Figure out why I rely on it.
Not feeling guilty if I use.
I want to make sure that I use porn only as a healthy, stress-relieving reward rather than something I do when I am bored. I want to feel less guilty about using porn, since it is a perfectly natural way to relieve stress. I just want to spend less time on it since there are other more productive ways to do things when I am bored.
I want to watch porn much less than before. I had folders of porn bookmarked on my favorites on my computer and phone, and I found myself going to it a lot. I’d go to watch porn before going to the gym, before meeting up with friends or my partner, or before going to work. And, the times that I do watch porn, I often feel guilty about it. That I could’ve been more productive or could’ve enjoyed a better feeling with another person.
I want to rely on it less for pre-sex stimulation, as I think it can sometimes fuel my doubt and inner critic. I would aim to use it for pleasure and novelty as opposed to something that feels medicinal. I also want to use it more mindfully and less compulsively.
I used to watch everyday. Now it’s every so often.
Stop making it a morning routine.
I stopped using porn about 4 months ago and I wish to continue to abstain until my ED issues are properly resolved. I might use a little in the future, but certainly not as much as in the past.
I want to feel less guilty of what sort of porn makes me turned on and at the same time explore other areas of porn without judging me in anyway, finally I want to be more free to talk with my wife of my fantasies and porn I have liked in the past. I also want to make sure that porn is not my stress relief or anti depressing moment
I want to limit the time I spend on porn since it is wasting a lot of my productive time. Also I want to stop the myth in my brain that porn somehow impacts my sexual performance.
However, I do want to limit my porn use since I want to be more horny when engaging with a partner.
I want to not feel it’s my only way of getting an orgasm now that I have a girlfriend. I want to reduce the amount if porn I watch just to kill boredom
If I watch porn at all, I want to be able to watch it purely for pleasure without thinking about myself or my partner and how we compare.
Stop using it as a coping mechanism for boredom, procrastination, or loneliness.
Not rely on it to as my primary way of release.
I choose to stop watching porn completely since I haven’t watched in almost a year. I want to keep it that way, as I know sex itself is much more enjoyable.
Being someone who watched porn at a very early age I think it gave me a false understanding of what sex is supposed to be. I’d like to change the types of porn I watch as I believe it’s bad to rely on such ludicrous fantasies to become aroused and erect.
My porn use quickly escalates to more extreme content. What aroused me yesterday doesn’t arouse me today. And what arouses me today doesn’t arouse me tomorrow. I understand that some people can have a healthy relationship with porn, but I don’t see that happening for me. For me it is very much like a drug in that my tolerance increases and sex becomes difficult because women have to compete with these extreme images in my brain. Porn also trains your brain to be able to just switch videos anytime that you’re not as stimulated while sex doesn’t work like this. If you don’t believe that porn is addictive, I would suggest that you read Your Brain on Porn before making a conclusion.
I have recently stopped watching it completely. It has helped in the bedroom.
Not rely on it when I get bored, I want to change my first instinct at being bored or stressed to be something more productive to myself than just looking at porn
I haven’t done it in a few weeks, but I want to not rely on visuals to get turned on and start to watch porn before I am even aroused