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Hello, I first watched porn when I was 12 and I have been trying to quit porn for 2 years now. The longest I have went was 3 months but since the pandemic I've been lucky to go a month without it. Lately its about every two weeks.
Porn has been the hardest thing for me to quit. I have a girlfriend who loves me and is very supportive but I get sad each time I let her down. Finding a good sex therapist is hard because they charge so much! I would love to hear some success stories to motivate me. Has anyone gotten to the point where they don't experience cravings? I'd love to know!

Hi Miko

    I am 50 years old addicted since I was a teenager  I began a serious fight to beat the addiction 3 years ago when I discovered this site  looking for ways to stop watching porn. Never even occurred to me it would be an addiction  but through education  and knowledge I have finally beaten it.  I am not often triggered  and when I am  I easily  beat the trigger.  The urges to watch it are very far and few between  and again they are weak.  I have picked up new hobbies and  continued with old hobbies.  I can't say as I have ever felt more happiness and confidence in myself that I can live porn free  and be fulfilled

    Cheers and good luck    if you ever need any advice feel free to contact me in my journal in the 40 and up  or in the messages  section

        Post often it helps me it helps you

Hi both, I'm a new member too.= - this is my first post

I don't know if 'addicted' is the right word for me, or if I have just a really bad habit. Either way I have created a scenario where my sense of sexual behaviour and intimacy has been affected by watching porn. My better half feels that in recent years our sexual intimacy has devolved into a 'performance' and that nothing about it feels intimate.

I'm taking my first steps to rewiring and rebooting here.

I wish you (and anyone else who reads this) well in your journeys, whether in recovery or general improvement.

The cravings for sex are deeply ingrained in human consciousness. You will probably never get rid of it, because it is apart of your mind, but you can make it quieter and learn to control it. You need to know your mind and its triggers for craving. I recommend meditation. It allows you to become aware of these things. Instead of a sex therapist, which I agree can be very expensive, find a good meditation teacher. Learn to study the mind like you would a lab rat. Awareness brings the diminishment of craving.

It totally has been normal for me. What I do is that I stay away from triggers.