Many people see porn as an exploitative and harmful industry for women, which is wrong again - porn gives many performers, women included, the ability to control their finances, set their schedules, raise children, and live comfortable lives. are official businesses that verify performer ages. This is false - most of the industry is regulated and most production companies in the U.S. For various reasons (thanks to various smear campaigns and moralistic sex panics) people everywhere seem to think porn is mostly populated with underage, trafficked minors. The porn industry gets trashed in public discourse, especially in mental health discourse. You need a therapist with whom you can share the unvarnished truth of your sexuality - your porn life included. I’m glad you have a therapist to work through your trauma with, and I hope you’re able to talk to your therapist about this as well. Your question doesn’t specify what things in porn trigger your trauma responses. There’s nothing wrong with liking sc*t porn - more and more people seem to be getting into it as its taboo (and the taboos of other kinks and fetishes) wanes in our internet age of total access to everything. I’m not certain if sc*t porn is what’s triggering you, or if it’s something else. Do you have any sort of advice? I really want to move forward in a more balanced way and feel good about myself, my sexuality, my kinkier side, and start getting actual connections and experiences somehow and become a well-rounded gay guy. I haven’t had that many sexual or emotional connections with other guys that I’ve really been interested in and it really hurts sometimes, so porn has kind of been an outlet for me to feel good and have some connection to my sexuality. At the same time though I want to enjoy porn more because currently, my life circumstances don’t allow me to connect with my sexuality at all (recent college grad, living at home with parents in the middle of a racist homophobic nowhere town). Now I still watch porn, but sometimes I get so worried that I’m gonna be triggered by something and spiral from that.

I’ve been seeing a therapist now and things have been much better. I’m a 22-year-old, gay, POC college grad. For some time now I’ve been really into sc*t porn/porn in general and lately, I’ve watched it more often than I care to admit but porn has become somewhat triggering for me at times after some memories of childhood trauma resurfaced and I’ve run into some crazy things online that I’ve had to report. Alexander Cheves is the author of the bestselling My Love Is a Beast: Confessions and runs the popular queer sex advice blog Love, Beastly where this post originally appeared.

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