Are online/mobile dating apps as bad as porn?

I have similar questions about online dating. While I was fully reboot I avoided these apps as it was another visual temptation.

My thoughts, no there not porn. However use them for there intended purpose and not scroll through endless pictures. If your not actually going to contact someone and get a date best leave it.

 

Hey Eric,

Im my opinion I cut it all out. Social Media, Dating Sites, Live Cams, everything. If its arousing you which it did for me I would STOP ASAP. I deleted the apps on my phone to even get it to it. Thats just me though. If it arouses you I would STOP ASAP.

God Bless

Godschild

 

Like Fred said, you need to use them for their stated to purpose. To meet people.

If you think you can be triggered by them, don't use them at all.

Otherwise they're a perfectly legitimate way to meet women. My brother met his fiancé online. I'm currently dating a woman very intimately that I met online.

They are legitimate, but be very careful. If you have any doubt, wait until you've gone 90 days clean.

 

As long as you are using it to actually find a girlfriend and not to just look at the pictures and lust over them, that is pretty close.

 

One way to use these sites more safely is to disable images in your web browser until you really need them (because you're interested in a specific woman).

Looking at tons of pictures of women isn't going to do your brain any good.

 

as someone said, it depends on why you are doing it, I met my wife online and have many customers who meet partners online, compared with my work which is photography where I use model sites to look at lots of girls, it turns me on as I know they are real nice people who I can and do meet, so use the sites for the right purpose,

 

I think it's a bad idea. I think of it as your PMO habit trying to trick you into giving it some of what it wants while convincing you that its not.

 

I agree with Ambrose, the fact that you are asking this question is bad. You are getting small thrills of novelty, which as we all know is a major part of P addiction, its giving you small doses of dopamine, because even in the real world you would not physically be able to actually see that many different girls in one minute or an hour or the hours that you are talking about.

I used to act like this, and found that it would eventually lead to badder things, but even if it didnt it would just majorly delay the healing process. The worrying bit though is that you are just looking for people to say yeh its alright, when deep down you know its not right. Or else you would not have that niggling feeling inside you that's saying i do quite enjoy this, I think it may be bad for me, but as long as other people say its okay I can do it.

I don't think that you should be doing this, because I have been in your position before, and found that it is really detrimental to what you are doing. Once you are over your addiction of course you can use them, but from the phrasing of your question, it doesnt look like you are there yet.

But you will get there!!

 

Good for you eric, most of the dating website are of no use. cause in instead of hooking up with a real girl all you get are spambots. But if you can meet people in real world who needs a dating website