Does looking at porn/hentai images have the same effect as watching it?

Looking at porn is not a relapse, but if you continue to look at porn I can guarantee you will relapse. I'm on my 3rd attempt to quit PMO and yesterday I realized that there is no way I can look at porn and stay strong. Porn will keep your brain weak. I made it 17 days and 10 days all while using porn for short durations. Looking at the porn was my downfall, end of story.

You need to try and break the pron habit. It's hard for me to do it, but I know it must be done. Think of it this way, can an alcoholic continue play with bottles of alcohol? Can a heroin attic keep their needle nearby? I would think any addict could not be near their vise for very long without a relapse. Try to figure out why you still want to look at porn and that may help you control your behavior.

Good luck.

 

It's all down to how you feel after you view porn and your personal goals. For me, if I'm on a completely clean streak and I search for triggers, I will not count it as a reset IFI come to my senses and close the porn after a few seconds. If I do this twice on the same streak, however, I treat it as a relapse.
Of course continuing to watch porn after a few sceonds or so, and of course if I end up fapping to it.
But again, we all have different standards for resetting, generally you should avoid all porn all together though.

 

It really depends man, there's not a right answer for that. I've seen guys that reset their counter when they look at pictures that they searched for, just like P videos. During my journey I'm really avoiding all kind of stimulating images that I am able to. I would not recommend at all, since that like the other guy said, it can lead you to relapse, mainly if it is the start of you journey.
However, it is all up to you.
Best regards and stay strong.

 

I don't understand. Why even look at it? I'd say that wanting to just look at it counts as an addiction which is what everyone here is trying to break. Break the addiction , don't let the addiction break you!

 

The science says it will still affect your brain. Since it's sexual material on a screen, your brain gets triggered by it, and is turned on by it. MO'ing makes you bond with what is on the screen, instead of with your sexual partner. Which is addiction.

 

Yeah just stay away from still images of porn too. Films and photos are just as stimulating, if not more than the other.

Besides, videos are basically sets of photos put together to create an illusion of motion.

 

I can imagine that hentai is worse! One of the biggest problems with porn is that it is so far removed from real sex.... The more extreme the sex you are used to, the less exciting real sex actually is. If you are used to sex which contains stuff which isn't even plausible, within the realms of this world (e.g. giant octopus, with dicks for tentacles, fucking a monster with eight vaginas), how are you ever going to be satisfied, (or even slightly excited) by putting your one penis into a normal looking woman with one vagina? In terms of needed progressively more extreme porn to satisfy you, I can speak from experience. As my porn problem got worse and worse, I find myself seeking out more extreme porn, with hentai being one of the only categories that could even give me a decent boner.

Steer clear, my friend!

 

For me everything that could stimulate myself will gives me a side effect which is always bad...

After thousands of relapsing I learned not to see it because something bad will happen afterward, but that's for me though ;p