You’ll Never Watch P*rn Again After Learning What It Did to Me…

Summary

The video challenges typical addiction recovery narratives by offering objective, practical advice rather than just personal stories. It emphasizes the discomfort of addressing taboo topics without emotional bias, highlighting how sudden withdrawal often leads to relapse. Instead, it suggests a gradual reduction in stimuli to make addictive behaviors like pornography less enjoyable. The creator proposes altering viewing experiences to recondition the brain, arguing this method could be more effective in combatting addiction. He acknowledges the benefits of practices like masturbation but criticizes the overwhelming consumption of pornography for its detrimental effects on motivation due to dopamine depletion.

Highlights

• Challenges typical addiction videos by focusing on practical solutions 🚀
• Discusses the role of dopamine in addiction and motivation 🍭
• Suggests altering porn viewing habits to recondition enjoyment levels 📉
• Acknowledges positives of masturbation but highlights porn's drawbacks 🚫
• Offers a step-by-step method to make addictive behaviors less appealing 📝

Key Takeaways

• Too much focus on personal stories in addiction videos lacks practical advice 🌟
• Cold turkey methods often lead to relapse; gradual reduction is key 🔄
• Discussing taboo topics objectively can aid in addressing addictions 🧠
• Making addictive behaviors less enjoyable helps reduce their impact 👀
• Reducing phone and porn addiction by changing sensory inputs 📵

Overview

In the video, the creator takes a bold stance against the commonplace narrative in anti-addiction videos, which often boast personal success stories but lack actionable advice. His approach is to tackle the uncomfortable topic of pornography addiction head-on, stripping away any emotional veneer to address the core issues at play.

He critiques the notion of quitting addictive behaviors 'cold turkey,' advocating instead for a methodical reduction in consumption to mitigate withdrawal symptoms and relapses. The video emphasizes understanding the psychology of addiction, particularly focusing on the role dopamine plays in forming habits, and suggests practical steps to make pornography less enticing.

With a pragmatic tone, the creator addresses viewers, offering them a multi-step plan that begins with desaturating their phone screens and videos, followed by removing sound, and then reducing content intensity. His message is clear: while masturbation isn't inherently bad, excessive porn use can sap one's motivation and skew perspectives. The creator encourages viewers to explore additional resources for guided support on this challenging journey.

Chapters

• 00:00 - 00:30: Introduction and Critique of Anti-Addiction Videos The author criticizes anti-addiction videos for focusing too much on personal stories of recovery rather than offering practical advice. The stories often come off as narcissistic and fail to provide concrete help to those struggling with addiction. This chapter promises a different approach, opting not to include personal stories and instead focusing on practical and perhaps 'uncomfortable' advice for overcoming addiction, specifically pornography addiction.
• 00:30 - 01:00: Discussing Uncomfortable Topics This chapter addresses the challenge of talking about uncomfortable topics such as sexual subjects and addiction. It emphasizes the importance of removing emotional bias from these discussions. The chapter also critiques the societal inclination towards instant gratification, evidenced by the quick-fix mentality of wanting immediate success in various fields like YouTube and music, rather than adopting a gradual and more sustainable approach to achieve long-term success.
• 01:00 - 01:30: Cold Turkey vs. Gradual Tapering The chapter titled 'Cold Turkey vs. Gradual Tapering' explores the difference between abruptly quitting an addiction and gradually tapering off. It argues that quitting immediately ('cold turkey') often leads to relapse, as most individuals can't sustain the drastic change. Instead, it suggests that the gradual tapering approach is more effective in sustaining long-term change. This method involves understanding the addictive nature and underlying reasons why the habit is difficult to break. The example used in the transcript relates to phone addiction, specifically the consumption of porn, emphasizing that comprehension of the addiction's root causes is essential to overcoming it.
• 01:30 - 02:00: Understanding Dopamine and Cravings This chapter delves into the concept of dopamine and its relationship with cravings. It explores why certain items like cookies are craved more than others, such as broccoli, due to the intrinsic qualities like taste and sugar content that increase dopamine release. The discussion includes how to make highly craved items less enjoyable, using cookies and pornography as examples, to help manage and reduce craving by altering their appeal. Various methods and strategies are suggested for making these items less pleasurable.
• 02:00 - 02:30: Methods to Reduce Pornography Enjoyment This chapter discusses methods to reduce the enjoyment of pornography. One suggested technique involves changing the visual appeal by removing color, utilizing a black-and-white filter on devices. This reduction in visual stimulation is not only applicable to pornography but can also be applied to mitigate phone addiction. The chapter emphasizes that over time, ranging from a week to a month, this method may reduce enjoyment and dependence, leading one to find such content less engaging.
• 02:30 - 03:00: The Impact of Pornography on Dopamine and Motivation The chapter explores how exposure to pornography can affect dopamine levels and motivation. It suggests ways to make consuming porn less enjoyable as a strategy to combat addiction. Some methods include removing audio and decreasing intensity by switching away from preferred genres. The discussion also touches on the controversial aspects of masturbation, arguing that while it has its benefits, addiction to pornography is a significant issue.

You’ll Never Watch P*rn Again After Learning What It Did to Me… Transcription

• 00:00 - 00:30 i have an extremely big problem with a lot of anti-addiction videos they are overly obsessed with people who were addicted to tell their own story because there's this hint of narcissism everywhere and then they provide absolutely no practical advice to someone who is addicted so all these videos is just self-glazing oh my god I'm no longer addicted i'm so [ __ ] awesome you'll never want to watch porn again after hearing my story here's the thing this video is not going to have any stories people who are addicted to pornography this is going to be an extremely uncomfortable video because
• 00:30 - 01:00 we're talking about penises we're talking about [ __ ] we're talking about all the weird things that everybody likes to avoid and we're removing all the emotions off of it so one of the best ways to stop an addiction people believe is cold turkey but more or less that's because they're in this instant gratification realm of wanting things to stop immediately rather than slowly working at something and then over time achieving the results you actually want people want to be successful in YouTube immediately people want to be successful in music
• 01:00 - 01:30 immediately people want to drop out of college because it's not hard enough for them or because they're not good enough so I'll just quit immediately here's the thing okay quitting your addiction immediately will never happen the majority of people who do that always relapse the best way to do it is slowly taper off and also know the process and journey of why it made it so addicting in the first place and now we're getting very specific most people who do watch porn watch it on their phone and the reason why anything is addicting is
• 01:30 - 02:00 because it gives you a lot of dopamine aka it makes you crave it more so how do you make something that you crave so much less enjoyable you don't crave broccoli as much as you could crave a cookie because cookies intrinsically there's sugar it's more tasty so how do you make a cookie less tasty how do you make the pornography less enjoyable there are modes there are types of ways to start it i'm going to list every single way to make pornography less enjoyable as to help people and it can be in any other any
• 02:00 - 02:30 other type of sequence but I would say the best way to start off is whatever intensity you watch whatever you do choose to watch one of the best ways to make it less enjoyable is to remove the color turn on the filter every time you're about to do or if you also have a phone addiction just leave your phone in black and white you make it black and white everything becomes less enjoyable equally as much as the pornography and then over time maybe a month after 2 weeks maybe a week depending on how intense you are you realize okay cool so I didn't like it at first now it's a new
• 02:30 - 03:00 normal how do I make it less enjoyable then you remove the sound after you remove the sound you're like "Okay now I'm just watching an old school movie this is like super shit." And then you decrease the intensity whatever genre you prefer remove that genre now you're just watching some big booty [ __ ] twerking and that's just boring as hell and ideally I think the big problem is I don't think masturbation is bad there's a variety of benefits but the problem with masturbation is that people are addicted to porn and the big problem with porn is not that it ruins your
• 03:00 - 03:30 perspective on the world because again perspective is entirely dependent on the person it ruins your dopamine right and dopamine is a thing that you have a limited amount of and if you're constantly wasting on pornography you're wasting your motivation thank you for watching like subscribe check out my Patreon there are a bunch of videos in terms of guides I think it will be a lot more helpful for a lot of people who want to take their journey seriously uh totally do and