Hello All

Ever since I can remember I have been watching porn. To be more realistic I started when I was probably 10 or 11 and now I'm 22 soon to be 23. Putting it out into text like this it's pretty insane that I've been watching porn for over half of my life.

I never thought I was addicted to porn or masturbating in any way but it wasn't until I recently took a step back and looked at what was going on in my life and how porn was affecting me that I knew I needed to look for resources to help myself. I would watch porn every day without fail and even when I was away travelling or somewhere without wifi I would use the limited data that I had to view a video or a gif here and there just to keep me going. Countless days and nights I've spent hours on my phone going through Reddit looking at porn until eventually, I was on pornhub going through the different videos as if I was on r/all. I would "attempt" to masturbate even though those attempts would last for hours at a time until I was grabbing at my limp penis trying to find a more intense video that would satisfy my cravings and get me hard again so that eventually I could finish.

This obsession and this addiction have affected so many parts of my life. I've missed work to stay home and masturbate, I've gotten into various arguments with my girlfriend over the topic and recently I got incredibly defensive when asked about the subject when the question wasn't meant to harm. All of these things and more are reasons why I need to get help with this addiction. I have been doing lots of research over the past few days and today is the day that I start my journey. This seems to be an incredible place to finally push myself and others to reach our respective goals and I look forward to contributing to this community in the future.

I have already put myself into the 7-day challenge forum, am about to look for an accountability partner, and thanks to a really good look at the core reason of why I was masturbating in the first place, I have decided to quit my job and look elsewhere for work.

Let's do this and let's do this together