I?m not a porn addict

Dadof2

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I?m not a porn addict.

I?ve told myself these words so many times. I can stop whenever I want. I don?t really have a problem. I don?t even like seeing penetration so is it really that bad? I think these are words that anyone with a problem uses and it?s only been tonight after I watched porn and felt awful that I finally decided I need to do something about this. Because this is been a part of my life since I was 13 years old and I?m now 31. I have two kids and a beautiful wife and we are working on our third child. Recently, sex has been robotic, automatic, generally unsatisfying and definitely not adventurous. If anyone has tried to conceive a child they know what I?m talking about. Procreative sex is about the least sexy thing there is. Which leaves me where I found myself tonight; in an empty hotel room on a business trip with a high-speed connection and a large screen on my iPhone X. I told my wife I loved her after we FaceTimed for half an hour and then I want about searching for erotic material. The sad thing is I don?t really even feel guilty anymore. I used to beat myself up and say this is the last time! I have to stop this! But after you say those words for nearly 2 decades with little success you just stop saying them. Because you know it isn?t the last time, if it was the last time would have happened long ago. I just know it?s not good for me and I know I don?t want to be doing this when I turn 41, but if nothing changes then nothing changes. Does anyone have any advice? Has anyone been in my shoes?
 

profapper

Active Member
If anything I think the loss of guilt and shame is good. In my case the secrecy and shame kept the urge for the habit alive. What worked for me is starting to tell people in my life about it (undoing the secrecy around it), and if it feels shameful than ask yourself who said that?
 
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wecandoit

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Dadof2 said:
I?m not a porn addict.

I?ve told myself these words so many times. I can stop whenever I want. I don?t really have a problem. I don?t even like seeing penetration so is it really that bad? I think these are words that anyone with a problem uses and it?s only been tonight after I watched porn and felt awful that I finally decided I need to do something about this. Because this is been a part of my life since I was 13 years old and I?m now 31. I have two kids and a beautiful wife and we are working on our third child. Recently, sex has been robotic, automatic, generally unsatisfying and definitely not adventurous. If anyone has tried to conceive a child they know what I?m talking about. Procreative sex is about the least sexy thing there is. Which leaves me where I found myself tonight; in an empty hotel room on a business trip with a high-speed connection and a large screen on my iPhone X. I told my wife I loved her after we FaceTimed for half an hour and then I want about searching for erotic material. The sad thing is I don?t really even feel guilty anymore. I used to beat myself up and say this is the last time! I have to stop this! But after you say those words for nearly 2 decades with little success you just stop saying them. Because you know it isn?t the last time, if it was the last time would have happened long ago. I just know it?s not good for me and I know I don?t want to be doing this when I turn 41, but if nothing changes then nothing changes. Does anyone have any advice? Has anyone been in my shoes?

I have an idea about how it feels. I've been telling myself "This time is the last time" for years. I guess when you see that things stay the same, you enter a state of "fuck it", a "denial" or whatever it's called. It's just an autopilot, a routine that we do because the brain wants us to do it. It's not easy to quit any addiction. Some people do it but some never really stay sober. I always wish it won't be me. Sometimes it's hard to believe it. It feels so far away and so hard that I fear I will die like this. I just hope I won't. I don't know if I have any ideas but I decided to accept the suffering, accept the fact that I will suffer with withdrawal, and push myself to get out of it.
 
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