Curing Porn/Masturbation Addiction is Insanely Hard by Design!

Lets talk about porn, masturbation and getting addicted to them.

Porn in this context is anything remotely sexually arousing. That includes everything from nude images of women to actual pornographic videos.

For our discussion we will ignore Instagram's hot content, that's a topic for another day.

Masturbation is stimulating genitals when aroused, in absence of a sexual partner. This is how single people satisfy their sexual urges.

The Problem:

Getting addicted to porn, masturbation and masturbating to porn is too easy in today's world. Some problems with Masturbating to Porn are:

1. Masturbating to Porn honestly feels easy! No dating, no drama, no tantrums, no commitments! Just open an electronic device and go!

2. Masturbatory activities are always done within confines of a room. Nobody is reprimanding you to not do it.

3. Pornographic content is very easily accessible.

4. You'll not realize when you get addicted to it. If there were some objective method that determined and informed you "You're Addicted Starting Now!" there's some chance you'd stop doing it, maybe give it up completely.

5. Once addicted, you'll be engulfed in shame thinking "If I reveal this problem to anyone I'd be judged!" People resist going to a doctor for fever, they're less likely to go to one in this instance!

6. The addiction can go undetected for years since the only time when it surfaces is in the bedroom.

7. Masturbating to Porn has another side effect: Erectile Dysfunction. Your GF/wife will maybe guess that you're addicted to porn, masturbation or masturbating to porn. It is bound to affect your sex life, if not your romantic relationships.

As you can see the porn industry's 'users' aren't found easily. The best of young men and women are using the service - whether addicted or not.

Thinking about Solutions:

There's NO single simple solution to this problem!

Most problems aren't like this. You have less money? Find a way to make it. Lonely? Talk with someone, make a plan to hang out. Problems at work? Talk to the HR. Addicted to porn? NO single simple solution to this problem! If you have a magic solution that works well tell me in the comments below. Maybe, just maybe I'll make a blog post about it!

The solution I have in mind is honestly a bit tricky.

It's a common consensus among the masses that if you want to get rid of something that you're addicted to, replace it with something less addicting or harmful. For example, when I wanted to cut out tea completely, I had chocolate milk (Bournvita) whenever I had the craving for tea. And it worked for about 7-8 months until I visited a friend Aadesh's house and his mother served us tea. It would've been uncourteous to refuse so I took it. My streak was broken but my point is that the substitution worked! If you want to give up eating meat, you'll have to eat tasty vegetarian/vegan food whenever you're hungry. You get the idea.

For men, the opposite of masturbating to porn would be having sex with women! Let me see you advocating publicly that men satisfy their sexual urges by hook up culture! Amazingly enough, that does seem to be a rational solution if we go by the above-mentioned line of thought.

Like I said, my solution is a bit tricky!

This is an open-ended discussion. Let me know your thoughts below!