Explain What Giving Up Porn Means to You (daily)

I'm giving up porn, because I love myself too much to let me do that. Self discipline is the definition of self love. As I am loving myself, I want to execute behaviour towards myself that is loving and caring. Porn is not. Watching porn means hurting myself so badly, it's insane that I would do that to me. I hate it and I want to abstain from it forever. I'm giving up porn because it does not solve any of my problems. Porn means running away from life and I don't do that. That's why I'm giving up porn!

 

I'm giving up porn because it's useless and a waste of my energy. I'm giving up porn because I have better things to do. I'm giving up porn because my principles command me to respect women and the porn I used to watch was disrespecting to women. I'm giving up porn because live is too good without it.

 

I'm giving it up because it has taken everything from me.
Family Relationships
Connections with friends and gfs
The Ability to concentrate on anything
Succeeding in Uni
FCK PMO

 

I’m giving up porn because i feel like it’s preventing me from going after real women. i wanna feel what it’s like to be “vanilla” as I have been watching porn since a youth. i remeber having a sexual experience with a. real girl freshman year of highschool and none of the stuff i’ve done with girls since has felt like that. i think it’s due to porn

 

You got it gaccts82 !

 

means to be able to enjoy small things of life again, it's know that this kind of addiction may cause anhedonia because of the over stimulation with dopamine on your brain, it also means being able to enjoy women just by what they are and not because I see them as sexual objects. It means being able to be happy again naturally

 

I'm giving up porn because I want to be someone that is remembered. I want to make a difference, and I can not accomplish that if I do not live up to my principles. My principles command me to be disciplined and to abstain from limitless pleasure. Because the soul takes harm, when it's overpowered by pleasure, and I wish to repair the harm that has already been done.

 

I'm giving up porn because it always leads me down a bad path. I watched P yesterday and consequently lost so much of my drive and of my ability to enjoy the rest of the day. I spent a lot of time procrastinating afterwards, browsed reddit for 2 hours at night, etc. This is behaviour that I strictly aim to eliminate from my life, as it neither helps me to achieve my goals, nor does it make me happy in the short term. Porn depletes my willpower and after watching it I always end up behaving in a way that hurts myself. That's another reason I'm giving up porn.

 

For over 5 millennia since civilization existed consuming pornographic content was seen as a terrible way of spending one's time - the way we see people using hard drugs today. People were fine, no PIED among 20 years old, women were not forced to fit unrealistic standards, sex was a enjoyable part of life etc. It wasn't until the 21th century, when porn became a profitable industry that so many "experts" came out to claim it is normal, just like tobacco companies were blaming asphalt for people's lungs getting blacker in the 70's. Now we have all sort of problems nobody knows to solve cause we don't wanna blame the main villain.

Ancients saw it as a "vice" (opposed to "virtue"), medieval scholars saw it as a way of stranding away from God, later illuminists saw it as a hedonistic approach to life, my grandparents who saw the whole 20th century see it as a thing only degenerates and social outcasts do and find it extremely shameful.

I wanna live a good life. Porn can't be part of that.

 

I'm giving up porn, because it triggers very negative thoughts in me. Whenever I watch porn, the days after that are filled with sexistic, horny, but disrespecting thoughts. I think about women in a way that would never occur to me if I was at my right mind. I hate this side of me, and I wish it to have no power over me. Porn feeds this bad side of me, and that's why I have to give up porn. I want to be a healthy person, and I want to be able to respect myself again.

 

I'm giving up porn because I'm not a loser.

I do not intend to say that everyone who watches porn is a loser. I accept it if someone makes that decision and does not feel negatively affected by it. This, however, is not the case with myself. I do not want to watch porn anymore. I decided against it. And I am going to be the kind of person that sticks with its resolutions, no matter what! If I was that kind of guy that leaves things unfinished, that talks big but does not hold through, that gives in to it desires even though he know it's wrong, then I would be a loser. I am not that kind of guy! I am the kind of guy that lives up to his principles, who fights his desires and pushes trough to the other side. I wanna be my true self. I wanna be strong; for myself and for anybody that might need me.

I wanna live life without regret and I do regret every second of porn. I do regret those wasted days. I don't want to regret anymore. And the only way not to regret is: not to do things that you regret. That's why I am giving up on porn!

 

I'm giving up on porn because I don't need it to be happy.

 

I'm giving up porn because I don't like myself when I'm "on porn". Watching porn clearly influences the way I behave, and I don't like the person I am when being on porn.

 

I'm giving up porn because watching it makes me miserable. Brain fog pisses me off and makes me unproductive. No more porn!

 

I'm giving up porn because I don't even like it anymore. It doesn't fulfil me or anything. I'm bored while watching, I just do it because I have learned this behaviour so strongly during my life. I am doing it purely habitual as a very immature response to my feelings and boredom. I should know better by now and do other things to cope with my boredom. This is what I'm going to do from now on. I'm going to live life gracefully and without that bullshit occupying my time. I sometimes feel like a very old company that still does some things the way they were done 50 years ago, simply because they are too bureaucratic to change in time. Such a company has to go down eventually if it doesn't learn to adapt. I want to adapt to life and accept it as it is.

 

It means being able to actually enjoy life again. I want to be able to reap the benefits of my brain's reward system of life as I focus on new a career, focus on myself, and learn new skills.

 

I'm giving up on porn because I don't need it. I'm strong, and I can go through life head up. I want to have success in everything I'm doing. I am going to get what I want. Porn is only in the way. It's a relic that my old self wants to keep. I don't need it anymore. It is useless and worthless. I don't want to feed the lazy bastard inside me. I want to feed the hero inside me. Porn feeds the former while success and hard work feed the later. I'm gonna become the person I wanted to be all along. That's why I'm giving up on porn.

 

I'm giving up porn because, holy shit, did I just waste that last week! It alway starts with, "I'm just gonna watch some porn real quick." And this is always a lie and when I already feel bad to begin with it ends in a deep spiral of binging movies, series games and porn. This is not how adults deal with their problems and I am an adult human being that knows other ways to deal with their problems. That's why I'm giving up porn.

 

I'm giving up porn because I feel so good right now, and it's only been one day without it. Not watching porn enables me to feel my actual needs, like social interaction, food, being outside and doing sports. Without porn I am able to fill my life with things that actually matter to me. Porn blinds me and bores me. I want to refrain from it because I enjoy the clarity that comes from refraining so much. Furthermore, I have some really important events coming up soon, and I want to be mentally fresh and awake for them. That's another reason why I'm giving up porn.