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Blocking, honesty, and rebuilding trust without shame.

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Sex and intimacy after stopping porn

Realistic expectations for desire, erections and intimacy after you stop, an honest account of what the evidence does and does not say, and the point at which this is a GP appointment.

7 min read · 19 Sept 2026

Repairing trust after porn use

Three things that actually rebuild trust after a partner finds out, the one habit that quietly undoes all of them, and why your partner needs support that isn't you.

7 min read · 17 Sept 2026

SAA, SLAA or therapy

What each of the main fellowships actually believes about sobriety, what therapy has evidence for, and how to check a UK practitioner before you pay them anything.

7 min read · 14 Sept 2026

Escalation, and why it stops working

What the research has actually measured about escalating use, why what you look for is not a verdict on who you are, and the one category where that reassurance does not apply.

7 min read · 12 Sept 2026

You watched again. What now?

The hour after matters more than the episode did. How to break the shame loop that produces the next one, and the single question worth asking tonight.

6 min read · 10 Sept 2026

When do you reach for porn?

A one-week log that takes ninety seconds a day and finds the feeling underneath the habit, not just the hour it happens in.

6 min read · 7 Sept 2026

The first two weeks without porn

What the first fortnight is realistically like, which of the widely repeated effects have research behind them, and which ones are forum folklore with a confident voice.

7 min read · 5 Sept 2026

Telling your partner about porn

How to decide what to disclose and when, why a slow drip of revelations does more damage than one hard conversation, and what support both of you need in place first.

7 min read · 3 Sept 2026

Blocking porn on every device

Phone, laptop, browser, router and accountability software, layer by layer, plus an honest account of where every one of them leaks.

7 min read · 31 Aug 2026

Getting through the urge without watching

A ten-minute routine for the moment the urge is already here: change the room, change the body, tell one person, and let the wave do what waves do.

6 min read · 29 Aug 2026

Is my porn use a problem?

Frequency is not the measure. A plain self-check that separates distress caused by what you do from distress caused by what you believe about it, and what to do with either answer.

6 min read · 27 Aug 2026

How to stop using porn

Device friction you set up tonight, one person who knows, and an honest account of what therapy and the fellowships in the UK actually offer.

7 min read · 24 Aug 2026

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