i just came to this subreddit after over year to see how things were going and saw this thread my ocd is 999 gone and i honestly forgot about this place   porn is something that will make your ocd much worse and not watching it will help with recovery immensely there is not a lot of science on it and it is definitely not understood by therapists  but it must do something to a persons brain chemistry for me not watching porn was instrumental in me making an almost complete recovery for example when i stopped watching porn i stopped biting my nails i did not try to stop it just happened my anxiety levels were cut in half within a week   it’s been over a year now and my life has never been better not watching porn helped pull me out of 5 years of ocd hell my life is completely normal now and i love it there are other things that helped as well but not watching porn was very important