MiBeloved’s Response:
Will power and self-pledging may not be enough to terminate these habits. After all sexual exposure is naturally attractive and the urge to expel semen from the body is impulsive. These things are more than just choice. It is also environment. Pornography is a visual environment which triggers mental and emotional energies in our bodies. Thus, if we look at pornography it leads to sexual needs. But if we do not look at it, if decide not to see it any more, the question arises as to why we viewed it in the first place, because unless we figure that out we are likely to be drawn back into it against our will.
Why is pornography attractive in the first place? And why does our initial attraction to it lead to addiction? Right now worldwide there are literally millions of males who are hooked on pornography? Were we always like this or is this just because of Internet availability?
Masturbation is a separate issue but it is related. First of all thinking about sex, day dreaming about it, is all a subtle form of pornography. It is not a well-developed form like videos, but it is perhaps the most primitive creative form of it, where the mind itself creates the pornographic script and plays it out to our intuition. After such thinking, we are induced by the body itself, to have sex or to masturbate. So unless we can unlock the secrets of these primitive processes, there is no hope that we can actually terminate these habits. |