Anyone seen Don Jon?

I think he has watched it before trying to get PMO free, right? Sorry if I am wrong and you are right haha, that is just how i understood it

 

Hmmmmm...after reading that I think I will pass. Sounds like a good message but not sure if I could handle and overlook all the sex scenes enough to appreciate the message. For me it looks like it might be too triggering.

 

I just saw your counter

 

Yup...serve me up a crabby paddy to celebrate Mr. Krabs!

 

https://www.nofap.com/forum/index.p...ovie-about-a-porn-addict-named-don-jon.35134/

I wrote a thread about this, too.

"Thanks for Sharing" is also a good movie.

 

I saw that one and really liked it. I watched it with my wife about a year ago after 6-8 months of sobriety or so. It really opened a door for some good conversation. She had a number of insightful questions like "Is that really what it feels like for you as an addict?" There were some sex scenes that I averted my eyes for so as not to trigger me but it didn't go overboard so wasn't too distracting to do that.

 

I've seen the movie as well. This is quite a number of years ago though. In terms of content as I remember I don't think there was any actual nudity.

I remember some time after watching it, I spoke to one of my friends about the movie and the main character's porn addiction. This was before I knew about NoFap (I was not trying to quit P at the time), but the movie may have helped to put the idea in my head that giving up P is a good idea.

A movie that I felt handled P addiction well is "Men, Women & Children" (again this movie is filled with triggers so I wouldn't recommend people watching it, especially if early into their reboot). There were 3 things that I stood out to me as being portrayed pretty realistically.

1. The father in the film is trying to PMO and his own computer is so filled with malware and viruses his is unable to use it. The father ends up using his son's computer and looks at the browsing history. Initially the browsing history is more tame but as the father continues to scroll through it reveals things that someone who watched a lot of P would search for.
2. The son in the movie is heavily addicted to PMO and develops PIED.
3. The PMO addicted son exchanges text messages (sexting) with a girl and is disappointed that she doesn't respond to his messages like a P star would.

 

ehh I wouldn't go so far to call Don Jon groundbreaking. The concept of abstinence from PMO isn't new.

One of my favorite films that broached the subject was 40 days and 40 nights.

If anyone can stomach watching a film with Josh Hartnett, it's worth a view.

There's also a rough scene in the end that I dont want to spoil, but it's nothing depicted graphically, just a strong trigger.