I haven't previously considered my self to be an excessive user of porn and nearly all the material I view is fetish based rather than outright pornographic. Unfortunately that is much worse.
I have been someone who masturbates to fetish material daily for about the past 2 years and never noticed any problems until last week when for the first time in a very long time, I had sex. I felt very little excitement about it the whole time and I was struggling to keep myself hard throughout, all the time knowing exactly what I needed to help me out. It was then that I realised that I was addicted to porn (or my fetish based alternative anyway). The term PIED (Porn Induced Erectile Dysfunction) is now an acronym to curse.
All the time while having fun with my toys, with all the material I needed, I was savouring the endless amount of pleasure not knowing that all I was doing was flooding my brain with dopamine like a class A drug.
For now though I am planning to go months without viewing anything either pornographic or that caters to my fetish. What to do about masturbation and sex toy use in the meantime I do not know. Also how to regulate porn use once I recover is going to be difficult.
I have been a supporter of porn in the past simply because it has given me so much pleasure that I could only otherwise have dreamed about. I now realise that I've made a similar mistake to drug addicts, and the long road to rehab begins.
If anyone else has seen or dealt with this before, what did you do to help the recovery?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHHyt6z0osA
This vid describes what has happened in more detail but it's an hour long, so basically I'm one of the growing population who have shot themselves in the foot with porn.