Chapter 12
Beware of Cutting Down
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Many users resort to cutting down as a stepping-stone towards stopping, or as an attempt to control the little monster. Many recommend cutting down or a βππππ dietβ as a pick-me-up. Using cutting down as a stepping stone to stopping is fatal. Itβs these attempts to cut down that keep us trapped for the remainder of our lives. Generally, cutting down follows failed attempts to stop. After a few hours or days of abstinence the user says something like:
βI canβt face the thought of going to sleep without visiting my online harem, so from now on Iβll just use ππππ once in four days or purge my collection of βbad ππππβ. If I can follow this ππππ diet, I can either hold it there or cut down even further.β
Certain terrible things now happen:
- Theyβre stuck with the worst of all worlds, still addicted to internet ππππ and keeping the monster alive not only in their body, but in their mind.
- Wishing their life away waiting for the next session.
- Prior to cutting down, whenever they wanted to visit their harem theyβd fire up their browser and at least partially relieve their withdrawal pangs. Now in addition to the normal stresses of life, theyβre causing themselves to suffer the withdrawal pangs for most of their lives, which makes them even more miserable and bad-tempered.
- Whilst indulging, they neither enjoyed most of the sessions nor realised they were using a supernormal stimulus. It was automatic, the only harem visit that was enjoyed was one after a period of abstinence. Now that they wait an extra hour for each harem visit, they βenjoyβ each one. The longer waited, the more βenjoyableβ each session appears to become, because the βenjoymentβ in a session isnβt the session itself β itβs the ending of the agitation caused by the craving β whether slight physical craving or mental moping. The longer the suffering, the more βenjoyableβ each session becomes.
The primary difficulty in stopping isnβt the neurological addiction, which is easy. Users will stop without difficulty on various occasions β the death of a loved one, family or work affairs, etc. Theyβll go, say, ten days without access and it doesnβt bother them. But if they went the same ten days when they couldβve had access to ππππ, theyβd be tearing their hair out.
Many users will get chances during their work day and abstain, or theyβll pass through Victoriaβs Secret or swimming pools and so on without undue inconvenience. Many will abstain if they have to sleep on the couch temporarily to make space for a visitor, or are themselves visiting. Even in Go-Go bars or nudist beaches there have been no riots. Users are almost pleased for someone or something to say they cannot view ππππ. In fact, users who want to quit get a secret pleasure out of going for long periods without harem visits, giving them hope that perhaps one day theyβll never want it.
The real problem when stopping is brainwashing, an illusion of entitlement that internet ππππ is some sort of prop or reward and life will never be the same without it. Far from turning you off internet ππππ, all that cutting down accomplishes is leaving you feeling insecure and miserable, convincing you that the most precious thing on this earth is the new clip you missed, that thereβs no way youβll be happy again without seeing it.
There is nothing more pathetic than the user whoβs been trying to cut down, suffering from the delusion that the less ππππ they watch, the less theyβll want to visit their online harem. The reverse is true β the less they watch ππππ, the longer they suffer withdrawal pangs and the more they βenjoyβ the relief of relieving them. However, theyβll notice their favourite genre isnβt hitting the spot. But that wonβt stop them: if the tube sites were dedicated to only one star or one genre, no user would ever go more than once.
Difficult to believe? Whatβs the worst moment of self-control one feels? Waiting for four days and then having a climax. Then, whatβs the most precious moment for most users on a four-day ππππ diet? Thatβs right, the same climax after waiting for four days! Do you really believe that youβre masturbating to enjoy the orgasm, or the more rational explanation that you need to relieve withdrawal pangs under the illusion that youβre entitled to?
Removal of the brainwashing is essential to remove illusions about ππππ before you extinguish that final session. Unless youβve removed the illusion that you enjoy it before you close that window, thereβs no way you can prove it afterwards without getting hooked again. When hovering over bookmarks and saved pictures, ask yourself where the glory in this action is. Perhaps you believe that only certain clips are of good taste, like ones on habitual or favourite themes. If so, why bother to watch other videos or themes? Because you got into the habit? Why would anyone habitually mess up their brain and waste themselves? Nothing is different after a month, so why should a ππππ clip be any different?
You can test this yourself. Find that hot clip from last month to prove itβs different. Then, set a reminder and watch the same clip after a month without ππππ. It will hit (almost) the same spots as it did last month. The same clip will be different after a social event where youβre turned down or tested by a potential partner. The reason being that the addict can never be fully happy if the little monster remains unsatisfied.
Where does satisfaction come into it? Itβs just that theyβre miserable if they canβt relieve their withdrawal symptoms. The difference between watching ππππ and not is the difference between being happy and miserable. Thatβs why internet ππππ appears to be better. Users who get on their sites first thing in the morning for ππππ are miserable whether watching it or not.
Cutting down not only doesnβt work, but is the worst form of torture. It doesnβt work because initially the user hopes that by getting into the habit less and less, theyβll reduce their desire to watch ππππ. Itβs not a habit, itβs addiction. The nature of any addiction is wanting more and more, not less and less. Therefore in order to cut down, the user has to exercise willpower and discipline for the rest of their lives. So, cutting down means willpower and discipline forever. Stopping is far easier and less painful; there are literally tens of thousands of cases in which cutting down has failed.
The problem of stopping isnβt the dopamine addiction, which is easy to cope with. Itβs the mistaken belief that ππππ gives you pleasure, brought about initially by brainwashing received before we started using, further reinforced by the actual addiction. All cutting down does is reinforce the fallacy further, to the extent that ππππ dominates their lives completely and convinces them that the most precious thing on earth is their addiction.
The handful of cases that do succeed have been achieved by a relatively short period of cutting down, followed by going βcold turkeyβ. These users stopped in spite of cutting down, not because of it. All it did was prolong the agony, failed attempts leaving users nervous wrecks and even more convinced theyβre hooked for life. This is usually enough to keep them reverting back to their online harem for pleasure and crutch, or at least for another stretch before the next attempt.
However, cutting down does help to illustrate the futility of ππππ, clearly demonstrating that visits to the harem are not enjoyable after periods of abstinence. You have to bang your head against a brick wall (suffer withdrawal pangs) in order to make it nice upon stopping. Therefore, the choices are:
- Cutting down for life and suffering self-imposed torture, which youβll be unable to do anyway.
- Increasingly torturing yourself for life, which is pointless.
- Being nice to yourself, and cutting ππππ out altogether.
The other aspect that cutting down demonstrates is that thereβs no such thing as the odd or occasional harem visit. Internet ππππ is a chain reaction that will last the rest of your life unless you make a positive effort to break it.
Remember: Cutting down will drag you down.