Hello there. I have been a member of this site for a while, but this is my first post. I just felt like I had to because I did a paper on this just a week ago. This really is a serious issue and I have had the same problem as some of you guys. I’m now 19, and I have been with my grilfriend for a little over 2 years. While I did get addicted to porn at an early age, there have been times when I have been able to stop. For instance, I stopped when we first got together. But as time moved on, I got back into my old habits. Just like you guys, I eventually needed constant stimulation from her in order to stay hard. Next, i was no longer able to get hard, both because I could no longer enjoy normal healthy sex, and I was constantly worrying. I’m sure you worry about the same things. Why isn’t she being as loud as the girls in porn? Does that mean i am not big enough? Even to the point where i compared the way she looked to the girls in porn. I would pick little things out that was wrong with her. And I fucking hate myself for that because she really is the most beautiful thing in the whole world. Anyway, please read what I came across in the research I did for my paper. All of this is proven and will most likely happen to you if you don’t take control.
Basically, it is proven to become an addiction. And just like with drugs, as you continue watching it, you will need more hardcore stuff to become aroused as time goes on. For instance, maybe you start watching just straight sex. If you continue for a long time, you will eventually develop fetishes and for example, you may need to see a girl have sex with a monster cock just to be able to get aroused. And then maybe need to see her be abused. It just continues to get more extreme.
Another thing: you will have a lot of trouble with relationships (sexual ones) because you will compare your girlfriend to the girls in porn. The girls in porn are all skinny and perfect looking, pretty much because they cover themseleves in makeup from head to toe, they use lighting that doesnt show blemishes, and of course they airbrush pictures. Even though you know this though, you start to have higher expectations for the way your girlfriend looks.
Both of these things can cause you to not even be able to have sex with the girl you are with. You will get to the point where normal sex just doesn’t arouse you, and you will need to carry out the things done in porn just to be able to stay interested. You also wont be as attracted to your girlfriend.
Porn isn’t like normal sex either-they only show rough and aggressive sex because the more action, the better it looks on film and the more arousing it is. Well, if you see this all the time, you wont be aroused by slow or gentle sex anymore.
Basically, porn really fucks you up in every way. They say it helps men carry out their desires without resorting to rape and stuff, but since the porn industry has risen since the 1960’s, rape has occurred 500% more. This is so because it desensitizes you to rape.
The worst thing about porn is that once you are addicted, you are always addicted. It’s not something you can totally eliminate, you can only control it. It really sucks because I found my cousin’s hardcore porn channel when I was 11 and i watched it many years. I havn’t watched it for quite a while and try to stay away from it as much as possible. especially since Im in a relationship with a wonderful girl and why do i need that anyway? well, if you or anyone is worried about it, I would research it. It’s pretty interesting, and you may find out that you want to stop before it goes too far. Once it goes so far a lot of the damage that has been done can’t be fixed.
I know this is true because it was exactly like this for me. Things I would have probably been repulsed by back when I first started watching porn eventually became things that got me off. Since learning about this I haven’t looked at porn in about a week. Let me tell you, it will pay off. My girlfriend and I had the best sex we had ever had just a few days ago, and I could just feel its because of that. I didn’t worry or have trouble staying hard. And another thing-I really have a fetish for fishnet stockings. Sometimes, she will wear these because she knows how much they turn me on. Well, she wore them a couple nights ago, and I took them off of her. It was like I was more attracted to just her-her body-not what porn had taught me to be aroused by. I’m not saying you have to stop, just research a little for yourself and ask yourself if it’s worth it, especially if you are in a relationship with someone. I know its so hard to quit, probably the hardest thing I have had to do, but I did find some helpful ways of quitting.
Besides staying busy, especially when you are alone, the best thing I found to do is this: Everyday you put 50 cents or a dollar (your choice) in a jar. You do this for 100 days. Well, you only put the money in the jar if you abstain from watching porn that day. Here’s the catch. Say you give in to the temptation on day 76. You have to take all the money in the jar and give it to charity. If you make it to 100, you take that money and spend it on anything you want, celebrate. Then you make it 200 days. then 350 days. It really motivates you to work hard and not give in.
Well, sorry this post was so long, but i hope it helps some of you out.