How can I stop engaging in these activities (masturbating and watching pornography)?
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I have struggled with the same thing myself. The best advice I have to offer you is to start masturbating without watching porn, fantasizing about it, a person or past sexual encounters. It helps to leave the past acts of watching porn behind you when you just do it based on how good it feels. Im not sure if it would lead to not doing it entirely but its a good place to start. Porn I feel separates us from the reality of why we even want sex. To the core of who we are its not just desire and the need to procreate its love and companionship as well. Thus I believe mastubating without porn leaves us better off.