Anyone else struggle with an addiction to p*rn?? I watch it a lot and I feel like that’s the reason my sexual performance isn’t the best, in terms of been able to reach the point of orgasm I mean, and this triggers my POCD because I’m wondering why I can’t get excited to the point of orgasm with someone of age and it makes me so nervous and anxious to the point where I don’t even want to have sex or engage with anyone to avoid the anxiety?

POCD

FightTheFear

Date posted: 4y

My best advice is cut it out completely

Anonymous

Date posted: 4y

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 :)

FightTheFear

Date posted: 4y

@Anonymous I think it makes you better at “making love” and more in tune with the reality of what s*x truly is!

FightTheFear

Date posted: 4y

@Anonymous Porn is a fairy tale that twists expectations

BigGyro09

Date posted: 4y

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.

BigGyro09

Date posted: 4y

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.

BigGyro09

Date posted: 4y

@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

Anonymous

Date posted: 4y

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.

BigGyro09

Date posted: 4y

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.

Anonymous

Date posted: 4y

Omg thank you guys sm <3

OcdNutball

Date posted: 4y

My dr recommend porn cos I’m plagued with thoughts during sex and masturbation

BigGyro09

Date posted: 4y

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.

Anonymous

Date posted: 22w

Masterbation OCD/real event OCD

I'm 17 years old I struggle with addiction I have a problem when I masterbate I have intrusive thoughts idk if I think them I'm so scared also back then I know when I was younger I looked at obscure things hentai all that my idk what to do even I feel like I'm a monster or im a bad person I need help I feel so distraught I feel like I can't live life to the fullest anymore even from last year I looked at content that was animated but it had a character in it that was underage I felt so ashamed and felt like a monster I had a compulsion to check it only to find out they are not around my age range idk what to do I probably sound like a freak I'm sorry I'm always trying to replay my memory and try to remember my intention and what I was doing how I come across how I was doing a action yk all that

EndOCD!

Date posted: 19w

I feel so guilty

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?

RW95

Date posted: 16w

Has anyone gone through this, or currently going through it, need to know that I am not alone in this (18+)

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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