I was the same once I came out and came to terms with my crossdressing pornography was an all consuming thing for me for 30 years. It wasnt just about the sex for me it was all about the illusion of men into woman what they wore and the jewelry and makeup.

Remember pornography dehumanizes woman and men but mostly woman and turns relationships into a fantasy world that the partner cant possibly compete with. For most pornography between a couple can be healthy when viewed together. It is when one partner is doing it in secret is where the problem lies. Pornography like other addictions is a progressive disease and when addicted long binges of internet viewing can occur.

There are some that say pornography addiction doesnt exist and is a choice. They say that most can watch pornography and have no ill effects. Their logic is flawed just like Alcohol most can enjoy it without issues but for few percent out there it destroys lives.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography_addiction

I agree just do a search of internet porn statistics.

This was just in 2003.

http://www.safefamilies.org/sfStats.php

PORNOGRAPHY ADDICTION STATS
Pornography Addiction and Industry Statistics
As of 2003, there were 1.3 million pornographic websites; 260 million pages (N2H2, 2003).

The total porn industry revenue for 2006: $13.3 billion in the United States; $97 billion worldwide (Internet Filter Review).

U.S. adult DVD/video rentals in 2005: almost 1 billion (Adult Video News).
Hotel viewership for adult films: 55% (cbsnews.com).

Unique worldwide users visiting adult web sites monthly: 72 million (Internet Filter Review).

Number of hardcore pornography titles released in 2005 (U.S.): 13,588 (Internet Filter Review).

[SIZE="3"]Adults admitting to Internet sexual addiction: 10%; 28% of those are women (internet-filter-review.com).[/SIZE]

More than 70% of men from 18 to 34 visit a pornographic site in a typical month (comScore Media Metrix).

More than 20,000 images of child pornography posted online every week (National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, 10/8/03).

Approximately 20% of all Internet pornography involves children (National Center for Mission & Exploited Children).

100,000 websites offer illegal child pornography (U.S. Customs Service estimate).

As of December 2005, child pornography was a $3 billion annual industry (internet-filter-review.com).

"At a 2003 meeting of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, two thirds of the 350 divorce lawyers who attended said the [SIZE="3"]Internet played a significant role in the divorces in the past year, with excessive interest in online porn contributing to more than half such cases. Pornography had an almost non-existent role in divorce just seven or eight years ago." [/SIZE](Divorcewizards.com)

I encourage further discussion on these issues for or against.

If anyone out there is suffering Please PM me. Helping others when they are ready is part of my recovery.

HUgz,

Miss P


Quote Originally Posted by deja true View Post
I think more than few of us were hung up in the porn search wasteland as well...

But quite honestly, for me, the constant search for tranny porn was probably brought about by my fierce denial of who I really was.

Since accepting my self and searching for answers to the big gender questions within, I've totally lost interest in that kind of thing. Not lost interest in sex or relationships or CDing or the trans world as a whole but lost interest in trying to subsume my guilt by using others as an excuse to feel bad about my self.

Haven't looked or even thought about it much since coming here and getting involved and talking with real people instead of obsessing about "virtual vixens" that mean nothing to me or I to them.

"The only addiction you can partake in by just thinking about it!" There's the clue to ridding yourself of it. There are so many more important and self-relevant things to be thinking of than the fleeting and not-really-very-satisfactory thrills of pornography!

(Thanks for that wonderful quote, Miss Petra!)