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I have been slowly weening off sex. It creating problematic behavior. It was a get away. I stopped having casual sex last February. I find myself very attractive. It was not hard to pull men. I was using men for sex because I had back/neck pain. I actually like back massages as much as sex. It...

Hi fellow Fapstronauts, I've been rereading dr. Gabor Mate's wonderful book In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts and would like to share some of his insights that struck me hard: ______________ “I’m not going to ask you what you were addicted to,” I often say to people, “nor when, nor for how long...

Hi guys my name is Alex. a porn addict with compulsive behaviour to porn. I am triying now for 2 years to stop and my longest streak was 35 days. I read on this site about porn addiction and it opened some stuff about me...

Today marks another day when I relapsed. The feeling of shame and guilt is overpowering and sending me into a spiral of depression. I have been here before, relapsing after 20 weeks of sobriety. My addiction is acting out, usually with escorts. When looking back on my previous relapses there...

Hey friends, I just finished a summer semester and am officially free from studying some two weeks. I am getting urges. It is not like I use to study the whole day, it was only a few dedicated hours so I don't understand why this freedom gives me urges. I relapsed last time due to the same...