What downside(s) did you experience, that led you to want to give it up?
From an outsider’s perspective, I’m wondering why spending time watching porn is ultimately much different from time spent with any other sedentary pastime?
From an outsider’s perspective, I’m wondering why spending time watching porn is ultimately much different from time spent with any other sedentary pastime?
You could argue the same about entertainment. But seeking it is not a prime directive on an organic level opposed to reproduction.
Some people can’t control this and become wildly obese, but others eat ice cream, understand what it is, and get on with their life.
You need to eat to not die before you need sex.
What I mean is that sex is easier to reach for than food when a person is bored.
Just like heroin is more potent than aspirin.
Also it has been proven that both sex and heroin stimulate pleasure parts of the brain.
Ever notice how folks have sex less frequently when they're in relationships and as they grow older? Where the opportunities for sex exist in multitudes? Yet they never stop eating. You can live without sex, you can't live without food. The drive for the two are not comparable.
But porn is easier...
As far as why right then ended up being the time, it's hard to say. I think maybe it was that I made it more about improving myself as a whole rather than rooting out some insidious evil. More of a picking something off my bucket list and doing it.
Did it make me better? IDK, I still find other ways to slack off when I can. But I definitely feel better when I think about it. Much more than I'd expected to. And very possibly it's just some air of a superiority complex above my former self. Which is a stupid reason, but who cares: I'd assume in most people's view it's a positive to at-worst-neutral turn whatever the reason. And of course it's nice to know that I'll never have to worry about getting caught again.