Been addicted to porn for at least 10 years now, 21 years old. My typical day would start with porn for 3-4 hours, I’d eat, shit, and then watch porn for another 4+. I started HRT 3 years ago, and my addiction didn’t get better or worse. Recently I upped my injection from 120 mg to 200mg weekly, and now I don’t impulsively masturbate anymore. I get randomly horny less often, and I only watch porn for about an hour a day. Masturbation is also only about once a day. I’ve been trying to get clean for years now, and it just suddenly came to me. I’m not controlled by porn anymore. If I wanted to, I could go a full day without it (done this successfully.)Did a higher does of HRT somehow cure my porn addiction?
Don’t need hardcore to get off anymore either. I can just focus in on my long-standing fetishes and get more than enough satisfaction
>>43594769HRT cures you of your porn addiction the same way SSRIs cure your depression. The underlying issue isn't actually solved.
>>43594817I’m watching porn several times less and it doesn’t control me though. HRT is supposed to make you hornier, so why did going from 120 to 200mg help me out?
>>43594831Are you a pooner?
>>43594769what the fuck are you injecting 120-200 mg of as hrt?? my dose is 5mg EV every 5 days. my vials are 40 mg/mL, so that’s injecting 3-5 mL of oil
In other words, HRT suppressed your testosterone, and the "porn addiction" was a socially constructed myth. It's a truism people repeat endlessly when they're actually referring to the natural libido of males with testosterone. Congrats though.
>>43594845Yes>>43594847Testosterone>>43594851An extra 80 mg of testosterone suppressed my testosterone?
>>43594977can you fault people for thinking you're mtf? you sound like an agp transbian parody
>>43594993Figured the dosing would be an easy tell
>>43594993how is this agp or transbian at all
>>43594851this guy thinks addiction doesnt exist
OP I am genuinely confused as to what you get out of 8+ hours of porn consumption daily. What is it you're looking at? Are you legit just sat watching? I don't get it. Even at my most voraciously horny I don't think I have consumed any erotic media for more than perhaps 30 minutes.
>>43594977excess t is likely getting aromatized into e. why tf did you start taking 200mg weekly?
>>43595441NTA but “porn addiction” and “sex addiction” aren’t all one thing because they’re not one-to-one equivalents to actual chemical dependency. They tend to have a psychological root (impulse control, coping with distress, need for validation etc.), and like that anon said people just have varying sex drives and it’s not necessarily dysfunctional when people have a strong drive. In OP’s extreme case it could be that OP’s porn habit was more related to depression than hormone levels and now things are getting better, for example.
>>43595548Just feels good. Same reason you get hooked on gambling or drinking >>43597088I get my E checked regularly. No aromatization. Went up on accident because I started ordering 300mg instead of 200 mg/mL vials and retardedly forgot to adjust my dose
>>43594769Not sure but my guess would be that your porn usage was a way of coping with dysphoria, and now that your on testosterone you don't need to numb everything with porn as much. You're ability to not let it control you isn't from a lowered sex drive, but from no longer having the constant feeling of wrongness that you need to escape from.
