Pornography how much is too much?

How much porn is considered an addiction, or obsessive or not average...? ...

...I'm guessing the same as any other addiction Lola,

if it's having an impact on life real bad...then it's an addiction I spose.

...and the rest is all subjective to what a persons needs are?

some people have more libido than others, some might have none...so what is obsessive for one.....maybe aint enough for another! I don't know what average porn use is?...I'm wondering that there is no average...not with porn....(37.5 minutes a day per person as recommended by the government of the sex world!....haha)

and who cares what any one else thinks, as long as your life isn't a mess because of it...then it's probably not an addiction...just a really cool hobby

If you are a full blown addict, it has been my experience that any pornography is too much. Sex addiction is just like alcoholism in some ways. Most people can have a drink or two and it's no big deal. Alcoholics can't even have a sip or it disrupts their lives all over again. Sexaholics are the same way, if we indulge in any lust at all we are in for another bender.

Anyway, that's my two cents.

So then how often do you masturbate? Are you male or female ? Relationship or No? Average day?

female - yes relationship - once a day minimum

I would say I am a female - once or twice a day honestly it depends on my mood. You know I can go days without doing it or do it six times in one day. I don't get it. In my case, it's because of boredom. Or if I have a very sexually charged dream, when I wake up and I HAVE to. But those are rare.

Addiction? I would say its like with anything else like everyone else said. Everything done in moderation isn't an addiction. But, I can see it getting out of control. I thought I was a major sex addict when I turned 30, when I realized, along with help from my T that it was just a phase in my life I was going through.

female. relationship: no. How many times a day? change that to per week or month and I'd say: between once a week and once a month.

I try never to masturbate. I am male. Married.

I am a sex addict though so I am totally different and the rules that apply to me don't apply to normies. I try to let my wife initiate sex and I try not to manipulate her into initiating sex.

Sometimes I can go weeks with no sexual activity of any kind and not even miss it. Other times I can't seem to last more than an hour or two.

Everyone is different, even among addicts. My goal is to stop being driven and controlled by lust. If I don't I will eventually end up imprisoned, diseased, divorced without contact with my babies and penniless. It has become obvious to me that any viewing of pornography or masturbation takes me further along the addiction. I have to stop. That doesn't mean everyone should do what I do. I'm sorry I implied that. I'm just giving my experience.

Best of luck to all of you.

Before the divorce and before starting to take psychiatric drugs that make me unorgasmic, I usually masturbated about once a day (by once I mean a session of masturbation with multiple orgasms). In retrospect, I regret not turning some of these sessions into mutual sex with my husband. I would say that masturbation was therefore not without its price. I masturbated purely to my thoughts and fantasies and dreams, not to porn - porn does not turn me on at all. May be I simply was not exposed to the right style of porn.

i masturbate at least twice aday. but sometimes i binge masturbate. that can last about 2 to 6 hours. i just don't want the feeling to end. i don't believe i'll ever be able to stop. the feelings are to intense too pleasurable. i love porn, i can feel that i'm part of what i'm watching.

If it interferes with your life or feels out of control then it's too much.

Someone once told me the more you watch porn the more you objectify women(in my case, men) at the time I didn't believe it but now I do. Being sexual with a loved one is so exciting, the human body is so beautiful but porn just takes away the mystery, makes it harder to be attreacted to 'the real thing' and makes you less sympathetic for the opposite gender and their sexuality.

I have issues with sex... I'm addicted to porn and I'm dealing with the negative effects. I started out watching occasionally and it tturned bad.

Good luck.
Move carefully towards this. Try to respect yourself and people of the opposite gender, whether you watch a ton of porn or choose not to.

Also, the more you masturbate and watch porn the harder it is to orgasm when you're doing the real thing!! Your significant other may feel inadequate because of this, I know mine did!

Btw, I'm female.. 2-20 times a day. No relationship but many sexual partners. Not normal haha

I have never watched porn for pleasure, just masturbated to thoughts, but I have never found any inverse connection between masturbatory orgasms and the "real thing"! They were both pretty good!

I think finding out whether it is a habit or an addiction is also a good idea. Just because you do something out of habit doesn't mean it is a bad thing. However, if you are addicted then I would address the issue with a professional as well as posting on here. Addiction would be like if you think about it all the time and it affects your normal day to day life. Can you orgasm without the pornography is also a way you can identify how it affects you. I've heard it can desensitize people and eventually they are unable to orgasm without it. That is no good.

I am un sure if i have an issue with a sexual addiction or not...I do have a very high libido and I enjoy having sex wither thats with someone or masturbating but its not truly as though I feel like I can't function with out it. I just find it enjoyable. and I know that getting off is a rather healthy thing for you to do.

I got to a point in my relational life I struggled so much with sex with others and making expections for others that I just started feeling odd I guess. A lot of my friends always would say to me.

"you need to love your self before someone else can love you" so I became more affirmed I guess in masturbating and finding ways to make love to myself when I did not have a partner of my own.

Some days I have a bad issue with keeping how much I do it at bay and sometimes not so much. But I think that might be that i possibly have ADHD and that can have an impact on your impulsiveness

Wow! Cudo's to you for being so honest with yourself and others about the nature of your addiction. I wish my husband could be so insightful. We are on the verge of divorce, and are subject to loosing hundreds of thousands of dollars due to his infidelity. Even more importantly, we would have the most phenominal marriage and partnership if he didn't cheat. It seems so obvious from the outside, but he still casts the blame on other things.

Good luck with your battle. Do you mind if I add your family to my prayers?

That would be great Lost in Florida. Prayer always helps, thank you. I'll say a prayer for your family too.

Hopefully this doesn't count as a thread necro, but I am concerned about this too. I'm male, no relationship, and I masturbate 6-7 times a week, normally, and upwards of 14 times in a week when I'm feeling particularly horny. Some weeks I find myself thinking about sex all the time, and I get so anxious to leave work just so I can go straight home and do it. Sometimes I really worry that I'm addicted to pornography and masturbation, but then that might be my strict Christian upbringing rearing its ugly head...

I really want to know, how much is too much? Are there actually negative physical effects to so-called "over-masturbation," or is it just healthy behavior? I've tried Googling it so many times but there are too many differing opinions out there, especially with all the anti-masturbation activists. The Wikipedia article on libido states "there is no measure of what is a healthy level for sex." I'd like to believe that I just have a strong libido, or maybe its just my instincts screaming at me because I'm 28 and still a virgin... But I'm worried it could be a symptom of a deeper problem.

I would not worry about 6-7 times a week which is basically once a day so it does not cut into your other activities - just stop worrying and be happy, hopefully you will get into partner sex eventually.

I think it depends on the person, just like some people can drink socially and its no big thing, while others take one sip and go raging alcoholic instantly.

But i think a good rule of thumb would be if porn starts interfering with your ability to socialize or deal with life or find a partner than its probably too much.

Yeah, but that's the thing. I don't socialize with others at all, so I obviously can't find a partner. I'd say I don't deal with life very well either... But that's probably just unrelated mental health issues, right?

This is kind of why I'm worried. I really can't tell if my daily porn fixes and frequent masturbation habits are a problem in and of themselves, or if they are just symptoms of a larger problem.

Guess I won't find out with any certainty, either.

Billions, alot of people including myself use porn and other addictions to deal with depression and anxiety.

We are kinda in the same boat with no socializing. Maybe you could be depressed?
I know it depresses me.

It's a definite possibility. I do turn to porn and masturbation sometimes when I'm not even particularly into it, most often on Sunday nights because I get really nervous and frightened when I think of having to go to work the next day. Just as an example, last night I did it three times and tried for a fourth until it started to chafe, and I still didn't feel satisfied or calmed like I normally do. I was still just anxious and scared.

That's probably a bad sign.

Hello there!

well I guess it can be called an addiction if it has already a negative impact in your life.
but be more careful about your situation, because it may really lead into addiction, for it gives you pleasure. everything that makes us feels good can become our addiction. Better see a psychiatrist if you think it's coming worst.