I fell back into the misfortune of masturbation and pornography, by playing with the temptation of "I see slightly explicit things and I can control myself", please avoid any kind of thing that incites you to fall again. Stay away from twitter is pure porn. Cheer up everyone, I restart my count. This time I hope it will be definitive.
I believe there's porn on every social media site. Social media apps to avoid are the ones that recommend or display contents on your feed that do not correlate to the content you want to be viewing. Examples are Instagram, Snapchat, and Tiktok. There's porn on the Internet but doesn't prevent us from using it. What matters is how we tailor our content and feed the algorithms to only recommend pure and valuable content. I use only Twitter, and my feed is totally clean. I try to avoid the For You page and only engage with content posted from accounts I follow. I'm also very careful of what I search because I can never know what I might stumble upon. A lot of NSFW artists are on Twitter. We just have to be very careful or better still quit entirely.
Twitter is toxic even without porn. It's full of people trying to provoke others into having fights with them. But it's tough, I just relapsed.
All social media are being ruled by algorithms. If your feed recommends toxic posts then it's because your algorithm has been structured to work that way. The fewer negative posts you engage with and the fewer toxic accounts you follow, the fewer negative posts you will find on your feed.
Good point, I guess I'm frustrated that the Twitter feed has changed. You used to be able to turn off the algorithm but they got rid of that option about a month ago. Of course, they're doing what all social media companies are doing now but it's annoying that you're less in control now.
Thank you all @onceaking @jak00 for your valuable input... I have a new question. I had a hot chat or sexting, but without photos, where there was precum. Does this count as a relapse? I offer myself in case you require a counting partner... write me on telegram: t.me/sebsnfp
Yes done that many a time. A very simalar one to be avoided is, " I just want to see if things still work down there, I will just have a quick check"
If you think it's a relapse it is, if you think it isn't it isn't. At the end of day it's down to what you think.
pre-cum is pre-orgasm, not the same as orgasm. So you didn’t relapse. But you’re on slippery territory. Anything like chat, non-pornographic photos and of course pornographic photos are a set up for relapse. remember, if you keep going to a barbershop, sooner or later you’re going to get a haircut. .
Block the social medias that contains pornography. Doing this you will not have the chance to do this ''playing''. I have already done this playing a lot of times in the past and it lead me to relapse too...
There are apps for Apple and android devices that block adult content. For Apple devices, you can block adult content, but if you really want porn, you can unblock it. I’m sure androids have the same. But other apps that block content can be locked and the password can be given to a sponsor or other friend.
I created a LOT of secret folders locked with a LOT of passwords in my pc, that contains the passwords to unlock the blocking apps. I'ts working for me, to not cheat on the anti-p**n barriers.
Thank you all again for your contributions. I update you I relapsed again, but I've been another two with absolutely nothing from PMO, I avoid at all costs to stay much on social networks, I'm really getting into what is necessary. Avoiding them helps a lot.
keep trying man, you will win. The key for me to not relapse was blocking p**n in my pc, phone and network.
It happened the same to me. I wanted t to play with the tempation too, and I think it's right to do it at some point, because it's easy to be chaste in a monastery, right? You are really chaste if you can be around strippers and control yourself. But the truth is, if we are here is because we are all in some way addicts to someting (porn, sexting, compulsive masturbation, whatever). And addiction is a nasty thing. Sure, a glass of wine is great with dinner, but if you've been an alcoholic for 10 years then, well, perhaps no. And we are alcoholics of sort, so we need to stay away from the stuff that hurts us, at least for a long while. Then it's right, I think, to loosen up and play with tempation. But you've got to be very sure of yourself. I've done it too, relapsed, and won't do it again at least for the next 365 days. Good luck.
