How long have you been addicted to PMO?

I've had a problem with PMO since the first time I watch P, so maybe 13 years... the longest time without doing it was a week and then with NoFap 30 days.

I've come to realize that my problem lies with porn and my way of dealing with it so i'm trying to stay away from it this time because I hate it, and I especiallly hate what it has done to my self confidence and self esteem.

 

Two years

 

About 10 years since I was 16

 

are you still struggling with addictive behaviour??

 

23 years PMO, 36yrs MO. 8-10 times a week, many times overnight.

 

I started M'ing last year but have been watching P since three years ago and Psubs many years before that

 

About 20 years, I was 13 i guess. I started MO over girls i saw on TV. Then I started using girls in magazines. This evolved into using porn and porn magazines for stimulation. These days its porn, escorts and social media...

 

25 years and 4 months. Been trying to quit for about 3 years. Magazines to videos to internet. The longer you abstain the better life gets.

 

13 years i'd say, I've been addicted to PMO since 15-16 years old. The amount of times a day were usually 3 or 4 and in the worst case scenario 7 or 8 times a day, though this rarely happened and in days when i had absolutely nothing to do. It became especially bad in days when i was feeling very stressed or with serious anxiety and/or depression and porn was a way i found of coping with it and isolating myself from my problems, which in turn made matters even worse until i finally saw just how bad the situation was and decided to take serious measures to deal with it and professional help.

 

I went for Psychologycal Counseling, in this case after searching for references (this is important) i got a therapist which is really good. Also I'm going with a psychiatrist to complement this, because my case had reached critical levels, not only because of my mental health, but because i had really nasty digestive problems tied to emotional distress, from here the doctor i saw for the stomach problems recommended i go the psychiatrist because depression had a lot to do with it, this happened before i took formal action against PMO addiction.

 

I’m doing the same. Having a professional counselor who understands addiction and what it takes to overcome it long term is a game changer. I can’t recommend this enough.

 

51 now. Started masturbating when I was 9 and assumed I’d stop when I started having sex with women but that didn’t happen. Loved sex with women but loved masturbating just as much, sometimes more. I got divorced 13 years ago and really became a chronic porn viewer and masturbator at that time. I’d say porn and masturbation has consumed much of my life since then. If I had free time I was masturbating, hours daily if I could. I really got going once I found online masturbation chat rooms where I could converse with other addicts as we masturbated. I finally decided 21 days ago enough was enough and I’m doing my best to go hard mode. No porn, NoFap. So far I’ve been successful but the urges have been very strong.

 

10 years since i was 13 I'm 23 now

 

I remember when Marilyn Monroe posed nude in the first Playboy. Like 1956 or so.
Really started beating it seriously about 1963 6-7 times a day or so but only had photos that were risque to use and really didn’t need them to go at it. I really didn’t need porn until I got the internet somewhere about 1997. So 21 years. Probably 3-5 times a week.
Since on NoFap may 12 this year I only M-ed 3 or 4 times. I’ve been clean 6 days now.

 

Starting at around age 16 with masturbation. In the beginning only pictures of naked women, didn't want to watch porn but after a while i started watching porn, but only occasionally. Over the years the consume was rising until i was watching 3-4 times a week, sometimes daily or several times a day. Am now 23 and having problems enjoying sex and ED, so i want to stop now. Trying it in the past to get away from porn but it wasn't very successful. But been clean 4 days now and been more motivated after i´ve read about all the negative things.

 

Started about a month before i turned 14, and never M'ed before that, though I think I had used p subs for about a month or two before that. Thus, my addiction started and has been ruining my life ever since. Now I'm about a month over 16 and have already seen that my faith in God has been struggling and my perception of women has started warping to objects because of PMO, along with the common side effects such as brain fog, escalation, and all the other harmful effects. Finally making some breakthroughs into the 10+ range now and again.

 

My addiction was classic case for a man in his early 50s...
1. Clothing catalogues
2. Friend's dad's adult magazines
3. Buying adult mags (aged 14)
4. The birth of video (again friend's dad's collections)
5. Buying video from mail order
6. Watching German softcore in the early days of Satellite TV
7. DVD (buying from an illegal copier)
8. The internet... and everything went nuclear!!!!

 

Yep with the internet everything went crazy. Never ending therefore no reason to stop. There was always more.

 

Haha,
You all are so young. I'm 48, started by 15 for sure. Back then it was magazines you could get the old men at the corner store to sell you. Then the internet happened and I started on elicit forums and America online (dating myself). Then fiber happened and the internet was almost instantaneous. I thought I was in heaven. Only to find out it was my personal hell. So I'm going with at least 33 years as a fapaholic.

FV(K the purveyors of this stuff. From the women being taken advantage of to the men whose lives they profit from.