Sex / Pornography Addiction Support Group

For what it's worth, if you feel like you're addicted, you probably are.
I have been addicted to masturbating since I was 11 years old. I am now 41. the general feedback is that it is 'normal'. This doesn't square with my own personal experience. I tried to find the 'cause' through a tremendous amount of self-exploration and inquiry. I read hundreds of books and studied anything that I thought might help me find that cause. What I found was a combina
tion of causes, personal tendencies, and conditional factors. There was no 'one' cause, nor did I find any 'one' event. To this day, I still wonder how I became the person I am, esp. in this area. Making that journey into this part of who I am helped to know and understand myself mech better, but I found no solutions, per se. I have had to figure thos out through trial and error overb the years.
Were you abused as a child? I was sexually abuse and I know that has a lot to do with my addiction. You may want to explore that question for yourself and see. I wish you the best!

I didn't say masturbation, I said masochism. And I want to know how to stop that and well, both actually.

You might want to check out www.recoverynation.com That might help you get started. I am not sure to what extent if any.. they cover masochism but it might give you some in site on understanding everything as a whole.