I will cut off porn and substitute it with exercise and/or meditation if I am stressed. If I am just horny, I want to find a connection with being aroused by situations and feeling rather than strictly visuals. I also am trying to find a partner who will explore this with me.
I plan to cut out porn, even the audio stories here. I’m going to try different, more gentle techniques, engaging my senses and finding arousal from my own sensations that relying on outside stimulus. Hopefully, once I learn to find arousal in just the gentle sensations, I won’t need porn anymore.
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I am going to limit my pirn release to every other day . Trying to use stories instead. And avoid doing as it’s something to pass time or reduce stress
I find it mostly comes out of boredom. When I think about, I don’t really need porn, I am incredibly attracted to my wife and I want to make the most of my time with her. Overall I think porn installs false expectations. Long term damage we don’t really understand. Content is so crazy these days.
I don’t feel like I need to cut out porn altogether, but am committing to decrease my usage of it in lieu of other self-care activities or self-exploration
Third time I’ve seen this article in 3 weeks
Despite science not recognising an addiction, I do believe my relationship to it was pretty close to that in the past. I have better understanding and comfort from these tips.
I find reading hardcore erotica to be no less habit forming than video porn. If gambling is the most difficult addiction to o kick because of its dopamine hit, how can porn with a similar massive dopamine hit not be addictive?
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Even though the science might say porn isn’t addictive, I know what it does to me and how addicted I feel, so I’m trying to cut it out completely. I’ll try the audio porn, I’ve listened to erotic stories in the past and haven’t found them to be nearly as mind-altering as visual porn
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I’m aware it’s not the big bad wolf I make it out to be, but I struggle to come without it. So I’d like to restrict to once a week eventually, with the other times purely driven by my own fantasies.
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Using a porn log, and doing more activities I enjoy
I have to be better about doing a log.
I struggle to come without it as well.
I want to take doing the log seriously so I can learn my triggers and start to manage them. I want to cut out prom entirely from my life!
Doing the log is key and that’s what I’m going to commit to
I think I use it to help myself de-stress at the end of the day and sleep better. I now try to make time for unwinding instead.
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Doing it once a day at most, and not doing it when bored. The log should help as well
My plan is to stay away from visual porn. Stick with audio books or novels. Something that uses more of my imagination. This should help with spectatoring, getting lost in my head, and developing mental tools to get and stay aroused when with a partner.
I have decided to cut out porn for two weeks then allow some use. However, I have found that understanding why I was using porn (to fill a void) makes me want it a lot less.
Porn does not benefit my life. It negatively impacts my mindset regarding sex and impacts the sex life my wife and I share. She deserves all of my sexual energy, not images of strangers.
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