Thanks for the support Stressrelief!
A bit about myself:
I turned 30 a couple months back, which in my mind was the goal age when I wanted this addiction sorted.
I started masturbating at 17. I was a very innocent child and just thought everyone at school was joking about pornography and masturbating until one day a friend of mine put doubt in my mind that I wasn't normal... This then stemmed HUGE doubt in my mind and sowed a deep seed that I'm still trying to rid myself of.
Pornography wasn't a factor until I was around 18-19. It started when we got cable TV and they had the Fashion TV channel with the lingerie segments, the stunning, sophisticated shapely women certainly got my motor running. I then found myself looking through the TV guide for when those segments were on again & again... From there I haven't escalated pornography in my live, I only ever view the softcore things. I find the rest quite repulsive actually.
Then fast track through to today - I'm happily married for 7 years (this year) and have the most beautiful little daughter who's nearly 2. Her birth was also a point in time I wanted this addiction sorted by, but unfortunately I relapsed on and off over the last couple years still. I'm a Christian and have been for most of my life, I feel I live a very moral life - except this one area! I run a business in the local area and would be looked at by my peers as the guy who has it all (as they've told me often). However this secret has robbed me of enjoying my life to it's full extent for a long time now and I'm definitely ready for it to stop!
PMO has affected the way I look at my wife and all other girls for that matter, it has desensitised me to a point that I was looking at girls as fleshly objects only.
I'm on day TWO of my reboot now and intend on posting every single day on this site. I've tried most other measures before (gym, sports etc.) and all have worked to a certain degree, the trigger for me is when I'm on my own. Whether it be at work or at home, I get bored and tempted extremely quickly! I shock myself when I think I'm going well and then in the blink of an eye have allowed myself to go down the all too familiar road of PMO again!
Thanks heaps for the support guys! I'm only too happy to answer any and all questions people may have along the way - but as I intend this as a long journal I didn't want to throw everything out there in the very first message...