The Easy Peasy Way To Quit 𝖯𝗈𝗋𝗇

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4.2 The Annoying Alarm

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You know that feeling when a neighbour’s home alarm has been ringing all day — or some other minor persistent aggravation — then the noise suddenly stops and marvellous feelings of peace and tranquility wash over you? This isn’t really peace, but the ending of an aggravation. Before starting the next session our bodies are complete, but then we begin forcing our brains to pump dopamine and when we’re done and it begins to leave, we suffer withdrawal pangs. These aren’t physical pain, merely an empty feeling. We aren’t even aware it exists but it’s like a dripping tap inside our bodies.

Our rational minds don’t understand it, but they don’t need to. All we know is that we want 𝗉𝗈𝗋𝗇 and when we masturbate the craving goes. However, the satisfaction is fleeting because in order to relieve the craving more 𝗉𝗈𝗋𝗇 is required. As soon as you orgasm, the craving starts again and the trap continues to hold you. A feedback loop, unless you break it!

The 𝗉𝗈𝗋𝗇 trap is similar to wearing tight shoes just to obtain the pleasure of taking them off. There are three primary reasons why users can’t see it this way.

1. From birth, we’ve been subjected to massive amounts of brainwashing telling us internet 𝗉𝗈𝗋𝗇 is simply another modern development that replaced the print version of 𝗉𝗈𝗋𝗇. This fallacy is packaged with the truth that masturbation isn’t harmful, so why shouldn’t we believe them?
2. Because physical dopamine withdrawal involves no actual pain, merely an empty insecure feeling inseparable from hunger and normal stress, this feeling manifests into a 𝗉𝗈𝗋𝗇 session as those are the very times we tend to seek internet 𝗉𝗈𝗋𝗇. We tend to regard this feeling as normal.
3. However, the primary reason users fail to see internet 𝗉𝗈𝗋𝗇 in its true light is due to it working back to front. It’s when you’re not consuming it that you suffer the empty feeling. Because the process of getting hooked is incredibly subtle and gradual in the early days, the empty feeling is regarded as normal and so isn’t blamed on the previous session. The moment the browser is fired up and you begin your session, you get an immediate boost and become less nervous or more relaxed, so internet 𝗉𝗈𝗋𝗇 gets the credit.

This ‘back to front’ reverse process makes all drugs difficult to kick. Imagine the state of panic of a heroin addict without any heroin; now picture their utter joy when they can finally plunge a needle into their vein. People who aren’t addicted to heroin don’t suffer that panicked feeling.

The heroin doesn’t relieve the feeling, it causes it. Similarly, non-users don’t suffer empty feelings of needing internet 𝗉𝗈𝗋𝗇, or panic when they’re offline. Non-users can’t understand how users possibly obtain pleasure from two-dimensional videos with muted sounds and abnormal body proportions. Eventually, users can’t understand either.

We talk about internet 𝗉𝗈𝗋𝗇 being relaxing or satisfying, but how can you be satisfied unless you were dissatisfied in the first place? A non-user doesn’t suffer from this unsatisfied state, completely relaxed after a no-sex date, while the user isn’t until they’ve satisfied their ‘little monster’.

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4.3 A pleasure or a crutch?

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An important reminder — the main reason that users find it difficult to quit is due to the belief they’re giving up a genuine pleasure or crutch. It’s essential to understand that you’re giving up absolutely nothing whatsoever. The best way to understand the subtleties of the 𝗉𝗈𝗋𝗇 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. There’s 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 it’s not. Like hunger, there’s no physical pain and the reward mechanism behaves in similar ways, but it’s this similarity to eating that tricks the user into believing there’s a genuine pleasure or crutch. Although eating and 𝗉𝗈𝗋𝗇 appear to be very similar, in reality they’re exact opposites.

• You eat to survive and energise your life, whereas 𝗉𝗈𝗋𝗇 dims and cuts down your mojo.
• Food genuinely tastes good and eating is a genuinely pleasant experience that we enjoy throughout our lives. 𝖯𝗈𝗋𝗇 involves self-sabotaging the happiness receptors and thus destroys your chances to cope and feel happy.
• Eating doesn’t create hunger and genuinely relieves it, whereas the first 𝗉𝗈𝗋𝗇 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 — both are essential for survival. It’s true that people have the habit of satisfying their hunger at different times with varying types of food, but eating itself isn’t habit. Neither is 𝗉𝗈𝗋𝗇. 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, 𝗉𝗈𝗋𝗇 is frequently referred to as a habit and for convenience EasyPeasy also refers to the ‘habit’. However, be constantly aware that 𝗉𝗈𝗋𝗇 isn’t habit, it’s drug addiction! When we start to use 𝗉𝗈𝗋𝗇, we have to force ourselves to cope with it. Before we know it, we’re escalating into increasingly bizarre and shocking 𝗉𝗈𝗋𝗇. The thrill is in the hunting, not the killing, with dopamine rapidly leaving the body after orgasm, explaining why users want to ‘edge’ (delaying orgasm) through flicking between multiple browser windows and tabs.

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4.4 Crossing the red line

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As with any other drug, the body tends to develop immunity to the effects of the same old clips, our brain wanting more or something else. After short periods of watching the same clip it ceases to completely relieve the withdrawal pangs that the previous session created. There’s a tug of war occurring in this 𝗉𝗈𝗋𝗇 paradise: you want to stay on the safe side of your ‘red line’, but your brain is asking you to click on the forbidden-fruit clip.

You feel better after engaging in this 𝗉𝗈𝗋𝗇 session, but you’re more nervous and less relaxed than someone who never started, even though you’re living in a supposed 𝗉𝗈𝗋𝗇 paradise. This position is even more ridiculous than wearing tight shoes because as you go through life an ever-increasing amount of discomfort remains after taking the shoes off. Because the user knows the little monster has to be fed, they themselves decide the time, which tends to be on four types of occasions or a combination of them:

Boredom / Concentration — Two complete opposites!
Stress / Relaxation — Two complete opposites!

What magic drug can suddenly reverse the very effect it had minutes before? The truth is that 𝗉𝗈𝗋𝗇 neither relieves boredom and stress nor promotes concentration and relaxation. If you think about it, what other types of occasions are there in our lives, bar sleep? If you have ideas of toning down to other types of ‘realistic’ or ‘soft’ genres of 𝗉𝗈𝗋𝗇, please note that the content of this book applies to all 𝗉𝗈𝗋𝗇 — print, webcams, pay-per-view, chat, live shows, etc. The human body is the most sophisticated object on the planet, but no species, even the lowest amoeba or worm, survives without knowing the difference between food and poison.

Through natural selection our minds and bodies have developed techniques for rewarding actions that multiply and sustain humanity. They’re not prepared for supernormal stimuli that are bigger, brighter and edgier than anything found in nature, since even the most muted two-dimensional image causes us to become aroused. But repeatedly look at the same image and you won’t be. In real life, checks and balances ensure you do something else but internet 𝗉𝗈𝗋𝗇 has no such limiter, causing you to spend your life in a virtual harem!

It’s a fallacy that physically and mentally weak people become users, the lucky ones being those who found their first instance repulsive and are cured for life. Alternatively, they aren’t mentally prepared to go through the severe learning process of fighting to get themselves hooked, fears of ‘getting caught’ or not being technical enough to operate browser privacy settings. Perhaps the most tragic part of the whole business relates to teenagers — skilled in finding material and covering their tracks — who start in increasing number.

Enjoying internet 𝗉𝗈𝗋𝗇 is an illusion. Jumping from genre to genre, merely keeping our novelty ‘monkey’ within the ‘red line’ of ‘safe’ 𝗉𝗈𝗋𝗇 genres in order to get our dopamine fix. Like heroin addicts, all they’re really enjoying is the ritual of relieving those pangs.

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4.5 The High From the Dance Around The Red Line

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Even with the one clip that’s lingered on, users constantly teach themselves to filter out the bad and ugly portions of 𝗉𝗈𝗋𝗇 clips. Even if it’s solo, they still filter on the body parts that appeal to them the most. In fact, some take pleasure in this dance around the red line, finding excuses to declare they like the ‘soft stuff’ and are unaddicted to supernormal stimuli. But ask a user who believes they stick to a certain actor or genre, “If you cannot get your normal brand of 𝗉𝗈𝗋𝗇 and can only obtain an unsafe genre, do you stop masturbating?”

No way! A user will masturbate to anything, escalating genres, differences in sex orientation, look-alike performers, dangerous settings, shocking relationships, anything to sate the little monster. To begin with they taste awful, but given enough time you’ll learn to enjoy them. Users will seek empty fulfillment after having real sex, after a long work day, fever, colds, flu, sore throats and even during admittance in hospitals.

Enjoyment has nothing to do with it; if sex is wanted, it makes no sense to be with your laptop. Some users find it alarming to realise they’re drug addicts and believe this will make it even more difficult to stop. In fact, this is good news for two important reasons.

1. The reason why most continue using is because although we know the disadvantages far outweigh the advantages, we believe there’s something in 𝗉𝗈𝗋𝗇 that we actually enjoy or that it acts like some sort of prop. We’re under the illusion that after we stop using there will be a void, certain situations in our lives never being quite the same. In fact 𝗉𝗈𝗋𝗇 not only provides nothing, it subtracts.
2. Although internet 𝗉𝗈𝗋𝗇 is the most powerful trigger for novelty and sex-based dopamine-flooding, because of the speed you become hooked, you’re never badly hooked. The actual withdrawal pangs are so mild that most users have lived and died without realising they’ve suffered them.

Why is it then that many users find it so difficult to stop, going through months of torture and spending the rest of their lives pining for it at odd times? The answer is the second reason, brainwashing. The neurotransmitter addiction is easy to cope with, most users going for days without online 𝗉𝗈𝗋𝗇 on business trips or travel, unaffected by withdrawal pangs. Their little monster is safe in the knowledge you’ll open your laptop as soon as you return to your hotel room. You can survive your obnoxious client and your megalomaniac manager, knowing the fix is there for your taking.

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4.6 The Smokers Analogy

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A good analogy is that of the cigarette smoker. If they went ten hours of the day without a cigarette they’d be tearing their hair out, but many smokers will buy a new car and refrain from smoking in it. Many will visit theatres, supermarkets, churches and being unable to smoke causes them no problems. Even on trains and airplanes there have been no riots. Smokers are almost pleased for someone or something to stop them smoking.

Users will automatically refrain from using internet 𝗉𝗈𝗋𝗇 in their parents’ home during family gatherings and other events with little discomfort. In fact, most users have extended periods during which they abstain without effort. The neurological little monster is easy to cope with even when you’re still addicted. There are millions of users who remain casual users all their lives and they’re just as addicted as the heavy user. There are even heavy users who’ve kicked the addiction but have an occasional peek, greasing the water slide to be ridden down at the next dip in mood.

As said previously the actual 𝗉𝗈𝗋𝗇 addiction isn’t the main problem, it’s simply acting as a catalyst to keeping our minds confused over the real problem – brainwashing. Don’t think the bad effects of internet 𝗉𝗈𝗋𝗇 are exaggerated, however; if anything, they’re sadly understated. Occasionally, rumours circulate that the neural pathways created are there for life, with the right mix of chance and stimulus sending you down the life-ruining water slide again, but these are untrue. Our brains and bodies are miraculous machines, recovering within a matter of weeks.

It’s never too late to stop! A quick browse of online communities will show you people of all ages rebooting their (and their partner’s) lives. As with anything, some do take it to the next level, practicing semen retention, Karezza and through differentiation of the sensory and propagative sides of sex make their partners happier than ever before.

It may be of consolation to lifelong and heavy users that it’s just as easy for them to stop as casual users, and in a peculiar way it’s easier. The further it drags you down, the greater the relief. When I stopped I went straight to zero and didn’t have one bad pang. In fact, the process was actually enjoyable even during the withdrawal period.

But first, we must remove the brainwashing.

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Summarization 4

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4.0 Internet 𝗉𝗈𝗋𝗇 and Dopamine:

• Internet 𝗉𝗈𝗋𝗇 exploits natural reward mechanisms, prolonging dopamine production and triggering the Coolidge effect.
• Dopamine release is linked to novelty, leading to a flood in the limbic system and reinforcing neural pathways.

4.1 The Little Monster:

• Users often overlook being addicted to 𝗉𝗈𝗋𝗇 due to subtle chemical withdrawal, manifesting as an empty, restless feeling.
• Dopamine supplied during a session temporarily satisfies cravings, but the cycle continues, trapping users.

4.2 The Annoying Alarm:

• Withdrawal pangs are likened to an annoying alarm, and users find momentary relief in 𝗉𝗈𝗋𝗇 sessions.
• The satisfaction is short-lived, and the cycle perpetuates, creating a feedback loop.

4.3 A Pleasure or a Crutch?:

• Users mistakenly perceive 𝗉𝗈𝗋𝗇 as a genuine pleasure or crutch, but it’s emphasized that they give up nothing by quitting.
• A comparison is drawn between eating and 𝗉𝗈𝗋𝗇, highlighting the destructive nature of 𝗉𝗈𝗋𝗇.

4.4 Crossing the Red Line:

• The trap of 𝗉𝗈𝗋𝗇 involves escalating genres, and users seek fulfillment despite knowing its disadvantages.
• The illusory enjoyment of 𝗉𝗈𝗋𝗇 is explored, emphasizing that users are hooked on the ritual more than the content.

4.5 The High From the Dance Around The Red Line:

• Users filter out negative aspects of 𝗉𝗈𝗋𝗇 clips, even finding pleasure in the dance around the ‘red line.’
• 𝗉𝗈𝗋𝗇 addiction is highlighted as a form of brainwashing, leading users to believe they gain something from it.

4.6 The Smokers Analogy:

• A comparison is made to cigarette smokers, noting that users can refrain from 𝗉𝗈𝗋𝗇 in specific situations without discomfort.
• The addiction’s neurological aspect is manageable, even for casual users, but brainwashing remains the core issue.

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Chapter 5

Brainwashing

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This is the second reason we start using. Understanding this brainwashing fully required us to first examine the powerful effects of supernormal stimulus. Our brains simply aren’t prepared for the creation of an ‘online harem’, allowing us to flick between more potential mates in fifteen minutes than our ancestors had in several lifetimes.

There’s been much misguided advice in the past, one example being that masturbation leads to blindness. This, along with other scare tactics, clearly overdid it. Misconceptions such as these were right to be overthrown by science. But the baby has been thrown out with the bath water; from our earliest years our subconscious minds are bombarded with sexual messages and imagery, magazines and advertisements loaded with innuendo. Some pop videos are extremely suggestive, but don’t despair, make it a game to identify what components they’re using — is it shock value, novelty, colour, size, taboo, nostalgia, etc. Such a game can even be taught to pre-teens as a way to educate them.

At its core, the message is “The most precious thing on this earth, my last thought and action, will be orgasm.” Is this exaggeration? Watch any TV or movie plot and you’ll see the mix up of the sensory (touch, smell, voice) and the propagative (orgasmic) parts of sex. The impact of this doesn’t register on our conscious, but the subconscious has time to absorb it.

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5.1 Scientific reasoning

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There’s publicity the other way: sexual dysfunction scares, loss of motivation, preferring virtual 𝗉𝗈𝗋𝗇 to real girls, YourBrainOnPorn.com and various internet subcultures, but these movements don’t actually stop people from using. Logically speaking they should, but the simple fact is they don’t. Even the health risks listed from peer-reviewed studies on YourBrainOnPorn.com aren’t enough to stop an adolescent from starting.

Ironically, the most powerful force in this confusion is the user themselves. It’s a fallacy that users are weak-willed or physically weak people. You have to be physically strong in order to cope with an addiction after you know it exists. Perhaps the most painful aspect is that they place themselves as unsuccessful losers and insufferable introverts. It’s likely that a friend could be more interesting in person if they hadn’t put themselves down for seeking self-pleasure.

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5.2 Problems using willpower

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Users quitting using the willpower method blame their own lack of willpower and ruin their peace and happiness. It’s one thing to fail in self-discipline and another to self-loathe. After all, there’s no law that requires you to be hard all the time before sex, properly aroused and able to satisfy your partner. We’re working on an addiction, not a habit and at no point do you argue with yourself to stop a habit like golfing, but to do the same with 𝗉𝗈𝗋𝗇 addiction is normalised — why?

Constant exposure to a supernormal stimulus rewires your brain, so building a resistance to this brainwashing is critical, as if buying a car from a second hand car dealer — nodding politely but not believing a word the man is saying. So don’t believe that you must have as much sex as you can, all of it being exceptionally good, using 𝗉𝗈𝗋𝗇 in its absence.

Don’t play the safe 𝗉𝗈𝗋𝗇 game either; your little monster invented that game to lure you. Is amateur 𝗉𝗈𝗋𝗇 certified by some authority? 𝖯𝗈𝗋𝗇 sites gather data from their users and use it to cater to their needs, and if they see an uptick in a certain category they’ll focus on it and get content out ASAP. Don’t be fooled by educational intent or ‘safe’ female-marketed clips. Start asking yourself: “Why am I doing it? Do I really need to?”

No, of course you don’t!

Most users swear that they only watch static and soft 𝗉𝗈𝗋𝗇 and therefore are fine, when in actuality they’re straining at the leash, fighting with their willpower to resist temptations. If done too often and for too long, this depletes their willpower considerably and they begin failing in other life projects where willpower is of great value, like exercise, dieting, etc. Failure in these areas makes them feel miserable and guilty, cascading into using pornography again. If this isn’t done, they’ll vent their anger and depression onto loved ones.

Once you become addicted to internet 𝗉𝗈𝗋𝗇, the brainwashing is increased. Your subconscious mind knows the little monster has to be fed, blocking everything else. It’s fear that keeps people from quitting, fear of that empty, insecure feeling they get when they stop flooding their brains with dopamine. Just because you’re unaware of it doesn’t mean it’s not there. You don’t have to understand it any more than a cat needs to understand where the hot water pipes are: the cat just knows that if it sits in a certain spot it feels warm.

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5.3 Passivity

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The passivity of our minds and dependence on authority leading to brainwashing is the primary difficulty of giving up 𝗉𝗈𝗋𝗇. Our upbringing in society, reinforced by the brainwashing of our own addiction and combined with the most powerful - our friends, relatives and colleagues. The phrase ‘giving up’ is a classic example of the brainwashing, implying genuine sacrifice. The beautiful truth is there’s nothing to give up; on the contrary, you’ll be freeing yourself from a terrible disease and achieving marvellous positive gains. We’ll begin removing this brainwashing now, starting with no longer referring to ‘giving up’ but to stopping, quitting or perhaps the true position, escaping!

The only thing that persuades us to use initially is other people doing it and feeling that we’re missing out. We work hard to become hooked, yet we never find what they’ve been missing. Every time we see another clip it reassures us there must be something in it, otherwise people wouldn’t be doing it and the business wouldn’t be so big. Even when they kick the habit, the ex-user feels they’re being deprived when a discussion on a sxy entertainer, singer or even a 𝗉𝗈𝗋𝗇 star comes up during parties or social functions. “They must be good if all my friends talk about them, right? Do they have free pictures online?” They feel safe, they’ll just have one peek tonight and before they know it, they’re hooked again.

The brainwashing is extremely powerful and you need to be aware of its effects. Technology continues to grow and the future will bring exponentially faster sites and access methods. The 𝗉𝗈𝗋𝗇 industry is investing millions in virtual reality so that it will become the next best thing. We don’t know where we’re going, unequipped to deal with present technology or what is to come.

We’re about to remove this brainwashing. It isn’t the non-user who’s being deprived, but the user who is forfeiting a lifetime of:

• Health
• Energy
• Wealth
• Peace of mind
• Confidence
• Courage
• Self-respect
• Happiness
• Freedom

What do they gain from these considerable sacrifices? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING, apart from the illusion of trying to get back to the state of peace, tranquillity and confidence that the non-user always enjoys.

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5.4 Withdrawal Pangs

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As explained earlier, users believe they use 𝗉𝗈𝗋𝗇 for enjoyment, relaxation or some sort of education. The actual reason is relief of withdrawal pangs. Our subconscious mind begins to learn that internet 𝗉𝗈𝗋𝗇 and masturbation at certain times tends to be pleasurable. As we become increasingly hooked on the drug, the greater the need to relieve the withdrawal pangs becomes and the further the subtle trap drags you down. This process happens so slowly that you aren’t even aware of it, most young users don’t realise they’re addicted until attempting to stop and even then, many won’t admit it.

Take this conversation a therapist had with hundreds of teenagers:

Therapist: “You realise that internet 𝗉𝗈𝗋𝗇 is a drug and the only reason why you’re using is that you cannot stop.”

Patient: “Nonsense! I enjoy it, if I didn’t, I would stop.”

Therapist: “Just stop for a week to prove to me you can if you want to.”

Patient: “No need, I enjoy it. If I wanted to stop, I would.”

Therapist: “Just stop for a week to prove to yourself you aren’t hooked.”

Patient: “What’s the point? I enjoy it.”

As already stated, users tend to relieve their withdrawal pangs at times of stress, boredom, concentration or combinations of these. In the following chapters, we’ll target these aspects of the brainwashing.

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Summarization 5

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5.0 Brainwashing

1. Purpose of Internet Brainwashing: The chapter explores the idea of internet brainwashing as a reason for using, focusing on the impact of supernormal stimuli and the overwhelming accessibility to potential mates online.

2. Media Influence: Discusses the constant exposure to sexual messages in media, pop culture, and advertisements, emphasizing the need to educate individuals, even pre-teens, about the underlying messages.

5.1 Scientific Reasoning:

1. Ineffectiveness of Scare Tactics: Points out the failure of scare tactics and health warnings to deter adolescents from starting internet pornography use.

2. User’s Paradox: Highlights the misconception that users are weak-willed, emphasizing that addiction requires physical strength to cope once awareness exists.

5.2 Problems using Willpower:

1. Impact on Self-Discipline: Describes the negative consequences of attempting to quit using willpower, including self-loathing and the depletion of willpower affecting other life projects.

2. Deceptive Self-Assessment: Warns against self-deception regarding the nature of the content watched, emphasizing the strain on willpower and the potential cascading effects on other life areas.

5.3 Passivity:

1. Dependency on Authority: Discusses the primary challenge of giving up 𝗉𝗈𝗋𝗇 being the passivity of minds and dependence on societal norms, reinforced by addiction and social influences.

2. Changing Perspective: Encourages a shift in perspective from “giving up” to “stopping” or “quitting,” emphasizing the positive gains rather than a perceived sacrifice.

5.4 Withdrawal Pangs:

1. Unconscious Addiction: Explores how users may not realize they are addicted until attempting to quit, often denying their addiction due to the perceived enjoyment.

2. Therapeutic Challenge: Describes a therapist’s conversation with a patient, highlighting the denial of addiction and the challenge of proving the ability to stop for a week.

3. Targeting Brainwashing: Teases upcoming chapters that will address aspects of brainwashing related to stress, boredom, and concentration.

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Chapter 6

Brainwashing Aspects

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The 𝗉𝗈𝗋𝗇 trap’s big monster is bred through the culmination of many aspects, including societal forces, media portrayals, peers and the user’s own internal narrative. Failure to deconstruct these fallacies whilst using the willpower method eventually leads to feelings of deprivation, leading the user back into the trap. Deconstruction of the imagined value of 𝗉𝗈𝗋𝗇 is crucial for success and allows you to see where you’re being robbed!

Of importance to note is the link between brainwashing and fear. It’s fear of feeling future withdrawal pangs that create the pangs. Fear is the pang itself. Think about when you’ve had withdrawal symptoms such as sweaty palms, shortness of breath, sleeping problems and an inability to think straight. Now think of similar situations when you’ve had those feelings: job interviews, nerves around an attractive person, public speaking, etc. These are the same anxious feelings the fear causes. Simply put, how can a physical drug still hook people months after stopping? It must be mentally, correct?

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6.1 Stress

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Not only great tragedies in life, but also minor stresses drive users into the forbidden ‘unsafe’ area previously excluded. Stresses include socialising, phone calls, anxieties of the housewife with young children, and many others. Let’s take phone calls as an example, particularly for a businessperson. Most calls aren’t from satisfied customers or your boss congratulating you, there’s some sort of aggravation. Coming home to mundane family life of kids screaming and their partner’s emotional demands causes the user — if they aren’t already doing so — to fantasise the relief of 𝗉𝗈𝗋𝗇 promised that night. They unconsciously suffer withdrawal pangs, destressors weakened and unprepared for additional aggravation. Partially relieving the pangs at the same time as normal stress, the total is reduced and the user gets a temporary boost. The boost isn’t an illusion, the user does genuinely feel better than before, but they’re more tense than they would be as a non-user.

The following example isn’t designed to shock you — EasyPeasy promises no such treatment — but is to emphasise that 𝗉𝗈𝗋𝗇 destroys your nerves rather than relaxing them.

Try to imagine getting to the stage where you’re unable to be aroused, even with a very sxy and attractive partner. For a moment, pause and try to visualise life where a very lovely and charming person has to compete and fail with the virtual 𝗉𝗈𝗋𝗇 stars occupying your ‘harem’ to get your attention. Imagine the frame of mind of a person who, when issued with that warning, continues using and dies without ever having real sex with this charming and willing partner. It’s easy to dismiss these people as weirdos, but stories like these aren’t fakes — this is what the awful novelty of the 𝗉𝗈𝗋𝗇 drug does to your brain. The more you go through life, the more courage is sapped and the more you’re deluded into believing 𝗉𝗈𝗋𝗇 is doing the opposite.

Have you ever been overtaken by panic when out of the blue the WiFi stops working or is too slow? Non-users don’t suffer from it, as internet 𝗉𝗈𝗋𝗇 causes that feeling. As you go through life, it systematically destroys your nerve and courage, leaving DeltaFosB to form powerful neural water slides in its wake, progressively destroying your ability to say no. By the stage where virility has been killed, the user believes 𝗉𝗈𝗋𝗇 is their new partner and is unable to face life without it.

Internet 𝗉𝗈𝗋𝗇 isn’t relieving your nerves, it’s slowly destroying them. One of the great gains of breaking the addiction is the return of your natural confidence and self-assurance.

There’s no need to rate yourself on your ability to satisfy a partner — this isn’t freedom. But this freedom cannot be obtained by continuing to grease the dopamine water slide in ways that undercut your happiness and libido by repeating the same destructive behaviour.

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6.2 Boredom

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If you’re like many people, as soon as you climb into bed you’re already on your favorite 𝗉𝗈𝗋𝗇 site, probably already forgetting until reminded. It’s become second nature. Similarly, 𝗉𝗈𝗋𝗇 relieving boredom is another fallacy because boredom is a frame of mind, occurring when you’ve been deprived for a long time or are trying to cut down.

The actual situation is this, when you’re addicted to the supernormal pull of internet 𝗉𝗈𝗋𝗇 and then try to abstain, it feels like there’s something missing. If you have something to occupy your mind that isn’t stressful, you can go for long periods of time without being bothered by the absence of the drug. However, when you’re bored there’s nothing to take your mind off it, so you feed the monster. When you’re indulging yourself and not trying to stop or cut down, even firing up private browsing becomes subconscious. This ritual is automatic; if the user tries to remember sessions during the last week, they’re only able to remember a small proportion of them, like the very last one or the session after a long abstinence.

The truth being that 𝗉𝗈𝗋𝗇 increases boredom indirectly because orgasms make you feel lethargic and instead of undertaking an energetic activity, users tend to prefer lounging around, bored and relieving their withdrawal pangs. Countering the brainwashing is important because users tend to view 𝗉𝗈𝗋𝗇 when bored, our brains wired to interpret 𝗉𝗈𝗋𝗇 as interesting. Similarly, we’ve also been brainwashed into believing sex — even bad sex — aids relaxation. It’s a fact that when sad or under stress, couples want to have sex. In the absence of discrimination between tantric and propagative sex, watch how quickly you want to get away from each other after the mandatory orgasm is achieved. If the couple had just decided to hug, speak or cuddle and go to sleep, they’d have felt relieved.

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6.3 Concentration

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Masturbation and sex don’t help concentration — when you’re trying to concentrate you automatically try and avoid distractions. Therefore, when a user wants to concentrate, they don’t even think — automatically opening the browser, feeding the little monster and partially ending the craving. They get on with the matter at hand, already forgetting they’ve viewed 𝗉𝗈𝗋𝗇. After years of dopamine-flooding the neurological changes affect abilities such as accessing information, planning and impulse control.

You’re also driven to provide novelty for the next session as the same stuff no longer generates enough dopamine and opioids. So you’ll have to roam the internet streets for novelty, fighting the pull to cross the line towards shocking material, which in turn generates more stress and leaves you unfulfilled after finishing.

Concentration is also adversely affected as the dopamine receptors are culled due to natural tolerance to the large surges, reducing the benefit of smaller dopamine boosts from natural destressors. Your concentration and inspiration will be greatly boosted as this process is reduced. For many, it’s the concentration aspect that prevents them from succeeding with the willpower method: they could put up with the irritability and bad temper, but the failure to concentrate on something difficult once their crutch is removed ruins many.

Loss of concentration that users suffer when trying to escape isn’t due to the absence of sex, let alone 𝗉𝗈𝗋𝗇. You have mental blocks when you’re addicted to something and when you have a mental block, what do you do? You fire up the browser — which doesn’t cure the block — so then what do you do? You do what you have to do, getting on with it just as non-users do.

When you’re a user nothing is blamed on the cause: users never have sexual dysfunction, just occasional downtime. The moment you stop using, everything that goes wrong is blamed on the reason you stopped. Now when you have a mental block, instead of just getting on with it, you begin to say “If only I could check my harem now, it would solve all my problems”. You then begin to question your decision to quit and escape from the slavery.

If you believe that 𝗉𝗈𝗋𝗇 is a genuine aid to concentration, worrying about it will guarantee that you’ll be unable to concentrate. Doubt, not the physical withdrawal pangs, creates the problem. Always remember, it’s the user who suffers pangs, not non-users.

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6.4 Relaxation

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Most users think that 𝗉𝗈𝗋𝗇 helps them to relax. It doesn’t. The frantic search to get the fix in those ‘dark alleys of the internet’ and the internal struggle of straining at the leash to cross the red line certainly doesn’t sound like a very relaxing activity.

As night rolls in after a trip to a new place or a long day, we sit down to relax, relieving our hunger, thirst and are completely satisfied. The user is not, as they have another hunger to satisfy. Users think of 𝗉𝗈𝗋𝗇 as the icing on the cake, but in actuality it’s the ‘little monster’ that needs feeding. The truth is that the addict can never be completely relaxed and going through life it gets exponentially worse. Take one online comment from an ex-user:

“I really believed that I had an evil demon in my make up, I now know that I had, however it wasn’t some inherent flaw in my character but the little internet 𝗉𝗈𝗋𝗇 monster that was creating the problem. During those times I thought I had all the problems in the world, but when I look back on my life I wonder where all the great stress was. In everything else in my life I was in control, only thing controlling me was 𝗉𝗈𝗋𝗇 slavery. The sad thing is that even today I can’t convince my children that it was the slavery that caused me to be so irritable.”

Every time I hear 𝗉𝗈𝗋𝗇 addicts trying to justify their addiction the message is, “Oh it helps me to relax.” Take the online account of a single dad whose six year old son wanted to share his bed in the night after a scary movie, but the dad would refuse so that he could have his session and edge for hours.

Here’s another smoking analogy, a couple of years ago adoption authorities threatened to prevent smokers from adopting children. A man rang up, irate. “You’re completely wrong”, he said, “I can remember when I was a child, if I had a contentious matter to raise with my mother, I would wait until she lit a cigarette because she was more relaxed then.” Why couldn’t the man talk to his mother when she wasn’t smoking a cigarette?

Why are some users so stressed when they’re not getting their fix, even after real sex? One story online details a man working in the advertising field having 9s and 10s open for dates at any time, but lost interest in taking them out for dinner as internet 𝗉𝗈𝗋𝗇 was far easier, involved no restaurant spending and had no possibility of a ‘no’ from his date at the end of an evening. Why be bothered when his little monster keeps him craving the low-risk, high-reward scheme at his fingertips upon reaching home?

Why are non-users completely relaxed then? Why are users not able to relax without a fix for a day or two? Read about the experience of a user taking the abstinence oath and quitting and you’ll notice the struggle with temptations: clearly not relaxed at all when no longer allowed to have the ‘only pleasure’ they are ‘entitled to enjoy’. They’ve forgotten what it’s like to be completely relaxed. 𝖯𝗈𝗋𝗇 can be likened to a fly being caught in a pitcher plant, to begin with the fly is eating the nectar but at some imperceptible stage the plant begins to eat the fly.

Isn’t it time you climbed out of the plant?