Steam Visual Novels (Trigger forewarned?)

As this is a continual trigger for you, you need to remove it from your life. Sacrifice this type of gaming and stop PMOing.

 

Hey there OP, I used to play Visual Novels (VNs), mostly Japanese ones though so I wouldn't know about the ones on Steam. Some of them are pretty well done with great stories barring of course certain scenes that can be trigger certain people. I've only seen one VN so far with uncensored scenes, but the context of the scenes made me anything but aroused. Most Japanese visual novels always have triggers, cause apparently it seems to be a thing for VNs over there.

If VNs trigger you that much then I agree with @IGY, you need to stay away from them. Perhaps you could go back to them once you have fully rebooted, staying away from triggers and edging. Note that Visual Novels aren't the only games out there brother, you could always play fun games which have little to no triggers for you.

 

When I was a kid I used to fap to the female characters in comics and disney movies, I think triggers are everywhere, its difficult to remove all of them fully.

 

Essentially, the advice is the same. Whatever does it for you is something to avoid. For example, if someone had a leather fetish, it would be unwise to surf leather websites featuring bona fide leather goods. There is nothing objectionable in the content, but to a fetishist, the hard wired synapses would inevitably lead to images of sexy people clad in the stuff. You have to draw a line before a possible trigger occurs.

 

I just think, hope, one thousand years from now, when the species, the human race, has studied this problem, it will be taught in school, it will be recognized, and warded against; that being that High Speed Internet Porn, or whatever, God forbid, has come to replace it by then (direct, wired, neurological stimulation?) can, by setting off certain brain reactions that have evolved to encourage searching for and being fascinated by sex, become addictive.

Totally off topic, here is an interesting article discussing "wireheads", fictional addicts to directly wired pleasure sensations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirehead_(science_fiction)

See, ban, the problem for you, from your personal and highly subjective position, looks like Steam Visual Novels, but that is just a trigger, a passageway, a method, a means, a mechanism, a button you push, to get you to your real problem: the ability, via the net, to search for endlessly novel, ever available, artificial sexual stimulation, leading to a dopamine high, over and over and over again. The mechanism, the "type" we all use may be a bit different for many of us, but it all leads to the same, core, problem: artificially induced dopamine addiction. The solution for you is the same solution all of us have. If it triggers, abandon it. Try reading a real novel that has no triggers. Will this be boring to you? Initially, yes, because it will not trigger the thing that makes Steam interesting to you, a gratuitous dopamine high. But then again, that is the solution to the problem: quit using artificial sexual stimulation to give yourself a dopamine high. That is the alpha and omega of both the problem and the solution to the problem. There is a reason Steam Novels put those visuals in the games--though they may not expressly recognize it--it gives the viewer a dopamine high, which makes it interesting to the viewer. For a guy in recovery, that must be recognized and avoided.

That's my ten cents, my two cents is free.

Much love.

Will I AM.