Hi guys,
I had an interesting thought this morning that I wanted to share with you. I created a “porn scale” that classifies porn categories by seriousness. I think we should all have a look at it and see at what level we were before we started the NoFap journey. Maybe people who are still addicted could try to climb the ladder, going from hardcore porn to soft, and then abstinence. Whatever, here’s the scale:
level 0: Abstinence
Soft Porn category
level -1: looking beautiful people with lust, IRL or in photos
level -2: looking suggestive photos of sexually attractive people with lust, includes seeing pictures of women in bikini, swimsuits or “sexy” outfits. For women using this scale, this level would also include looking photos of bare-chested men or men in underwear/swimming trunks.
level -3: watching nudes pictures or videos, but no sex
Mild porn category
level -4: watching photos or videos of people masturbating, no sex
level -5: watching “regular” porn, featuring 2 or more people having any form of sex, but without violence or humiliation of men/women
level -6: watching gay, lesbian, LGBT or any kind of transgender or TG content. This includes photos, videos, comics or any kind of material, but without violence or humiliation.
Hardcore porn category
level -7: watching any kind of zoophilic content, featuring people and animals having sex, but without violence. Also includes content considering people as animals.
level -8: watching any kind of “object” porn. This includes content considering people as objects (strong humiliation, shaming), or even watching objects for self-pleasure, or people transforming into objects (yes this actually exists).
Extreme porn category
note: These types of porn are ILLEGAL and can lead you to illegality, prison or fines.
level -9: Any kind of porn featuring paedophilia, meaning sex scenes including children under 16.
level -10: Any kind of porn featuring violence or extreme violence, blood, scatophilia, dead bodies, sex slaves, mutilation, murder or suicide. This is the most extreme type of porn.
Important notice:
This scale can adapt to gay/lesbian people. You would simply need to switch around the gay/lesbian porn level with the “regular” porn level. However, all transgender or TG content would stay at the same level, unless you are a transgender yourself. In that case, you would have to switch it around with “regular” porn, but leaving the gay/lesbian porn at its original level. In case you are bisexual, you would have to put the gay/lesbian content at the same level as “regular” porn, but leave TG content at its original level. If you recognise yourself as a memeber of one of these categories and don’t agree with me, please tell me how I could change the scale for you, I have very few experience in this domain. If you are part of a community that is not represented here, please tell me about it and how it could be adapted for you. This system has the vocation of being useful for every type of person, without discrimination.
Do you agree with my scale? Where were you before starting NoFap? Maybe you have different opinions on certain porn types, depending on your religion or origin? Please let me know, feedback is very important. I hope this scale will help many people understand more clearly at what point they are addicted to porn and how to get out of it.
Good luck to all of you