Submitted by anonymous1 on Fri, 2012-01-06 12:12
First of all, kinda strange putting these things out there for everyone to see, but I know it will be helpful for my healing process and maybe others. This is my first time posting anything about my problems.
I've been looking at porn since college which is around the time the internet took off and was available at speeds faster than dial-up. Over ten years later I have a great wife and kids. But I have struggled with porn all the years, off and on.
The posts in this forum are so powerful because I have so much empathy with many of them.
Submitted by freedom on Tue, 2012-01-03 19:42
I can't figure out how to post a link directly to the report. The press release is at the same link. One can access the report free (I think) from http://ipcpress.com/index.php?id=42 but one has to register. You can also search this title to find articles that discuss this. They seem to have an agenda so perhaps take things with a grain of salt.
Submitted by RisingSine on Sat, 2011-03-26 12:06
So it begins. I've found this community, and it's a good place. I've long hoped something like this existed, but I didn't know how to find it.
I feel really grateful to have found it. Other resources I had found in the past about quitting porn had been heavily religious and made me feel very uneasy, as if I was being sold something, and my vulnerability was being taken advantage of for that purpose. But here I don't feel pressured to conform to any particular belief system.
Submitted by Chemicallydriven on Wed, 2010-05-05 11:10
An elderly Chinese woman had two large pots, each hung on the ends of a pole which she carried across her neck.
One of the pots had a crack in it while the other pot was perfect and always delivered a full portion of water. At the end of the long walks from the stream to the house, the cracked pot arrived only half full. For a full two years this went on daily, with the woman bringing home only one and a half pots of water. Of course, the perfect pot was proud of its accomplishments.
Submitted by Cole on Mon, 2010-04-26 00:03
A thought came to me today. Yes, those do happen from time to time. :)
I've wondered about why someone like me in the past has often not seemed to experience a lot of the negative downsides post orgasm that others have. And a possible link has occurred to me, and I wondered how it played out among our group here. Let me explain what I'm thinking.
It seems people here who have some of the worse symptoms after an orgasm are also the ones who tend to feel a lot of guilt and/or shame.
Submitted by Cole on Sun, 2010-02-28 00:40
Marnia made a comment on another blog about not liking to use guilt as a motivator for changing behaviors. I believe I know what she meant, and I don't really think I'm contradicting that thought, but I did want to explore this further. I think because there's more to this than meets the eye when it comes to guilt. So bear with me while I "think out loud" for a bit.
Submitted by DJax on Mon, 2009-03-30 15:46
Hereby I make an official pledge not to use porn and not to masturbate to orgasm for two weeks.
a bit on my background if you are interested.
Submitted by burnaburiash on Thu, 2007-06-21 13:54
Today's step for me is just signing up - it took me a long time to find something like this place, and I am very hopeful it will help - very glad to be here, looking forward to meetin you all.
