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I am addicted to porn

Asked by Male, 21, Single
I am 22 year old male. I am so addicted to porn and after i masturbate I feel guilty about it, what should I do now?
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Sneha
Psychotherapist

Hi Writer, thank you for writing to us. I must have taken a lot of courage to reach out and ask for help. I understand you feel guilty about masturbation and that you are addicted to porn. At your age your sexual drive will be at an all time high. Unless you are sexually active or have a partner it's easy to get sexually frustrated. Masturbation is an outlet to sexual frustration. There isn't anything called to much masturbation neither is it wrong. In fact apart from reducing sexual frustration and can help you focus more on other activities and in some cases it is known to reduce depression caused by lack of sexual activity. With respect to your addiction to porn, do you have any other activities or interests that you are invested in. Finding other recources to channel sexual frustration will help spend lesser time on porn. Also do you have friends you hang out with? Having real human interactions is one way deal with porn addiction. Porn represents sexual fantasy, meaning it's not real and an addiction can set unrealistic expectations from sex and a future partner or it can make you disconnect from relationships completely. Watching porn isn't wrong but it has to be balanced out with real human interactions or other personal interests.
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