I escalated over a period of 11 years, almost half my life. I’m a brand new user and I want a full reboot from a severe porn/masturbation addiction...but it’s hard. This addiction has affected me in many ways and continues to do so.
I started off with softcore, moved onto hardcore/actual depictions of sex in my teens pretty quickly, then onto clothing/feet fetishes in my early 20s, then to genres I don’t even have a sexual attraction to (ebony, bbw, trans etc). I even moved onto the gay genre after trans and thought I may be deep down a homosexual, but after stopping viewing that stuff, I don’t think I ever want to go back and have no intention to. I think the concept of curiosity also highly affects the addiction to porn, and which could lead many of us or anyone to the more taboo/deviant/crazy genres.
Other than that, I also would browse Instagram for “non-pornographic” images and profiles based on the pantyhose/certain clothing theme or in general, models or even profiles of women I knew from high school/friends/family members of friends or accquitances I thought were pretty attractive (and unattractive, I guess the trigger here is clothing taste/fetish). I would also browse for actresses/women on google images, Facebook and so. As of now, I’ve cut most of the social media content, but the general web still offers this awful and addictive stuff. Never been towards anything “violent” so to speak (apart from shock sites that people would trick you into viewing...you know the ones) but I have watched maybe a couple BDSM videos.
I’ve been addicted for 11 years and I feared it could get worse, but when I hit rock bottom (saw a pretty uncomfortable image that made me re evaulate my life and realise how dirty and demented porn is), I realise im trying my best to go cold turkey.
As of now, I’m back to my original genres I like and nothing of the absurd or things I don’t normally find attractive, but I’m aiming to go cold turkey through the help of this great forum I recently discovered.
Edit: I realise some of the words I use may be triggered. I do wholeheartedly apologise.