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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 thought I'd gotten over sexual obsessions, since they haven't been bothering me at all until I had a flare up yesterday. I usually struggle with masturbation due to a combination of both anorgasmia from SSRI medication along with intrusive thoughts, so I thought that an adult film should work fine and went on the hub as per usual. Everything went well until I "finished" and looked at the video title afterwards. My stomach dropped as the title had the word "teen" it in. I felt nauseous and gross because I'd previously struggled and became horrifically suicidal due to the pocd I thought I had under control. Now I know that by the word teen, it means an adult actress that's 18-19 and I'm only 20. But I can't shake the feeling that I'm gross for watching and that it was illegal material, even though I am fully aware that it wasn't, so I've been ruminating over it endlessly. This is more of a vent, but I feel like all the progress I've made with my ocd just went down the drain ☹️
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TMI!! Hey everyone, I was coming on here to ask if anyone has experienced this before! Im in an amazing relationship with my boyfriend so in this post I wanted to ask this question because this is how it felt to me! I remembered earlier today I was watching this movie, etc. and there was this spicy scene in it (iykyk) and it got me feeling some sort of way. This has happened before especially if I’ve played a game or watched a show with some content like this. I felt really in the mood and started to imagine my boyfriend and I doing those things together and I sort of decided to (yanno, the m word) hopefully everyone understands because I just don’t like saying the word😭, but I found that every time I do that, that’s when my ocd is at its worst/peak. Every time my mind has tried to convince me I’ve cheated, when I self pleasure. I get in the mood if I think of my boyfriend and I doing those things I see in movies, shows etc, and that’s when I’ll do it, But literally I realized after I’ve done that at times my ocd is at its worst because my mind will attack me constantly asking “Is this cheating? Does this make me a horrible girlfriend?” If I self pleasure, I also want to add that I mentioned it to my boyfriend at one time and he told me it wasn’t at all and that everything is okay, but constantly I feel guilty for it and extremely horrible. Just wanted to see if anyone else has experienced this?
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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
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