What have you learned about why you watch porn?

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I’ve realised that porn became a reactive autopilot mindless mechanism for coping with negative feelings such as stress, anxiety, sadness and overwhelm. I would prefer for it to be more mindful and exploratory

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Yea it’s pretty mindless for me. I’ll go weeks without it though and that’s fine. Not a huge go-to for me

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It’s usually to de stress or when i don’t get satisfied irl

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That there are alternatives to porn. If you are mindful and want to watch it that’s fine. But just doing it from habit is wrong.

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A porn log is a good idea to see how integrated porn is into my life.

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I’m going to introduce a porn log to my everyday routine and see my habits and how they are affected through porn.

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I’d like to firstly enjoy porn more with no guilt, stop worrying about whether it is impacting my erections, and then get curious and nonjudgmental about when I am watching out of autopilot habit or when I genuinely want it. I want to reverse my judgemental and negative thinking around porn that I think has manifested into dysfunction

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I notice that I watch porn when I am lonely and sad. Oftentimes I feel guilty after watching it. I would like to understand my triggers and would like to watch porn for the fun of it and not compulsively

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Trying new strategies when I’m coming at porn for less pleasurable reasons

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Identifying trigger for porn

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I’m going to look for alternative activities to watching porn if I’m not horny and Jsut looking for stress relief or board. Also going to try the erotic audio.

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I might try to masturbate less and take a break for a few days

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Logging why I watch it when I do it might be interesting