47 years and counting. Escorts and "massage parlours" for 29 years. Serious efforts to stop both of these 3 years.
56 years,started when I was 12.For some reason I wanted to quit on my 16th birthday but it never happened.
Interestingly enough, many of us report starting between age 10 and 14, which is a critical phase of human sexual organization. I wonder, what if there was "organized" ways that young people would be introduced to real normal sexuality rather than being left for themselves to figure out (and obviously fail to prefer the real)... Some of you had sexual education classes? (Apparently they vanished before I got to age)
All I remember was about 10 minutes of discussion of venereal diseases in sophomore biology. (That would have been 1970 or 71, I think. When basically everything was curable with a shot of penicillin.) It really freaked me out - because I already knew I would do risky stuff to get it wet.
I had my first orgasm when I was 14 years old I think. And the last time I masturbated I was 40. So it's 26 years.
Porn has really screwed a lot of people. I can't help but imagine what the next generation is going to leave look like