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My best advice is cut it out completely
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Ikr, I’ve been thinking I need to! If you’ve had this experience do you find that when you cut porn out completely you performed better during s word? Sorry if this is personal you don’t have to respond :)
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@Anonymous I think it makes you better at “making love” and more in tune with the reality of what s*x truly is!
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@Anonymous Porn is a fairy tale that twists expectations
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I've written this on another post that spoke about struggles with pornography, so I will post it here again. As someone who's recovering from a porn addiction that has started since I was 13 and has lasted for 5 years, cut this horrible creation out of your life. Seriously. You don't want it to continue. Especially as an OCD sufferer. You are better off putting your energy into things that are more healthy. If you feel guilty about watching porn, take it as a warning sign. Take it to heart. OCD LOVES to thrive on the things you've said and so many people have come to post about that same kind of thinking. Porn is literally the reason why I have OCD in the first place. Had I been warned about this stuff and told it was a like a drug (which it most definitely is) I would have never touched it. It boggles my mind on how much society continues to defend this industry to be honest. You are also not a bad person for watching or struggling with pornography. Ethical porn pretty much doesn't exist.
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You also mentioned that you feel POCD is kicking in because you are losing attraction for watching the same kind of porn all the time. Not only is this checking when it comes to OCD terms (Which I've been through myself in the beginning of 2021) but this is also what is called porn escalation. It's when you get bored of the same thing by watching it over and over again, so you "escalate" to something more shocking just to get the same hit. Sounds like drugs, doesn't it? That's because porn IS a drug. For example, regular cigarettes smokers can get tired of the same bland cigarette and would want something more extravagant in order to get the same hit they first got from smoking a regular cigarette for the first time. If you keep this up, you'll be watching things you didn't know even existed or things that have disgusted you entirely. Unfortunately this has happened to me and I carry a lot of shame because of it, though I try not to. This is like one of the main reasons to stop watching this garbage. Porn simply lies to you by trying to say all of this is ethical, and this is the perfect place to learn about kinks or sexual experience. I personally strongly disagree with that. This is the same entity that is hurting the expectations we set for ourselves, body confidence, and successful relationships. You would be doing yourself a favor by putting your foot down, saying no to pornography, and freeing yourself from this horrible clutches.
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@BigGip09 Don't waste your time using something that exploits human beings as objects when they aren't. Instead, treat yourself to meaningful connections and successful self confidence. I wish you the best
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Because I was researching (I know I shouldn’t google things but I can not help myself) and I was looking into porn addiction and I saw some stuff mention that watching porn can fixate a false reality in your mind of what sex is like so when I have sex with someone I feel like the only thing I can think of is porn and how it differentiates to normal sex, it all makes me nervous.
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I suggest you do research with the use of this website: https://fightthenewdrug.org/ This can help you acquire a lot of knowledge with what's going on with your addiction and how you want to get out of it. I wish you the best of luck. Abstaining isn't going to be easy but it will be surely worth it. I've been over 100 days free and I have no intent to return to it.
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Omg thank you guys sm <3
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My dr recommend porn cos I’m plagued with thoughts during sex and masturbation
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How is giving into the intrusive sexual thoughts along with struggles with masturbation going to help? A recommendation of pornography? Never thought I'd hear that. I wonder what your doctor meant by that.
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I’m worried about times when Child P*rn or suspicious porn videos have come up in the past. I tend to use Twitter for porn and it’s not the most moderated app out there but I was never looking for videos or pictures or anything related to that. Unfortunately stuff still has popped up and I’m just worried about if my reaction was perfect because I have intense POCD I want to say it’s nearly as severe as it can get so I just feel as if I remember times when something suspicious came up and I stayed for a moment to make sure I wasn’t attracted or maybe left and came back to be sure I was safe and didn’t like it and I’m afraid this counts as seeking out or engaging in illegal content that would get me in trouble. I’ve never once looked this stuff up and anyone who creates saves distributed or likes this stuff I believe deserves prison time for life but I’m just so worried that I didn’t react in the way I should’ve I’m 20 years old so I’m relatively young and I’m jus worried about what this means about me any one else deal with anything similar?
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I can't look at 18+ videos, comics, etc. I am straight, but SO-OCD tries to make me think I am not And the thoughts turns to feelings, and makes me scared, uncomfortable, sad, because I know this is not me. And when I try to imagine myself being with the woman on adult videos, and comics, my OCD gives gronal response not at the girl, and it fills me with fear, and anxiety, I always loved, and was attracted to women but I can't and it caused me to be depressed, and I keep ruminating I keep trying to focus on her, but it's so bad that I avoid those all the time now. I am wondering has anyone gone through something like this, or currently is, and wondering how you have done to combat this!
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(TRIGGER WARNING) To go more in depth with my question, can porn misconstrue or contort your grown up response and arousal, causing you to feel things to stuff you do not find pleasing? The reason I’m asking this is because something happened just now that is bothering me. I was on TikTok and I saw a video where a girl was explaining how her father SA’ed her. It was really hard for me to even get through the video and I kept pausing throughout because of how shocking it was. However, I noticed that I kept feeling groinal responses along with unwanted imaginations of what she was saying. I know, people typically kind of imagine stories in their head when someone else is telling them said stories, but I felt movement and it was bothering me because it did not match how I’ve felt about what I was hearing. Of course, I had to ignore the intrusive thoughts, but it was really hard for me to watch the whole video and I still have not watched it through. I felt like I was fighting with myself, however, when I think about it right now, I feel nothing. I know I probably should stop doing that because checking is only going to make the rumination worse, but I just wanted to see if porn could be a factor in this as I have struggled with pornography addiction as I was exposed to it around six or seven years old all the way up to now being 24.
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