▲ 5 r/QuitPorn
Day 15 of being CLEAN from Porn, here are a few experiences:
It is my 16th day of being free from porn, so here are a few things I've experienced:
- Quitting is actually easy: The first few days were pretty easy. Every time I thought about porn I was just mad about it, so I had some kind of a grief and disgust only by the thought of watching porn. Honestly it helped me a lot, and it made me NOT to want to open any porn sites.
- Softporn on Social Media: The biggest problem for me. A few days ago my friend sent me an Instagram reel as a joke, but it was basically softporn. This was the closest moment for me to ALMOST masturbate to that IG reel. I highly recommend you to block any kind of softporn content or edging content on social media like TikTok, Instagram and YT...
- Masturbation helps a LOT: If you actually masturbate, only without watching porn, then everything becomes almost easy. You can still masturbate, just use your own thoughts and ideas, and feel yourself. It is WAY HARDER to masturbate without porn after being addicted for a few years, but you can actually learn it by yourself. If you masturbate, you will get the dopamine anyways, but at least not as much as with porn, and you didn't actually watch porn. That is a great accomplishment actually.
- Softporn is porn too: You may think that an old nude in your photo gallery or a kissing scene from a normal movie, or a sexy instagram post is not porn, but YES, it IS porn, when you were addicted to porn. It makes just the same to your brain as if you were watching actual porn. Think about it: You are actually gooning to pixels on screen. It really doesn't matter if it's not AS extreme as a direct porn, and you may not be watching it "on the hub", but it is basically the same. Don't do it.
- Starting a counter: Using a time counter app actually helps a lot. If you start a counter, then you can see the progress by yourself. If you have an urge to watch porn, you can just open this app instead and watch how the seconds are going up. You actually see your progress real time, and instead of gooning, you can think about your goal.
I wish you all good luck for getting off porn. And the best thing to think about: DO NOT BE WEAK!
u/Some-Resolution1517 — 2 days ago