No Porn Challenge

Thanks to this post and this post by Tom at Three Spelling Mistakes (a blog I've just started following), I've decided to try giving up porn for 30 days, starting today (March 13.) Unlike Tom, I'm going to continue reading all my favorite blogs, and if there are any nekkid pictures on them I'll try my best to ignore them. I've had some of the problems mentioned by people experiencing porn addiction, and it will be interesting to see if a sabbatical will make a difference.

I've asked if he intends to stop masturbating during this time, and he hasn't answered yet, but I don't think I'll stop. My opportunities come few and far between as it is, so when I have a chance I'm going to jerk off. I'll just use mental stimulation, which will be harder (no pun intended) but maybe that's the point.

Of course I'll still write here, and many of my posts will be of a sexual nature, but I don't think that will be cheating. Would posting pictures of my dick be considered "porn" for me?. I mean, I don't get turned on by seeing pictures of my own junk, but it does arouse me to think about others seeing my dick and being aroused by it.

I don't know if I should tell my wife I'm giving it up for a month or not. If I don't, she's going to be beside me on the couch looking at her favorite porn, which I will undoubtedly see. But if I do tell her, she's going to wonder just how much porn have I been looking at that I think I might be addicted (she'd be truly surprised). I think I will have to tell her, but I'll probably wait until the first time she's trying to get me to look at something she's [stumbled on].

Well, I'll give semi-regular progress reports on how it's going. It'll be weird, like not having the TV on for background noise while I'm reading or something. But it might do me some good, too.