r/stopporn

I have come so far in 17 days, and still have further to go. It was long past time to surgically remove all of this cancer from my life.​

I already feel more free, less nervous, and more honest than I have in years.

This is worth it! Start today and never go back to that old life!​

Seriously. How many things are you not doing because when it comes down to it the worst you'll get, recieve, experience, is a bad feeling.

Trust yourself take a chance and it "blows up", what's the worst that'll happen, you'll experience negative feelings?

Fear of feelings keeps people living so small, it's INSANE!!

You have one only one, one and EXACTLY ONE LIFE!

If you don't want to lean in and take a chance when will you?

Maybe never and that's ok, that's a choice. I get it, i've given up on life so many times.

I remember my brain could go a bit like "websites are porn but short clips on reddit aren't. Sexual stories aren't really porn. OF scrolling isn't reeeeally porn. Bikini pics on insta definitely not porn."

So i quit the obvious porn and felt like I was clean (doing this properly at least). But then I quickly realized I wasn't and the addiction was just rerouting through whatever loophole that was open, and there were a lot of them.... our brains are great at doing this

So I developed a special test (lol): is this objectification?

Not really developed anything but I stopped asking "is this technically porn?" or "is this on a porn site?" and switched to: am I reducing a person to a body for my own use right now? Or simpler: is this objectification?

>If yes, ditch it. Doesn't matter what platform, what format, how "soft" it is. Same loop, same wiring, same s***.

And so far no false positives haha. The addiction can't argue its way around it the way it can with "well technically this isn't porn."