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My bf confessed to me last night that he has a porn addiction and has occasionally thought about himself with other women while we’ve been dating. He genuinely wants to get better and I want to help him. Any advice from guys going through this/ that have?
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Anonymous 1w

it took a lot of courage for him to open up about that, and im glad you're being receptive to it. something i did with my gf that helped me out a lot is that i would log when i relapsed on an app (i.e. "I Am Sober") and she would ask every sunday how many times i did it. for every time that week, i would pay her $5-10. it actually was really effective and had some scientific basis to it.

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Anonymous 1w

Can’t be horny when tired, or hungry, or off nicotine I’ve found. So gym + diet (fasting sometimes) + no nicotine whenever he would normally be watching porn, tends to put cracks in the behavioral loop that leads to watching porn. He, and likely all of Gen Z + others, were caught in an inorganic visual que system via tiktok, IG, marketing companies to see sexual ques at a rate probably 1000x what we evolved normally to see. Reduce the ques, change the behavior reward feedback system, and 1/

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 1w

2/2 the cravings to have a reward hit for seeing what’s shoved in front of his face should diminish into nothing.

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