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I can hold out a month, then I'm so wound up I give in

I've masturbated since I was thirteen and kept trying to stop. I can hold out a month or two, then I'm so charged up I give in. I'm 22 and I want out for good.

I have a problem with porn and masturbation, and I’ve been fighting these habits for a long time. I’m 22 now. I’ve been masturbating since I was about thirteen, but at first it was really just masturbation; porn only came along later, and even then it wasn’t anything extreme. At least that’s how it seems to me, because I usually preferred to masturbate to erotic clips, or to things like women kissing, rather than to any hardcore porn.

When I was about fourteen I realised that what I was doing wasn’t for me. Back then I don’t think I was even watching porn at all, I was simply masturbating, and I decided to break with it. I could go without jerking off for a month, sometimes even two, but in the end I always came back to it. It’s been going on like that right up to today. Round and round: I jerk off, I don’t for a while, then I jerk off again. A vicious circle. In the meantime, porn came along.

It’s still the case that I can hold out without masturbation and porn for a while, but at some point I’m so charged up that I simply have to relieve myself, and I’d like to be done with it completely. I don’t have a girlfriend, and I think that may be part of the problem, because I have to let it out some other way. I’d also add that I’ve had sex a dozen or so times and never had trouble with erections; I just came quickly. But I think that would even out if I had a regular partner.

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