Almost to 20 days Particularly. How fast time flies!
As regards to the philosophical topic at hand, I don't think it's an either/or issue, and probably lies somewhere in between. I totally agree with everyone that it's a super stimulus, and that a lot us (most of us?) had no idea what we were getting into when first delving into it. But now that we do know, it's in our hands to take the necessary steps to utterly extirpate it from our lives, with no excuses. Which is why I fall somewhere naturally on the self-empowerment side of the argument, but that's also just my natural disposition in general.
My argument has always been, if you truly want to quit, it is completely in your power to do so - super stimulus be damned!
Part 1 is doing whatever is in your power (which is quite mighty!) to create an environment where porn is not an option: both mentally, environmentally and spiritually etc. Imagine you're in jail or lost in the woods without a computer, none of us would give a shit about porn and our stupid vacuous digital harems. And even if we did, what would we do, cry about it under a tree? Ha, no thanks! I knew a guy once who was in jail for 3 years and said that was his longest time (streak? lol) he had never looked at porn. How cool is that? Porn was not an option in jail, so that was that. But my point is, part 1 is creating an environment where porn is not an option, and doing whatever you must to get some distance between yourself and porn, 90 days is always a good number, but it's not the gospel. This does three things: it shows you have the will power to stop, no matter what your stupid brain tells you; 2, it will let you see how much better life is without porn; and 3, experiencing all the symptoms, flat lining etc. should scare the living hell out of you so as to never what to touch that shit again!
Part 2 is interesting and is where I'm at on this journey. Quitting porn for me is not very hard theses days, but it's the next step that I struggle with and trip up on once in a while. Now the question for me is, what things in my life make me go back to porn when the going gets rough? Sure, maybe this is where arguments of the super stimulus have some truth in them, once a neuropathway always a neuropathway right? And I would agree with this to some extent, but it's definitely more than that. For me, Part 2 is about fixing your life, and reconnecting to life, so as to move on from the fantasies of porn etc. I have come to the conclusion that this part is the hardest for me, because quitting porn for 3 months is a short term goal, but fixing your life, well that takes many years, and for someone like myself, thinking long term has never been easy.
Thus, recovery I would say, really does depend on complete self-empowerment and giving the middle finger to porn at all times - super stimulus matters not. First, during the reboot, and secondly, while you fix your life and learn how to deal with life on its own terms.
Well, that's my two cents!
Also, if anyone was wondering, the guy I mentioned who was in jail, went back to his old ways afterwards. Thus, my conclusion to all of this is: Part 1 can be easily enforced, either by society or yourself, and it does create "results;" However, part 2, takes many years of soul searching and asking, Why do I do the things I do?"