4.3 A pleasure or a crutch?
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An important reminder โ the main reason that users find it difficult to quit is due to the belief theyโre giving up a genuine pleasure or crutch. Itโs essential to understand that youโre giving up absolutely nothing whatsoever. The best way to understand the subtleties of the ๐๐๐๐ trap is comparing it with eating. The habit of regular meals causes us to not feel hungry between, only aware of hunger if the meal is delayed. Thereโs no physical pain, just an empty insecure feeling recognised as hunger. The process of satisfying our hunger is a very pleasant experience.
Pornography appears to be almost identical, but itโs not. Like hunger, thereโs no physical pain and the reward mechanism behaves in similar ways, but itโs this similarity to eating that tricks the user into believing thereโs a genuine pleasure or crutch. Although eating and ๐๐๐๐ appear to be very similar, in reality theyโre exact opposites.
- You eat to survive and energise your life, whereas ๐๐๐๐ dims and cuts down your mojo.
- Food genuinely tastes good and eating is a genuinely pleasant experience that we enjoy throughout our lives. ๐ฏ๐๐๐ involves self-sabotaging the happiness receptors and thus destroys your chances to cope and feel happy.
- Eating doesnโt create hunger and genuinely relieves it, whereas the first ๐๐๐๐ session starts the craving for dopamine and each subsequent session. Far from relieving it, it ensures suffering for the rest of your life.
Is eating a habit? If you think so, try breaking it completely! To describe eating as habit would be like describing breathing as a habit โ both are essential for survival. Itโs true that people have the habit of satisfying their hunger at different times with varying types of food, but eating itself isnโt habit. Neither is ๐๐๐๐. The only reason a user fires up the browser is trying to end the empty feelings the previous session created, at different times with varying escalating genres.
On the internet, ๐๐๐๐ is frequently referred to as a habit and for convenience EasyPeasy also refers to the โhabitโ. However, be constantly aware that ๐๐๐๐ isnโt habit, itโs drug addiction! When we start to use ๐๐๐๐, we have to force ourselves to cope with it. Before we know it, weโre escalating into increasingly bizarre and shocking ๐๐๐๐. The thrill is in the hunting, not the killing, with dopamine rapidly leaving the body after orgasm, explaining why users want to โedgeโ (delaying orgasm) through flicking between multiple browser windows and tabs.