Self Control

Does regular self-control affect problematic porn use?

Briken2020

By contrast, problems with sexual self-control (which do not imply general self-control problems) have had a substantial effect on the lives of many people seeking treatment. [...] A 2019 study found that compulsivity and, more strongly, impulsivity are both related to out-of-control sexual behaviours [Bothe et al., 2018].

Bothe2018 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00224499.2018.1480744

Results indicated that impulsivity and compulsivity were weakly related to problematic pornography use among men and women, respectively.

Impulsivity had a stronger relationship with hypersexuality than did compulsivity among men and women, respectively.

Consequently, impulsivity and compulsivity may not contribute as substantially to problematic pornography use as some scholars have proposed.

On the other hand, impulsivity might have a more prominent role in hypersexuality than in problematic pornography use.

Prause2016:

those reporting more problems with viewing sexual images actually have better control over their sexual response [refering to Prause2015] (replicated by Moholy, Prause, Proudfit, Rahman, & Fong, 2015; first study by Winters, Christoff, & Gorzalka, 2009).