Porn Addiction, Ruined Social and Work Life

Paddrecon

Active Member
Greetings everyone,

I am a 24 years-old male and I have been using porn for 12 years and I started at the age of 12. When I was 14 I got really hooked up in porn and I masturbated to porn 2-3 times every day of the week. Later I switched from pictures to videos and developed stockings and pantyhose fetishism which is a nice fetish I presume, but when people heard of this they were looking as if I was some kind of pervert. When I was 16 years old I fell in love with one of my classmates and I was always getting boners around her, yet I was too ashamed to tell her that I love her and would like to have some intimacy with her due to feelings of guilt. I would also like to note that this limerance lasted for about 6 years. By the way sexuality has never been talked in the family and my father was bit of a pious man, so he avoided these topics at all cost which got interpret by me as sex is a dirty thing and only married people are allowed to have sex. At the age of 22, I decided to have sex with a real woman and thinking only option was paid sex I rented an escort service. I went to the escort girl's home and I had told her to wear stockings for me beforehand. I was getting erections with the idea that I was going to have sex for the first time ever and while I was talking to her on the phone. When I was at her place and be began having sex it was a shame I nearly could not get any pleasure and I had trouble keeping it up. Then I said the porn had to do something with this, but continued watching it keeping bookmarks of pages on false Gmail accounts etc. Last year I abstained from porn before going abroad for 1 month and 2 months abroad and I think it paid off. I went to the Red Light District of the city I was in and got it on with various hookers on a weekly basis and it was great fun, but I exhausted most of my money. When I returned to my hometown I relapsed back into my porn addiction and I am having trouble quitting it right now and interferes with all aspects of my life. I used to be a really successful person academically, though I always sucked in social relationships and especially with girls. Now I began to suck at everything I cannot concentrate on my lessons, I cannot have fruitful relationships, I cannot find a partner etc. etc. and I am pursuing a master's degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering with additional duties of a teaching assistant and a research assistant.  Furthermore, I developed IBS(Irritable Bowel Syndrome) and this also lowers my self-esteem a great deal and I can no longer get aroused by seeing a hot girl nor watching various porn videos on different tabs. After returning to my hometown, I paid for sex twice and both of them were not satisfying since I had trouble maintaining firm erections and I was nagged by the prostitute due to that. My penis was nearly numb and I had no explanation for that. I have been to various psychologists and psychiatrists previously and now I am sticking with one therapist. She suggested that I should go and see an urologist, which I did. The urologist prescribed me the medicine Levitra and the horny goat supplement which I have been using for 4 days. In order to see if I benefited from this supplement I tried masturbating to porn again since I have no partner, but the feelings were not good. I have never had a girlfriend and I think that being as horny as me I should be able to get a few girls which is much better than porn. In order to get girls, I have been taking dance classes for about 4 years since 99% of my colleagues are males and we need to work hard in order to survive. However, I cannot notice if a particular female fancies me or not and I have(and had) all the opportunities to have a good sex life since I live alone(used to live alone when I was undergraduate too) in a studio apartment. But I cannot invite girls over and I am always afraid that if we have sex I may have erectile disfunctions. I am feeling like a worthless piece of junk and these problems have been bugging me since adolescence. I would like to hear your suggestions and stories together with the ups and downs of your life to get encouraged. It has been a long text and I appreciate those people who have read it.
 
Paddrecon,

Welcome aboard. This is only my 2nd day, not even? less than 24 hours ago I was watching porn and the withdrawal is starting up already? I feel your pain. I don`t think medication is the answer for you. I think you need to get porn out of your life and reboot your brain, then rewire it.

I have the same issues as you except I am married. And I have the same fetish as you. My wife also dresses up for me but there are times when nothing works? she feels bad, and I feel even worse because I know its the porn. Medication may fix the SYMPTOM but it will not fix the real PROBLEM. And you know the problem is porn.

Honestly, I wish there were an easier way to do this. I`m not looking forward to the next few weeks. Withdrawal is really hard when the drug is everywhere?.

But maybe this will help you (and me)? lets face forward our lives to next year and think about how we want to feel, how we want to look, how we want to connect with people, how we want to live our lives.

I don`t know about you but porn is not part of my life next year. Rather, I see myself making love to my wife and being able to satisfy her and also feeling good about myself because I know I`m living my best life even when I`m alone and I will no longer carry this cross.

Think about who you want to be! Then start being it NOW.
 

Paddrecon

Active Member
Christ my Savior,

Thanks for your sincere reply, it is my 2nd day too right now in no PMO and I have the urge that becomes nearly unbelievable at times. Last night I had difficulty sleeping, woke up many times in the morning before the alarm clock actually went off and was disturbed throughout the day. I know that the problem is porn and I also know that I have a high sex derive and get aroused easily due to our shared fetish.

Instead of porn I would like to have actual sexual partners that I do not pay for sex. For the following days I imagine myself as a charming, handsome, attractive and witty young man. I think I will delete all the records of the porn sites at some time too.

By the way it is good to have someone on your side facing similar challenges, thanks for the support and keep up the good work. I agree that you should start being the person you want to be right NOW not later because this phenomenon is exactly like drug addiction.

Christ My Savior said:
Paddrecon,

Welcome aboard. This is only my 2nd day, not even? less than 24 hours ago I was watching porn and the withdrawal is starting up already? I feel your pain. I don`t think medication is the answer for you. I think you need to get porn out of your life and reboot your brain, then rewire it.

I have the same issues as you except I am married. And I have the same fetish as you. My wife also dresses up for me but there are times when nothing works? she feels bad, and I feel even worse because I know its the porn. Medication may fix the SYMPTOM but it will not fix the real PROBLEM. And you know the problem is porn.

Honestly, I wish there were an easier way to do this. I`m not looking forward to the next few weeks. Withdrawal is really hard when the drug is everywhere?.

But maybe this will help you (and me)? lets face forward our lives to next year and think about how we want to feel, how we want to look, how we want to connect with people, how we want to live our lives.

I don`t know about you but porn is not part of my life next year. Rather, I see myself making love to my wife and being able to satisfy her and also feeling good about myself because I know I`m living my best life even when I`m alone and I will no longer carry this cross.

Think about who you want to be! Then start being it NOW.
 

Maxime

Active Member
I think I will delete all the records of the porn sites at some time too. 
Do it. NOW. Don't wait. If you want to get rid of this addiction, you need to act on it this minute. Tomorrow is just that: tomorrow. It will never be today, even if you think it will.
I would also avoid trying to find sex partners. Just do your thing and focus on your objective. What is it? To have sex now, or to gain back control over your head and addiction?
 

Paddrecon

Active Member
I have started my recovery and so far going well without it, my objective to have a satisying real sex life without artifical stimiulation with a trustworthy partner. I am sick of bad experiences, and I think no porn will do the trick.


Maxime said:
I think I will delete all the records of the porn sites at some time too. 
Do it. NOW. Don't wait. If you want to get rid of this addiction, you need to act on it this minute. Tomorrow is just that: tomorrow. It will never be today, even if you think it will.
I would also avoid trying to find sex partners. Just do your thing and focus on your objective. What is it? To have sex now, or to gain back control over your head and addiction?
 

Paddrecon

Active Member
Okay I deleted all the porn sites I have recorded actually I had recovered once and after 2 months of abstaining I started back again since I cannot afford the hookers. The problem is that lately whether I watched porn or not my libido was nearly non existent and I got no pleasure from the act actually. Hope everything returns to normal and I become the womanizer I intend to be  :)
 
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