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Is looking at porn a relapse for cured individuals

Discussion in 'Rebooting - Porn Addiction Recovery' started by filmit57, Mar 6, 2020.

  1. Mar 6, 2020 #1
    filmit57

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    I am 387 days hard mode (not cured but made big progress and still am) so I’ll use myself as an example. I saw a naked women in a tv show I was watching. I acknowledge her beauty but didn’t visualize her in my head in a sexual way where I’m having sex with her or something like I used to.

    Do you see this as a relapse for someone who sees a naked women on screen by accident and continues to watch it or no. I know what I think but curious what others think.
     
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  2. Mar 6, 2020 #2
    Fenix Rising

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    Why would you even consider this a relapse? Nudity is all around us, we simply cannot avoid it. I'd even consider this as a sign of successful recovery since you get no urges to PMO when seeing explicit material. Just don't get overconfident (been guilty of that myself in the past), poking a sleeping dragon means playing with fire.
     
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  3. Mar 6, 2020 #3
    filmit57

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    I don’t see it as a sign of relapse that’s why I’m asking, because people on this message board are worried that they peeked all the time.

    I’m on the same boat I see it as a sign of recovery.
     
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  4. Mar 6, 2020 #4
    SeekingLife

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    If you’re not feeling that intense rush of a dopamine that you once felt while watching porn in the past, then it’s not a relapse.

    Point is, is to not arouse yourself or your brain with the thought of performing sexual acts to pixels on a screen (in other words, fantasy)

    Read or Listen to the book, Your Brain On Porn. Goes in greater depth and detail to what i attempted to explain above
     
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  5. Mar 8, 2020 #5
    rgm

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    I think this is normal. You avoid those things in the early days because they're triggers.
    But at this point as long as you don't go looking for it and don't fantasize about it in a porn-like way it really shouldn't matter and definitely shouldn't count as a relapse.
     
    rgm, Mar 8, 2020
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