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i have an addiction to porn...how do i quit
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I would like to know what you mean by addicted. The word addiction has taken on a life of its own lately. By addicted do you mean you sit in front of your computer or TV viewing porn to the exclusion of everything else? Are you able to do to other things like work, go to school, go out on dates, visit with friends and view porn only when you have nothing else to do? Is your porn watching somewhere in the middle of being totally absorbed by porn to be able to function without porn and viewing it only when you have down time.
If you cannot function at all without viewing porn in some manner. You can't work, go to school, take care of your proper hygiene then you have a porn addiction and you need help. If you like porn, you porn to masturbate to, are a teenager in the throes of puberty and has a life beyond porn such as school, dating and other things. Then relax your a normal teenager with overactive sex glands.
Today I believe it is Maxim magazine when I was a teenager it was Playboy that every teenage boy had a well worn copy of hidden in his room for masturbatory use. Most guy won't admit to it but we all had them and your friends do to.
Now in the event you are truly addicted and cannot function without porn you need professional help. Seek out the help of sex therapist. Yes there are psychologist that specialize in the area of sex. This is the psychologist that is best trained to help you.
If you're a teenager you are going to have to go to your parents and ask for help. Probably the best person for you to talk to is your dad. As I believe you are male and talking to mom may be embarrassing.
Used correctly for personal enjoyment there is nothing wrong with pornography. For teenagers it is a way to help relieve sexual tension and to learn about the female body and how to love the female body.
My only advice is to make sure you have a true addiction and not just embarrassed because you think you are the only one who enjoys pornography in your age group. You're not that I can assure you off.
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You just do.
Porn is a behavoir, not a substance. It's can be a compulsion, but not a chemical addiction. You are in control of this behavoir. As difficult and challenging as it may be to change, you are in control.
There are tools available to restrict your own internet access to adult sites, and there are many online communities dedicated to helping people resist the urge.
It's difficult to give you more advice than that without knowing what the problem is exactly and what it is you want to do about it. So figure out what your personal goals are, and what behavoir you want to change, and then find the tools and resources that fit your goals.
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