. i’ve told everyone i’m gonna try and stop but after a day or two i just watch it bcuz it makes me feel less anxiety about certain themes but makes sexual intrusive thoughts so much worse. i used to be scared of porn because i thought i would go to hell if i watched it and now i feel like for the past year i’ve watched way too much. anyone have any tips on how to stop?

Username: NotSoNewb82NotSoNewb82

Date posted: 1y ago

I’m a little bit like this. If there are certain words like teen or young in the title I won’t watch it. I don’t go without completely because it is a normal function.

Username: Lewis711Lewis711

Date posted: 1y ago

@NotSoNewb82 Same.

Username: izzzaeyizzzaey

Date posted: 1y ago

do you use any apps to watch the porn? delete the apps. quitting porn is hard, especially because it seems like it's constantly shoved in our face. i watched porn everyday for like 2 years. the ptsd i have comes from porn that I saw when I was 15 and 16. porn is damaging to us, and you are correct, you will feel so much better if you stop using it. start using your imagination instead of porn, and at first, it's not going to cut it. you're going to feel that urge to just quickly watch something, but that's not going to be beneficial for you. it's been 3 months since I stopped watching porn, and I can already feel the benefits. my sex life with my boyfriend is back, i feel less gross and I've learned more about what my body likes and doesn't like. now I wonder why I watched porn for this long!

Username: BigGyro09BigGyro09

Date posted: 1y ago

What you described sounds like POCD and real event guilt and shame. You acknowledge that you would feel better about yourself without pornography, which is good. On the other hand, if you're having trouble with stopping then it sounds like an addiction. I too struggle with pronography and it can be very difficult to deal with. You should try to find a group that's trying to reach the same goal as you. That's what I do on an app called I Am Sober. There are tons of people that similar to how you feel and they aren't alone. Do you have a therapist for OCD? If not, that's okay. You can practice ways to keep away from pornography and substitute it with other things that can help you. It's hard, but it's worth it.

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Username: MJocd

Date posted: 5y ago

I feel a lot of shame for ever having watched porn in the past, I have moral scrupulosity OCD, and my thoughts are always like "what if you're a bad person because you watched porn in the past because good moral people dont watch porn?" I havent watched porn in a year and I avoid it like the plague. I know its normal for most people to have experienced porn at some point in their lives. Idk how to get over these thoughts, it feels like noone understands me or my type of intrusive thoughts :(

Username: Aaron R.

Date posted: 3y ago

Every time I watch an explicit video, I obsessively worry about whether or not the person in the video was of legal age or if I unintentionally looked at a minor. This causes me to have intrusive OCD thoughts that I am some kind of horrible pedophile or that the FBI will arrest me. I'm currently experiencing an anxiety spike right now because of it. Can anyone else relate to this? I only want to watch videos of consenting adults, but the need for 100 percent certainty makes it difficult for me to stop questioning it. Because of my religious beliefs, things like pornography are outside of my ethical values anyways, so I really want to break the habit of watching it in any capacity (even if I knew for certain I couldn't accidentally stumble upon a video of a minor), but I struggle with doing that. Does anyone have any tips to stop engaging in lustful behaviors, and how to deal with catastrophic thinking about jail time and being a sick person because I'm paranoid about if the model could be underage?

Username: Anonymous

Date posted: 3y ago

I watched porn and i feel guilty. My brain is telling me that they could have been 18 on the dot but i still watched it bc i felt like my brain was sabotaging me. I clicked on videos with mature audiences but it tells me you scrolled through young pornstars. I feel disgusted and depressed. I honestly don’t care about living sometimes.

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