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It’s time to admit it, 20F
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I have a porn problem.

This may be bargaining, but it don’t think it’s necessarily an addiction, but I feel myself going down the slope.

My porn consumption does not impact my life in any way outside of masturbation. When in relationships I feel no need to watch porn and am completely satisfied by my partner and thinking of them.

I am, however, in one hell of a dry spell (due to multiple factors of life) so I’m masturbating. I find no issue with masturbation. It is a well documented action that when done responsibly causes no harm.

Porn is a different thing, and I use it only while I masturbate. I started watching at 10ish. It was real softcore stuff until maybe 14, and then it was real sex, and then by 18 it was kinky, but it a “normal” way (public, light bondage, etc.). At 19 I noticed the usual stuff not working, leaning more towards incest (all obviously fake), then piss porn (which again isn’t inherently wrong, but felt weird for me, it was the shock value that was what I liked), and now it’s gone off the rails to shit that is frankly unacceptable.

Now there are a few courses of actions I see:

  1. Quit porn, masturbation, and casual sex all together.

I’ve quit porn and casual sex before to large degrees of success, but I always come back to porn. The lesser stuff will do it again for a while, and then it doesn’t, and then I quit, and so on. In addition to this, I was raped by a partner a handful of times in my late teens. This took me from a horny teen to a hypersexual adult. I know there are deeper problems than porn in this, but I genuinely just feel like an object to be used, and the kind of porn I watch ingrains that further (as well as confirming other negative thoughts about myself)

  1. Quit only porn

This seems most logical. I can still pleasure myself and have my needs met, but not anything else. The only issue in this, is that the horny brain will do what it wants, even if my soul disagrees.

  1. Quit only taboo porn

Similar to the last, maybe I could block the “bad” sites? Romantic and consensual sex does not bother me. I wonder if I could download a few videos that I enjoy but do not cause me the same level of distress as the much more taboo porn I watch on occasion.

  1. Continue as present

I am not willing to do this.

What has worked for you? Is it too late for me? I’m only 20, does this shit get worse? Any input is much appreciated. TIA.

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