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I don't think you have to go that far. Framing it as exclusively a spiritual issue, ironically, can encourage schizophrenic thinking. That's not to say the spiritual isn't relevant, but the malignant effects of porn can be literally stripped down to purely material explanations.
I was severely addicted for well over a decade since fairly early childhood. Like many, I kicked off the process of quitting it by entering through Christian channels. Prayer, baptism and church attendance, fasting, angels and demons, sin and consequence, etc.
I stayed completely stuck for two years, making no real progress. I would constantly vacillate between extreme motivation and crippling nervous breakdowns surrounding the notions of demonic influence and God's wrath. The religious framing ironically made porn even harder to abstain from, as it artificially infused it with the taboo of being a "forbidden fruit" beyond just being unhealthy.
I eventually burned out, and tossed the spiritual perspective out the window altogether. No more prayer, theology, or religious engagement of any kind. Broke down the pure biology of the addiction, and approached it as something that was hijacking my natural procreation instincts by design—which I wanted to eliminate purely for the purpose of self mastery.
As soon as I embraced this mindset, I was completely clean from porn within months, and remain as such to this day—well over a year later. And it was *easy.*
YMMV, but I think a lot of the religious hysteria around porn functions the same way AA does for people who use it as chronic identity scaffolding, when they could just stop drinking and get on with their lives.
I was severely addicted for well over a decade since fairly early childhood. Like many, I kicked off the process of quitting it by entering through Christian channels. Prayer, baptism and church attendance, fasting, angels and demons, sin and consequence, etc.
I stayed completely stuck for two years, making no real progress. I would constantly vacillate between extreme motivation and crippling nervous breakdowns surrounding the notions of demonic influence and God's wrath. The religious framing ironically made porn even harder to abstain from, as it artificially infused it with the taboo of being a "forbidden fruit" beyond just being unhealthy.
I eventually burned out, and tossed the spiritual perspective out the window altogether. No more prayer, theology, or religious engagement of any kind. Broke down the pure biology of the addiction, and approached it as something that was hijacking my natural procreation instincts by design—which I wanted to eliminate purely for the purpose of self mastery.
As soon as I embraced this mindset, I was completely clean from porn within months, and remain as such to this day—well over a year later. And it was *easy.*
YMMV, but I think a lot of the religious hysteria around porn functions the same way AA does for people who use it as chronic identity scaffolding, when they could just stop drinking and get on with their lives.