I have had chronic anxiety my entire life. Bad anxiety. Therapy, prescription medication, alcohol, other drugs, none of it worked, and at best it might take the edge off temporarily, often with side effects. Sex, masturbation, porn or even simply looking at softcore NSFW material results in a significant reduction in my anxiety. I dont even need to be sexually aroused to get the effect either. While being able to have sex whenever and wherever I'd like is obviously impossible, it would be the ideal. When I am studying or working on something extremely intense I find that simply having NSFW material in my peripheral vision helps me focus better and with less anxiety. I have tried nofap and have cut porn entirely out of my life for months on end and the only thing I got out of that experiment was what felt like a never ending panic attack. I genuinely do not know what to do as I feel like a fucking sex freak because of this. This issue of mine has effected every sexual relationship I have been in, and is negatively influencing my current relationship as well. I have only dated one girl who was able to actually able to assist me with this issue, and that relationship ended rather quickly for completely unrelated reasons.
>>35050085Masturbating to feel less stressed is normal. Keep doing it, and stop worrying about it. But do quit porn if you possibly can.
>>35050225Porn makes masturbation significantly easier, but I do agree with you. The issue I am running into is that I dont always want to just masturbate and either want to have sex or just look at some NSFW material without jerking off.
