How much has watching porn hindered your sex life & meeting women?

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  1. Not much. But watching stuff like NTR and gangbangs make me extremely uneasy. Anything that has to do with infidelity or polygamy gets me so worried that it sometimes makes me think my SO is gonna cheat on me.

  3. Yeah. I had a “porn addiction” for a while. I used to use porn as a way of coping with stress and anxiety.

    Definitely hurt my sex life.

    Being open about it and moderating my use has helped a lot.

    Also exercise. Instead of masturbating when anxious I try to go for a jog instead. I replaced a bad habit with a better one.

  7. It used to affect me a lot as I was watching it 2-3 times a day while In a relationship still to get a dopamine hit cus I was depressed. It affected my ability to get a strong erection and made me need to do more and more intense stuff to cum. It made me bad in bed. Now I do r/nofap, only cum through sexual activity with a woman

  8. Watching porn doesn’t hinder me from meeting women, my anxiety does, as even if I were to go out and look for a girlfriend or FWB or what have you, chances are that I would never be brave enough to talk to the women I find attractive, or that if I somehow managed to do so, that I would not come off as someone interested in them as more than friends.

    I have social anxiety of some sort, I tend to think of any and all negative outcomes of any and all responses to any and all actions or answers that I could possibly make to any and all questions or things. This has understandably made it difficult for me to start talking to random people, and I have suffered from this ever since around 2007/2008 when I dropped out of the 11th grade, and World of Warcraft took up most of my time for a year or two before I finally managed to quit playing the game.

    This, coupled with past experiences of having had my feelings toyed with, my kindness and my friendship taken advantage of for over a year or two – only to find out I was only being used for my car, and that they had never thought of me as their friend, – has basically just made me stop putting myself out there anymore.

  9. I watch porn because I have no sex life. So you might say it’s improved it.

  10. I mean, my chances were never good in the first place. I was always the nerd reject who had zero social skills for dealing specifically with women, and also I started in porn quite early, just before high school.

    If it did something, it was certainly make me feel even worse about myself when I actually had chances. Today I know better, but today life is way worse.

  11. Hindered is the wrong word, it’s just that having your sexual interrests fulfilled at your own hand (pun intended) while also having a good male friendgroup to hang out with when you feel like human interaction kinda takes away the motivation to go out and put yourself thru the pains and annoyances of the dating game…

  14. Well I read a lot of hentai, haven’t jacked to real porn in like 2 years. In terms of my sex life, well there’s not much to note since I am a virgin, and it’s probably going to stay that way. When it comes to meeting women, well it’s the same as it was before I became a hentai addict, still am scared of women and approaching them in general.

  15. I’ve been delivering pizzas and cleaning swimming pools and still haven’t got any action.

  16. None at all.

    I can’t even see how watching porn can interfere with meeting women.

    Granted it’s extremely difficult to meet women after college and in the era of remote work, but that has nothing to do with porn.

  19. 100% of the men I dated that watch porn are into really aggressive sex or don’t believe foreplay is a real thing or wanna do some crazy somersaults or human origami while fucking, it’s always absurd and immature.

    i’ve also dated men that don’t watch porn at all and what I’ve noticed about them is that they don’t even have a libido and we have the most PG relationship ever, there is no sex. The only intimacy is just politely talking to each other.

    I have not been able to get access to a guy who has a pretty healthy drive and pretty healthy boundaries. I know they exist, they just haven’t pursued me or demonstrated interest in me for me to pursue them.

  20. * It’s gonna reduce your sexual drive and motivation to going and meeting women,
    * It’s gonna warp your beauty/expectation perception and’ll turn it into a guy who’s been by himself for months but “won’t date someone below, like an 8½,”
    * If you condition straight to a naked woman to coom to, you’re not gonna be fluent in, good at, or have the patience and know-how of the whole courting & talking to women process. “Hey baby, suck my dick and the pizza is paid for” is not what’s gonna land you women’s numbers, and “Rocoo Sigfredi/Johny Sims” won’t teach you how to interact and act in social situations,
    * If you get to sex, the cumming/masturbation to porn, especially to a massively frequent number, will reduce your sexual pleasure: ED issues, maintenance of erection for sex issues, delayed/can’t cum from normal sex issues, can’t be intimate and open with another partner issues, etc.

    So, stay off it, or at least control yourself around/with porn & masturbation.

  21. I’ve used porn extensively since puberty

    I’ve had a marriage, girlfriends, FWB’s, over 30 physical partners, and countless threesomes

    How has it affected me? It’s helped me learn about my kinks and interests. My sex life is definitely better for it

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