That my porn habits are realeasing stress, bored, horny, little sad once I notice this I’ve stopped with porn to get some arousal back so I can enjoy sex more better with partner
Will try the porn log to better understand the reasons for the habitual use, may provide context for other issues.
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I want to stop it completely
I watch cause i feel like masturbating to it is the only sexual satisfaction i can get or need.
It takes over my life most days and i want to stop really
I think tracking my porn habit with context and feelings is a great idea. My porn habit has become on autopilot, and porn is so easy to get. I remember how exciting it was to get any kind of porn back in the day, and now even the craziest shit seems commonplace. It’s too much, and it has impacted my libido and my arousal.
I mostly watch it to reduce stress or to delay dealing with unpleasant activities. I know I shouldn’t because then I set myself for risk of failure. That is why I want to learn to refrain from it and do what I need to do.
Being a very open minded person, I do enjoy porn by itself along with masturbation, and don’t feel ashamed nor guilty at all about it. But, to be honest with myself, I have been using it a lot as a quick and easy escape door from my real life problems, with long and draining
(…follows) I have been using it more and more as a quick and easy escape door from my real life problems, with longer and longer (lasting hours) and draining masturbating sessions, whenever, wherever (taking also some serious risk impacting badly my everyday life. And in the end I got is just all about self reassurance and easy reward replacing those I don’t get in real life, acting as an excuse for procrastinating too, and a compensation for not being able to reach my goals (I’d better say for lack of will to deal with them once and for all, being an “avoider”).
The fact of the matter is that porn has been a very easy coping method for me since my adolescence. Now that these habits are formulated, it must be a constant and intentional daily effort to break them. As the saying goes old habits die hard. This is definitely the case here. The reason I use porn is to escape all the real life fears and anxieties that I have. It is a form of escape and its needs to be replaced with useful activities.
Most often fapping is after seeing hot women and wanting them, but can’t, so i fap. The other is if I am with a partner who is not in the mood I’ll fap to deal with the sexual frustration. Occasionally it’s part of my procrastination mechanism because especially porn searching and downloading will eat up hour after hour.
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I get sucked into the thirst traps by social media algorithms, relieves boredom and I’m honestly just a lot hornier than my wife is. So I see a hot girl on insta, end up watching some porn and masturbating.
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I could probably do other things to kill boredom and pass the time. I’m in a long-distance relationship and it’s just easier when I want to get off
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Do other things when bored
Stop and think before masturbating
will keep the log!
I really need to find a way to cut back on it
I’ll definitely keep the log in mind.
I learned it’s important to take a step back and ask myself if I’m using porn as a scape to fulfill boredom or distract myself from negative feelings.
I have learned that I use porn as a type of coping mechanism and also as a way to get sexual satisfaction without having to confront my anxieties around sex IRL.
I would like to get to a point that porn is just an extra thing I can enjoy sometimes, but not something I feel like I need or turn to to get sexual satisfaction without confronting IRL anxieties
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I have let porn become a habit and something to fall back on while I’m on autopilot mode. It can happen a lot when I’m not horny. I might just be stressed or in a bad mood. By the time I log on and start watching porn I trick my brain into thinking I was horny the whole time.