Porn and related addictions

[Belial]

Are you addicted to porn? Could you stop whenever you want? Do you watch it because the opportunity is there, or because you really want to? Do you masturbate out of habit? When you're not especially aroused?

Some interesting questions to ponder.

[IowaMan]

Nope not addicted to porn. I'll watch it every once in a while but I don't find that I absolutely have to have it.

The masturbation part of your question is one that's got me thinking though Belial. I do find that when I'm not in a relationship that I masturbate much more frequently. That's the boat I'm in now unfortunately. What I'm not sure of is whether or not I do it out of habit or not. It's not as if it's a, "Well, it's 7am and my dick is hard. Time to slap it around a bit," kind of thing. I get aroused much easier when I'm single and thus I guess it just leads to me taking it out and tearing one off more frequently. Sort of been alternating between three different fantasies here lately.

Uh oh, it's 7am here................................... :D

[Emzo]

every now and then for me aint an addiction

[wyndhy]

i rarely watch porn. i read porny stories but not to excess. i haven't ever shirked responsibilities to watch or read porn, although i have been known to shirk so i could check up on pixies peeps or read a novel. i only masturbate when i'm feeling randy and my husband isn't around...unless we’re having a contest. :D

[WildIrish]

For me, I believe porn is an addiction of convenience. When I have easy & unlimited access to it, I will peruse a couple of my favorite compilation sites & see if any interesting pics or vids are available. But I don't miss it when I've gone any length of time without it.

As for self-pleasure...I will touch myself when the mood strikes my mind, not just my pecker. I won't rub one out just because my flag is at full staff when I wake up, but if my mind is also feeling sexy then I'll take a few minutes out of my very important morning routine to enjoy some attention. I usually find that I'm more rabid in the late afternoon and if the sensual feelings last through the evening then I'll succumb to them when I'm ready for bed. :hot:

[MrBrownstone]

Additction. Well no, not in the clinical sense. I have seen Dateline and other shows like that where sex addicts can't get enough and go to massage parlors or to prostitutes. I have never had the need to do anything like that.
However, there are times when I have felt that I have been lost for a couple of hours in watching porn online or rented a movie. Usually it's when the wife is out of town. There have been times when she was gone that I have been excited all day looking forward to watching porn and masterbating uninterupted when I got home.
Of course these are rare occasions that may happen a few times a year only. There have been other times when I couldn't sleep or woke up early and as the saying goes, "an idle mind is the devil's playground," and I head straight to the dirty movies and my cock. I don't feel an uncontrollable need to do it and I have never not accomplished anything because of it.
I can go many days without sex or masterbation and I never think twice about it and there are weeks where I might fuck or jerk off every day, depends on what is going on.
Thinking back now, from when I was about 15 until maybe 23, there was rarely a day that I didn't masterbate once a day. Sometimes I would go two, three days in a row without, but then there might be a day where I yanked it twice in a day. But that being said, it was like when you first start having sex with someone in a relationship, you're doing it all the time. You think, wow, it's going to be like this every day. Ha ha!
To answer the question, am I addicted to porn? No, I do not believe so, but who knows.

Hmm, guess this thread got me thinking.

[Oldfart]

I have only one sex-related addiction, this place.

[Cobalt]

Are you addicted to porn? Yes absolutly!!!!!!!!
Could you stop whenever you want? Not sure, I love all aspects of it.
Do you watch it because the opportunity is there, or because you really want to? Because I love it and it is out there and because it helps to get me in the mood for when I have to take care of things myself.
Do you masturbate out of habit? Because of need for relief, I have a VERY high sex drive.
When you're not especially aroused?It helps me get past the thought of having to take care of things myself and gets me to the point that I can do it myself. .

The real thing is SOOOOOOO much better

[Irezumi Kiss]

Are you addicted to porn? Could you stop whenever you want? Do you watch it because the opportunity is there, or because you really want to? Do you masturbate out of habit? When you're not especially aroused?
I don't consider myself addicted to it, no. Highly interested in it, yes. I'm a sexual person, so hey.

Most of the reading material I buy and collect are erotica, which is a broad umbrella that porn fits underneath. For most pedestrian-minded people, "erotica" these days probably begins and ends with Jenna Jameson. They probably wouldn't know who Richard Kern, Audacia Ray or Dave Naz is, and probably wouldn't care. So then, to say if it's an "addiction" really becomes a matter of viewpoints. I think I'm pretty vanilla, but someone else might think I'm a bonafide freak.

To me, being addicted means being wanton and rampant in the area of your focus, to the detriment of all else. My tastes in porn are pretty niched. I like big titty porn but that doesn't mean I go out and buy every big titty porn mag and dvd out there, not caring if I paid my rent a week late. I have scruples.

Stopping and starting the getting into porn or whatever is irrevelant to me. I've accepted my sexual nature as a part of myself, so it's not even "turned off." I would say I'm naturally in a state of some sort of "sexual thought/think" about 75% of the time. It could be on the level of just reading a book to doing my art/thinking of something creative on up to wanting to straight-up fuck.

I watch porn because I want to and it's my pleasure.

I'll masturbate when I'm in the mood...or if I'm really wound up sexually and I need to take the edge off and I'm not with a willing partner or I don't feel like being bothered by the dynamics of having another person around to think about. Like, when you're feeling sexual energy, there's a giving, sharing "love" feeling and then there's a selfish, politically incorrect "lust" feeling. Sometimes that lust feeling is better satisfied by yourself. I've never just done it out of habit or because I'm bored and need something to do. I need to be aroused in some form or fashion, by something I love or feel affection to.

[cavegirl]

over in the UK, there's a TV documentary going out next week on one of the cable channels which is about a group of teens aged 17 and younger who are addicted to hardcore porn already and are using the internet to get their sexual kicks...

[Jude30]

I guess it depends on what you call addiction. I look at it daily probably but I don't spend money on it that I don't have.