I have been cutting back majorly on the porn usage. However, now when I masturbate I actually get bored part way through and kind of stop. The sensation doesn't feel as strong and I have noticed that I don't even ejaculate all that much and its not forceful. I don't know if my imaignation is just shit or if porn was carrying my arousal. I can definitely still get erections but masturbating without porn just feels insanely boring. Makes me almost not want to do it. Is there ever a case in which you can use porn "reasonably" or is that the equivalent of asking "Can you use crack cocaine reasonably and responsibly?" Overall, I just want to be healthy sexually. I don't want to feel like my sexuality is the enemy. I like looking at naked women but it feels weird to think that looking at naked women actually hurts your brain. But somehow its fine if I imagine naked women?

>>33287044 (OP)
I didn’t fully “recover” until after a few months of no porn. If I do jack off it’s to women I’ve slept with or women I want to sleep with. It sounds lame at first but honestly it feels better and the “draining” feeling post nut isn’t nearly as bad as porn. There’s no such thing as using porn “safely” don’t even try bro

>>33287044 (OP)
People who masturbate to porn (in the contaxt of the modern internet and current year) only do so out of boredom.

You're not really aroused or horny, you're just chasing after that chemical release in your brain after you nut. You're sitting at your computer doomscrolling and youtube bodycam videos where they censor the word "gun" and "drugs" aren't holding your attention like they used to so you find something else to occupy your attention for a few minutes at the computer. Especially if you're jacking off like 5 times a day or whatever there's no way that 5th orgasm feels all that great.

If this was like 25 years ago and the only porn you had access to was 2-3 VHS or DVD movies and also a few boob magazines, porn wouldn't be that much of a problem. Not just because of the boredom aspect but because you have everyone else's fetish instantly available to be uploaded into your brain. Back in the day there was no way of being lured in by trans grandma farting incest porn or whatever - you had to go out of your way and go to the porn store and buy those specific movies whereas now you can just click/tap the next video out of boredom or because the girl(?) looks kinda hot on the thumbnail. it's not like you're paying 20 $ to look at that one video so you check it out and next thing you know you're developing a racial diaper fetish or whatever.