Counseling and Bodywork around Pornography and Porn Addiction
Are you wondering whether your use of pornography might be having a negative impact on your sexuality?
With my sex counseling and Sexological Bodywork sessions, I support you to consciously explore your relationship to porn. Topics around pornography and porn addiction are a main focus of my practice.
When we start worrying about using porn
For many people, regular consumption of pornography is accompanied by vague worries. Perhaps after self-pleasuring to porn, you’re left not with a sense of satisfaction, but with a dull emptiness or a longing for more “real” and lived sexuality. Maybe there’s a fear of becoming desensitized by porn, of being less easily aroused—mentally or physically.
Perhaps the craving for porn becomes most noticeable exactly when life is throwing up other challenges (as a form of compensation). People of all genders can experience a moral conflict when the content that causes arousal doesn’t align with their personal values.
Porn is consumed, but it leaves a lingering sense that something about it just isn’t quite right.
For some, porn consumption is also connected with deeper challenges such as erectile difficulties, trouble reaching orgasm, lack of libido, depression, social anxiety, or addictive-like behavior. Movements like NoFap have rightly brought the topic of porn addiction into the public conversation—though they often fall short in many ways.
Book an appointmentPornography reflects our needs
We shouldn’t condemn pornography across the board. There are genuinely good reasons to watch it! Porn provides us with easy, efficient access to sexual arousal. It connects us to our eroticism, to pleasure and desire. It allows us to explore our sexual curiosities.
Maybe porn offers us a kind of sexuality that we’re missing in our relationships or dating lives. Maybe it helps us experience high levels of intensity and fulfill our need to experience ourselves deeply. Or maybe it’s just a convenient and easy way to treat ourselves after a stressful day.
Pornography on a Path to Sexual Growth
Especially in the tension between pleasure and doubt, pornography can become a valuable starting point for deepening our relationship with our sexuality. Possible areas to explore include:
- Mindful porn consumption. Rediscovering self-pleasure without the empty aftertaste.
- Abstinence or reduction. Finding your own conscious, self-directed experience.
- Pleasure training & active rewiring. Proactively discovering new ways to enjoy yourself without porn.
- Mindfulness and meditation. Moving from mental imagery to the here and now.
- Leaving isolation. Talking about your porn use to not be alone with it for once.
- Exploring sexual fantasies. Understanding the treasure of your turn-ons.
My Offer: Sex Counseling and Sexological Bodywork in Berlin & online
In our sessions, we can explore how your sexuality can grow within your relationship to pornography. In sex counseling, we stay in dialogue, while in Sexological Bodywork, we can also create embodied learning experiences.
I meet you with a sex-positive approach that highly values your pleasure in sexuality and pornography.
Sessions are available in 10247 Berlin-Friedrichshain or online. I’m happy to offer a free phone call to explore whether and how I can support you with your concerns.