on
the same day, due to porn and procrastination.
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I used transgender porn to get hard so I could finish with heterosexual porn. Without realizing, I was soon watching a lot of taboo and extreme porn that I never would have considered a couple of years ago. I couldn’t believe I let myself get to this point. I just couldn’t stop myself.
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(Female) I can get off a ridiculous amount of times in one night because the female biological makeup allows it. Many females (not all) spend a lot of time not with porn, but with erotica. We fantasise a lot to get off, while men are very visual. With the internet, it's easy to find erotica everywhere, and there are entire forums dedicated to the type of erotica
you want. At my worst, I would have 7 or 8 different sites open and go through them for about
3 or 4 hours or more looking for the perfect sex story to get off on.
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I thought that it was due to an increased libido that I watched so much porn. Now I know I
was wrong. I had an addiction. I barely went out and most certainly didn't have any female
contacts.
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Before I quit I felt like shit 24/7. I had zero energy, and zero motivation. I was lethargic
for every hour of every day. I didn't eat right. I didn't exercise. I didn't study. I didn't care about personal hygiene. And I could not care. In the state that I was in, it was extremely difficult to stand for more than 3 minutes, let alone do something productive. I’m over a month now and I feel so much better.
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Everything from my social life to my physical health has been damaged by this addiction.
The worst part about it was that I constantly justified it in my head by saying it was ‘healthy for me’ and ‘at least it isn't a drug’. In reality, this was worse than any drug I have consumed and the least healthy activity I was participating in.
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During the heights of my porn addiction, I never looked forward to much of anything: dreaded going to work, and never saw socializing with friends and family as all that great, especially in comparison to my porn rituals, which gave me more pleasure and stimulation than anything else. With the addiction gone, little things make me really happy. I find myself laughing often, smiling for no real reason, and just being in good spirits all around.
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I thought I was a pessimist, but really I was just an addict.
Inability to orgasm during sex
Years of porn use can cause a variety of symptoms, which when examined, lie on a spectrum.
Often porn users report that delayed ejaculation (DE) or inability to orgasm (anorgasmia) was a
precursor to full blown erectile dysfunction. Any of the following may precede or accompany delayed ejaculation and erectile dysfunction:
- Earlier genres of porn are no longer exciting.
- Uncharacteristic fetishes develop.
- Porn use is more sexually exciting than a partner.
- Sensitivity of penis decreases.
- Sexual arousal with sexual partners declines.
- Erections fade when attempting penetration or shortly thereafter.
- Penetrative sex is not stimulating.
- Porn fantasy is necessary to maintain erection or interest with partner.
A few examples:
I'm so happy right now! I'm a 25-year old male and until last night I had never orgasmed
in the presence of a female. I have had sex but never, ever been close to climaxing through any stimulation whatsoever. I started out like most of you, using internet porn from around the age of 15. If only I'd known what I was doing to myself.
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(Age 29) 17 years of masturbation and 12 years of escalating to extreme/fetish porn. I started to lose interest in real sex. The build up and release from porn became stronger than it was from sex. Porn offers unlimited variety. I could choose what I want to see in the moment.
My delayed ejaculation during sex became so bad that sometimes I couldn't orgasm at all.
This killed my last desire to have sex.
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I’ve lived with delayed ejaculation all my life and