Yes we all know how addictive porn can be. It’s even more important not to attribute to it power, that it doesn’t really have. Remember the actual withdrawal symptoms are mild: a restless feeling, an uncomfortable feeling of boredom or hunger. All the rest of the ”cravings” are created by our mental scripts, brainwashing, and rationalizations. Our mental bullshit is what makes quitting for good difficult! (easypeasymetho.org) If we don’t want to quit we are sold on a lie (marketing brainwashing). If we do want to quit, quit forever.
Would we rather have PIED, broken marriages, depleted sexual energy, brain disfunction, insecurities dating, insane ideas about sex and love? We need to remember porn only takes, it gives nothing, but illusion and addiction. For people who, like me, think it can make you feel better, or relieve stress, I’m going to say what you already know when you’re not in denial. The relief we think it is giving, is the relief we get from heroin or alcohol or ice cream. The cause of distress is still there and we put on a bandaid that makes the wound worse.