How To Quit Porn


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Dr. David Smith - How To Quit Porn (2nd Edition)

Allegory of the Cave. Take Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, where a group of people have been chained in 
a cave their whole lives, watching only the shadows of others pass by on the walls. They view this as 


reality and never questioned what was outside of what they observed directly. They were unaware or 
deliberately deluded themselves into living in a false reality, watching life pass by. 
The Allegory of the Cave is surprisingly similar to porn addiction in all aspects. Porn addicts are in 
virtually the same circumstance, chained to a computer screen, watching only an image that lacks 
correspondence to reality. Watching pornography has become a false reality they have grown 
accustomed to living in, becoming too passive and weak-willed to seek out something better. But 
normal people don’t perceive reality this way. Instead, they have a much freer and more fulfilling 
existence, where they are unable to be dragged down by the filth of porn and are completely 
uninterested in viewing it. 
You may be unaware what you are missing out on. For example, if you had childhood difficulties 
that led to porn use, you may have never experienced freedom and known what true love is like. 
Anyone who has experienced both can tell you with certainty that not being on porn will always be 
far, far better. If you’ve spent years watching porn and have grown accustomed to the behavior, you 
need to know what life is like without it. 
 
The moral of the story: you don’t know what you are missing if you are content living a life where 
you even just watch porn occasionally. You don’t know how much better it is to experience true love, 
and that is something you must seek out instead of this artificial substitute. Don’t live your life 
shackled while staring at the wall in the cave, as that is what porn addicts do; they are literally unable 
to escape. 
You must make quitting porn the #1 priority in your life. At best, porn will give you a life of 
mediocrity, never able to achieve anything meaningful or find any satisfaction, wasting your life 
away staring at a screen, and at worst, it will condemn you to a lifetime of misery, chronically tired 
and bitter. Porn completely alters your perception of the world in a negative way. 
It can be hard initially to make the connection on your own that porn causes many of the problems 
you experience. The high of porn is immediate and comes in a quick rush, much easier to draw 
associations to than the consequences, which are only felt afterwards and spread out over much 
longer time periods. Don’t attribute your problems to other sources, if in reality the main problem is 
porn. Focus on improving what is the root cause of your unhappiness and problems. Tackle these 
first. It’s like trying to invest while having credit card debt. Because of the massive interest expense, it 
makes no sense to invest until you pay down the debt first. Similarly, you have to be clean from 
addiction to make progress in life. If you are not clean from addiction, you will never be able to feel 
good or experience benefits in other aspects of life. It’s hard to enjoy life when you are sick. Rather 
than trying to improve your life with porn present, removing the negatives is a priority and must 
occur before you can experience the positives. 


Quitting porn and quitting all addictions is the single best thing you can do to completely change 
your life. Pay down your credit card debt and then you can start to invest and build your wealth. 
Now let’s focus on discussing the symptoms and negative effects of porn use. First, realize that a porn 
addict’s situation presents the double whammy of watching porn and releasing. The act of watching 
porn is comparable to cocaine – there is a mental rush and stimulation that comes from just 
watching. This reduces cognitive function, the ability to feel pleasure (anhedonia), and is highly 
addictive. Then there is the act of releasing far too frequently, primed and encouraged by watching 
porn. This process is physically draining on the body. 
Realize that porn and masturbation can each lead to more of the other behavior. Porn encourages 
masturbation by sexually exciting the body and ends up in release. Meanwhile, masturbation leaves 
the body feeling weak and exhausted, which in turn likely encourages watching porn again to chase 
that high. Repeatedly engaging in porn and masturbation together deepen the connection of these 
two separate behaviors in the mind. And as this process repeats, the highs become far less pleasurable 
while this process becomes far more addictive. 
We will discuss major negative impacts caused by porn that you must know about. In the following 
pages, I will provide some especially strong and candid reasons why you should quit, immediately, at 
all costs. Take these points very seriously as they are surprisingly pervasive among porn users. 

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