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-'I'M GOING TO CURE THE WORLD OF PMO'
+## 'I'M GOING TO CURE THE WORLD OF PMO'
 
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 As time passes you are most probably not excited as before of the same clip - the reason will be explained shortly - but of similar type, genre, shock-level, our dopamine seeps into the brain but this time lesser than before. Now you feel less arousal, lesser motivation. This low motivation feeling in itself will trigger a feeling of lower satisfaction as our minds engage in constant rating. Then you seek more motivation. Then you ask for more novelty. Then you click on that amateurish, ugly looking, low quality, but high shock valued clip thumbnail which you had confidently said you won’t on your first time.
 
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-**My Own Online Harem!**
+## **My Own Online Harem!**
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 This cycle of novelty, escalation, satiation, desensitization etc. is not the same as the old porn magazine? Neither can you do that in real life with your partner. Maybe if you own a harem? One of the pros of owning a harem is novelty and the cons are desensitization, escalation and of course the cost.
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 This dopamine flooding, like a quick-acting drug, falls quickly to induce withdrawal pangs. I must at this point dispel a common illusion that PMOers have about withdrawal pangs. They think that withdrawal pangs are the terrible trauma they suffer when they try or are forced to stop PMOing. These are, in fact, mainly mental; the user is feeling deprived of his pleasure or prop. I will explain more about this later.
 
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-**The Little Monster**
+## **The Little Monster**
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 The actual pangs of withdrawal from PMO are so subtle that most users have lived and died without even realizing they are like drug addicts. When we use the term ‘porn addict' we think we just 'got into the habit'. Most PMOers have a horror of drugs, yet that's exactly what they are - drug addicts. Fortunately it is an easy drug to kick, but you need first to accept that you are addicted. There is no physical pain in the withdrawal from PMO. It is merely an empty, restless feeling, the feeling of something missing, which is why many think it is something to do with their hands. If it is prolonged, the user becomes nervous, insecure, agitated, lacking in confidence and irritable. It is like hunger - for a poison, INTERNET PORN.
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 All PMOers start seeking porn for stupid reasons. Nobody has to. The only reason why anybody continues PMOing, whether they be a casual or a heavy user, is to feed that little monster. The whole business of porn and PMO is a series of confusing conundrums. All sufferers of PMO know at heart that they are fools and have been trapped by something evil. However, I think the most pathetic aspect about this is that the enjoyment that the PMOer gets from a session is the pleasure of trying to get back to the state of peace, tranquillity and confidence that his body had before he became hooked in the first place.
 
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-**The Annoying Burglar Alarm**
+## **The Annoying Burglar Alarm**
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 You know that feeling when a neighbour’s burglar alarm has been ringing all day, or there has been some other minor, persistent aggravation. Then the noise suddenly stops - that marvellous feeling of peace and tranquillity is experienced. It is not really peace but the ending of the aggravation. Before we start the next PMO session, our bodies are complete. We then force our brains to pump dopamine into the body using PMO, and when we are done orgasming and the dopamine starts to leave, we suffer withdrawal pangs - not physical pain, just an empty feeling. We are not even aware that it exists, but it is like a dripping tap inside our bodies. Our rational minds do not understand it. They do not need to. All we know is that we want porn and when we masturbate the craving goes, and for the moment we are content and confident again just as we were before we
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 We talk about internet porn being relaxing or giving satisfaction. But how can you be satisfied unless you were dissatisfied in the first place? Why don't non-PMOer suffer from this dissatisfied state and why, after a no-sex date, when the non-PMOers are completely relaxed, are PMOers completely unrelaxed until they have satisfied their 'little monster'? 
 
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-**A Pleasure or Crutch?**
+## **A Pleasure or Crutch?**
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 Forgive me if I dwell on this subject for a moment. The main reason that PMOers find it difficult to quit is that they believe that they are giving up a genuine pleasure or crutch. It is absolutely essential to understand that you are giving up nothing whatsoever. The best way to understand the subtleties of the PMO trap is to compare it with eating. If we are in the habit of eating regular meals, we are not aware of being hungry between meals. Only if the meal is delayed are we aware of being hungry, and even then, there is no physical pain, just an empty, insecure feeling which we know as: 'I need to eat.' And the process of satisfying our hunger is a very pleasantpastime.
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 3. Eating doesn't create hunger and genuinely relieves it, whereas the first PMO starts the craving for dopamine and each subsequent one, far from relieving it, ensures that you suffer it for the rest of life.
 
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-**PMO is a Habit?**
+## **PMO is a Habit?**
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 This is an opportune moment to dispel another common myth about PMO - that it is a habit. Is eating a habit? If you think so, try breaking it completely. No, to describe eating as a habit would be the same as describing breathing as a habit. Both are essential for survival. It is true that different people are in the habit of satisfying their hunger at different times and with varying types of food. But eating itself is not a habit. Neither is PMO. The only reason any PMOer fires up the browser is to try to end the empty, insecure feeling that the previous orgasm and the PMO session created. It is true that different PMOers are in the habit of trying to relieve their withdrawal pangs at different times, but PMO itself is not a habit.
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 [^1]: **Escalation** - a practice that is the result of our brain’s novelty and curiosity seeking to get more dopamine in our reward circuitry.
 
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-**Crossing The Red Line**
+## **Crossing The Red Line**
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 This is because, as with any other drug, the body tends to develop immunity to the effects of the same old porn clips and our brain wants more or something else. After quite a short period of watching the same clip it ceases to relieve completely the withdrawal pangs that the previous PMO session had created. You want to stay on the safe side of your own ‘red line’ but your brain is asking you to click on that ‘forbidden fruit’ clip. There is a tug of war occurring in this supposed porn paradise.
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 In case you have ideas of toning down to other more ‘realistic’ or ‘soft’ genres of porn and such, I should make it quite clear that the content of this book applies to all porn, yes, that includes, print, webcams, pay-per-views, chat, live shows etc. that is on high speed internet where ‘novelty’ and ‘shock’ is the nature of the game. Imagination goes farther than reality. The human body is the most sophisticated object on our planet. No species, even the lowest amoeba or worm, can survive without knowing the difference between food and poison.
 
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-**Brain Reward Circuit Mechanics**
+## **Brain Reward Circuit Mechanics**
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 Through a process of natural selection over thousand of years, our minds and bodies have developed techniques for rewarding actions that multiply and sustain humanity. Yet our minds and bodies are not ready for the supernormal stimulus that is bigger, brighter, colourful, edgier and more shocking than the one we have now. We are attracted proportional to the degree of how far the outlier is from our individual normal. It can be two dimensional clip - and a muted one at that - we will get aroused. Look at the same clip again and again and you won’t be. You just moved your red line close to the outlier and in no time you will enclose it in your normal consciousness. It is natural and it is so that you can multiply and grow this human race. In real life there are checks and balances in place so you take a break and go away do something else. With internet porn you there are no such checks and balances and you are living in a virtual harem!
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 How many of us don’t visit brothels - even when you are far from home? Why not? It’s not the social stigma? How many of us did not bring home a bottle on your way back from work - even after a hard day? Why not ? You ‘deserve’ it after that big deal you made? You just decided, after your first instance, that it’s not your cup of tea. That's all.
 
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-**Are PMOers Mentally Weak?**
+## **Are PMOers Mentally Weak?**
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 It is a fallacy that physically weak and mentally weak-willed people become PMOers. The lucky ones are those who find that first instance repulsive and they are cured for life. Or, alternatively, they are not mentally prepared to go through the severe learning process of fighting the obstructions of self-talking themselves to get hooked, fear of ‘getting caught’, not technical enough to create an online cache, operate privacy settings in the browser etc.
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 Many PMOers believe they enjoy online internet porn. It is an illusion. What we are actually doing when we jump from genre to genre is to keep our ‘novelty’ monkey within the ‘red line’ of ‘safe’ porn genres to get our dopamine fix, like heroin addicts who think that they enjoy injecting themselves. The withdrawal pangs from heroin are relatively severe and all they are really enjoying is the ritual of relieving those pangs.
 
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-**The High From The Dance Around The Red Line**
+## **The High From The Dance Around The Red Line**
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 Even with that one clip on which he lingers longer - the PMOer constantly teaches himself to filter out the bad and ugly portions of a porn clip. Even if it is solo, you still do the ‘filtering’ on the body parts that appeal to you the most. In fact some even take pleasure in this game to find an excuse to declare that they like ‘soft’ stuff and are not addicted to supranormal stimuli. Sometimes even this constant dance around the red line in itself produces a sort of high as well.
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 You will quite rightly ask why it is that many PMOers find it so difficult to stop, go through months of torture and spend the rest of their lives pining for it at odd times. The answer is the second reason why we use Internet porn - the brainwashing. The brain-chemical addiction is easy to cope with. Most PMOers go days without online porn - when they are on business trips or travel etc. The withdrawal pangs don’t affect them. Their little porn monster knows that you will open your laptop as soon as you return to hotel room or your den. Ah, you can even survive this obnoxious client and your megalomaniac manager - just ‘knowing’ that the fix is there for your take. It doesn't bother the PMOers.
 
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-**The Smokers Analogy**
+## **The Smokers Analogy**
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 A good analogy is the situation of smokers - if they went ten hours during the day without a cigarette they'd be tearing their hair out. Many smokers will buy a new car nowadays and refrain from smoking in it. Many will visit theatres, supermarkets, churches, etc. and not being able to smoke doesn't bother them. Even on the trains there have been no riots. Smokers are almost pleased for someone or something to force them to stop smoking.
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 The brain chemical addiction (little monster) is easy to cope with, even when you are still addicted, and there are thousands of PMOers who remain casual users all their lives. They are just as heavily addicted as the heavy PMOer. There are even heavy PMOers who have kicked the 'habit' but will have an occasional ‘peek’, and that keeps them addicted. You are ‘greasing’ the ‘water slide’ of the brain only to see you slide down at the next dip in your mood.
 
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-**The Big Monster - The Brainwashing**
+## **The Big Monster - The Brainwashing**
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 You are smart enough to know (aside, I will explain shortly why PMOers are in fact a strong willed and hard working bunch) that not all porn workers get a W-2 with 401k and stock options. Only a very rare actor and that too for a very short period of time of their career may be.

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+title: "03-07 Brainwashing and the Primitive Mechanism"
+date: 2022-12-23T08:39:02+02:00
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+How or why do we start PMOing in the first place? To understand this fully you need to examine the powerful effect of the supernormal stimulus. We all tend to think we are intelligent, dominant human beings determining our paths through life. We act and act frequently when our brain reward circuit are rewarded. Nobel laureate Nikolaas Tinbergen coined the term “supranormal stimulus.” He said mammals could be tricked into preferring fake eggs and mates. Female birds, for example, struggled to sit on larger-than life, vividly spotted plaster eggs while their own pale, dappled eggs perished untended.
+
+The stimulation here in internet porn is not it brings stimulating actors and themes to your home - it is a genie at your bidding to create a harem in your mind. You can switch between genres and theme, home-made and viewer rated, commented and discussed, so rapid and so easy. We absolutely are not ready for the high speed internet porn and our brains are not designed to handle this supranormal stimuli.
+
+We can have an ‘information overload’ from the same internet but our reward circuits are not going to squirt dopamine at the levels when ‘porn overload’ is involved. We are evolutionarily programmed to seek and access sex related stuff. And we wrongly appraise the stimulus mostly based on this reward circuit action. If all you wanted is to masturbate why can’t you just use one clip and get the business done?
+
+Here is another question - next time after a long day or some stressful incident can you consciously embellish your self-talk with “Do you know what I would really enjoy today? The marvellous warm glow of dopamine rush going to my online harem.” You will find that even people who dislike PMO will join you.
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+## **Past Misguided Advice**
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+
+There was much misguided advice given in the past and one is that masturbating will lead to blindness. And there are some other scare tactics that clearly over-did it. It is right that those notions were overthrown by science. But now the mainstream threw the baby out with the bath water. TV programs, pop music, literature and movies all subtly show shambolic characters using porn or masturbation. They knowingly or unknowingly mix porn, sex, internet porn, masturbation and orgasm.
+
+From our earliest years our subconscious minds are bombarded daily with information telling us that sex is good and that the most precious thing on this earth is to ‘achieve’ orgasm. Girls are taught to achieve it and claim it's because they were wrongly suppressed of their sexual side for a very long time and still are. You think I exaggerate? Watch any TV or movie plot and you will see the mix-up of the amative (touch, smell, voice etc.) and the propagative (orgasmic) sides of sex. The impact of this does not register on our conscious minds but the sleeping partner, the subconscious mind, has time to absorb it. What the message is really saying is, “The most precious thing on this earth, my last thought and action, will be the goal of orgasm.” If you don’t have an orgasm then you are an old man with zero libido.
+
+Our children are being bombarded by sex and porn clips and many don’t even know how to protect them from it all. Large hoardings and magazine adverts are loaded with sexual innuendo. Some of the pop videos are extremely suggestive - again they hide behind free speech. Don’t be vexed and feel powerless about it. Make it a game and find you which of the components they are using - is it novelty, shock value, color, size, taboo etc. If the kids are pre-teen some of these can be disclosed to them and it would make an excellent show-and-tell game.
+
+A while back there was a wave of ‘leaked’ private videos of celebrities on the internet. If the youngster is too smitten by their favourite star, even if the conscious mind blames the ‘leak’ on the blood thirsty internet paparazzi, the 'sleeping partner' is patiently digesting the notion that, “yes, even my shambolic hero does it and if I don’t, I won’t look the part.”
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+## **The Scientific Reasoning**
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+
+
+True, there is publicity the other way - the PIED scares, the loss of motivation, preferring virtual porn to real girls, YBOP[^1], Reboot[^2] forums, underground PUA[^3], the no FAP movement - but these do not actually stop people PMOing. Logically they should, but the fact is they do not. They would not even prevent youngsters from starting no matter how much the YBOP guys try. All the years that I remained a PMOer, I can honestly say, even if I had read all of them before, I would never have become a quitter. The truth is that it doesn't make the slightest bit of difference. The trap is the same today as when you fell into it.
+[^1]: **YBOP** - yourbrainonporn.com, the leading internet porn addiction awareness site.
+[^2]: **PUA** - pickup artist. Someone who teaches men to pick up mates.
+[^3]: **Reboot forum** - online resource for those who try temporary abstinence.
+
+Ironically, the most powerful force in this melee of confusion is the PMOer himself. It is a fallacy that they are weak-willed or are physically weak specimens. You have to be physically strong in order to cope with an addiction after you know it is. This is one of the reasons why PMOers refuse to accept the overwhelming statistics that prove that internet porn with its ‘novelty’ cripples your brain. Add to that the sexologists who are doing half-baked studies and declare PMO is not an issue - they just help to add to the confusion.
+
+Everyone knows a friend who PMOed every day - he started with the ‘static’ to internet porn, always horny in real life, chasing girls and you never doubted him to have sex problems of course. You want to believe him. He never complained about any ED right? Guys and girls like them refuse even to consider the hundreds of ex-addicts and non-PMOers who painfully recount their difficulties. It is the “little monster” brain chemical addiction and the “big monster” - illusions and delusions. In this hackbook, I've put together almost all the sorts of brainwashing a PMOer can suffer from. There will always be a few out there that I haven't touched upon.
+
+Even more painful is they think of themselves as unsuccessful losers and insufferable introverts. A possible fact is that a PMO friend could have been more interesting in person if he hadn’t put himself down for seeking self-pleasure.
+
+If you do a small survey among your online forum members, friends and colleagues, you will find that most PMOers are, in fact, strong-willed people. They tend to be self-employed, business executives or in certain specialized professions, such as doctors[^4], lawyers, policemen, teachers, salesmen, nurses, secretaries, housewives with children, etc. In other words, anybody leading a stressful existence. Yes, I did include women and mothers. It’s the brain and it’s the same for them too. The main delusion of the PMOer is that porn helps to masturbate to orgasm and that relieves stress. This tends to be associated with the dominant type, the type that takes on responsibility and stress and, of course, that is the type that we admire and therefore tend to copy. Another group that tends to get hooked are people in monotonous jobs because the other main reason for PMOing is boredom. However, the idea that internet porn relieves boredom is also an illusion, I am afraid.
+
+[^4]: **Doctors** - there is a reddit online forum for medical doctors who are quitting.
+
+As a society we get all uptight about glue-sniffing, heroin addiction, etc. Actual deaths from glue-sniffing do not amount to ten per annum, and deaths from heroin are less than a hundred a year in this country. There is another drug, internet porn, on which over 45 per cent of us become hooked at some time in our lives and the majority spend the rest of their lives regretting it. Some even don’t know that their ED is due to this.
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+## **The Willpower Method**
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+PMOers who quit using the Willpower method blame their own lack of willpower and ruin their peace and happiness. It is one thing to fail in self-discipline and another to self-loathe. There is no law that requires you to get fully hard all the time before sex, and to be properly aroused, and that you must be able to satisfy a woman. We are working on an addiction and not a habit. Habit is something you like to do- for example, golf - at no point you are arguing with yourself to stop golfing? But you do so with your porn addiction. The real question is: why?
+
+Constant exposure to internet porn re-wires your brain. You need to start building resistance to this brainwashing, just as if you were buying a car from a second-hand car dealer. You would be nodding politely but you would not believe a word the man was saying. So don’t believe everything they say either - that you must have sex as much as you can and you must have it exceptional good. And that in the absence of real sex you claim it by the substitute called internet porn - which is only a component of the good old porn.
+
+And don’t play ‘safe’ porn game either - because your “little porn monster” invented that scheme to lure you. Even the content - ‘amateur’? Really? Is there a certification authority that certifies it? Tube sites and porn producers gather site visitor profiles and cater to their needs. If they see a trend in crowd sourced collection of a particular genre they will focus on that and get content out ASAP. The statistics of what genre users like is collected to the level of how long and which portion the users were preferring. Do not be fooled by their educational intent or the safe female oriented clips (for you ladies). Start asking yourself:
+* Why am I doing it?
+* Do I really need to?
+
+**NO, OF COURSE YOU DON'T.**
+
+I find this brainwashing aspect the most difficult of all to explain. Why is it that an otherwise rational, intelligent human being becomes a complete imbecile about his own addiction? It pains me to confess that out of the thousands of people that I have assisted in kicking the habit, I (not Allen Carr) was the biggest idiot of all.
+
+At the age of thirteen, although I was doing well at school and games, I was still an insufferable introvert. I read books from the library that were not within my main study list. However, I can see that I was attracted to erotica. I started masturbating to TV programs, song and dance sequences etc. I must have to have it every day. The tired feeling I felt was misappropriated by my ‘little porn monster’ as work stress. I didn’t know my “I-must-masturbate-as-I-am-entitled” attitude was the one that created the ‘stress’ in the first place. Then I got pictures and GIFs via email on my laptop - the first step towards electronic porn. The colour and texture of the images were amazing for me at that time - won’t be now for sure. Then came dial-up but still they were predominantly static pictures. Then came downloadable videos. It’s a pain to download and watch now - but it was heaven sent then as we were coming out of the static porn era! Oh, the streaming tube sites haven’t arrived yet.
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+## **When Real Sex Is Not Enough Anymore**
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+I even remember opening up my laptop after having real sex (an activity I did due to stress induced by my own irrational rigid self demands to make her orgasm) and I was wanting more. Obviously the prospect of orgasm providing fulfilment rarely happens after prolonged porn use. So, my mind was reaching out to porn.
+
+At the age of forty, I was visiting my online harem daily, drinking ‘socially’ (whatever that means) and smoking ‘sometimes’ but not so often. I had wrongly subscribed to misguided ideas of ‘moderation’ and ‘entitlement’. I had reached the stage where I couldn't get through a single day without reaching out to porn in the night. With most PMOers, the triggers are the normal stresses of life, like answering the telephone or socializing.
+
+When I experienced PIED - I knew it was killing my virility. There was no way I could kid myself otherwise. I am smart enough not to ‘project’ the porn fantasies on to real life. But it was like pacifying a dog straining at its leash. But why I couldn't see what it was doing to me mentally, I could not understand. It was almost jumping up and biting me on the nose. The ridiculous thing is that most PMOers suffer the delusion at some time in their life that they enjoy internet porn because it is ‘normal’ and ‘healthy’. I never suffered that delusion, I PMOed because I thought enjoying sex is a ‘birthright’ and I am only doing a normal thing.
+
+Since it was easier at most times for me to get internet porn than a partner I thought I am doing the normal thing. Now I am a non-PMOer, the most difficult part is trying to believe that those days actually happened. It's like awakening from a nightmare and that is about the size of it. Internet porn is a supranormal drug. It is weakening your de-stressing mechanisms, your virility and your energy. The worst aspect of PMO isn't the injury to your health or manliness, it is the warping of the mind. You search for any plausible excuse to go on.
+
+I remember at one stage switching to static images, a failed attempt to cut down on internet porn, in the belief that it was less harmful and I could reign in my ‘habit’. I failed to see the ‘novelty’ and the ‘shock’ demands from my ‘little monster’ to just get more dopamine. Did I ‘stay’ within my boundaries? I ‘favorited’ 2 dimensional photos and my harem collection saw pictures and videos of ‘mild’ type porn rotating in and out like musical chair. When their ‘music’ stopped they ‘exited’. I didn’t understand the novelty-seeking, shock-seeking nature of my brain.
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+## **PIED And My Excuses**
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+Once I figured I had PIED, as it had occurred multiple times with two different partners, I switched to more and more sophisticated masturbation. I practised with different artificial vaginas. They are sold as strength training. However, the combo of internet porn and toys needs deft hands, which is off-putting. Besides, by this time I was at the stage of orgasming with a limp member. All I wanted is an orgasm so I did not care about arousal, getting hard and all that. I had a long distance married girlfriend - who likes to share and talk about her sex life in very explicit manner. It turned me on so much that I’d masturbate to orgasm when I am on the phone with her. She knew it and would play with me by cutting off abruptly - to keep me hanging there - making me wanting more when she calls the next time. She had no trouble because I was fully willing to be the subject of playing such games, as long as it led to orgasm. A girl knows when a guy is seeking orgasm and it is his only goal. The only redeeming factor about me was my intelligence and empathy which kept her and my other partners coming back to me.
+
+Most PMOers swear that they only watch static and soft porn and so they are OK. They are actually straining at the leash and thus fighting with their willpower to resist temptations. If they do this too often and for too long they will debit their willpower considerably and fail in other life projects where willpower is of much great value, like in daily exercise, dieting etc. Continuous failure in those areas will make them feel miserable and guilty and very soon they will find themselves back to their entitled relief. If not, they will vent their anger and depression onto their loved ones.
+
+The answer is that once you have become addicted to internet porn, the brainwashing is increased. Your subconscious mind knows that the little monster has to be fed and you block everything else from your mind. As I have already stated, it is fear that keeps people quitting, the fear of that empty, insecure feeling that you get when you stop supplying the brain with dopamine flooding. Just because you are not aware of it doesn't mean it isn't there. You don't have to understand it any more than a cat needs to understand where the under-floor hot-water pipes are. It just knows that if it sits in a certain place it gets the feeling of warmth.
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+## **The Passivity Of Our Mind**
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+It is the passivity of our minds and dependency on authority leading to brainwashing that is the main difficulty in giving up PMO. The brainwashing of our upbringing in society reinforced with the brainwashing from our own addiction and, most powerful of all, the brainwashing of our friends, relatives and colleagues. Did you notice that up to now I've frequently referred to 'giving up' PMO, I used the expression at the beginning of the previous paragraph. This is a classic example of the brainwashing. The expression implies a genuine sacrifice. The beautiful truth is that there is absolutely nothing to give up. On the contrary, you will be freeing yourself from a terrible disease and achieving marvellous positive gains. We are going to start removing this brainwashing now. From this point on, no longer will we refer to 'giving up', but to stopping, quitting or the true position: **ESCAPING!**
+
+The only thing that persuades us to PMO in the first place is all the other people doing it. We feel we are missing out. We work so hard to become hooked, yet nobody ever finds out what they have been missing. But every time we see another new video clip it reassures us that there must be something in it, otherwise people wouldn't be doing it - and it wouldn't be such big business all over the world. Even when he has kicked the habit, the ex-PMOer feels he is being deprived when a discussion on a sexy entertainer, singer or even a porn star comes up at a party or other social function. She or he must be good to have all my friends talk about them, no? Do they have ‘hot’ pictures of her in my tube site? He feels safe. He can have just one ‘peek’ that night. And, before he knows it, he is hooked again.
+
+This brainwashing is extremely powerful and you need to be aware of its effects. I have heard scare stories about wicked men giving heroin mixed candies to kids at schoolyards. The concept of addiction and being compelled to go on taking the drug, filled me with horror. Even to this day, in spite of the fact that I am fairly convinced that 'pot' is not addictive, I would not dare take one puff of marijuana. How ironic that I should have ended up a porn junky. Technology will continue to grow and we will have even faster tube sites and more faster access methods. The industry is investing millions in Virtual Reality so it will become the next best thing. The point is, do we know where we are going? Are we equipped with an under armour of defence so we can enjoy the benefits of technology yet at the same time protect ourselves from its bad effects?
+
+We are about to remove the brainwashing. It is not the non-PMOer who is being deprived but the poor user who is forfeiting a lifetime of:
+* **HEALTH**
+* **ENERGY**
+* **WEALTH**
+* **PEACE OF MIND**
+* **CONFIDENCE**
+* **COURAGE**
+* **SELF-RESPECT**
+* **HAPPINESS**
+* **FREEDOM**
+
+And what does he gain from these considerable sacrifices? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! Except the illusion of trying to get back to the state of peace, tranquillity and confidence that the non-PMOer enjoys all the time.

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+title: "03-08 Relieving Withdrawal Pangs"
+date: 2022-12-23T11:36:16+02:00
+draft: false
+---
+
+As I explained earlier, PMOers think they do it for enjoyment, relaxation or some sort of education. In fact, this an illusion. The actual reason is the relief of withdrawal pangs. In the early days we use the porn as a curious and novel thing or even educational or as a rebel. We can take it or leave it. However, the subtle chain has started. Our subconscious mind begins to learn that internet porn and masturbation taken at certain times tends to be pleasurable. The more we become hooked on the drug, the greater the need to relieve the withdrawal pangs and the further the PMO drags you down and the more you are fooled into believing it is doing the opposite. It all happens so slowly, so gradually, you are not even aware of it. Each day you feel no different from the day before. Most young PMOers don't even realize they are hooked until they actually try to stop and even then many won't admit to it. A few stalwarts just keep their heads in the sand all their lives,trying to convince themselves and other people that they enjoy it.
+
+Listen to this conversation a therapist had with hundreds of teenagers.
+> TH: “You realize that internet porn is a drug and that the only reason why you are using is that you cannot stop.”
+
+> PA: “Nonsense! I enjoy it. If I didn't, I would stop.”
+
+> TH: “Just stop for a week to prove to me you can if you want to.”
+
+> PA: “No need. I enjoy it. If I wanted to stop, I would.”
+
+> TH: “Just stop for a week to prove to yourself you are not hooked.”
+
+> PA: “What's the point? I enjoy it.”
+
+As already stated, PMOers tend to relieve their withdrawal pangs at times of stress, boredom, concentration, relaxation or a combination of these. This point is explained in greater detail in the next few chapters.

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+title: "03-09 Stress"
+date: 2022-12-23T11:38:59+02:00
+draft: false
+---
+
+I am referring not only to the great tragedies of life but also to the minor stresses, the socializing, the telephone call, the anxieties of the housewife with noisy young children and so on. Let us use the telephone conversation as an example. For most people the telephone is slightly stressful, particularly for the businessman. Most calls aren't from satisfied customers or your boss congratulating you. There's usually some sort of aggravation - something going wrong or somebody making demands. Then he or she comes home to the mundane family life of kids screaming and wife's emotional demands on you. His already PMO weakened de-stressors are in no way ready to take the aggravation. At that time the PMOer, if he isn't already doing so, will fantasize the relief of internet porn that he promised himself that night. He will even allow himself to “take one step more” into the ‘forbidden’ area that he had previously self-excluded. He doesn't know why he does this but he does know that for some reason it appears to help.
+
+What has actually happened is this: without being conscious of it, he has already been suffering aggravation (i.e. the withdrawal pangs). By partially relieving that aggravation at the same time as normal stress, the total stress is reduced and the PMOer gets a boost. At this point the boost is not, in fact, an illusion. The Internet porn user will feel better than before. However, even when using porn to masturbate he or she is more tense than if he were a non-PMOer because the more you go into the drug, the more it knocks you down and the less it restores you when you masturbate. I promised no shock treatment. In the example I am about to give, I am not trying to shock you, I am merely emphasizing that PMO destroy your nerves rather than relax them.
+
+Try to imagine getting to the stage where you cannot get aroused even with a very sexy and attractive partner. Just for a moment pause and try to visualize life where one very lovely and charming woman has to compete and fail with all the virtual porn stars who are in your 'harem' to get your attention! Try to imagine the frame of mind of a man who, issued with that warning, actually continues PMOing and then dies without ever having had real sex with this charming and willing real woman. I had read real life stories like that from men and dismissed them as weirdos. In fact, I used to wish a doctor would tell me that this weird condition would happen if I continue PMO; then I would have stopped. Yet I was already fully expecting that PIED and hypofrontality where I am guaranteed to lose in a brain war. I didn't think of myself as an impotent, just a heavy PMOer. Now, let’s talk about the stress that this is putting on me.
+
+Such weird stories as the above are not fakes. That is what this awful ‘novelty’ porn drug does to you. As you go through life, it systematically takes away your nerve and courage. The more it takes your courage away, the more you are deluded into believing the porn is doing the opposite.
+
+Have you ever been overtaken by panic when you are out on business travel and the hotel WiFi is down or too slow? Non-PMOers do not suffer from it. The internet porn drug causes that feeling. At the same time, as you go through life, PMO not only destroys your nerves but keeps building a powerful neural ‘water slide’, DeltaFosB, progressively destroying your ability to say no.
+
+By the time the PMOer reaches the stage at which it has killed his virility, he believes the PMO is his new girlfriend and cannot face life without it. Get it clear in your head that Internet porn is not relieving your nerves; it is slowly but steadily destroying them. One of the great gains of breaking the ‘habit’ is the return of your natural confidence and self-assurance.
+
+There is no need to self-rate based on your ability to get hard or to satisfy a woman. However, you do ‘know’ deep inside that this is slavery. It is not freedom. And that freedom cannot be achieved by continuing to ‘grease’ - repeating the same behaviour and energizing the ‘water slide’ neural pathways of your brain in ways that undercut your happiness in general and not to mention your libido.

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+---
+title: "03-10 Boredom"
+date: 2022-12-23T11:40:46+02:00
+draft: false
+---
+
+As soon as you get into your bed - and if you are like many people you are already on your favorite tube site - you will probably have already forgotten about it until I reminded you. It has become second nature. Another fallacy about PMOing is that it relieves boredom. Boredom is a frame of mind. The only time that happens is when you have been deprived for a long time or are trying to cut down, or during those first few PMO sessions after a failed attempt to stop.
+
+The true situation is this: when you are addicted to internet porn’s supranormal novelty and then you decide to abstain from internet porn, there is something missing. If you have something to occupy your mind that isn't stressful, you can go for long periods without being bothered by the absence of the drug. However, when you are bored there's nothing to take your mind off it, so you feed the monster. When you are indulging yourself (i.e. not trying to stop or cut down), even firing up your incognito browser becomes subconscious. The PMOer can perform this ritual automatically. If any PMOer tries to remember the session during the last week, he can only remember a small proportion of them - e.g. the very last one or after a long abstinence.
+
+The truth is that PMOing tend to increase boredom indirectly because orgasms make you feel lethargic and instead of undertaking some energetic activity, PMOers tend to prefer lounge around, bored, relieving their withdrawal pangs. This is why countering the brainwashing is so important. Because it's a fact that PMOers tend to masturbate when they are bored and that we're wired to interpret PMO as interesting. It doesn't occur to us to question the fact how a two dimensional supranormal stimulus relieves boredom.
+
+We've also been brainwashed into believing that sex - even a bad sex - aids relaxation. It is a fact that when under stress or sad, couples want to have sex. In the absence of discrimination between amative and propagative sex, the goal is set to achieve orgasms by hook or by crook. Next time you do this watch how you both want to get away from each other as soon as it’s over. It is obvious that if they had just decided to cuddle, speak, hug and touch each other and go to sleep without the mandatory orgasms, the couple would have felt relieved. Well, if in the process, they wanted to have the propagative part then by all means they can but that is a topic not meant to be discussed in this book.

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+---
+title: "03-11 Concentration"
+date: 2022-12-23T11:42:13+02:00
+draft: false
+---
+
+Sex and masturbation do not help concentration. That is just another illusion. When you are trying to concentrate, you automatically try to avoid distractions. So when a PMOer wants to concentrate he doesn't even have to think about it. He automatically PMOs, partially ending the craving, gets on with the matter in hand and has already forgotten that he just PMOed. Sex in general do not help concentration. After years of masturbation your brain changes affect abilities such as assessing, planning and impulse control. The PMOer is already suffering: that little monster wants his fix.
+
+You are also stressed to provide novelty for the next PMO session as the same stuff will not generate enough dopamine and opioids. You have to “roam the internet streets” for novelty - all the while fighting the pull to cross the line towards shock. This creates more stress. After you orgasm, you feel unfulfilled as well.
+
+Concentration is also affected adversely for another reason. Your dopamine receptors have already started to get reduced by building up natural tolerance to these large surges, reducing the benefit of the smaller dopamine boosts from natural de-stressors.
+
+In fact, your concentration and inspiration will be greatly improved as this process is reversed. For some it will be the concentration aspect that prevents them from succeeding when using the willpower method. They could put up with the irritability and bad temper but when they really needed to concentrate on something difficult they have to have that porn fix. I can well remember the panic I felt when I discovered that the hotel has no internet connection and I had this huge presentation the day after.
+
+The loss of concentration that PMOers suffer when they try to escape is not, in fact, due to your abstinence from sex, let alone PMO. When you are addicted to something, you have mental blocks. When you have such a block, what do you do? You fire up the browser. That doesn't cure the mental block, so then what do you do? You do what you have to do: you get on with it, just as non-PMOers do.
+
+When you are a PMOer nothing gets blamed on the cause. PMOers never have EDs; they just have an occasional down time. The moment you stop using, everything that goes wrong in your life is blamed on the fact that you've stopped. Now when you have a mental block, instead of just getting on with it, you start to say, “if only I could check out my favourites now, it would solve my problem.” You then start to question your decision to quit and escape from this slavery.
+
+If you believe that PMOing is a genuine aid to concentration, worrying about it will guarantee that you won't be able to concentrate. It's the doubting, not the physical withdrawal pangs, that causes the problem. Always remember: it is PMOer who suffers pangs and not non-PMOers. When I quit I went overnight from using everyday to zero without any apparent loss of concentration.

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+title: "03-12 Relaxation"
+date: 2022-12-23T11:44:10+02:00
+draft: false
+---
+
+Most PMOers think that PMO helps to relax them. The truth is that internet porn used in PMO acts like a chemical stimulant. The frantic search to get the fix in those “dark alleys of the internet” and the internal struggle to reign in the dog straining at its leash for more shocking clips does not sound much like an activity of relaxation to me.
+
+One of the favourite PMO sessions for most is the one after a trip to a new place or after along day. As the night rolls in we stop working; we sit down and relax, relieve our hunger and thirst and are then completely satisfied. However, the poor PMOer cannot relax, as he has another hunger to satisfy. He thinks of the PMO as the icing on the cake but it is the 'little monster' that needs feeding.
+
+The truth is that the addict can never be completely relaxed and as you go through life it gets worse. The most stressed people on this planet aren't non-PMOers but those young men and women who have a need to hunt (with the misunderstood goal of orgasm) and their ignorance of and/or low opinion of amative sex. Women who have subscribed to “I must orgasm” teachings are not even aware of the victim they have made of themselves. At this point any sex that leads to climax and orgasm cease to relieve even partially the symptoms that they have created.
+
+I can remember when I was bringing up a family. If my child would do something wrong I would quickly lose my temper to an extent that was out of all proportion to what he had done.
+
+My partner was “always frigid and not interested in sex.” Now I realize that if I had only tried the amative side of things then maybe I could have relieved myself of a great measure of stress at least - if not at me, I am sure she would have. One online comment...
+
+“I really believed that I had an evil demon in my make-up. I now know that I had, however it wasn't some inherent flaw in my character but the little internet porn monster that was creating the problem. During those times I thought I had all the problems in the world but when I look back on my life I wonder where all the great stress was. In everything else in my life I was in control. The one thing that controlled me was this porn slavery. The sad thing is that even today I can't convince my children that it was the slavery that caused me to be so irritable.”
+
+Every time I hear a porn addict trying to justify his addiction the message is, “Oh, it calms me. It helps me to relax.”
+
+On the Internet I read about a single dad whose 6 year old son would want to share his bed sometimes in the night after a scary movie yet the dad would refuse under some pretence so he can have his PMO session and edge for hours.
+
+Let me try a smoking analogy here... a couple of years ago, the adoption authorities threatened to prevent smokers from adopting children. A man rang up, irate. He said, “you are completely wrong. I can remember when I was a child, if I had a contentious matter to raise with my mother, I would wait until she lit a cigarette because she was more relaxed then.” Why couldn't he talk to his mother when she wasn't smoking a cigarette?
+
+Why are PMOers so stressd when they are not getting their fix, even after a real sex with a real woman? I read about a guy who has 9's and 10's open for dating with him as he was in the advertising field. I am talking about dinner and stuff only - but he lost interest in those dinners as his Internet porn is far more ‘easy’ for him - no restaurant spending and no hearing a ‘no’ from his date at the end of an evening. Why would he bother when his little monster tells him about the low-risk high-reward scheme called PMO that is at his fingertips when he reaches home? Those real girls sure have competition.
+
+Why are non-PMOers completely relaxed then? Why are PMOers not able to relax without a fix for a day or two? If you read about the experience of a PMOer taking the abstinence oath and quitting and you notice his struggle with the temptations. You can clearly see that they are not relaxed at all when they are not allowed to have the ‘only pleasure’ they are “entitled to enjoy.” They've forgotten what it feels like to be completely relaxed. That's one of the many joys you have to come. The whole business of PMOing can be likened to a fly being caught in a pitcher plant. To begin with, the fly is eating the nectar. At some imperceptible stage the plant begins to eat the fly.
+
+Isn't it time you climbed out of that plant?

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+title: "03-13 Social Night PMOing"
+date: 2022-12-23T11:47:03+02:00
+draft: false
+---
+
+This is a misinformation that seems to make sense but then it does not. In order to have control of eating, will you eat at home before leaving to go to a restaurant or a party? This is what you are doing when you PMO before your social night. You will look tired and will not be up to your best. If you have dating jitters then work on it beforehand and then go with the flow even with some butterflies in your stomach. I like a bit of the anxiety in me to keep me going. Tiring yourself mentally and physically with an orgasm is not going to help you, unless of course you are going to see a prostitute. The goal is entirely different in that angle.
+
+The widespread adoption of pick-up techniques has put pressure on guys to perform, to attract and to ‘score’. You can get knowledge but you should know how to use it. I can guarantee that 100% of the other guys hanging at that bar know exactly what you know. It comes down to the ‘how’ of how you use it when you get the chance. Even before that, there is one very critical thing about any knowledge pertaining to human interactions, that ‘knowledge’ should never force your actions. This is important.
+
+I once masturbated and then poured wine to quiet the butterflies in my stomach before a date. I looked tired after just one hour into the date, the loud noise of the bar, dehydration, excessive self-consciousness (PUA teachings) etc. made my time unenjoyable. Somehow the girl and her friend liked it all. However, I do think it would have been better if I had gone without any props. I ended up being successful by claiming my 'goal(s)' - which I consider unfortunate and as random luck.
+
+The PMO session I had before the date triggered a dopamine flooding and its withdrawal hit around the time I was with the date. I had to over-do my conversation to compensate the ineffective dopamine effects after that earlier orgasm. I am also sure that I was suffering from hypofrontality - where my impulses were failing my controls. That gushing moment, an extra decibel in the tone etc. would easily have given my nervousness to the girls - only if I was not protected by the loud noise in the bar. Why do you want to take chances?
+
+PMO ceases to relieve the withdrawal pangs that it causes in the first place. That is also why heavy PMOers turn to alcohol or other drugs. But I digress. Social night PMOing is occasioned by two or more of our usual reasons for pleasure/prop seeking, e.g. social functions, parties, weddings, school exams, game night, even business meetings. These are examples of occasions that are both stressful and relaxing. This might at first appear to be a contradiction but it isn't. Any form of socializing can be stressful, even with friends, and at the same time you want to be enjoying yourself and be completely relaxed.
+
+There are situations where multiple reasons are present at one and the same time. To illustrate I will quote driving as one of these. But driving always involves an element of stress. Your life is at stake. You are also having to concentrate. You may not be aware of the last two factors but the fact that they are subconscious doesn't mean they aren't there. And if you are stuck in a traffic jam or have a long motorway drive, you may also be bored and may have ‘promised’ yourself to a PMO after you reach home.
+
+Another classic example is going on a first date. Especially when you know something about the date before hand like their profile from an online dating site. Your mind is throwing questions back and forth. If she is a 10 and in that vicinity or if the date is from another race which is socially ‘perceived’ as a couple of levels above your race then it gets even noisier in your head. Then the surprise to meet the person in flesh, first the looks, then the voice, then the mannerisms. Expectations determine the level of interest you have for her from there on. If your enthusiasm starts to flag you will start to feel too relaxed but then you feel guilty for feeling too relaxed. The tug of war has started. I want sex or get me out of here ASAP - I know where to get it. That will lead you to the next stage of post-date PMOing.
+
+Even if the date went fine and hours later you are at her door and which ever way it goes, you will not be satisfied if your goal is fully on the orgasm-seek. At other times, you drive home alone and all you want to do is to go to your online harem instead of patting yourself on the back for your efforts and enjoying yourself.
+
+You can bet that this unfortunate guy is going to PMO after he reaches home. It is often after nights like these, when we wake to feel the uneasy emptiness, are often the special ones, the ones that we think we'll miss the most when we are contemplating stopping PMOing. We think that life will never be quite as enjoyable again. In fact, it is the same principle at work: these PMO sessions simply provide relief from withdrawal pangs and at certain times we have greater need to relieve them than at others. You had ended up ‘greasing’ the neural ‘waterslides’ in your brain and made it ready to slide again on the next cue.
+
+Let us make it quite clear. It is not the internet porn and the harem dwellers that are special; it is the occasion. Once we have removed the need for the PMO, such occasions will become more enjoyable and the stressful situations less stressful. This will be explained in greater detail in the next chapter.

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+---
+title: "03-14 What Am I Giving Up?"
+date: 2022-12-23T11:49:35+02:00
+draft: false
+---
+
+ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! The thing that makes it difficult for us to give up is fear. The fear that we are being deprived of our pleasure or prop. The fear that certain pleasant situations will never be quite the same again. The fear of being unable to cope with stressful situations. In other words, the effect of brainwashing is to delude us into believing that sex and by extension orgasm, is a must for all human beings. Or that there is something inherent in Internet porn that we need and that when we stop PMOing we will be self-denying ourselves and there will be a void.
+
+>Get it clear in your mind:
+
+>>Internet porn
+
+>>DOES NOT FILL A VOID.
+
+>>IT CREATES ONE!
+
+These bodies of ours are the most sophisticated objects on this planet. Whether you believe in a creator, a process of natural selection or a combination of both, whatever being or system devised these bodies of ours, it is a thousand times more effective than man! Man cannot create the smallest living cell, let alone the miracle of eyesight, reproduction, our circulatory system or our brains. We don’t have our systems upgraded yet to properly assess the supranormal stimulus such as rich high density food or high speed internet novelty porn with multiple active windows.
+
+If the creator or process had intended us to handle novelty triggering stimuli, we would have been provided with some other brain reward circuits. Our bodies are, in fact, provided with fail-safe warning devices and we ignore these at our peril. Excessive edging results in body pain, irritation, and inflammation. In women, excessive flooding of dopamine and stress enzymes such as prostaglandin-E2 can cause difficulty to orgasm and PME.
+
+{{% center %}}
+## **There Is Nothing To Give Up**
+{{% /center %}}
+
+The beautiful truth is - there is nothing to give up. Once you purge that little monster from your body and the brainwashing (the big monster) from your mind, you will neither want to masturbate often nor need internet porn for it. PMO destroys your sense of self-control. I don’t think PMOers are self-destructive to continue even after knowing the ill-effects of internet porn. They clearly don’t have suicidal tendencies. They don’t enjoy this slavery themselves. Many of them do it in spite of the fact that they know it causes self-sabotage. You see there must be many unknowns and the medical community has no idea of even questioning and determining someone as an internet porn addict yet. So a lot of reported symptoms are wrongly tagged under other causes. It is not that PMOers are generally stupid people; it is just that they are miserable without the PMO. They are caught between the devil and the deep blue sea. They either have to abstain and be miserable because they cannot PMO or be miserable because they are destroying themselves through PMO and feel guilty and despise themselves for it. When they feel that lower back pain or get PIED, their minds are torn between accepting responsibility and looking the other way.
+
+
+The problem I have is to make a convincing point as I’d have done for, let us say... smokers? All of us have seen smokers who develop excuses to sneak off for a crafty puff. It is easy to see the true addiction in action. Addicts do not do it because they enjoy it. They do it because they are miserable without it.
+
+Because many of us started out our first sexual experience that ended in an orgasm and we acquired the belief that we cannot enjoy sex without an orgasm. And for men, porn is sold as an aid towards sex, sometimes even as an education to be confident during the act of sex. It used to be static, but now we have supranormal internet porn. But this is nonsense. Internet porn takes away your confidence.
+
+{{% center %}}
+## **Women And Porn**
+{{% /center %}}
+
+The greatest evidence of the fear that porn instils is in its effect on women. Practically all women are fastidious about their personal appearance. They wouldn't dream of appearing at a social function not immaculately turned out and smelling beautiful. So why would they fall for internet porn ? The traps were set as either a control trap (I can give up when I want) or an educational trap, or a freedom trap (I am entitled). Feminism has freed women from all the bad patriarchal rules of the past but they still need to be aware of supranormal stimulus such as internet porn.
+
+Porn and internet porn does not help your sex life; it destroys it totally. Having to hide your internet footprints, trying to delete your history, fearing accidental exposure to your boyfriend or kids, body pains, doubtful symptoms, fighting self doubts, arguing with yourself about your responsibilities in the ill effects of your addiction... well, why do you want to put yourself in such a bad situation?
+
+Not only is there nothing to give up but there are marvellous positive gains to be had. When PMOers contemplate quitting they tend to concentrate on health and virility. These are obviously valid and important issues but I personally believe the greatest gains from stopping are psychological:
+1. The return of your confidence and courage.
+2. Freedom from the slavery.
+3. Not to have to go through life suffering the awful black shadows at the back of your mind, knowing you are being despised by half of the population and, worst of all, despising yourself.
+
+Not only is life better as a non-PMOer but it is infinitely more enjoyable. I do not only mean you will be healthier. I mean you will be happier and enjoy life far more. The marvellous gains from being a non-PMOer are discussed in the next few chapters. Some PMOers find it difficult to appreciate the concept of the 'void' and the following analogy may assist you.
+
+{{% center %}}
+## **Void, the Void, the Beautiful Void!**
+{{% /center %}}
+
+Imagine having a cold sore on your face. I've got this marvellous ointment. I say to you, “try this stuff.” You rub the ointment on and the sore disappears immediately. A week later it reappears. You ask, “do you have any more of that ointment?” I say, “sure, keep the tube. You might need it again.” You apply the ointment once again. Hey presto, the sore disappears again. But every time the sore returns, it gets larger and more painful and the interval gets shorter and shorter. Eventually the sore covers your whole face and is excruciatingly painful. It is now returning every half hour. You know that the ointment will remove it temporarily, but you are very worried. Will the sore eventually spread over your whole body? Will the interval disappear completely? You go to your doctor. He can't cure it. You try other things but nothing helps except this magical ointment.
+
+By now you are completely dependent on the ointment. You never go out without ensuring that you have a tube of the ointment with you. If you go abroad, you make sure that you take several tubes with you. Now, in addition to your worries about your health, I'm charging you $100 per tube. You have no choice but to pay.
+
+You then read in the medical column of your newspaper that this isn't happening just to you; many other people have been suffering from the same problem. In fact, pharmacists have discovered that the ointment doesn't actually cure the sore. All that it does is to take the sore beneath the surface of the skin. It is the ointment that has caused the sore to grow. All you have to do to get rid of the sore is to stop using the ointment. The sore will eventually disappear in due course.
+
+Would you continue to use the ointment? Would it take willpower not to use the ointment? If you didn't believe the medical article, there might be a few days of apprehension, but once you realized that the sore was beginning to get better, the need or desire to use the ointment would go, Would you be miserable? Of course you wouldn't. You had an awful problem which you thought was insoluble. Now you've found the solution. Even if it took a year for that sore to disappear completely, each day, as it improved, you'd think. “isn't it marvellous? I'm not going to die!” This was the magic that happened to me on my final PMO day. Let me make one point quite clear in the analogy of the sore and the ointment.
+
+The sore isn't lung cancer, or arterial sclerosis, or emphysema, or angina, or chronic asthma, or bronchitis, or coronary heart disease. They are all in addition to the sore. It isn't the body pains, lack of normal lust, flagging arousal, fading penetration, the wasted time spent on lifeless two dimensional images, the times when we felt infringed of our entitlement because we are not allowed to PMO. It isn't the lifetime of being despised by other people who caught you or, worst of all, despising yourself. These are all in addition to the sore.
+
+The sore is what makes us close our minds to all these things. It's that panic feeling of, “I want a fix.” Non-PMOers don't suffer from that feeling. The worst thing we ever suffer from is fear, and the greatest gain you will receive is to be rid of that fear. It was as if a great mist had suddenly lifted from my mind. I could see so clearly that that panic feeling of wanting a porn fix wasn't some sort of weakness in me or some magic quality of internet porn. It was caused by the first PMO session; and each subsequent one - far from relieving the feeling, it was actually causing it.
+
+At the same time I could see all these other “happy” PMOers - the ones who are blinded by their cunning little porn monsters - were going through the same nightmare that I was. Not as bad as mine yet all putting up phony arguments to try to justify their stupidity.
+
+**IT'S SO NICE TO BE FREE!**

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+title: "03-15 Self-Imposed Slavery"
+date: 2022-12-23T12:06:39+02:00
+draft: false
+---
+
+Usually when PMOers try to stop the main reasons given are health, religion and partner stigma. Part of the brainwashing of this awful drug is the sheer slavery. Man fought hard in the last century to abolish slavery and yet the PMOer spends his life suffering self-imposed slavery. He seems to be oblivious to the fact that when he is allowed to PMO he wishes that he were a non-PMOer. With most of the masturbation we do in our lives, not only do we not enjoy them but we aren't even aware that we are masturbating. It is only after a period of abstinence that we actually suffer the delusion of enjoying PMO (e.g. the first day after a 4 day abstinence with the intent of rebooting etc.). The only time that the porn becomes precious is when we are 'trying' to cut down or abstain or when abstinence is forced on us (e.g. when on a business trips, holiday trips to locations where the Internet is not available and so on).
+
+The confirmed PMOer should bear in mind that more studies and even more people are coming out and talking about the ill effects of internet porn. This trend will get “worse and worse.” Today, it is non-medical people talking. Tomorrow, it will be in your doctor’s list of diagnostic tests to perform. Gone are the days when the PMOer can hide behind “just a bit of downtime due to work stress” in his or her sex life. Your partner is going to ask you why you are on your laptop at this time too late into the night. The poor PMOer, who was already feeling wretched, wants the ground to open up and swallow him.
+
+I remember every time my partner stayed up late it was an ordeal waiting to open up my laptop. When on business trips the dinner with the clients and colleagues dragged on or was I just going through the natural ups and downs in human interactions? What was I doing? I was thinking, “let's get on with it, so that I can get over with this and go to my room for some porn.” I have thought many times, “am I not lucky? I have got my little reward. The poor non-PMOer with no internet access somewhere in an Amish village hasn't got a reward.” The 'poor' non-PMOer doesn't need a reward. We were not designed to go through life systematically flooding our brains with dopamine and opioids. The pathetic thing is that even when masturbating with internet porn the PMOer doesn't achieve those feelings of peace, confidence and tranquillity that the non-PMOer has experienced for the whole of his non-PMO life. The non-PMOer isn't sitting in the family room, feeling agitated and wishing his life away. He can enjoy the whole of his life.
+
+No, this wasn't a fourteen-year-old schoolboy but a forty-year-old professional. How pathetic. I wouldn't admit to myself that I wasn't enjoying it. I was looking for the right clip and/or pictures to reach orgasm or better, edge forever. I don't know what I am supposed to be 'watching' sometimes. That is the confusing part. The 'edging' and then the orgasm floods my brain. Yet this was supposed to be my way of relaxing and enjoying my “favourite hobby.”
+
+To me, one of the tremendous joys of being a non-PMOer is to be freed from that slavery. To be able to enjoy the whole of my life and not spend half of it craving for more and more internet porn and then, when I get to fire up my browser, wishing I didn't have to do it. PMOers should bear in mind that when they see or meet non-PMOers, it is not the self-righteous non-PMOer who is depriving them but their very own “little monster.”

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+title: "03-16 I Will Save X Hours a Week"
+date: 2022-12-23T12:08:55+02:00
+draft: false
+---
+
+I cannot repeat too often that it is brainwashing that makes it difficult to stop PMOing. So, the
+more brainwashing we can dispel before we start, the easier you will find it to achieve your goal.
+Occasionally I get into arguments with people whom I call “confirmed PMOers.” By my definition
+a confirmed PMOer is somebody who doesn't believe PMO has any negative effect on his health
+(PME, PIED and hypofrontality etc.) and is not having a mental tug of war. Most times he’d be a
+younger guy or a single but with an occasional sex partner. Thus the internal feedback is lost due to
+the nature of their youth and or it is too infrequent to be observed and registered.
+
+If he is a young man, I’d rather say to him, “I cannot believe you are not worried about the
+time you are spending.” Usually his eyes light up. If I had attacked him instead on health grounds or
+on the social stigma, he would feel at a disadvantage which will trigger resistance from him. But on
+time...
+
+> *“Oh, I can afford it. It is only x hours per week and I think it is worth it. It is my only vice or
+pleasure.”*
+
+> *“I still cannot believe you are not worried about the time spent. Say at a minimum half an hour a day on an average including the physical ‘drain’ time of dopamine withdrawals, you are spending approximately one full working day of 8 hours every fortnight. Half an hour a day is a very conservative estimate you would agree. And in a year that will add up to a working month. Have you thought about how much time you are going to spend in your lifetime? What are you doing with that time? You are not even developing real relationships? No, your favourite porn star does not have sympathy for you just because you spent that much time on her site - you are throwing it away! Not only that, you are actually using that time to ruin your physical health, to destroy your nerves and confidence, to suffer a lifetime of slavery, pain, stress, melancholy and peevishness. Surely that must worry you?”*
+
+It is apparent at this point, particularly with younger PMOers, that they have never considered it a lifetime habit. Occasionally they work out the time they waste in a week and that is alarming. Very occasionally (and only when they think about stopping) they estimate what they spend in a year and that is frightening but over a lifetime it is unthinkable. However, because now we are in an argument, the confirmed PMOer will impulsively say, “I can afford it. It is only so much a week.” He pulls an “encyclopedia salesman” routine on himself.
+
+Will you refuse a job offer which pays you your current annual salary and also gives you a month off every year? Any PMOer would sign up for this job offer in a heartbeat and would get busy finding vacation deals to exotic places. Figuring out how to spend one full month with no work would be the biggest problem that he now has to solve.
+
+In every discussion with a confirmed PMOer - and please bear in mind I am not now talking to someone like yourself who plans to stop, I am talking to someone who has no intention of stopping - nobody has ever taken me up on that offer. Why not?
+
+Often at this point in my consultation, a confirmed PMOer will say, “look, I am not really worried about the money aspect.” If you are thinking along these lines, ask yourself why you are not worried. Why in other aspects of your life will you go to a great deal of trouble to save a few dollars here and there but yet spend thousands of dollars killing your happiness and hang the expense?
+
+The answer to these questions is this: every other decision that you make in your life will be the result of an analytical process of weighing up the pros and cons and arriving at a rational answer. It may be the wrong answer but at least it will be the result of rational deduction. Whenever any PMOer weighs up the pros and cons of using internet porn, the answer is a dozen times over: “STOP PMOing! YOU ARE A MUG!” Therefore all PMOers are using not because they want to or because they decided to but because they think they cannot stop. They have to and need to brainwash themselves. They have to and need to keep their heads in the sand.
+
+The strange thing is many men would pay good money for gym and personal trainers to build their muscles and look sculpted. Other treatments such as boosting testosterone with dubious and sometimes dangerous effects are tried out by many men in their real (and imaginary) desperation. Yet, there are many men in that group who would save money and risks by stopping a practice that systematically not only destroys their manhood but also affects their brain’s natural relaxation system.
+
+This is because they are still thinking with the brainwashed mind of the PMOer. Just take the sand out of your eyes for a moment. Internet porn is a chain reaction and a chain for life. If you do not break that chain, you will remain a user for the rest of your life. Now estimate how much time you think you will spend on PMOing for the rest of your life. The amount will obviously vary with each individual but for the purpose of this exercise let us assume it is a year and half of work hours. You will shortly be making the decision to use your final session (not yet, please - remember the initial instructions). All you have to do to remain a non-PMOer is NOT to fall for the trap again. That is, do not PMO and consciously avoid having “just a peek.” If you do, that one peek will cost you a year and half of your work life. If you think this is a trick way of looking at it, you are still kidding yourself. Just work out how much time you would have saved if you had not taken your very first ‘peek’ right at the start.
+
+If you see the argument as factual, ask yourself how you would feel if there were a cheque from your state’s lotto for a year and half worth of your current salary lying on your carpet tomorrow? You'd be dancing with delight! So start dancing! You are about to start receiving that bonus and that's just one of the several fantastic gains you are about to receive.
+
+During the withdrawal period you may be tempted to have just one final ‘look’. It will help you to resist the temptation if you remind yourself it will cost you one year’s worth of your peak annual salary (or whatever your estimate is)! I could be making that offer on television and radio programmes yet I bet no-one will take it.
+
+If you are mentoring someone online for his PMO addiction tell him that he knows someone who has refused a job offer that pays his current annual salary and also gives him a full month’s of PTO. When he ask who that idiot is, tell him, “you!” I know it's rude but you may sometimes need to get your point across in a less-than-polite way.

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+title: "03-17 Health"
+date: 2022-12-23T12:12:31+02:00
+draft: false
+---
+
+This is the area where the brainwashing is the greatest. PMOers, especially the young and single, think they are aware of the health risks. They are not. Even in my case, when I was expecting my head to explode any moment and honestly believed I was prepared to accept the consequences, I was still kidding myself. I didn't in those days have an app that started a red beeper to flash and sound every time my internet router hits a porn site, followed by a warning voice saying, “OK, this is the one!” Fortunately you do get a warning, and this is it. That warning would say, “Up to now you have got away with it but if you stay another minute your head will explode,” do you think I would have PMOed?
+
+If you are in doubt about the answer just try walking up to a cliff, stand on the edge with your eyes closed and imagine you then have the choice of either quitting PMO or walking up blindfolded before your next PMO.
+
+There is no doubt what your choice would be. I had been doing what every internet porn PMOer does all his life: closing my mind and keeping my head in the sand, hoping that I would wake up one morning and just not want to PMO any more. PMOers cannot allow themselves to think of the health risks. If they do, even the illusion of enjoying the 'habit' goes.
+
+This explains why a shock treatment is so ineffective in the first stages of quitting. It is only non-users who can bring themselves to read the destructive brain changes. It also explains why PMOers, influenced by their little monster, wrongly recall that filthy room mate who PMOed everyday and was still remaining ‘horny’ 24 hours a day – they will ignore the thousands of people who are brought “down” in their prime because of this poisonous ‘habit’.
+
+About six times a week I have the following conversation with PMOers (usually the younger ones):
+
+>ME: Why do you want to stop?
+
+>PMOer: I read in a PUA guru’s blog that it is good to stop for 4 days to amp myself up.
+
+>ME: Aren't you worried about the health risks?
+
+>PMOer:No, I could step under a bus tomorrow.
+
+>ME: But would you deliberately step under a bus?
+
+>PMOer:Of course not.
+
+>ME: Do you not bother to look left and right when you cross the road?
+
+>PMOer: Of course I do.
+
+Exactly. He/she goes through a lot of trouble not to step under a bus and the odds are hundreds of thousands to one against it happening. Yet the PMOer risks the near certainty of being crippled by this ‘habit’ and appears to be completely oblivious to the risks. Such is the power of the brainwashing. The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist. Especially when you are younger or single. So is internet porn - it is the wolf in sheep’s clothing.
+
+I remember a friend of mine who would not drink or smoke. Yet he would argue with me that internet porn is not different than older safe porn and that it is fun. Isn't it strange that if, for example, we felt there was the slightest fault in an airplane, we wouldn't go up in it, even though the risks are millions to one against death. Yet we take more than a one-in-four certainty with internet porn with its PMO addiction and are apparently oblivious to it. And what does the PMOer get out of it? ***ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!***
+
+Another common myth about PMO is the depression or peevishness. Many of the younger people are not worried about their health because they do not suffer any of the depression or melancholy. The depression or stress itself is not a disease; it is just a symptom. Younger people in general don’t feel the irritability or depression created because of their body’s natural capability to produce more dopamine and also the vigour and cheerfulness of their youthful activities masks those depleting reservoirs. As they age or if their lives experience serious setbacks the depleted resources are overworked and then they will experience full blown symptoms.
+
+When non-younger PMOers feel stressed, depressed or irritated it is because of the normal dopamine levels are not being effective and or due to excessive ‘flooding’ and its reactionary cutting down of the receptors. It is a reactionary step brain takes to protect its nervous systems from excessive dopamine ‘flooding’ as the dopamine receptors close up. It is one of nature's fail-safe methods. They also develop other neural changes that will keep them in the rut.
+
+Just think of it this way. If you had a nice car and allowed it to rust without doing anything about it that would be pretty stupid, as it would soon become a heap of rust and not be able to carry you anywhere. However, that would not be the end of the world; it is only a question of money and you could always buy a new car. But your body is the vehicle that carries you through life. We all say that our health is our most valued asset. How true that is, as sick millionaires will tell you. Most of us can look back at some illness or accident in our lives when we prayed to get better. (HOW SOON WE FORGET). By being a PMOer, you are not only letting the rust get in and doing nothing about it; you are systematically destroying the vehicle you need to go through life and you only get one.
+
+Wise up. You don't have to do it and remember: it is doing ABSOLUTELY NOTHING FOR YOU. Just for a moment take your head out of the sand and ask yourself; if you knew for certain that the next PMO session would be the one to trigger off a process in your body that will make your penis fall away like a hair strand, would you then actually go ahead and do it? Forget the ‘disease’ idea (it is difficult to imagine it) but just imagine you are on your bed, with your partner and your penis is not responding. Or if you are a woman, you are not feeling in any way responsive with someone you deeply love? Now you are not in the beginning of a happy endeavour but instead a tug of war in your mind and in your partner's mind too. “Is it my PMO or is it just stress? Can I spot who the culprit is 100%? Or for her, is it me? Am I not sexy enough for him? Or worse, am I losing my ‘appetite’ too soon due to ageing?” What do you think is going to happen?
+
+I often speak to the people that it happens to. They didn't think it would happen to them either and the worst thing about it isn't the disease itself but the knowledge they have brought it on themselves. For a very long time as PMOers and abusers we are saying, “I’ll stop tomorrow.” Try to imagine how those people feel who “hit the button.” For them the brainwashing is ended. They then see the 'habit' as it really is and spend the remainder of their lives thinking, “Why did I kid myself I needed to masturbate to internet porn? If only I had the chance to go back!”
+
+Stop kidding yourself. You have the chance. It's a chain reaction. If you engage in the next PMO session, it will lead you to the next one and the next. It's already happening to you. At the beginning of the book I promised you no shock treatment. If you have already decided you are going to stop, this isn't shock treatment for you. If you are still in doubt, skip the remainder of this chapter and come back to it when you have read the rest of the book.
+
+Volumes of researches and studies have already been written about the damage that internet porn causes to our sex lives and to our mental well-being. The trouble is that until the PMOer decides to stop he doesn't want to know. Even the forums and mentor groups are a waste of time because the PMOer puts the blinkers on. If he inadvertently reads it, the first thing he does is to open an incognito tab and visit his favourite tube site. PMOers tend to think of the happiness, stress and sex hazards as a hit-and-miss affair, like stepping on a land mine.
+
+Get it into your head: it is already happening. Every single time you browse to your tube site you are triggering dopamine flooding and the opioids get to work - the neural pathway water slides get greased and the ride takes you smoothly through the next steps that you have already given to the script. The nervous system is now flooded by dopamine and since it is its umpteenth time, it is going to let some of your dopamine receptors to close up. The ‘little monster’ in you is using this slight dip in the pleasure compared to the last time to encourage you to “cross the red line” towards more shocking porn or behaviour in order to release more dopamine. In the process just hit on the ‘novelty’ button that triggers dopamine again. “Let’s keep going,” says the little monster, because you deserve it and you are entitled to this. Now the streaming of so many pictures and videos on a single tab... that triggers another button called ‘supernormal’ stimulus, injecting more amines.
+
+All this time your receptors are receiving infomation to shut down inversely proportional to the flooding. Then you get to the orgasm stage. More dopamine, more shutting down of receptors. After this comes the withdrawal, Oh and since you are an ex-PMOer go get one. And why not pour a glass from the fridge of that leftover whiskey? Internet porn kills your sex life and thus it kills your private and public lives as well. If you are not aware of the addiction process or even if you are, you are in denial since the “little monster” craves for its fix because there was no real pain and you could handle the discomfort.
+
+I confess that the thought of having ED terrified me, which is probably why I just blocked it from my mind. It's amazing how the fear of the horrendous health risks attached to PMOing are overshadowed by the fear of stopping. It's not so much that the latter is a greater fear, but that if we quit today the fear is immediate, whereas the fear of getting ED, PE and OCD related mental illnesses are a fear of the future. Why look on the black side? Perhaps it won't happen. I'm bound to have quit by then anyway.
+
+We tend to think of PMOing as a tug-of-war. On one side is fear: it's unhealthy, filthy and enslaving. On the other side the pluses: it's my pleasure, my friend, my crutch. It never seems to occur to us that this side is also fear. It's not so much that we enjoy them but that we tend to be miserable without them.
+
+Think of heroin addicts deprived of their heroin: the abject misery they go through. Now picture their utter joy when they are allowed to plunge a needle into their veins and end that terrible craving. Try to imagine how anyone could actually believe they get pleasure from sticking a hypodermic syringe into a vein. Non-heroin addicts don't suffer that panic feeling. Heroin doesn't relieve the feeling, on the contrary, it causes it.
+
+Non-PMOers (those who don’t ‘need’ or have access to internet porn) don't feel miserable if they are not allowed to PMO. It's only PMOers that suffer that feeling. Internet porn doesn't relieve it, on the contrary it causes it. The fear of ED or PE didn't make me quit because I believed it was rather like walking through a minefield. If you got away with it - fine. If you were unlucky you stepped on a mine.
+
+You knew the risks you were taking and if you were prepared to take the risk, what had it to do with anyone else? So if a non-PMOer ever tried to make me aware of those risks, I would use the typical evasive tactics that all addicts invariably adopt. They are....
+
+* *“You will eventually get old and lose your sexual prowess anyway...”*
+ 
+> Of course you do but sexual prowess is not even the point, we are talking slavery here. Even if that is the case, is that a logical reason for deliberately cutting yourself short?
+
+* *“Quality of life is more important than just living.”*
+
+> Exactly but you are surely not suggesting that the quality of life of an addict is greater than that of someone that isn't addicted? Do you really believe that the quality of a PMOer’s life is better than a non-PMOer? Surely the PMOer loses on both counts his life is spent in trying to cover his head in the sand and being miserable.
+* *“I am single and am not planning to ‘settle down’ in the near future so why not?”*
+
+> Even if that were true, is that a logical reason for playing with the brain structure dealing with impulse control that is needed in other areas of life? Can you possibly conceive of anyone being stupid enough to strip naked wherever one is going to be alone? No matter how sure you are that you are not expecting anyone in your life? THAT'S WHAT PMOers EFFECTIVELY DO!
+
+I can understand why the ED and the risks of ruining one’s mental health didn't help me to quit. I could cope with the former and block my mind to the latter. As you are already aware, my method is not to frighten you into quitting but the complete opposite - to make you realize just how more enjoyable your life will be when you have escaped.
+
+However, I do believe that if I could have seen what was happening inside my brain, this would have helped me to quit. Now I'm not referring to the shock technique of showing a PMOer the effect of the hidden attribute of internet porn on the reward circuit of the brain. It was obvious to me from my unreliable arousals, fading penetrations, lack of energy, unemotional sex (as in just a muscle twitch), hit-seek escalations of porn search for novelty and shock that something is not going right. None of these are catastrophic for me as I have trained myself in cognitive behavioural techniques as discussed before but I did experience them quite often enough. Practising CBT/REBT gave me enough grounding and stability to look at my addiction in a different and better way than I’d have if I were not aware of the cognitive biases. Provided I kept functioning, even at a mediocre level, they were less of an embarrassment than a lost tooth - at least nobody could see my mind.
+
+What I am referring to is the progressive gunging-up of our reward circuits with excessive stimulation, making them incapable of handling the normal stresses of life. Closing up of dopamine and opioids receptors does not help me in enjoying my life with enough vigour. Porn and masturbation has replaced the natural sexual appetite, like a candy bar replacing real food. The brain has no idea to differentiate one from the other. I don't like the thought of a virus in my smart phone or my laptop. Could you imagine buying the latest one of these gadgets and letting a virus to run every line of the software code but repeat it thrice ? That's what we effectively do to our bodies when we become PMOers.
+
+Many researchers and doctors are now relating various mental health problems in addition to the physiological ones caused by internet porn and PMO in general. This is no surprise to me. The mainstream medical world has laboured that PMO has never been scientifically proven to be the direct cause of the issues reported by self-confessing individuals. Admitting one’s sexual inability in public is such a shame triggering event, why would anyone do that unless they are really concerned? And probably many have found the cause and have eliminated it. This book is going to help you to get rid of it and also become a happy ex PMOer. No porn whatsoever, no porn aided masturbation. And of course no unnecessary orgasms. The only aid will be the touch, smell and voice of your partner. Like whole wheat bread after a well developed appetite, you will produce enough juices to break down the hard bread and it comes as a beautiful refreshment. No high fructose corn syrup injected fake food. The evidence is so overwhelming as not to need proof. No one ever scientifically proved to me exactly why, when I bang my thumb with a hammer, it hurts. I soon got the message.
+
+I must emphasize that I am not a doctor but just like the hammer and the thumb, it soon became obvious to me that the periods of my life outside of sex that were marked by low levels of irritation tolerance, lack of energy, temper, moody thoughts, zoning out of social scenes etc. were directly related to my masturbation and especially the supernormal stimulus of IP[^1]. However, I truly believe that the greatest hazard that IP causes to our health is the gradual and progressive deterioration of our sex life caused by super-substitutes. The novelty, shock, variety in size and nature of internet porn can slowly take away the magic of the real sex. Worse, the RC[^2] reward circuits are flooding unnaturally and at high abnormal levels so that they close up  the receptors and also diminish any potency and effectiveness of normal de-stressors that work in the RC. This predisposes one to be depressed and become needy to lot more other ‘crutches’ of life such as cigarettes and alcohol or even causing the host to think of committing suicide. Even the real vagina will not be a match for the death grip of masturbation - and the little monster is kept alive.
+
+[^1]: **IP** - internet porn
+[^2]: **RC** - reward circuits in the brain that involves dopamine/ opioids, receptors, proteins etc.
+
+Our lives are ‘blessed’ with challenges – yes, ‘blessed’- they are needed to keep us strong and make us better. If our nervous systems is pre-disposed to making a molehill out of a mountain it will seek a ‘fix. When it seeks a hit or a mountain out of a molehill when it interfaces with reality then is it worth it? Our body and our brain is designed to make use of optimal levels of these brain chemicals. I don’t think a man who fails in satisfying a woman should consider himself worthless.
+
+You will do well accepting yourself unconditionally and as an extension others and of life in general as well. It needs practice - but you won't practice unless your brain rewards you. External rewards are iffy and most of the time are not forthcoming. If your internal brain chemicals and the reward circuits are humming even a little external reward will go a long way and the lack of external approvals won't even matter at all. If you want to you can be the king of your life. Think about this as one of your greatest benefits.
+
+Several of the adverse effects that PMO had on my health, some of which I had been suffering from for years, did not become apparent to me until many years after I had stopped. The good news I have for you is this - all of this is reversible. You are the jailer and you are also going to set yourself - the prisoner - free!
+
+It didn't even occur to me that I was already suffering from ED and PE[^3] myself. Upon my first observation of the damage I quickly attributed it, with the help of my little monster, to (a) the occasional opposition to foreplay by my partner, (b) to the ‘less-than-ideal’ partner (my brain ‘tolerance’ is so high that even if I were with the most sexy one imaginable it’d still be not enough), (c) some silly grudge about my past stopping me to ‘prepare’ us to mood setting or (d) my boss, customer etc. etc.
+
+[^3]: **PE** - premature ejaculation
+
+When it happened again my little monster brain gave me a BS mix of the above combo which I don’t even want to waste your time with. It never occurred to me that none of these would have stopped me before? So, I decided that I need ‘stamina practice’ since I figured that a toy which comes close to real vagina will ‘train’ me in getting hard and to avoid PE. I later came to read about PE being the result of poor training of the reward circuits. If one’s goal is orgasm then getting hard is not a requirement with masturbation. That being avoided enough times sets up waterslides in your brain and you grease it real nice every time to ride the slide. You can dispute this but I am going to take the Pascal’s Wager and quit - I lose very little, gain big and avoid losing big.
+
+When you don’t get hard or have unreliable erections, it’s a signal that your mind wants it more than your body - most times. Also of note is my peevishness and melancholy (anger/irritability and moodiness/depression). I told myself that I am a negatively oriented Virgo. While many Virgos are predisposed to think and act ‘negatively’ I failed to notice that actually I am a pretty optimistic guy.
+
+In fact, the many times I had not gone along for the porn water slide ride, due to external events, even though I had wanted to, I noticed that I did not get affected big time - remember again Pascal’s Wager. But looking back at my life, I have to say that I have been an achiever, in spite of the self-sabotage of PMO and its constant drag. That must be due to the training of tempering my pre-disposition and keeping the negatives to toned down healthy negatives of disappointment, sorrow, concern, annoyance, sadness, regret, frustration, caution, vigilance, irritation etc. I am sure that I am an optimistic and positive guy, how else could I explain that I kept going in spite of my tripping myself with PMO?
+
+I have been in the stock market and have advised my friends and colleagues. I would show my hands - in real investments and trades. Most of the macho guys would not bring themselves to pull the trigger at those times when I did with no fears but of course with due vigilance and caution.
+
+I know a person close to me who would masturbate every day at least once. He had no access to porn and was using static magazines and his own imagination. Now, looking back I wonder if this person lost his life’s joy to PMO. He would always be quick to anger and his irritation trigger levels are always very low. Any day-to-day stress will tick him off. He had a secure government job that demanded little from him and so he was lucky to survive until his retirement. Lucky? Maybe not. Anyway, I am sure his RC* had long sent shutdown signals to his receptors and his dopamine and opioids have much diminished effectiveness.
+
+You might conclude that I am something of a hypochondriac. I believe that I was when I was a PMOer. One of the great evils about addictions such as these is that it fools us into believing that the cigarettes, alcohol, PMO etc. give us courage, when in fact it gradually and imperceptibly dissipates it. I was shocked when I read about a confessor who felt suicidal at 19 due to PMO. Little did I realize that twenty years later I would have exactly the same lack of joie de vivre. You might conclude that this chapter has been one of necessary, or unnecessary, doom and gloom. I promise you it is the complete opposite. I used to fear death when I was a child. A bit later I used to believe that smoking, drinking and porn removed that fear. Perhaps it did. If so, it replaced it with something infinitely worse: **A FEAR OF LIVING!**
+
+Now my fear of dying has returned. Yet it does not bother me. I realize that it only exists because I now enjoy life so much. I don't brood over my fear of dying any more than I did when I was a child. I'm far too busy living my life to the full. The odds are against my living to a hundred, but I'll try to. I'll also try to enjoy every precious moment!
+
+There were two other advantages on the health side that never occurred to me until I had stopped PMOing. One was that I now wake up refreshed in the morning. The subtle well-rested feeling is something sort of what you’d experience after a fever had left you. I get that almost every day but of course some nights are not going to be perfect. I had accepted that there is nothing outside of us that we need to enjoy or cope in our lives.
+
+The other was the acceptance of the Void in our lives. Those insecure feelings. The emptiness. From what I learned - that is after removing PMO from my life, I could see that these three are present in everyone’s lives. Yes, that includes the playboys and the PUA macs as well. I think they are like the nights that serve to enhance our days. Yes, it is a well known ‘insight’. But then I know of many insights which have never translated to any value to my life. After I quit, it all fell into place. Look, I am not a saint or a guru. But I am not panicking and seeking substitutes when I feel the void, or insecurity or emptiness. There are no outside things that will be a pleasure or crutch.
+
+Here is a thought experiment for you... let’s say a woman comes to you and says she doesn’t necessarily want an orgasm but however, she very much wants to make love. Even penetrative. And she wants to do it for as long and as far as you can go without an orgasm but if it happens then its fine. I assure you of a great new experience, far better than anything in your life if you even get that offer. Try it.
+
+PMOers also suffer the illusion that the ill-effects of internet porn and PMO are overstated. The reverse is the case. There is no doubt that internet porn is the major cause of PIED and other problems. The trouble is that in many cases where PMO causes the ED or is a contributory factor, it is not blamed on PMO in the statistics. It has been estimated that more than 25 per cent of men experience ED or PE and yet I wonder how many divorces have been caused by PMO? There are no reliable ways to know the number of Internet Porn users within the study group. The studies usually mix up traditional and internet porn users and has no way to account for the starting age of the participants, years of use, duration and frequency of usage. There is no way to conduct blind or double blind methods either.
+
+I was a ‘safe’ user of internet porn - if there is anything ‘safe’ about it. However I noticed that I invariably projected porn fantasies on real life women. Like the episode in Friends where the guys, who were receiving continuous free porn on TV, started to wonder to each other why the pizza delivery girl didn’t ask to check out their ‘big bedroom’. Imagine what ‘careless’ or even ‘accidental’ porn exposure on the darker sides the internet would do to someone who is already at a tipping point in his or her life? Fighting against these ‘porn induce thoughts’, PIT[^4], is going to be a major drain on his or her mental health.
+
+The effect of the brainwashing is that we tend to think like the man who, having fallen off a 100-storey building, is heard to say, as he passes the fiftieth floor, “So far, so good!” We think that as we have got away with it so far, one more PMO session won't make the difference. Try to see it another way, the 'habit' is a continuous chain for life, each session creating the need for the next. When you start the habit you light a fuse. The trouble is, YOU DON'T KNOW HOW LONG THE FUSE IS. Every time that you give up to a PMO session you are one step nearer to the bomb exploding. HOW WILL YOU KNOW IF IT'S THE NEXT ONE?
+
+[^4]: **PIT** - porn induced thoughts, porn themes crossing over to normal interactions

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+		<title>03-17 Health</title>
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+		<description>&lt;p&gt;This is the area where the brainwashing is the greatest. PMOers, especially the young and single, think they are aware of the health risks. They are not. Even in my case, when I was expecting my head to explode any moment and honestly believed I was prepared to accept the consequences, I was still kidding myself. I didn&amp;rsquo;t in those days have an app that started a red beeper to flash and sound every time my internet router hits a porn site, followed by a warning voice saying, “OK, this is the one!” Fortunately you do get a warning, and this is it. That warning would say, “Up to now you have got away with it but if you stay another minute your head will explode,” do you think I would have PMOed?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;If you are in doubt about the answer just try walking up to a cliff, stand on the edge with your eyes closed and imagine you then have the choice of either quitting PMO or walking up blindfolded before your next PMO.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;There is no doubt what your choice would be. I had been doing what every internet porn PMOer does all his life: closing my mind and keeping my head in the sand, hoping that I would wake up one morning and just not want to PMO any more. PMOers cannot allow themselves to think of the health risks. If they do, even the illusion of enjoying the &amp;lsquo;habit&amp;rsquo; goes.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;This explains why a shock treatment is so ineffective in the first stages of quitting. It is only non-users who can bring themselves to read the destructive brain changes. It also explains why PMOers, influenced by their little monster, wrongly recall that filthy room mate who PMOed everyday and was still remaining ‘horny’ 24 hours a day – they will ignore the thousands of people who are brought “down” in their prime because of this poisonous ‘habit’.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;About six times a week I have the following conversation with PMOers (usually the younger ones):&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;ME: Why do you want to stop?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;PMOer: I read in a PUA guru’s blog that it is good to stop for 4 days to amp myself up.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;ME: Aren&amp;rsquo;t you worried about the health risks?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;PMOer:No, I could step under a bus tomorrow.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;ME: But would you deliberately step under a bus?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;PMOer:Of course not.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;ME: Do you not bother to look left and right when you cross the road?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;PMOer: Of course I do.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Exactly. He/she goes through a lot of trouble not to step under a bus and the odds are hundreds of thousands to one against it happening. Yet the PMOer risks the near certainty of being crippled by this ‘habit’ and appears to be completely oblivious to the risks. Such is the power of the brainwashing. The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn&amp;rsquo;t exist. Especially when you are younger or single. So is internet porn - it is the wolf in sheep’s clothing.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I remember a friend of mine who would not drink or smoke. Yet he would argue with me that internet porn is not different than older safe porn and that it is fun. Isn&amp;rsquo;t it strange that if, for example, we felt there was the slightest fault in an airplane, we wouldn&amp;rsquo;t go up in it, even though the risks are millions to one against death. Yet we take more than a one-in-four certainty with internet porn with its PMO addiction and are apparently oblivious to it. And what does the PMOer get out of it? &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Another common myth about PMO is the depression or peevishness. Many of the younger people are not worried about their health because they do not suffer any of the depression or melancholy. The depression or stress itself is not a disease; it is just a symptom. Younger people in general don’t feel the irritability or depression created because of their body’s natural capability to produce more dopamine and also the vigour and cheerfulness of their youthful activities masks those depleting reservoirs. As they age or if their lives experience serious setbacks the depleted resources are overworked and then they will experience full blown symptoms.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;When non-younger PMOers feel stressed, depressed or irritated it is because of the normal dopamine levels are not being effective and or due to excessive ‘flooding’ and its reactionary cutting down of the receptors. It is a reactionary step brain takes to protect its nervous systems from excessive dopamine ‘flooding’ as the dopamine receptors close up. It is one of nature&amp;rsquo;s fail-safe methods. They also develop other neural changes that will keep them in the rut.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Just think of it this way. If you had a nice car and allowed it to rust without doing anything about it that would be pretty stupid, as it would soon become a heap of rust and not be able to carry you anywhere. However, that would not be the end of the world; it is only a question of money and you could always buy a new car. But your body is the vehicle that carries you through life. We all say that our health is our most valued asset. How true that is, as sick millionaires will tell you. Most of us can look back at some illness or accident in our lives when we prayed to get better. (HOW SOON WE FORGET). By being a PMOer, you are not only letting the rust get in and doing nothing about it; you are systematically destroying the vehicle you need to go through life and you only get one.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Wise up. You don&amp;rsquo;t have to do it and remember: it is doing ABSOLUTELY NOTHING FOR YOU. Just for a moment take your head out of the sand and ask yourself; if you knew for certain that the next PMO session would be the one to trigger off a process in your body that will make your penis fall away like a hair strand, would you then actually go ahead and do it? Forget the ‘disease’ idea (it is difficult to imagine it) but just imagine you are on your bed, with your partner and your penis is not responding. Or if you are a woman, you are not feeling in any way responsive with someone you deeply love? Now you are not in the beginning of a happy endeavour but instead a tug of war in your mind and in your partner&amp;rsquo;s mind too. “Is it my PMO or is it just stress? Can I spot who the culprit is 100%? Or for her, is it me? Am I not sexy enough for him? Or worse, am I losing my ‘appetite’ too soon due to ageing?” What do you think is going to happen?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I often speak to the people that it happens to. They didn&amp;rsquo;t think it would happen to them either and the worst thing about it isn&amp;rsquo;t the disease itself but the knowledge they have brought it on themselves. For a very long time as PMOers and abusers we are saying, “I’ll stop tomorrow.” Try to imagine how those people feel who “hit the button.” For them the brainwashing is ended. They then see the &amp;lsquo;habit&amp;rsquo; as it really is and spend the remainder of their lives thinking, “Why did I kid myself I needed to masturbate to internet porn? If only I had the chance to go back!”&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Stop kidding yourself. You have the chance. It&amp;rsquo;s a chain reaction. If you engage in the next PMO session, it will lead you to the next one and the next. It&amp;rsquo;s already happening to you. At the beginning of the book I promised you no shock treatment. If you have already decided you are going to stop, this isn&amp;rsquo;t shock treatment for you. If you are still in doubt, skip the remainder of this chapter and come back to it when you have read the rest of the book.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Volumes of researches and studies have already been written about the damage that internet porn causes to our sex lives and to our mental well-being. The trouble is that until the PMOer decides to stop he doesn&amp;rsquo;t want to know. Even the forums and mentor groups are a waste of time because the PMOer puts the blinkers on. If he inadvertently reads it, the first thing he does is to open an incognito tab and visit his favourite tube site. PMOers tend to think of the happiness, stress and sex hazards as a hit-and-miss affair, like stepping on a land mine.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Get it into your head: it is already happening. Every single time you browse to your tube site you are triggering dopamine flooding and the opioids get to work - the neural pathway water slides get greased and the ride takes you smoothly through the next steps that you have already given to the script. The nervous system is now flooded by dopamine and since it is its umpteenth time, it is going to let some of your dopamine receptors to close up. The ‘little monster’ in you is using this slight dip in the pleasure compared to the last time to encourage you to “cross the red line” towards more shocking porn or behaviour in order to release more dopamine. In the process just hit on the ‘novelty’ button that triggers dopamine again. “Let’s keep going,” says the little monster, because you deserve it and you are entitled to this. Now the streaming of so many pictures and videos on a single tab&amp;hellip; that triggers another button called ‘supernormal’ stimulus, injecting more amines.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;All this time your receptors are receiving infomation to shut down inversely proportional to the flooding. Then you get to the orgasm stage. More dopamine, more shutting down of receptors. After this comes the withdrawal, Oh and since you are an ex-PMOer go get one. And why not pour a glass from the fridge of that leftover whiskey? Internet porn kills your sex life and thus it kills your private and public lives as well. If you are not aware of the addiction process or even if you are, you are in denial since the “little monster” craves for its fix because there was no real pain and you could handle the discomfort.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I confess that the thought of having ED terrified me, which is probably why I just blocked it from my mind. It&amp;rsquo;s amazing how the fear of the horrendous health risks attached to PMOing are overshadowed by the fear of stopping. It&amp;rsquo;s not so much that the latter is a greater fear, but that if we quit today the fear is immediate, whereas the fear of getting ED, PE and OCD related mental illnesses are a fear of the future. Why look on the black side? Perhaps it won&amp;rsquo;t happen. I&amp;rsquo;m bound to have quit by then anyway.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;We tend to think of PMOing as a tug-of-war. On one side is fear: it&amp;rsquo;s unhealthy, filthy and enslaving. On the other side the pluses: it&amp;rsquo;s my pleasure, my friend, my crutch. It never seems to occur to us that this side is also fear. It&amp;rsquo;s not so much that we enjoy them but that we tend to be miserable without them.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Think of heroin addicts deprived of their heroin: the abject misery they go through. Now picture their utter joy when they are allowed to plunge a needle into their veins and end that terrible craving. Try to imagine how anyone could actually believe they get pleasure from sticking a hypodermic syringe into a vein. Non-heroin addicts don&amp;rsquo;t suffer that panic feeling. Heroin doesn&amp;rsquo;t relieve the feeling, on the contrary, it causes it.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Non-PMOers (those who don’t ‘need’ or have access to internet porn) don&amp;rsquo;t feel miserable if they are not allowed to PMO. It&amp;rsquo;s only PMOers that suffer that feeling. Internet porn doesn&amp;rsquo;t relieve it, on the contrary it causes it. The fear of ED or PE didn&amp;rsquo;t make me quit because I believed it was rather like walking through a minefield. If you got away with it - fine. If you were unlucky you stepped on a mine.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;You knew the risks you were taking and if you were prepared to take the risk, what had it to do with anyone else? So if a non-PMOer ever tried to make me aware of those risks, I would use the typical evasive tactics that all addicts invariably adopt. They are&amp;hellip;.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;ul&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;“You will eventually get old and lose your sexual prowess anyway&amp;hellip;”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Of course you do but sexual prowess is not even the point, we are talking slavery here. Even if that is the case, is that a logical reason for deliberately cutting yourself short?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;ul&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;“Quality of life is more important than just living.”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Exactly but you are surely not suggesting that the quality of life of an addict is greater than that of someone that isn&amp;rsquo;t addicted? Do you really believe that the quality of a PMOer’s life is better than a non-PMOer? Surely the PMOer loses on both counts his life is spent in trying to cover his head in the sand and being miserable.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;ul&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;“I am single and am not planning to ‘settle down’ in the near future so why not?”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Even if that were true, is that a logical reason for playing with the brain structure dealing with impulse control that is needed in other areas of life? Can you possibly conceive of anyone being stupid enough to strip naked wherever one is going to be alone? No matter how sure you are that you are not expecting anyone in your life? THAT&amp;rsquo;S WHAT PMOers EFFECTIVELY DO!&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I can understand why the ED and the risks of ruining one’s mental health didn&amp;rsquo;t help me to quit. I could cope with the former and block my mind to the latter. As you are already aware, my method is not to frighten you into quitting but the complete opposite - to make you realize just how more enjoyable your life will be when you have escaped.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;However, I do believe that if I could have seen what was happening inside my brain, this would have helped me to quit. Now I&amp;rsquo;m not referring to the shock technique of showing a PMOer the effect of the hidden attribute of internet porn on the reward circuit of the brain. It was obvious to me from my unreliable arousals, fading penetrations, lack of energy, unemotional sex (as in just a muscle twitch), hit-seek escalations of porn search for novelty and shock that something is not going right. None of these are catastrophic for me as I have trained myself in cognitive behavioural techniques as discussed before but I did experience them quite often enough. Practising CBT/REBT gave me enough grounding and stability to look at my addiction in a different and better way than I’d have if I were not aware of the cognitive biases. Provided I kept functioning, even at a mediocre level, they were less of an embarrassment than a lost tooth - at least nobody could see my mind.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;What I am referring to is the progressive gunging-up of our reward circuits with excessive stimulation, making them incapable of handling the normal stresses of life. Closing up of dopamine and opioids receptors does not help me in enjoying my life with enough vigour. Porn and masturbation has replaced the natural sexual appetite, like a candy bar replacing real food. The brain has no idea to differentiate one from the other. I don&amp;rsquo;t like the thought of a virus in my smart phone or my laptop. Could you imagine buying the latest one of these gadgets and letting a virus to run every line of the software code but repeat it thrice ? That&amp;rsquo;s what we effectively do to our bodies when we become PMOers.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Many researchers and doctors are now relating various mental health problems in addition to the physiological ones caused by internet porn and PMO in general. This is no surprise to me. The mainstream medical world has laboured that PMO has never been scientifically proven to be the direct cause of the issues reported by self-confessing individuals. Admitting one’s sexual inability in public is such a shame triggering event, why would anyone do that unless they are really concerned? And probably many have found the cause and have eliminated it. This book is going to help you to get rid of it and also become a happy ex PMOer. No porn whatsoever, no porn aided masturbation. And of course no unnecessary orgasms. The only aid will be the touch, smell and voice of your partner. Like whole wheat bread after a well developed appetite, you will produce enough juices to break down the hard bread and it comes as a beautiful refreshment. No high fructose corn syrup injected fake food. The evidence is so overwhelming as not to need proof. No one ever scientifically proved to me exactly why, when I bang my thumb with a hammer, it hurts. I soon got the message.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I must emphasize that I am not a doctor but just like the hammer and the thumb, it soon became obvious to me that the periods of my life outside of sex that were marked by low levels of irritation tolerance, lack of energy, temper, moody thoughts, zoning out of social scenes etc. were directly related to my masturbation and especially the supernormal stimulus of IP&lt;sup id=&#34;fnref:1&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#fn:1&#34; class=&#34;footnote-ref&#34; role=&#34;doc-noteref&#34;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;. However, I truly believe that the greatest hazard that IP causes to our health is the gradual and progressive deterioration of our sex life caused by super-substitutes. The novelty, shock, variety in size and nature of internet porn can slowly take away the magic of the real sex. Worse, the RC&lt;sup id=&#34;fnref:2&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#fn:2&#34; class=&#34;footnote-ref&#34; role=&#34;doc-noteref&#34;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; reward circuits are flooding unnaturally and at high abnormal levels so that they close up  the receptors and also diminish any potency and effectiveness of normal de-stressors that work in the RC. This predisposes one to be depressed and become needy to lot more other ‘crutches’ of life such as cigarettes and alcohol or even causing the host to think of committing suicide. Even the real vagina will not be a match for the death grip of masturbation - and the little monster is kept alive.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Our lives are ‘blessed’ with challenges – yes, ‘blessed’- they are needed to keep us strong and make us better. If our nervous systems is pre-disposed to making a molehill out of a mountain it will seek a ‘fix. When it seeks a hit or a mountain out of a molehill when it interfaces with reality then is it worth it? Our body and our brain is designed to make use of optimal levels of these brain chemicals. I don’t think a man who fails in satisfying a woman should consider himself worthless.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;You will do well accepting yourself unconditionally and as an extension others and of life in general as well. It needs practice - but you won&amp;rsquo;t practice unless your brain rewards you. External rewards are iffy and most of the time are not forthcoming. If your internal brain chemicals and the reward circuits are humming even a little external reward will go a long way and the lack of external approvals won&amp;rsquo;t even matter at all. If you want to you can be the king of your life. Think about this as one of your greatest benefits.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Several of the adverse effects that PMO had on my health, some of which I had been suffering from for years, did not become apparent to me until many years after I had stopped. The good news I have for you is this - all of this is reversible. You are the jailer and you are also going to set yourself - the prisoner - free!&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;It didn&amp;rsquo;t even occur to me that I was already suffering from ED and PE&lt;sup id=&#34;fnref:3&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#fn:3&#34; class=&#34;footnote-ref&#34; role=&#34;doc-noteref&#34;&gt;3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; myself. Upon my first observation of the damage I quickly attributed it, with the help of my little monster, to (a) the occasional opposition to foreplay by my partner, (b) to the ‘less-than-ideal’ partner (my brain ‘tolerance’ is so high that even if I were with the most sexy one imaginable it’d still be not enough), (c) some silly grudge about my past stopping me to ‘prepare’ us to mood setting or (d) my boss, customer etc. etc.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;When it happened again my little monster brain gave me a BS mix of the above combo which I don’t even want to waste your time with. It never occurred to me that none of these would have stopped me before? So, I decided that I need ‘stamina practice’ since I figured that a toy which comes close to real vagina will ‘train’ me in getting hard and to avoid PE. I later came to read about PE being the result of poor training of the reward circuits. If one’s goal is orgasm then getting hard is not a requirement with masturbation. That being avoided enough times sets up waterslides in your brain and you grease it real nice every time to ride the slide. You can dispute this but I am going to take the Pascal’s Wager and quit - I lose very little, gain big and avoid losing big.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;When you don’t get hard or have unreliable erections, it’s a signal that your mind wants it more than your body - most times. Also of note is my peevishness and melancholy (anger/irritability and moodiness/depression). I told myself that I am a negatively oriented Virgo. While many Virgos are predisposed to think and act ‘negatively’ I failed to notice that actually I am a pretty optimistic guy.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;In fact, the many times I had not gone along for the porn water slide ride, due to external events, even though I had wanted to, I noticed that I did not get affected big time - remember again Pascal’s Wager. But looking back at my life, I have to say that I have been an achiever, in spite of the self-sabotage of PMO and its constant drag. That must be due to the training of tempering my pre-disposition and keeping the negatives to toned down healthy negatives of disappointment, sorrow, concern, annoyance, sadness, regret, frustration, caution, vigilance, irritation etc. I am sure that I am an optimistic and positive guy, how else could I explain that I kept going in spite of my tripping myself with PMO?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I have been in the stock market and have advised my friends and colleagues. I would show my hands - in real investments and trades. Most of the macho guys would not bring themselves to pull the trigger at those times when I did with no fears but of course with due vigilance and caution.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I know a person close to me who would masturbate every day at least once. He had no access to porn and was using static magazines and his own imagination. Now, looking back I wonder if this person lost his life’s joy to PMO. He would always be quick to anger and his irritation trigger levels are always very low. Any day-to-day stress will tick him off. He had a secure government job that demanded little from him and so he was lucky to survive until his retirement. Lucky? Maybe not. Anyway, I am sure his RC* had long sent shutdown signals to his receptors and his dopamine and opioids have much diminished effectiveness.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;You might conclude that I am something of a hypochondriac. I believe that I was when I was a PMOer. One of the great evils about addictions such as these is that it fools us into believing that the cigarettes, alcohol, PMO etc. give us courage, when in fact it gradually and imperceptibly dissipates it. I was shocked when I read about a confessor who felt suicidal at 19 due to PMO. Little did I realize that twenty years later I would have exactly the same lack of joie de vivre. You might conclude that this chapter has been one of necessary, or unnecessary, doom and gloom. I promise you it is the complete opposite. I used to fear death when I was a child. A bit later I used to believe that smoking, drinking and porn removed that fear. Perhaps it did. If so, it replaced it with something infinitely worse: &lt;strong&gt;A FEAR OF LIVING!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Now my fear of dying has returned. Yet it does not bother me. I realize that it only exists because I now enjoy life so much. I don&amp;rsquo;t brood over my fear of dying any more than I did when I was a child. I&amp;rsquo;m far too busy living my life to the full. The odds are against my living to a hundred, but I&amp;rsquo;ll try to. I&amp;rsquo;ll also try to enjoy every precious moment!&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;There were two other advantages on the health side that never occurred to me until I had stopped PMOing. One was that I now wake up refreshed in the morning. The subtle well-rested feeling is something sort of what you’d experience after a fever had left you. I get that almost every day but of course some nights are not going to be perfect. I had accepted that there is nothing outside of us that we need to enjoy or cope in our lives.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The other was the acceptance of the Void in our lives. Those insecure feelings. The emptiness. From what I learned - that is after removing PMO from my life, I could see that these three are present in everyone’s lives. Yes, that includes the playboys and the PUA macs as well. I think they are like the nights that serve to enhance our days. Yes, it is a well known ‘insight’. But then I know of many insights which have never translated to any value to my life. After I quit, it all fell into place. Look, I am not a saint or a guru. But I am not panicking and seeking substitutes when I feel the void, or insecurity or emptiness. There are no outside things that will be a pleasure or crutch.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Here is a thought experiment for you&amp;hellip; let’s say a woman comes to you and says she doesn’t necessarily want an orgasm but however, she very much wants to make love. Even penetrative. And she wants to do it for as long and as far as you can go without an orgasm but if it happens then its fine. I assure you of a great new experience, far better than anything in your life if you even get that offer. Try it.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;PMOers also suffer the illusion that the ill-effects of internet porn and PMO are overstated. The reverse is the case. There is no doubt that internet porn is the major cause of PIED and other problems. The trouble is that in many cases where PMO causes the ED or is a contributory factor, it is not blamed on PMO in the statistics. It has been estimated that more than 25 per cent of men experience ED or PE and yet I wonder how many divorces have been caused by PMO? There are no reliable ways to know the number of Internet Porn users within the study group. The studies usually mix up traditional and internet porn users and has no way to account for the starting age of the participants, years of use, duration and frequency of usage. There is no way to conduct blind or double blind methods either.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I was a ‘safe’ user of internet porn - if there is anything ‘safe’ about it. However I noticed that I invariably projected porn fantasies on real life women. Like the episode in Friends where the guys, who were receiving continuous free porn on TV, started to wonder to each other why the pizza delivery girl didn’t ask to check out their ‘big bedroom’. Imagine what ‘careless’ or even ‘accidental’ porn exposure on the darker sides the internet would do to someone who is already at a tipping point in his or her life? Fighting against these ‘porn induce thoughts’, PIT&lt;sup id=&#34;fnref:4&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#fn:4&#34; class=&#34;footnote-ref&#34; role=&#34;doc-noteref&#34;&gt;4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;, is going to be a major drain on his or her mental health.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The effect of the brainwashing is that we tend to think like the man who, having fallen off a 100-storey building, is heard to say, as he passes the fiftieth floor, “So far, so good!” We think that as we have got away with it so far, one more PMO session won&amp;rsquo;t make the difference. Try to see it another way, the &amp;lsquo;habit&amp;rsquo; is a continuous chain for life, each session creating the need for the next. When you start the habit you light a fuse. The trouble is, YOU DON&amp;rsquo;T KNOW HOW LONG THE FUSE IS. Every time that you give up to a PMO session you are one step nearer to the bomb exploding. HOW WILL YOU KNOW IF IT&amp;rsquo;S THE NEXT ONE?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;div class=&#34;footnotes&#34; role=&#34;doc-endnotes&#34;&gt;
+&lt;hr&gt;
+&lt;ol&gt;
+&lt;li id=&#34;fn:1&#34;&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;IP&lt;/strong&gt; - internet porn&amp;#160;&lt;a href=&#34;#fnref:1&#34; class=&#34;footnote-backref&#34; role=&#34;doc-backlink&#34;&gt;&amp;#x21a9;&amp;#xfe0e;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li id=&#34;fn:2&#34;&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;RC&lt;/strong&gt; - reward circuits in the brain that involves dopamine/ opioids, receptors, proteins etc.&amp;#160;&lt;a href=&#34;#fnref:2&#34; class=&#34;footnote-backref&#34; role=&#34;doc-backlink&#34;&gt;&amp;#x21a9;&amp;#xfe0e;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li id=&#34;fn:3&#34;&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PE&lt;/strong&gt; - premature ejaculation&amp;#160;&lt;a href=&#34;#fnref:3&#34; class=&#34;footnote-backref&#34; role=&#34;doc-backlink&#34;&gt;&amp;#x21a9;&amp;#xfe0e;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li id=&#34;fn:4&#34;&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PIT&lt;/strong&gt; - porn induced thoughts, porn themes crossing over to normal interactions&amp;#160;&lt;a href=&#34;#fnref:4&#34; class=&#34;footnote-backref&#34; role=&#34;doc-backlink&#34;&gt;&amp;#x21a9;&amp;#xfe0e;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ol&gt;
+&lt;/div&gt;
+</description>
+	</item>
+	
+	<item>
+		<title>03-16 I Will Save X Hours a Week</title>
+		<link>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-16-i-will-save-x-hours-a-week/</link>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2022 12:08:55 +0200</pubDate>
+		
+		<guid>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-16-i-will-save-x-hours-a-week/</guid>
+		<description>&lt;p&gt;I cannot repeat too often that it is brainwashing that makes it difficult to stop PMOing. So, the
+more brainwashing we can dispel before we start, the easier you will find it to achieve your goal.
+Occasionally I get into arguments with people whom I call “confirmed PMOers.” By my definition
+a confirmed PMOer is somebody who doesn&amp;rsquo;t believe PMO has any negative effect on his health
+(PME, PIED and hypofrontality etc.) and is not having a mental tug of war. Most times he’d be a
+younger guy or a single but with an occasional sex partner. Thus the internal feedback is lost due to
+the nature of their youth and or it is too infrequent to be observed and registered.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;If he is a young man, I’d rather say to him, “I cannot believe you are not worried about the
+time you are spending.” Usually his eyes light up. If I had attacked him instead on health grounds or
+on the social stigma, he would feel at a disadvantage which will trigger resistance from him. But on
+time&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;“Oh, I can afford it. It is only x hours per week and I think it is worth it. It is my only vice or
+pleasure.”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;“I still cannot believe you are not worried about the time spent. Say at a minimum half an hour a day on an average including the physical ‘drain’ time of dopamine withdrawals, you are spending approximately one full working day of 8 hours every fortnight. Half an hour a day is a very conservative estimate you would agree. And in a year that will add up to a working month. Have you thought about how much time you are going to spend in your lifetime? What are you doing with that time? You are not even developing real relationships? No, your favourite porn star does not have sympathy for you just because you spent that much time on her site - you are throwing it away! Not only that, you are actually using that time to ruin your physical health, to destroy your nerves and confidence, to suffer a lifetime of slavery, pain, stress, melancholy and peevishness. Surely that must worry you?”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;It is apparent at this point, particularly with younger PMOers, that they have never considered it a lifetime habit. Occasionally they work out the time they waste in a week and that is alarming. Very occasionally (and only when they think about stopping) they estimate what they spend in a year and that is frightening but over a lifetime it is unthinkable. However, because now we are in an argument, the confirmed PMOer will impulsively say, “I can afford it. It is only so much a week.” He pulls an “encyclopedia salesman” routine on himself.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Will you refuse a job offer which pays you your current annual salary and also gives you a month off every year? Any PMOer would sign up for this job offer in a heartbeat and would get busy finding vacation deals to exotic places. Figuring out how to spend one full month with no work would be the biggest problem that he now has to solve.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;In every discussion with a confirmed PMOer - and please bear in mind I am not now talking to someone like yourself who plans to stop, I am talking to someone who has no intention of stopping - nobody has ever taken me up on that offer. Why not?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Often at this point in my consultation, a confirmed PMOer will say, “look, I am not really worried about the money aspect.” If you are thinking along these lines, ask yourself why you are not worried. Why in other aspects of your life will you go to a great deal of trouble to save a few dollars here and there but yet spend thousands of dollars killing your happiness and hang the expense?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The answer to these questions is this: every other decision that you make in your life will be the result of an analytical process of weighing up the pros and cons and arriving at a rational answer. It may be the wrong answer but at least it will be the result of rational deduction. Whenever any PMOer weighs up the pros and cons of using internet porn, the answer is a dozen times over: “STOP PMOing! YOU ARE A MUG!” Therefore all PMOers are using not because they want to or because they decided to but because they think they cannot stop. They have to and need to brainwash themselves. They have to and need to keep their heads in the sand.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The strange thing is many men would pay good money for gym and personal trainers to build their muscles and look sculpted. Other treatments such as boosting testosterone with dubious and sometimes dangerous effects are tried out by many men in their real (and imaginary) desperation. Yet, there are many men in that group who would save money and risks by stopping a practice that systematically not only destroys their manhood but also affects their brain’s natural relaxation system.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;This is because they are still thinking with the brainwashed mind of the PMOer. Just take the sand out of your eyes for a moment. Internet porn is a chain reaction and a chain for life. If you do not break that chain, you will remain a user for the rest of your life. Now estimate how much time you think you will spend on PMOing for the rest of your life. The amount will obviously vary with each individual but for the purpose of this exercise let us assume it is a year and half of work hours. You will shortly be making the decision to use your final session (not yet, please - remember the initial instructions). All you have to do to remain a non-PMOer is NOT to fall for the trap again. That is, do not PMO and consciously avoid having “just a peek.” If you do, that one peek will cost you a year and half of your work life. If you think this is a trick way of looking at it, you are still kidding yourself. Just work out how much time you would have saved if you had not taken your very first ‘peek’ right at the start.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;If you see the argument as factual, ask yourself how you would feel if there were a cheque from your state’s lotto for a year and half worth of your current salary lying on your carpet tomorrow? You&amp;rsquo;d be dancing with delight! So start dancing! You are about to start receiving that bonus and that&amp;rsquo;s just one of the several fantastic gains you are about to receive.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;During the withdrawal period you may be tempted to have just one final ‘look’. It will help you to resist the temptation if you remind yourself it will cost you one year’s worth of your peak annual salary (or whatever your estimate is)! I could be making that offer on television and radio programmes yet I bet no-one will take it.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;If you are mentoring someone online for his PMO addiction tell him that he knows someone who has refused a job offer that pays his current annual salary and also gives him a full month’s of PTO. When he ask who that idiot is, tell him, “you!” I know it&amp;rsquo;s rude but you may sometimes need to get your point across in a less-than-polite way.&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
+	</item>
+	
+	<item>
+		<title>03-15 Self-Imposed Slavery</title>
+		<link>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-15-self-imposed-slavery/</link>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2022 12:06:39 +0200</pubDate>
+		
+		<guid>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-15-self-imposed-slavery/</guid>
+		<description>&lt;p&gt;Usually when PMOers try to stop the main reasons given are health, religion and partner stigma. Part of the brainwashing of this awful drug is the sheer slavery. Man fought hard in the last century to abolish slavery and yet the PMOer spends his life suffering self-imposed slavery. He seems to be oblivious to the fact that when he is allowed to PMO he wishes that he were a non-PMOer. With most of the masturbation we do in our lives, not only do we not enjoy them but we aren&amp;rsquo;t even aware that we are masturbating. It is only after a period of abstinence that we actually suffer the delusion of enjoying PMO (e.g. the first day after a 4 day abstinence with the intent of rebooting etc.). The only time that the porn becomes precious is when we are &amp;rsquo;trying&amp;rsquo; to cut down or abstain or when abstinence is forced on us (e.g. when on a business trips, holiday trips to locations where the Internet is not available and so on).&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The confirmed PMOer should bear in mind that more studies and even more people are coming out and talking about the ill effects of internet porn. This trend will get “worse and worse.” Today, it is non-medical people talking. Tomorrow, it will be in your doctor’s list of diagnostic tests to perform. Gone are the days when the PMOer can hide behind “just a bit of downtime due to work stress” in his or her sex life. Your partner is going to ask you why you are on your laptop at this time too late into the night. The poor PMOer, who was already feeling wretched, wants the ground to open up and swallow him.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I remember every time my partner stayed up late it was an ordeal waiting to open up my laptop. When on business trips the dinner with the clients and colleagues dragged on or was I just going through the natural ups and downs in human interactions? What was I doing? I was thinking, “let&amp;rsquo;s get on with it, so that I can get over with this and go to my room for some porn.” I have thought many times, “am I not lucky? I have got my little reward. The poor non-PMOer with no internet access somewhere in an Amish village hasn&amp;rsquo;t got a reward.” The &amp;lsquo;poor&amp;rsquo; non-PMOer doesn&amp;rsquo;t need a reward. We were not designed to go through life systematically flooding our brains with dopamine and opioids. The pathetic thing is that even when masturbating with internet porn the PMOer doesn&amp;rsquo;t achieve those feelings of peace, confidence and tranquillity that the non-PMOer has experienced for the whole of his non-PMO life. The non-PMOer isn&amp;rsquo;t sitting in the family room, feeling agitated and wishing his life away. He can enjoy the whole of his life.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;No, this wasn&amp;rsquo;t a fourteen-year-old schoolboy but a forty-year-old professional. How pathetic. I wouldn&amp;rsquo;t admit to myself that I wasn&amp;rsquo;t enjoying it. I was looking for the right clip and/or pictures to reach orgasm or better, edge forever. I don&amp;rsquo;t know what I am supposed to be &amp;lsquo;watching&amp;rsquo; sometimes. That is the confusing part. The &amp;rsquo;edging&amp;rsquo; and then the orgasm floods my brain. Yet this was supposed to be my way of relaxing and enjoying my “favourite hobby.”&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;To me, one of the tremendous joys of being a non-PMOer is to be freed from that slavery. To be able to enjoy the whole of my life and not spend half of it craving for more and more internet porn and then, when I get to fire up my browser, wishing I didn&amp;rsquo;t have to do it. PMOers should bear in mind that when they see or meet non-PMOers, it is not the self-righteous non-PMOer who is depriving them but their very own “little monster.”&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
+	</item>
+	
+	<item>
+		<title>03-14 What Am I Giving Up?</title>
+		<link>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-14-what-am-i-giving-up/</link>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2022 11:49:35 +0200</pubDate>
+		
+		<guid>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-14-what-am-i-giving-up/</guid>
+		<description>&lt;p&gt;ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! The thing that makes it difficult for us to give up is fear. The fear that we are being deprived of our pleasure or prop. The fear that certain pleasant situations will never be quite the same again. The fear of being unable to cope with stressful situations. In other words, the effect of brainwashing is to delude us into believing that sex and by extension orgasm, is a must for all human beings. Or that there is something inherent in Internet porn that we need and that when we stop PMOing we will be self-denying ourselves and there will be a void.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Get it clear in your mind:&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Internet porn&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;DOES NOT FILL A VOID.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;IT CREATES ONE!&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;These bodies of ours are the most sophisticated objects on this planet. Whether you believe in a creator, a process of natural selection or a combination of both, whatever being or system devised these bodies of ours, it is a thousand times more effective than man! Man cannot create the smallest living cell, let alone the miracle of eyesight, reproduction, our circulatory system or our brains. We don’t have our systems upgraded yet to properly assess the supranormal stimulus such as rich high density food or high speed internet novelty porn with multiple active windows.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;If the creator or process had intended us to handle novelty triggering stimuli, we would have been provided with some other brain reward circuits. Our bodies are, in fact, provided with fail-safe warning devices and we ignore these at our peril. Excessive edging results in body pain, irritation, and inflammation. In women, excessive flooding of dopamine and stress enzymes such as prostaglandin-E2 can cause difficulty to orgasm and PME.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;there-is-nothing-to-give-up&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;There Is Nothing To Give Up&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
+&lt;/div&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The beautiful truth is - there is nothing to give up. Once you purge that little monster from your body and the brainwashing (the big monster) from your mind, you will neither want to masturbate often nor need internet porn for it. PMO destroys your sense of self-control. I don’t think PMOers are self-destructive to continue even after knowing the ill-effects of internet porn. They clearly don’t have suicidal tendencies. They don’t enjoy this slavery themselves. Many of them do it in spite of the fact that they know it causes self-sabotage. You see there must be many unknowns and the medical community has no idea of even questioning and determining someone as an internet porn addict yet. So a lot of reported symptoms are wrongly tagged under other causes. It is not that PMOers are generally stupid people; it is just that they are miserable without the PMO. They are caught between the devil and the deep blue sea. They either have to abstain and be miserable because they cannot PMO or be miserable because they are destroying themselves through PMO and feel guilty and despise themselves for it. When they feel that lower back pain or get PIED, their minds are torn between accepting responsibility and looking the other way.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The problem I have is to make a convincing point as I’d have done for, let us say&amp;hellip; smokers? All of us have seen smokers who develop excuses to sneak off for a crafty puff. It is easy to see the true addiction in action. Addicts do not do it because they enjoy it. They do it because they are miserable without it.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Because many of us started out our first sexual experience that ended in an orgasm and we acquired the belief that we cannot enjoy sex without an orgasm. And for men, porn is sold as an aid towards sex, sometimes even as an education to be confident during the act of sex. It used to be static, but now we have supranormal internet porn. But this is nonsense. Internet porn takes away your confidence.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;women-and-porn&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Women And Porn&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
+&lt;/div&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The greatest evidence of the fear that porn instils is in its effect on women. Practically all women are fastidious about their personal appearance. They wouldn&amp;rsquo;t dream of appearing at a social function not immaculately turned out and smelling beautiful. So why would they fall for internet porn ? The traps were set as either a control trap (I can give up when I want) or an educational trap, or a freedom trap (I am entitled). Feminism has freed women from all the bad patriarchal rules of the past but they still need to be aware of supranormal stimulus such as internet porn.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Porn and internet porn does not help your sex life; it destroys it totally. Having to hide your internet footprints, trying to delete your history, fearing accidental exposure to your boyfriend or kids, body pains, doubtful symptoms, fighting self doubts, arguing with yourself about your responsibilities in the ill effects of your addiction&amp;hellip; well, why do you want to put yourself in such a bad situation?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Not only is there nothing to give up but there are marvellous positive gains to be had. When PMOers contemplate quitting they tend to concentrate on health and virility. These are obviously valid and important issues but I personally believe the greatest gains from stopping are psychological:&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;ol&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;The return of your confidence and courage.&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;Freedom from the slavery.&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;Not to have to go through life suffering the awful black shadows at the back of your mind, knowing you are being despised by half of the population and, worst of all, despising yourself.&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ol&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Not only is life better as a non-PMOer but it is infinitely more enjoyable. I do not only mean you will be healthier. I mean you will be happier and enjoy life far more. The marvellous gains from being a non-PMOer are discussed in the next few chapters. Some PMOers find it difficult to appreciate the concept of the &amp;lsquo;void&amp;rsquo; and the following analogy may assist you.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;void-the-void-the-beautiful-void&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Void, the Void, the Beautiful Void!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
+&lt;/div&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Imagine having a cold sore on your face. I&amp;rsquo;ve got this marvellous ointment. I say to you, “try this stuff.” You rub the ointment on and the sore disappears immediately. A week later it reappears. You ask, “do you have any more of that ointment?” I say, “sure, keep the tube. You might need it again.” You apply the ointment once again. Hey presto, the sore disappears again. But every time the sore returns, it gets larger and more painful and the interval gets shorter and shorter. Eventually the sore covers your whole face and is excruciatingly painful. It is now returning every half hour. You know that the ointment will remove it temporarily, but you are very worried. Will the sore eventually spread over your whole body? Will the interval disappear completely? You go to your doctor. He can&amp;rsquo;t cure it. You try other things but nothing helps except this magical ointment.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;By now you are completely dependent on the ointment. You never go out without ensuring that you have a tube of the ointment with you. If you go abroad, you make sure that you take several tubes with you. Now, in addition to your worries about your health, I&amp;rsquo;m charging you $100 per tube. You have no choice but to pay.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;You then read in the medical column of your newspaper that this isn&amp;rsquo;t happening just to you; many other people have been suffering from the same problem. In fact, pharmacists have discovered that the ointment doesn&amp;rsquo;t actually cure the sore. All that it does is to take the sore beneath the surface of the skin. It is the ointment that has caused the sore to grow. All you have to do to get rid of the sore is to stop using the ointment. The sore will eventually disappear in due course.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Would you continue to use the ointment? Would it take willpower not to use the ointment? If you didn&amp;rsquo;t believe the medical article, there might be a few days of apprehension, but once you realized that the sore was beginning to get better, the need or desire to use the ointment would go, Would you be miserable? Of course you wouldn&amp;rsquo;t. You had an awful problem which you thought was insoluble. Now you&amp;rsquo;ve found the solution. Even if it took a year for that sore to disappear completely, each day, as it improved, you&amp;rsquo;d think. “isn&amp;rsquo;t it marvellous? I&amp;rsquo;m not going to die!” This was the magic that happened to me on my final PMO day. Let me make one point quite clear in the analogy of the sore and the ointment.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The sore isn&amp;rsquo;t lung cancer, or arterial sclerosis, or emphysema, or angina, or chronic asthma, or bronchitis, or coronary heart disease. They are all in addition to the sore. It isn&amp;rsquo;t the body pains, lack of normal lust, flagging arousal, fading penetration, the wasted time spent on lifeless two dimensional images, the times when we felt infringed of our entitlement because we are not allowed to PMO. It isn&amp;rsquo;t the lifetime of being despised by other people who caught you or, worst of all, despising yourself. These are all in addition to the sore.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The sore is what makes us close our minds to all these things. It&amp;rsquo;s that panic feeling of, “I want a fix.” Non-PMOers don&amp;rsquo;t suffer from that feeling. The worst thing we ever suffer from is fear, and the greatest gain you will receive is to be rid of that fear. It was as if a great mist had suddenly lifted from my mind. I could see so clearly that that panic feeling of wanting a porn fix wasn&amp;rsquo;t some sort of weakness in me or some magic quality of internet porn. It was caused by the first PMO session; and each subsequent one - far from relieving the feeling, it was actually causing it.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;At the same time I could see all these other “happy” PMOers - the ones who are blinded by their cunning little porn monsters - were going through the same nightmare that I was. Not as bad as mine yet all putting up phony arguments to try to justify their stupidity.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;IT&amp;rsquo;S SO NICE TO BE FREE!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
+	</item>
+	
+	<item>
+		<title>03-13 Social Night PMOing</title>
+		<link>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-13-social-night-pmoing/</link>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2022 11:47:03 +0200</pubDate>
+		
+		<guid>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-13-social-night-pmoing/</guid>
+		<description>&lt;p&gt;This is a misinformation that seems to make sense but then it does not. In order to have control of eating, will you eat at home before leaving to go to a restaurant or a party? This is what you are doing when you PMO before your social night. You will look tired and will not be up to your best. If you have dating jitters then work on it beforehand and then go with the flow even with some butterflies in your stomach. I like a bit of the anxiety in me to keep me going. Tiring yourself mentally and physically with an orgasm is not going to help you, unless of course you are going to see a prostitute. The goal is entirely different in that angle.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The widespread adoption of pick-up techniques has put pressure on guys to perform, to attract and to ‘score’. You can get knowledge but you should know how to use it. I can guarantee that 100% of the other guys hanging at that bar know exactly what you know. It comes down to the ‘how’ of how you use it when you get the chance. Even before that, there is one very critical thing about any knowledge pertaining to human interactions, that ‘knowledge’ should never force your actions. This is important.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I once masturbated and then poured wine to quiet the butterflies in my stomach before a date. I looked tired after just one hour into the date, the loud noise of the bar, dehydration, excessive self-consciousness (PUA teachings) etc. made my time unenjoyable. Somehow the girl and her friend liked it all. However, I do think it would have been better if I had gone without any props. I ended up being successful by claiming my &amp;lsquo;goal(s)&amp;rsquo; - which I consider unfortunate and as random luck.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The PMO session I had before the date triggered a dopamine flooding and its withdrawal hit around the time I was with the date. I had to over-do my conversation to compensate the ineffective dopamine effects after that earlier orgasm. I am also sure that I was suffering from hypofrontality - where my impulses were failing my controls. That gushing moment, an extra decibel in the tone etc. would easily have given my nervousness to the girls - only if I was not protected by the loud noise in the bar. Why do you want to take chances?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;PMO ceases to relieve the withdrawal pangs that it causes in the first place. That is also why heavy PMOers turn to alcohol or other drugs. But I digress. Social night PMOing is occasioned by two or more of our usual reasons for pleasure/prop seeking, e.g. social functions, parties, weddings, school exams, game night, even business meetings. These are examples of occasions that are both stressful and relaxing. This might at first appear to be a contradiction but it isn&amp;rsquo;t. Any form of socializing can be stressful, even with friends, and at the same time you want to be enjoying yourself and be completely relaxed.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;There are situations where multiple reasons are present at one and the same time. To illustrate I will quote driving as one of these. But driving always involves an element of stress. Your life is at stake. You are also having to concentrate. You may not be aware of the last two factors but the fact that they are subconscious doesn&amp;rsquo;t mean they aren&amp;rsquo;t there. And if you are stuck in a traffic jam or have a long motorway drive, you may also be bored and may have ‘promised’ yourself to a PMO after you reach home.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Another classic example is going on a first date. Especially when you know something about the date before hand like their profile from an online dating site. Your mind is throwing questions back and forth. If she is a 10 and in that vicinity or if the date is from another race which is socially ‘perceived’ as a couple of levels above your race then it gets even noisier in your head. Then the surprise to meet the person in flesh, first the looks, then the voice, then the mannerisms. Expectations determine the level of interest you have for her from there on. If your enthusiasm starts to flag you will start to feel too relaxed but then you feel guilty for feeling too relaxed. The tug of war has started. I want sex or get me out of here ASAP - I know where to get it. That will lead you to the next stage of post-date PMOing.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Even if the date went fine and hours later you are at her door and which ever way it goes, you will not be satisfied if your goal is fully on the orgasm-seek. At other times, you drive home alone and all you want to do is to go to your online harem instead of patting yourself on the back for your efforts and enjoying yourself.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;You can bet that this unfortunate guy is going to PMO after he reaches home. It is often after nights like these, when we wake to feel the uneasy emptiness, are often the special ones, the ones that we think we&amp;rsquo;ll miss the most when we are contemplating stopping PMOing. We think that life will never be quite as enjoyable again. In fact, it is the same principle at work: these PMO sessions simply provide relief from withdrawal pangs and at certain times we have greater need to relieve them than at others. You had ended up ‘greasing’ the neural ‘waterslides’ in your brain and made it ready to slide again on the next cue.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Let us make it quite clear. It is not the internet porn and the harem dwellers that are special; it is the occasion. Once we have removed the need for the PMO, such occasions will become more enjoyable and the stressful situations less stressful. This will be explained in greater detail in the next chapter.&lt;/p&gt;
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+		<title>03-12 Relaxation</title>
+		<link>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-12-relaxation/</link>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2022 11:44:10 +0200</pubDate>
+		
+		<guid>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-12-relaxation/</guid>
+		<description>&lt;p&gt;Most PMOers think that PMO helps to relax them. The truth is that internet porn used in PMO acts like a chemical stimulant. The frantic search to get the fix in those “dark alleys of the internet” and the internal struggle to reign in the dog straining at its leash for more shocking clips does not sound much like an activity of relaxation to me.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;One of the favourite PMO sessions for most is the one after a trip to a new place or after along day. As the night rolls in we stop working; we sit down and relax, relieve our hunger and thirst and are then completely satisfied. However, the poor PMOer cannot relax, as he has another hunger to satisfy. He thinks of the PMO as the icing on the cake but it is the &amp;rsquo;little monster&amp;rsquo; that needs feeding.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The truth is that the addict can never be completely relaxed and as you go through life it gets worse. The most stressed people on this planet aren&amp;rsquo;t non-PMOers but those young men and women who have a need to hunt (with the misunderstood goal of orgasm) and their ignorance of and/or low opinion of amative sex. Women who have subscribed to “I must orgasm” teachings are not even aware of the victim they have made of themselves. At this point any sex that leads to climax and orgasm cease to relieve even partially the symptoms that they have created.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I can remember when I was bringing up a family. If my child would do something wrong I would quickly lose my temper to an extent that was out of all proportion to what he had done.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;My partner was “always frigid and not interested in sex.” Now I realize that if I had only tried the amative side of things then maybe I could have relieved myself of a great measure of stress at least - if not at me, I am sure she would have. One online comment&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;“I really believed that I had an evil demon in my make-up. I now know that I had, however it wasn&amp;rsquo;t some inherent flaw in my character but the little internet porn monster that was creating the problem. During those times I thought I had all the problems in the world but when I look back on my life I wonder where all the great stress was. In everything else in my life I was in control. The one thing that controlled me was this porn slavery. The sad thing is that even today I can&amp;rsquo;t convince my children that it was the slavery that caused me to be so irritable.”&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Every time I hear a porn addict trying to justify his addiction the message is, “Oh, it calms me. It helps me to relax.”&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;On the Internet I read about a single dad whose 6 year old son would want to share his bed sometimes in the night after a scary movie yet the dad would refuse under some pretence so he can have his PMO session and edge for hours.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Let me try a smoking analogy here&amp;hellip; a couple of years ago, the adoption authorities threatened to prevent smokers from adopting children. A man rang up, irate. He said, “you are completely wrong. I can remember when I was a child, if I had a contentious matter to raise with my mother, I would wait until she lit a cigarette because she was more relaxed then.” Why couldn&amp;rsquo;t he talk to his mother when she wasn&amp;rsquo;t smoking a cigarette?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Why are PMOers so stressd when they are not getting their fix, even after a real sex with a real woman? I read about a guy who has 9&amp;rsquo;s and 10&amp;rsquo;s open for dating with him as he was in the advertising field. I am talking about dinner and stuff only - but he lost interest in those dinners as his Internet porn is far more ‘easy’ for him - no restaurant spending and no hearing a ‘no’ from his date at the end of an evening. Why would he bother when his little monster tells him about the low-risk high-reward scheme called PMO that is at his fingertips when he reaches home? Those real girls sure have competition.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Why are non-PMOers completely relaxed then? Why are PMOers not able to relax without a fix for a day or two? If you read about the experience of a PMOer taking the abstinence oath and quitting and you notice his struggle with the temptations. You can clearly see that they are not relaxed at all when they are not allowed to have the ‘only pleasure’ they are “entitled to enjoy.” They&amp;rsquo;ve forgotten what it feels like to be completely relaxed. That&amp;rsquo;s one of the many joys you have to come. The whole business of PMOing can be likened to a fly being caught in a pitcher plant. To begin with, the fly is eating the nectar. At some imperceptible stage the plant begins to eat the fly.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Isn&amp;rsquo;t it time you climbed out of that plant?&lt;/p&gt;
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+		<title>03-11 Concentration</title>
+		<link>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-11-concentration/</link>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2022 11:42:13 +0200</pubDate>
+		
+		<guid>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-11-concentration/</guid>
+		<description>&lt;p&gt;Sex and masturbation do not help concentration. That is just another illusion. When you are trying to concentrate, you automatically try to avoid distractions. So when a PMOer wants to concentrate he doesn&amp;rsquo;t even have to think about it. He automatically PMOs, partially ending the craving, gets on with the matter in hand and has already forgotten that he just PMOed. Sex in general do not help concentration. After years of masturbation your brain changes affect abilities such as assessing, planning and impulse control. The PMOer is already suffering: that little monster wants his fix.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;You are also stressed to provide novelty for the next PMO session as the same stuff will not generate enough dopamine and opioids. You have to “roam the internet streets” for novelty - all the while fighting the pull to cross the line towards shock. This creates more stress. After you orgasm, you feel unfulfilled as well.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Concentration is also affected adversely for another reason. Your dopamine receptors have already started to get reduced by building up natural tolerance to these large surges, reducing the benefit of the smaller dopamine boosts from natural de-stressors.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;In fact, your concentration and inspiration will be greatly improved as this process is reversed. For some it will be the concentration aspect that prevents them from succeeding when using the willpower method. They could put up with the irritability and bad temper but when they really needed to concentrate on something difficult they have to have that porn fix. I can well remember the panic I felt when I discovered that the hotel has no internet connection and I had this huge presentation the day after.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The loss of concentration that PMOers suffer when they try to escape is not, in fact, due to your abstinence from sex, let alone PMO. When you are addicted to something, you have mental blocks. When you have such a block, what do you do? You fire up the browser. That doesn&amp;rsquo;t cure the mental block, so then what do you do? You do what you have to do: you get on with it, just as non-PMOers do.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;When you are a PMOer nothing gets blamed on the cause. PMOers never have EDs; they just have an occasional down time. The moment you stop using, everything that goes wrong in your life is blamed on the fact that you&amp;rsquo;ve stopped. Now when you have a mental block, instead of just getting on with it, you start to say, “if only I could check out my favourites now, it would solve my problem.” You then start to question your decision to quit and escape from this slavery.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;If you believe that PMOing is a genuine aid to concentration, worrying about it will guarantee that you won&amp;rsquo;t be able to concentrate. It&amp;rsquo;s the doubting, not the physical withdrawal pangs, that causes the problem. Always remember: it is PMOer who suffers pangs and not non-PMOers. When I quit I went overnight from using everyday to zero without any apparent loss of concentration.&lt;/p&gt;
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+		<title>03-10 Boredom</title>
+		<link>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-10-boredom/</link>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2022 11:40:46 +0200</pubDate>
+		
+		<guid>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-10-boredom/</guid>
+		<description>&lt;p&gt;As soon as you get into your bed - and if you are like many people you are already on your favorite tube site - you will probably have already forgotten about it until I reminded you. It has become second nature. Another fallacy about PMOing is that it relieves boredom. Boredom is a frame of mind. The only time that happens is when you have been deprived for a long time or are trying to cut down, or during those first few PMO sessions after a failed attempt to stop.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The true situation is this: when you are addicted to internet porn’s supranormal novelty and then you decide to abstain from internet porn, there is something missing. If you have something to occupy your mind that isn&amp;rsquo;t stressful, you can go for long periods without being bothered by the absence of the drug. However, when you are bored there&amp;rsquo;s nothing to take your mind off it, so you feed the monster. When you are indulging yourself (i.e. not trying to stop or cut down), even firing up your incognito browser becomes subconscious. The PMOer can perform this ritual automatically. If any PMOer tries to remember the session during the last week, he can only remember a small proportion of them - e.g. the very last one or after a long abstinence.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The truth is that PMOing tend to increase boredom indirectly because orgasms make you feel lethargic and instead of undertaking some energetic activity, PMOers tend to prefer lounge around, bored, relieving their withdrawal pangs. This is why countering the brainwashing is so important. Because it&amp;rsquo;s a fact that PMOers tend to masturbate when they are bored and that we&amp;rsquo;re wired to interpret PMO as interesting. It doesn&amp;rsquo;t occur to us to question the fact how a two dimensional supranormal stimulus relieves boredom.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;We&amp;rsquo;ve also been brainwashed into believing that sex - even a bad sex - aids relaxation. It is a fact that when under stress or sad, couples want to have sex. In the absence of discrimination between amative and propagative sex, the goal is set to achieve orgasms by hook or by crook. Next time you do this watch how you both want to get away from each other as soon as it’s over. It is obvious that if they had just decided to cuddle, speak, hug and touch each other and go to sleep without the mandatory orgasms, the couple would have felt relieved. Well, if in the process, they wanted to have the propagative part then by all means they can but that is a topic not meant to be discussed in this book.&lt;/p&gt;
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+		<title>03-09 Stress</title>
+		<link>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-09-stress/</link>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2022 11:38:59 +0200</pubDate>
+		
+		<guid>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-09-stress/</guid>
+		<description>&lt;p&gt;I am referring not only to the great tragedies of life but also to the minor stresses, the socializing, the telephone call, the anxieties of the housewife with noisy young children and so on. Let us use the telephone conversation as an example. For most people the telephone is slightly stressful, particularly for the businessman. Most calls aren&amp;rsquo;t from satisfied customers or your boss congratulating you. There&amp;rsquo;s usually some sort of aggravation - something going wrong or somebody making demands. Then he or she comes home to the mundane family life of kids screaming and wife&amp;rsquo;s emotional demands on you. His already PMO weakened de-stressors are in no way ready to take the aggravation. At that time the PMOer, if he isn&amp;rsquo;t already doing so, will fantasize the relief of internet porn that he promised himself that night. He will even allow himself to “take one step more” into the ‘forbidden’ area that he had previously self-excluded. He doesn&amp;rsquo;t know why he does this but he does know that for some reason it appears to help.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;What has actually happened is this: without being conscious of it, he has already been suffering aggravation (i.e. the withdrawal pangs). By partially relieving that aggravation at the same time as normal stress, the total stress is reduced and the PMOer gets a boost. At this point the boost is not, in fact, an illusion. The Internet porn user will feel better than before. However, even when using porn to masturbate he or she is more tense than if he were a non-PMOer because the more you go into the drug, the more it knocks you down and the less it restores you when you masturbate. I promised no shock treatment. In the example I am about to give, I am not trying to shock you, I am merely emphasizing that PMO destroy your nerves rather than relax them.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Try to imagine getting to the stage where you cannot get aroused even with a very sexy and attractive partner. Just for a moment pause and try to visualize life where one very lovely and charming woman has to compete and fail with all the virtual porn stars who are in your &amp;lsquo;harem&amp;rsquo; to get your attention! Try to imagine the frame of mind of a man who, issued with that warning, actually continues PMOing and then dies without ever having had real sex with this charming and willing real woman. I had read real life stories like that from men and dismissed them as weirdos. In fact, I used to wish a doctor would tell me that this weird condition would happen if I continue PMO; then I would have stopped. Yet I was already fully expecting that PIED and hypofrontality where I am guaranteed to lose in a brain war. I didn&amp;rsquo;t think of myself as an impotent, just a heavy PMOer. Now, let’s talk about the stress that this is putting on me.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Such weird stories as the above are not fakes. That is what this awful ‘novelty’ porn drug does to you. As you go through life, it systematically takes away your nerve and courage. The more it takes your courage away, the more you are deluded into believing the porn is doing the opposite.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Have you ever been overtaken by panic when you are out on business travel and the hotel WiFi is down or too slow? Non-PMOers do not suffer from it. The internet porn drug causes that feeling. At the same time, as you go through life, PMO not only destroys your nerves but keeps building a powerful neural ‘water slide’, DeltaFosB, progressively destroying your ability to say no.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;By the time the PMOer reaches the stage at which it has killed his virility, he believes the PMO is his new girlfriend and cannot face life without it. Get it clear in your head that Internet porn is not relieving your nerves; it is slowly but steadily destroying them. One of the great gains of breaking the ‘habit’ is the return of your natural confidence and self-assurance.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;There is no need to self-rate based on your ability to get hard or to satisfy a woman. However, you do ‘know’ deep inside that this is slavery. It is not freedom. And that freedom cannot be achieved by continuing to ‘grease’ - repeating the same behaviour and energizing the ‘water slide’ neural pathways of your brain in ways that undercut your happiness in general and not to mention your libido.&lt;/p&gt;
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+		<title>03-08 Relieving Withdrawal Pangs</title>
+		<link>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-08-relieving-withdrawal-pangs/</link>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2022 11:36:16 +0200</pubDate>
+		
+		<guid>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-08-relieving-withdrawal-pangs/</guid>
+		<description>&lt;p&gt;As I explained earlier, PMOers think they do it for enjoyment, relaxation or some sort of education. In fact, this an illusion. The actual reason is the relief of withdrawal pangs. In the early days we use the porn as a curious and novel thing or even educational or as a rebel. We can take it or leave it. However, the subtle chain has started. Our subconscious mind begins to learn that internet porn and masturbation taken at certain times tends to be pleasurable. The more we become hooked on the drug, the greater the need to relieve the withdrawal pangs and the further the PMO drags you down and the more you are fooled into believing it is doing the opposite. It all happens so slowly, so gradually, you are not even aware of it. Each day you feel no different from the day before. Most young PMOers don&amp;rsquo;t even realize they are hooked until they actually try to stop and even then many won&amp;rsquo;t admit to it. A few stalwarts just keep their heads in the sand all their lives,trying to convince themselves and other people that they enjoy it.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Listen to this conversation a therapist had with hundreds of teenagers.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;TH: “You realize that internet porn is a drug and that the only reason why you are using is that you cannot stop.”&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;PA: “Nonsense! I enjoy it. If I didn&amp;rsquo;t, I would stop.”&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;TH: “Just stop for a week to prove to me you can if you want to.”&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;PA: “No need. I enjoy it. If I wanted to stop, I would.”&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;TH: “Just stop for a week to prove to yourself you are not hooked.”&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;PA: “What&amp;rsquo;s the point? I enjoy it.”&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;As already stated, PMOers tend to relieve their withdrawal pangs at times of stress, boredom, concentration, relaxation or a combination of these. This point is explained in greater detail in the next few chapters.&lt;/p&gt;
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+		<title>03-07 Brainwashing and the Primitive Mechanism</title>
+		<link>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-07-brainwashing-and-the-primitive-mechanism/</link>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2022 08:39:02 +0200</pubDate>
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+		<guid>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-07-brainwashing-and-the-primitive-mechanism/</guid>
+		<description>&lt;p&gt;How or why do we start PMOing in the first place? To understand this fully you need to examine the powerful effect of the supernormal stimulus. We all tend to think we are intelligent, dominant human beings determining our paths through life. We act and act frequently when our brain reward circuit are rewarded. Nobel laureate Nikolaas Tinbergen coined the term “supranormal stimulus.” He said mammals could be tricked into preferring fake eggs and mates. Female birds, for example, struggled to sit on larger-than life, vividly spotted plaster eggs while their own pale, dappled eggs perished untended.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The stimulation here in internet porn is not it brings stimulating actors and themes to your home - it is a genie at your bidding to create a harem in your mind. You can switch between genres and theme, home-made and viewer rated, commented and discussed, so rapid and so easy. We absolutely are not ready for the high speed internet porn and our brains are not designed to handle this supranormal stimuli.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;We can have an ‘information overload’ from the same internet but our reward circuits are not going to squirt dopamine at the levels when ‘porn overload’ is involved. We are evolutionarily programmed to seek and access sex related stuff. And we wrongly appraise the stimulus mostly based on this reward circuit action. If all you wanted is to masturbate why can’t you just use one clip and get the business done?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Here is another question - next time after a long day or some stressful incident can you consciously embellish your self-talk with “Do you know what I would really enjoy today? The marvellous warm glow of dopamine rush going to my online harem.” You will find that even people who dislike PMO will join you.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;past-misguided-advice&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Past Misguided Advice&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
+&lt;/div&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;There was much misguided advice given in the past and one is that masturbating will lead to blindness. And there are some other scare tactics that clearly over-did it. It is right that those notions were overthrown by science. But now the mainstream threw the baby out with the bath water. TV programs, pop music, literature and movies all subtly show shambolic characters using porn or masturbation. They knowingly or unknowingly mix porn, sex, internet porn, masturbation and orgasm.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;From our earliest years our subconscious minds are bombarded daily with information telling us that sex is good and that the most precious thing on this earth is to ‘achieve’ orgasm. Girls are taught to achieve it and claim it&amp;rsquo;s because they were wrongly suppressed of their sexual side for a very long time and still are. You think I exaggerate? Watch any TV or movie plot and you will see the mix-up of the amative (touch, smell, voice etc.) and the propagative (orgasmic) sides of sex. The impact of this does not register on our conscious minds but the sleeping partner, the subconscious mind, has time to absorb it. What the message is really saying is, “The most precious thing on this earth, my last thought and action, will be the goal of orgasm.” If you don’t have an orgasm then you are an old man with zero libido.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Our children are being bombarded by sex and porn clips and many don’t even know how to protect them from it all. Large hoardings and magazine adverts are loaded with sexual innuendo. Some of the pop videos are extremely suggestive - again they hide behind free speech. Don’t be vexed and feel powerless about it. Make it a game and find you which of the components they are using - is it novelty, shock value, color, size, taboo etc. If the kids are pre-teen some of these can be disclosed to them and it would make an excellent show-and-tell game.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;A while back there was a wave of ‘leaked’ private videos of celebrities on the internet. If the youngster is too smitten by their favourite star, even if the conscious mind blames the ‘leak’ on the blood thirsty internet paparazzi, the &amp;lsquo;sleeping partner&amp;rsquo; is patiently digesting the notion that, “yes, even my shambolic hero does it and if I don’t, I won’t look the part.”&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;the-scientific-reasoning&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Scientific Reasoning&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
+&lt;/div&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;True, there is publicity the other way - the PIED scares, the loss of motivation, preferring virtual porn to real girls, YBOP&lt;sup id=&#34;fnref:1&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#fn:1&#34; class=&#34;footnote-ref&#34; role=&#34;doc-noteref&#34;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;, Reboot&lt;sup id=&#34;fnref:2&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#fn:2&#34; class=&#34;footnote-ref&#34; role=&#34;doc-noteref&#34;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; forums, underground PUA&lt;sup id=&#34;fnref:3&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#fn:3&#34; class=&#34;footnote-ref&#34; role=&#34;doc-noteref&#34;&gt;3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;, the no FAP movement - but these do not actually stop people PMOing. Logically they should, but the fact is they do not. They would not even prevent youngsters from starting no matter how much the YBOP guys try. All the years that I remained a PMOer, I can honestly say, even if I had read all of them before, I would never have become a quitter. The truth is that it doesn&amp;rsquo;t make the slightest bit of difference. The trap is the same today as when you fell into it.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Ironically, the most powerful force in this melee of confusion is the PMOer himself. It is a fallacy that they are weak-willed or are physically weak specimens. You have to be physically strong in order to cope with an addiction after you know it is. This is one of the reasons why PMOers refuse to accept the overwhelming statistics that prove that internet porn with its ‘novelty’ cripples your brain. Add to that the sexologists who are doing half-baked studies and declare PMO is not an issue - they just help to add to the confusion.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Everyone knows a friend who PMOed every day - he started with the ‘static’ to internet porn, always horny in real life, chasing girls and you never doubted him to have sex problems of course. You want to believe him. He never complained about any ED right? Guys and girls like them refuse even to consider the hundreds of ex-addicts and non-PMOers who painfully recount their difficulties. It is the “little monster” brain chemical addiction and the “big monster” - illusions and delusions. In this hackbook, I&amp;rsquo;ve put together almost all the sorts of brainwashing a PMOer can suffer from. There will always be a few out there that I haven&amp;rsquo;t touched upon.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Even more painful is they think of themselves as unsuccessful losers and insufferable introverts. A possible fact is that a PMO friend could have been more interesting in person if he hadn’t put himself down for seeking self-pleasure.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;If you do a small survey among your online forum members, friends and colleagues, you will find that most PMOers are, in fact, strong-willed people. They tend to be self-employed, business executives or in certain specialized professions, such as doctors&lt;sup id=&#34;fnref:4&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#fn:4&#34; class=&#34;footnote-ref&#34; role=&#34;doc-noteref&#34;&gt;4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;, lawyers, policemen, teachers, salesmen, nurses, secretaries, housewives with children, etc. In other words, anybody leading a stressful existence. Yes, I did include women and mothers. It’s the brain and it’s the same for them too. The main delusion of the PMOer is that porn helps to masturbate to orgasm and that relieves stress. This tends to be associated with the dominant type, the type that takes on responsibility and stress and, of course, that is the type that we admire and therefore tend to copy. Another group that tends to get hooked are people in monotonous jobs because the other main reason for PMOing is boredom. However, the idea that internet porn relieves boredom is also an illusion, I am afraid.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;As a society we get all uptight about glue-sniffing, heroin addiction, etc. Actual deaths from glue-sniffing do not amount to ten per annum, and deaths from heroin are less than a hundred a year in this country. There is another drug, internet porn, on which over 45 per cent of us become hooked at some time in our lives and the majority spend the rest of their lives regretting it. Some even don’t know that their ED is due to this.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;the-willpower-method&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Willpower Method&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
+&lt;/div&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;PMOers who quit using the Willpower method blame their own lack of willpower and ruin their peace and happiness. It is one thing to fail in self-discipline and another to self-loathe. There is no law that requires you to get fully hard all the time before sex, and to be properly aroused, and that you must be able to satisfy a woman. We are working on an addiction and not a habit. Habit is something you like to do- for example, golf - at no point you are arguing with yourself to stop golfing? But you do so with your porn addiction. The real question is: why?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Constant exposure to internet porn re-wires your brain. You need to start building resistance to this brainwashing, just as if you were buying a car from a second-hand car dealer. You would be nodding politely but you would not believe a word the man was saying. So don’t believe everything they say either - that you must have sex as much as you can and you must have it exceptional good. And that in the absence of real sex you claim it by the substitute called internet porn - which is only a component of the good old porn.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;And don’t play ‘safe’ porn game either - because your “little porn monster” invented that scheme to lure you. Even the content - ‘amateur’? Really? Is there a certification authority that certifies it? Tube sites and porn producers gather site visitor profiles and cater to their needs. If they see a trend in crowd sourced collection of a particular genre they will focus on that and get content out ASAP. The statistics of what genre users like is collected to the level of how long and which portion the users were preferring. Do not be fooled by their educational intent or the safe female oriented clips (for you ladies). Start asking yourself:&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;ul&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;Why am I doing it?&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;Do I really need to?&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NO, OF COURSE YOU DON&amp;rsquo;T.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I find this brainwashing aspect the most difficult of all to explain. Why is it that an otherwise rational, intelligent human being becomes a complete imbecile about his own addiction? It pains me to confess that out of the thousands of people that I have assisted in kicking the habit, I (not Allen Carr) was the biggest idiot of all.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;At the age of thirteen, although I was doing well at school and games, I was still an insufferable introvert. I read books from the library that were not within my main study list. However, I can see that I was attracted to erotica. I started masturbating to TV programs, song and dance sequences etc. I must have to have it every day. The tired feeling I felt was misappropriated by my ‘little porn monster’ as work stress. I didn’t know my “I-must-masturbate-as-I-am-entitled” attitude was the one that created the ‘stress’ in the first place. Then I got pictures and GIFs via email on my laptop - the first step towards electronic porn. The colour and texture of the images were amazing for me at that time - won’t be now for sure. Then came dial-up but still they were predominantly static pictures. Then came downloadable videos. It’s a pain to download and watch now - but it was heaven sent then as we were coming out of the static porn era! Oh, the streaming tube sites haven’t arrived yet.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;when-real-sex-is-not-enough-anymore&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;When Real Sex Is Not Enough Anymore&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
+&lt;/div&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I even remember opening up my laptop after having real sex (an activity I did due to stress induced by my own irrational rigid self demands to make her orgasm) and I was wanting more. Obviously the prospect of orgasm providing fulfilment rarely happens after prolonged porn use. So, my mind was reaching out to porn.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;At the age of forty, I was visiting my online harem daily, drinking ‘socially’ (whatever that means) and smoking ‘sometimes’ but not so often. I had wrongly subscribed to misguided ideas of ‘moderation’ and ‘entitlement’. I had reached the stage where I couldn&amp;rsquo;t get through a single day without reaching out to porn in the night. With most PMOers, the triggers are the normal stresses of life, like answering the telephone or socializing.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;When I experienced PIED - I knew it was killing my virility. There was no way I could kid myself otherwise. I am smart enough not to ‘project’ the porn fantasies on to real life. But it was like pacifying a dog straining at its leash. But why I couldn&amp;rsquo;t see what it was doing to me mentally, I could not understand. It was almost jumping up and biting me on the nose. The ridiculous thing is that most PMOers suffer the delusion at some time in their life that they enjoy internet porn because it is ‘normal’ and ‘healthy’. I never suffered that delusion, I PMOed because I thought enjoying sex is a ‘birthright’ and I am only doing a normal thing.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Since it was easier at most times for me to get internet porn than a partner I thought I am doing the normal thing. Now I am a non-PMOer, the most difficult part is trying to believe that those days actually happened. It&amp;rsquo;s like awakening from a nightmare and that is about the size of it. Internet porn is a supranormal drug. It is weakening your de-stressing mechanisms, your virility and your energy. The worst aspect of PMO isn&amp;rsquo;t the injury to your health or manliness, it is the warping of the mind. You search for any plausible excuse to go on.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I remember at one stage switching to static images, a failed attempt to cut down on internet porn, in the belief that it was less harmful and I could reign in my ‘habit’. I failed to see the ‘novelty’ and the ‘shock’ demands from my ‘little monster’ to just get more dopamine. Did I ‘stay’ within my boundaries? I ‘favorited’ 2 dimensional photos and my harem collection saw pictures and videos of ‘mild’ type porn rotating in and out like musical chair. When their ‘music’ stopped they ‘exited’. I didn’t understand the novelty-seeking, shock-seeking nature of my brain.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;pied-and-my-excuses&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PIED And My Excuses&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
+&lt;/div&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Once I figured I had PIED, as it had occurred multiple times with two different partners, I switched to more and more sophisticated masturbation. I practised with different artificial vaginas. They are sold as strength training. However, the combo of internet porn and toys needs deft hands, which is off-putting. Besides, by this time I was at the stage of orgasming with a limp member. All I wanted is an orgasm so I did not care about arousal, getting hard and all that. I had a long distance married girlfriend - who likes to share and talk about her sex life in very explicit manner. It turned me on so much that I’d masturbate to orgasm when I am on the phone with her. She knew it and would play with me by cutting off abruptly - to keep me hanging there - making me wanting more when she calls the next time. She had no trouble because I was fully willing to be the subject of playing such games, as long as it led to orgasm. A girl knows when a guy is seeking orgasm and it is his only goal. The only redeeming factor about me was my intelligence and empathy which kept her and my other partners coming back to me.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Most PMOers swear that they only watch static and soft porn and so they are OK. They are actually straining at the leash and thus fighting with their willpower to resist temptations. If they do this too often and for too long they will debit their willpower considerably and fail in other life projects where willpower is of much great value, like in daily exercise, dieting etc. Continuous failure in those areas will make them feel miserable and guilty and very soon they will find themselves back to their entitled relief. If not, they will vent their anger and depression onto their loved ones.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The answer is that once you have become addicted to internet porn, the brainwashing is increased. Your subconscious mind knows that the little monster has to be fed and you block everything else from your mind. As I have already stated, it is fear that keeps people quitting, the fear of that empty, insecure feeling that you get when you stop supplying the brain with dopamine flooding. Just because you are not aware of it doesn&amp;rsquo;t mean it isn&amp;rsquo;t there. You don&amp;rsquo;t have to understand it any more than a cat needs to understand where the under-floor hot-water pipes are. It just knows that if it sits in a certain place it gets the feeling of warmth.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;the-passivity-of-our-mind&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Passivity Of Our Mind&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
+&lt;/div&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;It is the passivity of our minds and dependency on authority leading to brainwashing that is the main difficulty in giving up PMO. The brainwashing of our upbringing in society reinforced with the brainwashing from our own addiction and, most powerful of all, the brainwashing of our friends, relatives and colleagues. Did you notice that up to now I&amp;rsquo;ve frequently referred to &amp;lsquo;giving up&amp;rsquo; PMO, I used the expression at the beginning of the previous paragraph. This is a classic example of the brainwashing. The expression implies a genuine sacrifice. The beautiful truth is that there is absolutely nothing to give up. On the contrary, you will be freeing yourself from a terrible disease and achieving marvellous positive gains. We are going to start removing this brainwashing now. From this point on, no longer will we refer to &amp;lsquo;giving up&amp;rsquo;, but to stopping, quitting or the true position: &lt;strong&gt;ESCAPING!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The only thing that persuades us to PMO in the first place is all the other people doing it. We feel we are missing out. We work so hard to become hooked, yet nobody ever finds out what they have been missing. But every time we see another new video clip it reassures us that there must be something in it, otherwise people wouldn&amp;rsquo;t be doing it - and it wouldn&amp;rsquo;t be such big business all over the world. Even when he has kicked the habit, the ex-PMOer feels he is being deprived when a discussion on a sexy entertainer, singer or even a porn star comes up at a party or other social function. She or he must be good to have all my friends talk about them, no? Do they have ‘hot’ pictures of her in my tube site? He feels safe. He can have just one ‘peek’ that night. And, before he knows it, he is hooked again.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;This brainwashing is extremely powerful and you need to be aware of its effects. I have heard scare stories about wicked men giving heroin mixed candies to kids at schoolyards. The concept of addiction and being compelled to go on taking the drug, filled me with horror. Even to this day, in spite of the fact that I am fairly convinced that &amp;lsquo;pot&amp;rsquo; is not addictive, I would not dare take one puff of marijuana. How ironic that I should have ended up a porn junky. Technology will continue to grow and we will have even faster tube sites and more faster access methods. The industry is investing millions in Virtual Reality so it will become the next best thing. The point is, do we know where we are going? Are we equipped with an under armour of defence so we can enjoy the benefits of technology yet at the same time protect ourselves from its bad effects?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;We are about to remove the brainwashing. It is not the non-PMOer who is being deprived but the poor user who is forfeiting a lifetime of:&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;ul&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HEALTH&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ENERGY&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WEALTH&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PEACE OF MIND&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CONFIDENCE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;COURAGE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SELF-RESPECT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HAPPINESS&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;FREEDOM&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;And what does he gain from these considerable sacrifices? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! Except the illusion of trying to get back to the state of peace, tranquillity and confidence that the non-PMOer enjoys all the time.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;div class=&#34;footnotes&#34; role=&#34;doc-endnotes&#34;&gt;
+&lt;hr&gt;
+&lt;ol&gt;
+&lt;li id=&#34;fn:1&#34;&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;YBOP&lt;/strong&gt; - yourbrainonporn.com, the leading internet porn addiction awareness site.&amp;#160;&lt;a href=&#34;#fnref:1&#34; class=&#34;footnote-backref&#34; role=&#34;doc-backlink&#34;&gt;&amp;#x21a9;&amp;#xfe0e;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li id=&#34;fn:2&#34;&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PUA&lt;/strong&gt; - pickup artist. Someone who teaches men to pick up mates.&amp;#160;&lt;a href=&#34;#fnref:2&#34; class=&#34;footnote-backref&#34; role=&#34;doc-backlink&#34;&gt;&amp;#x21a9;&amp;#xfe0e;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li id=&#34;fn:3&#34;&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reboot forum&lt;/strong&gt; - online resource for those who try temporary abstinence.&amp;#160;&lt;a href=&#34;#fnref:3&#34; class=&#34;footnote-backref&#34; role=&#34;doc-backlink&#34;&gt;&amp;#x21a9;&amp;#xfe0e;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li id=&#34;fn:4&#34;&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Doctors&lt;/strong&gt; - there is a reddit online forum for medical doctors who are quitting.&amp;#160;&lt;a href=&#34;#fnref:4&#34; class=&#34;footnote-backref&#34; role=&#34;doc-backlink&#34;&gt;&amp;#x21a9;&amp;#xfe0e;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ol&gt;
+&lt;/div&gt;
+</description>
+	</item>
+	
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 		<title>03-06 Internet Porn</title>
 		<link>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-06-internet-porn/</link>
@@ -21,7 +449,7 @@ action more happy feelings.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;So the first time you see porn - dopamine injects itself - you act - you orgasm. All of which will now be stored as a script in your brain for easy access next time. I call this a ‘water slide’. Next time at the cue - a sexy commercial or alone time or stress or feeling a little down - you are ready to take a ride on the ‘water slide’. One more thing is that every time to repeat this you are ‘greasing’ it as well - so it is active, alive and more easier to slide the next time.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;As time passes you are most probably not excited as before of the same clip - the reason will be explained shortly - but of similar type, genre, shock-level, our dopamine seeps into the brain but this time lesser than before. Now you feel less arousal, lesser motivation. This low motivation feeling in itself will trigger a feeling of lower satisfaction as our minds engage in constant rating. Then you seek more motivation. Then you ask for more novelty. Then you click on that amateurish, ugly looking, low quality, but high shock valued clip thumbnail which you had confidently said you won’t on your first time.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My Own Online Harem!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;my-own-online-harem&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My Own Online Harem!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;This cycle of novelty, escalation, satiation, desensitization etc. is not the same as the old porn magazine? Neither can you do that in real life with your partner. Maybe if you own a harem? One of the pros of owning a harem is novelty and the cons are desensitization, escalation and of course the cost.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;Going back to the earlier discussion - in this cycle as you crossed the ‘red line’ you also trigger emotions such as guilt, disgust, embarrassment, anxiety and fear - which in turn raise dopamine levels as well. Now the brain may mistakenly associate feelings of anxiety and fear as sexual arousal. This perpetual cycle is only broken by natural causes - fortunately sooner or later. With its free access and privacy it provides boundless harem-like novelty. The dopamine can be theoretically kept very high for a very very long time. I can be satisfied with one lobster once in awhile. But Internet porn is different. It is even worse than drugs. Don’t let me make you nervous. I will shortly show you how to be free from this slavery.&lt;/p&gt;
@@ -36,13 +464,13 @@ action more happy feelings.&lt;/p&gt;
 use?&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;This dopamine flooding, like a quick-acting drug, falls quickly to induce withdrawal pangs. I must at this point dispel a common illusion that PMOers have about withdrawal pangs. They think that withdrawal pangs are the terrible trauma they suffer when they try or are forced to stop PMOing. These are, in fact, mainly mental; the user is feeling deprived of his pleasure or prop. I will explain more about this later.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Little Monster&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;the-little-monster&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Little Monster&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;The actual pangs of withdrawal from PMO are so subtle that most users have lived and died without even realizing they are like drug addicts. When we use the term ‘porn addict&amp;rsquo; we think we just &amp;lsquo;got into the habit&amp;rsquo;. Most PMOers have a horror of drugs, yet that&amp;rsquo;s exactly what they are - drug addicts. Fortunately it is an easy drug to kick, but you need first to accept that you are addicted. There is no physical pain in the withdrawal from PMO. It is merely an empty, restless feeling, the feeling of something missing, which is why many think it is something to do with their hands. If it is prolonged, the user becomes nervous, insecure, agitated, lacking in confidence and irritable. It is like hunger - for a poison, INTERNET PORN.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;Within seconds of engaging in PMO the dopamine is supplied and the craving ends, resulting in the feeling of fulfilment and pleasure that the action gives to the PMOer. In the early days, when we first start PMOing, the withdrawal pangs and their relief are so slight that we are not even aware that they exist. When we begin to masturbate regularly to internet porn we think it is because we&amp;rsquo;ve either come to enjoy them or got into the &amp;lsquo;habit&amp;rsquo;. The truth is we&amp;rsquo;re already hooked; we do not realize it, but that little monster is already inside our stomach and every now and again we have to feed it.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;All PMOers start seeking porn for stupid reasons. Nobody has to. The only reason why anybody continues PMOing, whether they be a casual or a heavy user, is to feed that little monster. The whole business of porn and PMO is a series of confusing conundrums. All sufferers of PMO know at heart that they are fools and have been trapped by something evil. However, I think the most pathetic aspect about this is that the enjoyment that the PMOer gets from a session is the pleasure of trying to get back to the state of peace, tranquillity and confidence that his body had before he became hooked in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Annoying Burglar Alarm&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;the-annoying-burglar-alarm&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Annoying Burglar Alarm&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;You know that feeling when a neighbour’s burglar alarm has been ringing all day, or there has been some other minor, persistent aggravation. Then the noise suddenly stops - that marvellous feeling of peace and tranquillity is experienced. It is not really peace but the ending of the aggravation. Before we start the next PMO session, our bodies are complete. We then force our brains to pump dopamine into the body using PMO, and when we are done orgasming and the dopamine starts to leave, we suffer withdrawal pangs - not physical pain, just an empty feeling. We are not even aware that it exists, but it is like a dripping tap inside our bodies. Our rational minds do not understand it. They do not need to. All we know is that we want porn and when we masturbate the craving goes, and for the moment we are content and confident again just as we were before we
 became addicted. However, the satisfaction is only temporary because in order to relieve the craving you have to get more porn. As soon as you orgasm the craving starts again and so the chain goes on. It is a chain for life - &lt;strong&gt;UNLESS YOU BREAK IT&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
@@ -56,7 +484,7 @@ became addicted. However, the satisfaction is only temporary because in order to
 &lt;p&gt;The heroin doesn&amp;rsquo;t relieve it. On the contrary, it causes it. Non-PMOers - say a 14 year old in 2008 - didn&amp;rsquo;t suffer the empty feeling of needing internet porn or start to panic when they are off- line. Non-PMOers cannot understand how PMOers can possibly obtain pleasure from two dimensional videos with muted sounds and abnormal body proportions. And do you know something? PMOers themselves cannot understand why they do it after some time either.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;We talk about internet porn being relaxing or giving satisfaction. But how can you be satisfied unless you were dissatisfied in the first place? Why don&amp;rsquo;t non-PMOer suffer from this dissatisfied state and why, after a no-sex date, when the non-PMOers are completely relaxed, are PMOers completely unrelaxed until they have satisfied their &amp;rsquo;little monster&amp;rsquo;?&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Pleasure or Crutch?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;a-pleasure-or-crutch&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Pleasure or Crutch?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;Forgive me if I dwell on this subject for a moment. The main reason that PMOers find it difficult to quit is that they believe that they are giving up a genuine pleasure or crutch. It is absolutely essential to understand that you are giving up nothing whatsoever. The best way to understand the subtleties of the PMO trap is to compare it with eating. If we are in the habit of eating regular meals, we are not aware of being hungry between meals. Only if the meal is delayed are we aware of being hungry, and even then, there is no physical pain, just an empty, insecure feeling which we know as: &amp;lsquo;I need to eat.&amp;rsquo; And the process of satisfying our hunger is a very pleasantpastime.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;PMOing appears to be almost identical. The empty, insecure feeling which we know as: &amp;lsquo;wanting or needing an PMO orgasm’ is identical to a hunger for food, although one will not satisfy the other. Like hunger, there is no physical pain and the feeling is so imperceptible that we are not even aware of it between PMO sessions. It&amp;rsquo;s only if we want to masturbate and aren&amp;rsquo;t able to reach internet for porn that we become aware of any discomfort. But when we do PMO we feel satisfied.&lt;/p&gt;
@@ -68,12 +496,12 @@ became addicted. However, the satisfaction is only temporary because in order to
 &lt;li&gt;Eating doesn&amp;rsquo;t create hunger and genuinely relieves it, whereas the first PMO starts the craving for dopamine and each subsequent one, far from relieving it, ensures that you suffer it for the rest of life.&lt;/li&gt;
 &lt;/ol&gt;
 &lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PMO is a Habit?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;pmo-is-a-habit&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PMO is a Habit?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;This is an opportune moment to dispel another common myth about PMO - that it is a habit. Is eating a habit? If you think so, try breaking it completely. No, to describe eating as a habit would be the same as describing breathing as a habit. Both are essential for survival. It is true that different people are in the habit of satisfying their hunger at different times and with varying types of food. But eating itself is not a habit. Neither is PMO. The only reason any PMOer fires up the browser is to try to end the empty, insecure feeling that the previous orgasm and the PMO session created. It is true that different PMOers are in the habit of trying to relieve their withdrawal pangs at different times, but PMO itself is not a habit.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;On the internet they frequently refer to PMO as a habit and in this hackbook, for convenience, I also refer to the &amp;lsquo;habit&amp;rsquo;. However, be constantly aware that it is not habit, on the contrary it is no more nor less than DRUG ADDICTION! When we start to PMO we have to force ourselves to learn to cope with it. Before we know it, we are ‘escalating’&lt;sup id=&#34;fnref:1&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#fn:1&#34; class=&#34;footnote-ref&#34; role=&#34;doc-noteref&#34;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; - we have to then have more bizarre and more shocking porn. The thrill is in the hunting&amp;hellip; not in the killing. If we don&amp;rsquo;t then panic sets in and as we go through life we tend to novelty-seek more and more. Worse is when this seeking of higher shock level get into our real life. Have you heard about people suffering from PIED, that too in solo? How about wet dreams and fantasies where you are not even there but only involving others? There is no performance stress but I am not even getting hard. Great!&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Crossing The Red Line&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;crossing-the-red-line&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Crossing The Red Line&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;This is because, as with any other drug, the body tends to develop immunity to the effects of the same old porn clips and our brain wants more or something else. After quite a short period of watching the same clip it ceases to relieve completely the withdrawal pangs that the previous PMO session had created. You want to stay on the safe side of your own ‘red line’ but your brain is asking you to click on that ‘forbidden fruit’ clip. There is a tug of war occurring in this supposed porn paradise.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;You feel better than you did before starting this PMO session but you are in fact more nervous and less relaxed than you would be as a non-PMOer, like someone who is living in Loma Linda or in an Amish village, even though you are actually PMOing and living in your supposed “porn paradise.” This position is even more ridiculous than wearing tight shoes because as you go through life an increasing amount of the discomfort remains even when the shoes are removed.&lt;/p&gt;
@@ -86,19 +514,19 @@ became addicted. However, the satisfaction is only temporary because in order to
 &lt;p&gt;What magic drug can suddenly reverse the very effect it had minutes before? If you think about it, what other types of occasion are there in our lives; apart from sleep? The truth is that PMO neither relieves boredom and stress nor promotes concentration and relaxation. It is all just illusion. Apart from being a drug, PMO is also a destroyer of happiness and virility.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;In case you have ideas of toning down to other more ‘realistic’ or ‘soft’ genres of porn and such, I should make it quite clear that the content of this book applies to all porn, yes, that includes, print, webcams, pay-per-views, chat, live shows etc. that is on high speed internet where ‘novelty’ and ‘shock’ is the nature of the game. Imagination goes farther than reality. The human body is the most sophisticated object on our planet. No species, even the lowest amoeba or worm, can survive without knowing the difference between food and poison.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Brain Reward Circuit Mechanics&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;brain-reward-circuit-mechanics&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Brain Reward Circuit Mechanics&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;Through a process of natural selection over thousand of years, our minds and bodies have developed techniques for rewarding actions that multiply and sustain humanity. Yet our minds and bodies are not ready for the supernormal stimulus that is bigger, brighter, colourful, edgier and more shocking than the one we have now. We are attracted proportional to the degree of how far the outlier is from our individual normal. It can be two dimensional clip - and a muted one at that - we will get aroused. Look at the same clip again and again and you won’t be. You just moved your red line close to the outlier and in no time you will enclose it in your normal consciousness. It is natural and it is so that you can multiply and grow this human race. In real life there are checks and balances in place so you take a break and go away do something else. With internet porn you there are no such checks and balances and you are living in a virtual harem!&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;When we took a ‘peep’ at internet porn the first time, a few images were titillating but most were disgusting, causing you to avert your eyes away. Like you would if had accidentally glanced a feeding mother’s breast. And some of us are even revolted with what they saw when the star reminded them of someone dear to their heart or a scene which recalled their own instance of being the victim. Some don’t feel like it to browse and masturbate at the same time. It may be hard to believe for you but the non-PMOs, who don’t PMO after their first time, are the lucky ones. They actually decided that it was not their cup of tea. It must be hard for you to believe but stay with me.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;How many of us don’t visit brothels - even when you are far from home? Why not? It’s not the social stigma? How many of us did not bring home a bottle on your way back from work - even after a hard day? Why not ? You ‘deserve’ it after that big deal you made? You just decided, after your first instance, that it’s not your cup of tea. That&amp;rsquo;s all.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Are PMOers Mentally Weak?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;are-pmoers-mentally-weak&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Are PMOers Mentally Weak?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;It is a fallacy that physically weak and mentally weak-willed people become PMOers. The lucky ones are those who find that first instance repulsive and they are cured for life. Or, alternatively, they are not mentally prepared to go through the severe learning process of fighting the obstructions of self-talking themselves to get hooked, fear of ‘getting caught’, not technical enough to create an online cache, operate privacy settings in the browser etc.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;To me this is the most tragic part of this whole business. How hard we worked to become hooked, and this is why it is difficult to stop teenagers. Because they are skilled in seeking and finding material, they know online privacy options and can clean their tracks - if they still feel some stigma and they (wrongfully) believe they can stop whenever they want to. Why do they not learn from us? Then again, why did we not learn from our PMOers and addicts?&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;Many PMOers believe they enjoy online internet porn. It is an illusion. What we are actually doing when we jump from genre to genre is to keep our ‘novelty’ monkey within the ‘red line’ of ‘safe’ porn genres to get our dopamine fix, like heroin addicts who think that they enjoy injecting themselves. The withdrawal pangs from heroin are relatively severe and all they are really enjoying is the ritual of relieving those pangs.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The High From The Dance Around The Red Line&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;the-high-from-the-dance-around-the-red-line&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The High From The Dance Around The Red Line&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;Even with that one clip on which he lingers longer - the PMOer constantly teaches himself to filter out the bad and ugly portions of a porn clip. Even if it is solo, you still do the ‘filtering’ on the body parts that appeal to you the most. In fact some even take pleasure in this game to find an excuse to declare that they like ‘soft’ stuff and are not addicted to supranormal stimuli. Sometimes even this constant dance around the red line in itself produces a sort of high as well.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;Ask a user who believes that he sticks to a certain actor or genre - only because he likes something about the star or the theme (if any) of the clip: “If you cannot get your normal brand of porn and can only obtain a poor or unsafe brand, do you stop masturbating?” No way. A PMOer will masturbate to anything rather than abstain and it doesn&amp;rsquo;t matter if he has to switch to escalating themes, different sex-orientation-themes, look-alike actresses, dangerous settings shocking relationships etc. To begin with they taste awful but if you persevere you will learn to like them. Most PMOers will also try to seek masturbation even after having real sex (unfulfilment, porn-induced unrealistic expectations etc.), or after a long, stressful work day, fever, colds, flu, sore throats and even when admitted in hospitals.&lt;/p&gt;
@@ -109,13 +537,13 @@ became addicted. However, the satisfaction is only temporary because in order to
 &lt;/ol&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;You will quite rightly ask why it is that many PMOers find it so difficult to stop, go through months of torture and spend the rest of their lives pining for it at odd times. The answer is the second reason why we use Internet porn - the brainwashing. The brain-chemical addiction is easy to cope with. Most PMOers go days without online porn - when they are on business trips or travel etc. The withdrawal pangs don’t affect them. Their little porn monster knows that you will open your laptop as soon as you return to hotel room or your den. Ah, you can even survive this obnoxious client and your megalomaniac manager - just ‘knowing’ that the fix is there for your take. It doesn&amp;rsquo;t bother the PMOers.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Smokers Analogy&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;the-smokers-analogy&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Smokers Analogy&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;A good analogy is the situation of smokers - if they went ten hours during the day without a cigarette they&amp;rsquo;d be tearing their hair out. Many smokers will buy a new car nowadays and refrain from smoking in it. Many will visit theatres, supermarkets, churches, etc. and not being able to smoke doesn&amp;rsquo;t bother them. Even on the trains there have been no riots. Smokers are almost pleased for someone or something to force them to stop smoking.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;PMOers will automatically refrain from using internet porn in the home of their parents while visiting for family get togethers etc. with little discomfort to themselves. In fact, most PMOers have extended periods during which they abstain without effort. Even in my case I would quite happily go a week or so without a PMO incident. In the later years as a PMOer I actually used to look forward to these days when I could stop choking my penis (what a ridiculous &amp;lsquo;habit&amp;rsquo;).&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;The brain chemical addiction (little monster) is easy to cope with, even when you are still addicted, and there are thousands of PMOers who remain casual users all their lives. They are just as heavily addicted as the heavy PMOer. There are even heavy PMOers who have kicked the &amp;lsquo;habit&amp;rsquo; but will have an occasional ‘peek’, and that keeps them addicted. You are ‘greasing’ the ‘water slide’ of the brain only to see you slide down at the next dip in your mood.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Big Monster - The Brainwashing&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;the-big-monster---the-brainwashing&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Big Monster - The Brainwashing&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;You are smart enough to know (aside, I will explain shortly why PMOers are in fact a strong willed and hard working bunch) that not all porn workers get a W-2 with 401k and stock options. Only a very rare actor and that too for a very short period of time of their career may be.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;Not all the amateurs are ‘amateurs’ on these tube sites, oversized body parts and overcharged scenarios are the norm, aided by a bit of the ‘viagran’ help.&lt;/p&gt;
@@ -346,7 +774,7 @@ Do not take anything for granted. Question not only what I tell you but also you
 		
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-&lt;p&gt;&amp;lsquo;I&amp;rsquo;M GOING TO CURE THE WORLD OF PMO&amp;rsquo;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;im-going-to-cure-the-world-of-pmo&#34;&gt;&amp;lsquo;I&amp;rsquo;M GOING TO CURE THE WORLD OF PMO&amp;rsquo;&lt;/h2&gt;
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 &lt;p&gt;I was talking to my mentor. He thought that I had flipped. Understandable if you consider that he had watched me fail on numerous attempts to quit. The most recent had been two years previously. I&amp;rsquo;d actually survived six months of sheer purgatory before I finally succumbed and found myself clicking on stacked up tabs of porn sites. I&amp;rsquo;m not ashamed to admit that I cried like a baby. I was crying because I knew that I was condemned to be an addict for life. I&amp;rsquo;d put so much effort into that attempt and suffered so much misery that I knew I would never have the strength to go through that ordeal again. I&amp;rsquo;m not a violent man, but if some patronizing non-PMO’er had been stupid enough at that moment to suggest to me that all users can find it easy to quit, immediately and permanently, I would not have been responsible for my actions. However, I&amp;rsquo;m convinced that any jury in the world, comprised of PMOers only, would have pardoned me on the grounds of justifiable homicide.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;Perhaps you too find it impossible to believe that any PMOer can find it easy to quit. If so, I beg you not to cast this book into the rubbish bin. Please trust me. I assure you that you can find it

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+		<title>03-17 Health</title>
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+		<description>&lt;p&gt;This is the area where the brainwashing is the greatest. PMOers, especially the young and single, think they are aware of the health risks. They are not. Even in my case, when I was expecting my head to explode any moment and honestly believed I was prepared to accept the consequences, I was still kidding myself. I didn&amp;rsquo;t in those days have an app that started a red beeper to flash and sound every time my internet router hits a porn site, followed by a warning voice saying, “OK, this is the one!” Fortunately you do get a warning, and this is it. That warning would say, “Up to now you have got away with it but if you stay another minute your head will explode,” do you think I would have PMOed?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;If you are in doubt about the answer just try walking up to a cliff, stand on the edge with your eyes closed and imagine you then have the choice of either quitting PMO or walking up blindfolded before your next PMO.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;There is no doubt what your choice would be. I had been doing what every internet porn PMOer does all his life: closing my mind and keeping my head in the sand, hoping that I would wake up one morning and just not want to PMO any more. PMOers cannot allow themselves to think of the health risks. If they do, even the illusion of enjoying the &amp;lsquo;habit&amp;rsquo; goes.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;This explains why a shock treatment is so ineffective in the first stages of quitting. It is only non-users who can bring themselves to read the destructive brain changes. It also explains why PMOers, influenced by their little monster, wrongly recall that filthy room mate who PMOed everyday and was still remaining ‘horny’ 24 hours a day – they will ignore the thousands of people who are brought “down” in their prime because of this poisonous ‘habit’.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;About six times a week I have the following conversation with PMOers (usually the younger ones):&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;ME: Why do you want to stop?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;PMOer: I read in a PUA guru’s blog that it is good to stop for 4 days to amp myself up.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;ME: Aren&amp;rsquo;t you worried about the health risks?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;PMOer:No, I could step under a bus tomorrow.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;ME: But would you deliberately step under a bus?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;PMOer:Of course not.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;ME: Do you not bother to look left and right when you cross the road?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;PMOer: Of course I do.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Exactly. He/she goes through a lot of trouble not to step under a bus and the odds are hundreds of thousands to one against it happening. Yet the PMOer risks the near certainty of being crippled by this ‘habit’ and appears to be completely oblivious to the risks. Such is the power of the brainwashing. The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn&amp;rsquo;t exist. Especially when you are younger or single. So is internet porn - it is the wolf in sheep’s clothing.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I remember a friend of mine who would not drink or smoke. Yet he would argue with me that internet porn is not different than older safe porn and that it is fun. Isn&amp;rsquo;t it strange that if, for example, we felt there was the slightest fault in an airplane, we wouldn&amp;rsquo;t go up in it, even though the risks are millions to one against death. Yet we take more than a one-in-four certainty with internet porn with its PMO addiction and are apparently oblivious to it. And what does the PMOer get out of it? &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Another common myth about PMO is the depression or peevishness. Many of the younger people are not worried about their health because they do not suffer any of the depression or melancholy. The depression or stress itself is not a disease; it is just a symptom. Younger people in general don’t feel the irritability or depression created because of their body’s natural capability to produce more dopamine and also the vigour and cheerfulness of their youthful activities masks those depleting reservoirs. As they age or if their lives experience serious setbacks the depleted resources are overworked and then they will experience full blown symptoms.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;When non-younger PMOers feel stressed, depressed or irritated it is because of the normal dopamine levels are not being effective and or due to excessive ‘flooding’ and its reactionary cutting down of the receptors. It is a reactionary step brain takes to protect its nervous systems from excessive dopamine ‘flooding’ as the dopamine receptors close up. It is one of nature&amp;rsquo;s fail-safe methods. They also develop other neural changes that will keep them in the rut.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Just think of it this way. If you had a nice car and allowed it to rust without doing anything about it that would be pretty stupid, as it would soon become a heap of rust and not be able to carry you anywhere. However, that would not be the end of the world; it is only a question of money and you could always buy a new car. But your body is the vehicle that carries you through life. We all say that our health is our most valued asset. How true that is, as sick millionaires will tell you. Most of us can look back at some illness or accident in our lives when we prayed to get better. (HOW SOON WE FORGET). By being a PMOer, you are not only letting the rust get in and doing nothing about it; you are systematically destroying the vehicle you need to go through life and you only get one.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Wise up. You don&amp;rsquo;t have to do it and remember: it is doing ABSOLUTELY NOTHING FOR YOU. Just for a moment take your head out of the sand and ask yourself; if you knew for certain that the next PMO session would be the one to trigger off a process in your body that will make your penis fall away like a hair strand, would you then actually go ahead and do it? Forget the ‘disease’ idea (it is difficult to imagine it) but just imagine you are on your bed, with your partner and your penis is not responding. Or if you are a woman, you are not feeling in any way responsive with someone you deeply love? Now you are not in the beginning of a happy endeavour but instead a tug of war in your mind and in your partner&amp;rsquo;s mind too. “Is it my PMO or is it just stress? Can I spot who the culprit is 100%? Or for her, is it me? Am I not sexy enough for him? Or worse, am I losing my ‘appetite’ too soon due to ageing?” What do you think is going to happen?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I often speak to the people that it happens to. They didn&amp;rsquo;t think it would happen to them either and the worst thing about it isn&amp;rsquo;t the disease itself but the knowledge they have brought it on themselves. For a very long time as PMOers and abusers we are saying, “I’ll stop tomorrow.” Try to imagine how those people feel who “hit the button.” For them the brainwashing is ended. They then see the &amp;lsquo;habit&amp;rsquo; as it really is and spend the remainder of their lives thinking, “Why did I kid myself I needed to masturbate to internet porn? If only I had the chance to go back!”&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Stop kidding yourself. You have the chance. It&amp;rsquo;s a chain reaction. If you engage in the next PMO session, it will lead you to the next one and the next. It&amp;rsquo;s already happening to you. At the beginning of the book I promised you no shock treatment. If you have already decided you are going to stop, this isn&amp;rsquo;t shock treatment for you. If you are still in doubt, skip the remainder of this chapter and come back to it when you have read the rest of the book.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Volumes of researches and studies have already been written about the damage that internet porn causes to our sex lives and to our mental well-being. The trouble is that until the PMOer decides to stop he doesn&amp;rsquo;t want to know. Even the forums and mentor groups are a waste of time because the PMOer puts the blinkers on. If he inadvertently reads it, the first thing he does is to open an incognito tab and visit his favourite tube site. PMOers tend to think of the happiness, stress and sex hazards as a hit-and-miss affair, like stepping on a land mine.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Get it into your head: it is already happening. Every single time you browse to your tube site you are triggering dopamine flooding and the opioids get to work - the neural pathway water slides get greased and the ride takes you smoothly through the next steps that you have already given to the script. The nervous system is now flooded by dopamine and since it is its umpteenth time, it is going to let some of your dopamine receptors to close up. The ‘little monster’ in you is using this slight dip in the pleasure compared to the last time to encourage you to “cross the red line” towards more shocking porn or behaviour in order to release more dopamine. In the process just hit on the ‘novelty’ button that triggers dopamine again. “Let’s keep going,” says the little monster, because you deserve it and you are entitled to this. Now the streaming of so many pictures and videos on a single tab&amp;hellip; that triggers another button called ‘supernormal’ stimulus, injecting more amines.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;All this time your receptors are receiving infomation to shut down inversely proportional to the flooding. Then you get to the orgasm stage. More dopamine, more shutting down of receptors. After this comes the withdrawal, Oh and since you are an ex-PMOer go get one. And why not pour a glass from the fridge of that leftover whiskey? Internet porn kills your sex life and thus it kills your private and public lives as well. If you are not aware of the addiction process or even if you are, you are in denial since the “little monster” craves for its fix because there was no real pain and you could handle the discomfort.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I confess that the thought of having ED terrified me, which is probably why I just blocked it from my mind. It&amp;rsquo;s amazing how the fear of the horrendous health risks attached to PMOing are overshadowed by the fear of stopping. It&amp;rsquo;s not so much that the latter is a greater fear, but that if we quit today the fear is immediate, whereas the fear of getting ED, PE and OCD related mental illnesses are a fear of the future. Why look on the black side? Perhaps it won&amp;rsquo;t happen. I&amp;rsquo;m bound to have quit by then anyway.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;We tend to think of PMOing as a tug-of-war. On one side is fear: it&amp;rsquo;s unhealthy, filthy and enslaving. On the other side the pluses: it&amp;rsquo;s my pleasure, my friend, my crutch. It never seems to occur to us that this side is also fear. It&amp;rsquo;s not so much that we enjoy them but that we tend to be miserable without them.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Think of heroin addicts deprived of their heroin: the abject misery they go through. Now picture their utter joy when they are allowed to plunge a needle into their veins and end that terrible craving. Try to imagine how anyone could actually believe they get pleasure from sticking a hypodermic syringe into a vein. Non-heroin addicts don&amp;rsquo;t suffer that panic feeling. Heroin doesn&amp;rsquo;t relieve the feeling, on the contrary, it causes it.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Non-PMOers (those who don’t ‘need’ or have access to internet porn) don&amp;rsquo;t feel miserable if they are not allowed to PMO. It&amp;rsquo;s only PMOers that suffer that feeling. Internet porn doesn&amp;rsquo;t relieve it, on the contrary it causes it. The fear of ED or PE didn&amp;rsquo;t make me quit because I believed it was rather like walking through a minefield. If you got away with it - fine. If you were unlucky you stepped on a mine.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;You knew the risks you were taking and if you were prepared to take the risk, what had it to do with anyone else? So if a non-PMOer ever tried to make me aware of those risks, I would use the typical evasive tactics that all addicts invariably adopt. They are&amp;hellip;.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;ul&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;“You will eventually get old and lose your sexual prowess anyway&amp;hellip;”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Of course you do but sexual prowess is not even the point, we are talking slavery here. Even if that is the case, is that a logical reason for deliberately cutting yourself short?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;ul&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;“Quality of life is more important than just living.”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Exactly but you are surely not suggesting that the quality of life of an addict is greater than that of someone that isn&amp;rsquo;t addicted? Do you really believe that the quality of a PMOer’s life is better than a non-PMOer? Surely the PMOer loses on both counts his life is spent in trying to cover his head in the sand and being miserable.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;ul&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;“I am single and am not planning to ‘settle down’ in the near future so why not?”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Even if that were true, is that a logical reason for playing with the brain structure dealing with impulse control that is needed in other areas of life? Can you possibly conceive of anyone being stupid enough to strip naked wherever one is going to be alone? No matter how sure you are that you are not expecting anyone in your life? THAT&amp;rsquo;S WHAT PMOers EFFECTIVELY DO!&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I can understand why the ED and the risks of ruining one’s mental health didn&amp;rsquo;t help me to quit. I could cope with the former and block my mind to the latter. As you are already aware, my method is not to frighten you into quitting but the complete opposite - to make you realize just how more enjoyable your life will be when you have escaped.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;However, I do believe that if I could have seen what was happening inside my brain, this would have helped me to quit. Now I&amp;rsquo;m not referring to the shock technique of showing a PMOer the effect of the hidden attribute of internet porn on the reward circuit of the brain. It was obvious to me from my unreliable arousals, fading penetrations, lack of energy, unemotional sex (as in just a muscle twitch), hit-seek escalations of porn search for novelty and shock that something is not going right. None of these are catastrophic for me as I have trained myself in cognitive behavioural techniques as discussed before but I did experience them quite often enough. Practising CBT/REBT gave me enough grounding and stability to look at my addiction in a different and better way than I’d have if I were not aware of the cognitive biases. Provided I kept functioning, even at a mediocre level, they were less of an embarrassment than a lost tooth - at least nobody could see my mind.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;What I am referring to is the progressive gunging-up of our reward circuits with excessive stimulation, making them incapable of handling the normal stresses of life. Closing up of dopamine and opioids receptors does not help me in enjoying my life with enough vigour. Porn and masturbation has replaced the natural sexual appetite, like a candy bar replacing real food. The brain has no idea to differentiate one from the other. I don&amp;rsquo;t like the thought of a virus in my smart phone or my laptop. Could you imagine buying the latest one of these gadgets and letting a virus to run every line of the software code but repeat it thrice ? That&amp;rsquo;s what we effectively do to our bodies when we become PMOers.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Many researchers and doctors are now relating various mental health problems in addition to the physiological ones caused by internet porn and PMO in general. This is no surprise to me. The mainstream medical world has laboured that PMO has never been scientifically proven to be the direct cause of the issues reported by self-confessing individuals. Admitting one’s sexual inability in public is such a shame triggering event, why would anyone do that unless they are really concerned? And probably many have found the cause and have eliminated it. This book is going to help you to get rid of it and also become a happy ex PMOer. No porn whatsoever, no porn aided masturbation. And of course no unnecessary orgasms. The only aid will be the touch, smell and voice of your partner. Like whole wheat bread after a well developed appetite, you will produce enough juices to break down the hard bread and it comes as a beautiful refreshment. No high fructose corn syrup injected fake food. The evidence is so overwhelming as not to need proof. No one ever scientifically proved to me exactly why, when I bang my thumb with a hammer, it hurts. I soon got the message.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I must emphasize that I am not a doctor but just like the hammer and the thumb, it soon became obvious to me that the periods of my life outside of sex that were marked by low levels of irritation tolerance, lack of energy, temper, moody thoughts, zoning out of social scenes etc. were directly related to my masturbation and especially the supernormal stimulus of IP&lt;sup id=&#34;fnref:1&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#fn:1&#34; class=&#34;footnote-ref&#34; role=&#34;doc-noteref&#34;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;. However, I truly believe that the greatest hazard that IP causes to our health is the gradual and progressive deterioration of our sex life caused by super-substitutes. The novelty, shock, variety in size and nature of internet porn can slowly take away the magic of the real sex. Worse, the RC&lt;sup id=&#34;fnref:2&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#fn:2&#34; class=&#34;footnote-ref&#34; role=&#34;doc-noteref&#34;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; reward circuits are flooding unnaturally and at high abnormal levels so that they close up  the receptors and also diminish any potency and effectiveness of normal de-stressors that work in the RC. This predisposes one to be depressed and become needy to lot more other ‘crutches’ of life such as cigarettes and alcohol or even causing the host to think of committing suicide. Even the real vagina will not be a match for the death grip of masturbation - and the little monster is kept alive.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Our lives are ‘blessed’ with challenges – yes, ‘blessed’- they are needed to keep us strong and make us better. If our nervous systems is pre-disposed to making a molehill out of a mountain it will seek a ‘fix. When it seeks a hit or a mountain out of a molehill when it interfaces with reality then is it worth it? Our body and our brain is designed to make use of optimal levels of these brain chemicals. I don’t think a man who fails in satisfying a woman should consider himself worthless.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;You will do well accepting yourself unconditionally and as an extension others and of life in general as well. It needs practice - but you won&amp;rsquo;t practice unless your brain rewards you. External rewards are iffy and most of the time are not forthcoming. If your internal brain chemicals and the reward circuits are humming even a little external reward will go a long way and the lack of external approvals won&amp;rsquo;t even matter at all. If you want to you can be the king of your life. Think about this as one of your greatest benefits.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Several of the adverse effects that PMO had on my health, some of which I had been suffering from for years, did not become apparent to me until many years after I had stopped. The good news I have for you is this - all of this is reversible. You are the jailer and you are also going to set yourself - the prisoner - free!&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;It didn&amp;rsquo;t even occur to me that I was already suffering from ED and PE&lt;sup id=&#34;fnref:3&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#fn:3&#34; class=&#34;footnote-ref&#34; role=&#34;doc-noteref&#34;&gt;3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; myself. Upon my first observation of the damage I quickly attributed it, with the help of my little monster, to (a) the occasional opposition to foreplay by my partner, (b) to the ‘less-than-ideal’ partner (my brain ‘tolerance’ is so high that even if I were with the most sexy one imaginable it’d still be not enough), (c) some silly grudge about my past stopping me to ‘prepare’ us to mood setting or (d) my boss, customer etc. etc.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;When it happened again my little monster brain gave me a BS mix of the above combo which I don’t even want to waste your time with. It never occurred to me that none of these would have stopped me before? So, I decided that I need ‘stamina practice’ since I figured that a toy which comes close to real vagina will ‘train’ me in getting hard and to avoid PE. I later came to read about PE being the result of poor training of the reward circuits. If one’s goal is orgasm then getting hard is not a requirement with masturbation. That being avoided enough times sets up waterslides in your brain and you grease it real nice every time to ride the slide. You can dispute this but I am going to take the Pascal’s Wager and quit - I lose very little, gain big and avoid losing big.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;When you don’t get hard or have unreliable erections, it’s a signal that your mind wants it more than your body - most times. Also of note is my peevishness and melancholy (anger/irritability and moodiness/depression). I told myself that I am a negatively oriented Virgo. While many Virgos are predisposed to think and act ‘negatively’ I failed to notice that actually I am a pretty optimistic guy.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;In fact, the many times I had not gone along for the porn water slide ride, due to external events, even though I had wanted to, I noticed that I did not get affected big time - remember again Pascal’s Wager. But looking back at my life, I have to say that I have been an achiever, in spite of the self-sabotage of PMO and its constant drag. That must be due to the training of tempering my pre-disposition and keeping the negatives to toned down healthy negatives of disappointment, sorrow, concern, annoyance, sadness, regret, frustration, caution, vigilance, irritation etc. I am sure that I am an optimistic and positive guy, how else could I explain that I kept going in spite of my tripping myself with PMO?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I have been in the stock market and have advised my friends and colleagues. I would show my hands - in real investments and trades. Most of the macho guys would not bring themselves to pull the trigger at those times when I did with no fears but of course with due vigilance and caution.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I know a person close to me who would masturbate every day at least once. He had no access to porn and was using static magazines and his own imagination. Now, looking back I wonder if this person lost his life’s joy to PMO. He would always be quick to anger and his irritation trigger levels are always very low. Any day-to-day stress will tick him off. He had a secure government job that demanded little from him and so he was lucky to survive until his retirement. Lucky? Maybe not. Anyway, I am sure his RC* had long sent shutdown signals to his receptors and his dopamine and opioids have much diminished effectiveness.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;You might conclude that I am something of a hypochondriac. I believe that I was when I was a PMOer. One of the great evils about addictions such as these is that it fools us into believing that the cigarettes, alcohol, PMO etc. give us courage, when in fact it gradually and imperceptibly dissipates it. I was shocked when I read about a confessor who felt suicidal at 19 due to PMO. Little did I realize that twenty years later I would have exactly the same lack of joie de vivre. You might conclude that this chapter has been one of necessary, or unnecessary, doom and gloom. I promise you it is the complete opposite. I used to fear death when I was a child. A bit later I used to believe that smoking, drinking and porn removed that fear. Perhaps it did. If so, it replaced it with something infinitely worse: &lt;strong&gt;A FEAR OF LIVING!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Now my fear of dying has returned. Yet it does not bother me. I realize that it only exists because I now enjoy life so much. I don&amp;rsquo;t brood over my fear of dying any more than I did when I was a child. I&amp;rsquo;m far too busy living my life to the full. The odds are against my living to a hundred, but I&amp;rsquo;ll try to. I&amp;rsquo;ll also try to enjoy every precious moment!&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;There were two other advantages on the health side that never occurred to me until I had stopped PMOing. One was that I now wake up refreshed in the morning. The subtle well-rested feeling is something sort of what you’d experience after a fever had left you. I get that almost every day but of course some nights are not going to be perfect. I had accepted that there is nothing outside of us that we need to enjoy or cope in our lives.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The other was the acceptance of the Void in our lives. Those insecure feelings. The emptiness. From what I learned - that is after removing PMO from my life, I could see that these three are present in everyone’s lives. Yes, that includes the playboys and the PUA macs as well. I think they are like the nights that serve to enhance our days. Yes, it is a well known ‘insight’. But then I know of many insights which have never translated to any value to my life. After I quit, it all fell into place. Look, I am not a saint or a guru. But I am not panicking and seeking substitutes when I feel the void, or insecurity or emptiness. There are no outside things that will be a pleasure or crutch.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Here is a thought experiment for you&amp;hellip; let’s say a woman comes to you and says she doesn’t necessarily want an orgasm but however, she very much wants to make love. Even penetrative. And she wants to do it for as long and as far as you can go without an orgasm but if it happens then its fine. I assure you of a great new experience, far better than anything in your life if you even get that offer. Try it.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;PMOers also suffer the illusion that the ill-effects of internet porn and PMO are overstated. The reverse is the case. There is no doubt that internet porn is the major cause of PIED and other problems. The trouble is that in many cases where PMO causes the ED or is a contributory factor, it is not blamed on PMO in the statistics. It has been estimated that more than 25 per cent of men experience ED or PE and yet I wonder how many divorces have been caused by PMO? There are no reliable ways to know the number of Internet Porn users within the study group. The studies usually mix up traditional and internet porn users and has no way to account for the starting age of the participants, years of use, duration and frequency of usage. There is no way to conduct blind or double blind methods either.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I was a ‘safe’ user of internet porn - if there is anything ‘safe’ about it. However I noticed that I invariably projected porn fantasies on real life women. Like the episode in Friends where the guys, who were receiving continuous free porn on TV, started to wonder to each other why the pizza delivery girl didn’t ask to check out their ‘big bedroom’. Imagine what ‘careless’ or even ‘accidental’ porn exposure on the darker sides the internet would do to someone who is already at a tipping point in his or her life? Fighting against these ‘porn induce thoughts’, PIT&lt;sup id=&#34;fnref:4&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#fn:4&#34; class=&#34;footnote-ref&#34; role=&#34;doc-noteref&#34;&gt;4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;, is going to be a major drain on his or her mental health.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The effect of the brainwashing is that we tend to think like the man who, having fallen off a 100-storey building, is heard to say, as he passes the fiftieth floor, “So far, so good!” We think that as we have got away with it so far, one more PMO session won&amp;rsquo;t make the difference. Try to see it another way, the &amp;lsquo;habit&amp;rsquo; is a continuous chain for life, each session creating the need for the next. When you start the habit you light a fuse. The trouble is, YOU DON&amp;rsquo;T KNOW HOW LONG THE FUSE IS. Every time that you give up to a PMO session you are one step nearer to the bomb exploding. HOW WILL YOU KNOW IF IT&amp;rsquo;S THE NEXT ONE?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;div class=&#34;footnotes&#34; role=&#34;doc-endnotes&#34;&gt;
+&lt;hr&gt;
+&lt;ol&gt;
+&lt;li id=&#34;fn:1&#34;&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;IP&lt;/strong&gt; - internet porn&amp;#160;&lt;a href=&#34;#fnref:1&#34; class=&#34;footnote-backref&#34; role=&#34;doc-backlink&#34;&gt;&amp;#x21a9;&amp;#xfe0e;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li id=&#34;fn:2&#34;&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;RC&lt;/strong&gt; - reward circuits in the brain that involves dopamine/ opioids, receptors, proteins etc.&amp;#160;&lt;a href=&#34;#fnref:2&#34; class=&#34;footnote-backref&#34; role=&#34;doc-backlink&#34;&gt;&amp;#x21a9;&amp;#xfe0e;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li id=&#34;fn:3&#34;&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PE&lt;/strong&gt; - premature ejaculation&amp;#160;&lt;a href=&#34;#fnref:3&#34; class=&#34;footnote-backref&#34; role=&#34;doc-backlink&#34;&gt;&amp;#x21a9;&amp;#xfe0e;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li id=&#34;fn:4&#34;&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PIT&lt;/strong&gt; - porn induced thoughts, porn themes crossing over to normal interactions&amp;#160;&lt;a href=&#34;#fnref:4&#34; class=&#34;footnote-backref&#34; role=&#34;doc-backlink&#34;&gt;&amp;#x21a9;&amp;#xfe0e;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ol&gt;
+&lt;/div&gt;
+</description>
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+	<item>
+		<title>03-16 I Will Save X Hours a Week</title>
+		<link>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-16-i-will-save-x-hours-a-week/</link>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2022 12:08:55 +0200</pubDate>
+		
+		<guid>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-16-i-will-save-x-hours-a-week/</guid>
+		<description>&lt;p&gt;I cannot repeat too often that it is brainwashing that makes it difficult to stop PMOing. So, the
+more brainwashing we can dispel before we start, the easier you will find it to achieve your goal.
+Occasionally I get into arguments with people whom I call “confirmed PMOers.” By my definition
+a confirmed PMOer is somebody who doesn&amp;rsquo;t believe PMO has any negative effect on his health
+(PME, PIED and hypofrontality etc.) and is not having a mental tug of war. Most times he’d be a
+younger guy or a single but with an occasional sex partner. Thus the internal feedback is lost due to
+the nature of their youth and or it is too infrequent to be observed and registered.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;If he is a young man, I’d rather say to him, “I cannot believe you are not worried about the
+time you are spending.” Usually his eyes light up. If I had attacked him instead on health grounds or
+on the social stigma, he would feel at a disadvantage which will trigger resistance from him. But on
+time&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;“Oh, I can afford it. It is only x hours per week and I think it is worth it. It is my only vice or
+pleasure.”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;“I still cannot believe you are not worried about the time spent. Say at a minimum half an hour a day on an average including the physical ‘drain’ time of dopamine withdrawals, you are spending approximately one full working day of 8 hours every fortnight. Half an hour a day is a very conservative estimate you would agree. And in a year that will add up to a working month. Have you thought about how much time you are going to spend in your lifetime? What are you doing with that time? You are not even developing real relationships? No, your favourite porn star does not have sympathy for you just because you spent that much time on her site - you are throwing it away! Not only that, you are actually using that time to ruin your physical health, to destroy your nerves and confidence, to suffer a lifetime of slavery, pain, stress, melancholy and peevishness. Surely that must worry you?”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;It is apparent at this point, particularly with younger PMOers, that they have never considered it a lifetime habit. Occasionally they work out the time they waste in a week and that is alarming. Very occasionally (and only when they think about stopping) they estimate what they spend in a year and that is frightening but over a lifetime it is unthinkable. However, because now we are in an argument, the confirmed PMOer will impulsively say, “I can afford it. It is only so much a week.” He pulls an “encyclopedia salesman” routine on himself.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Will you refuse a job offer which pays you your current annual salary and also gives you a month off every year? Any PMOer would sign up for this job offer in a heartbeat and would get busy finding vacation deals to exotic places. Figuring out how to spend one full month with no work would be the biggest problem that he now has to solve.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;In every discussion with a confirmed PMOer - and please bear in mind I am not now talking to someone like yourself who plans to stop, I am talking to someone who has no intention of stopping - nobody has ever taken me up on that offer. Why not?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Often at this point in my consultation, a confirmed PMOer will say, “look, I am not really worried about the money aspect.” If you are thinking along these lines, ask yourself why you are not worried. Why in other aspects of your life will you go to a great deal of trouble to save a few dollars here and there but yet spend thousands of dollars killing your happiness and hang the expense?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The answer to these questions is this: every other decision that you make in your life will be the result of an analytical process of weighing up the pros and cons and arriving at a rational answer. It may be the wrong answer but at least it will be the result of rational deduction. Whenever any PMOer weighs up the pros and cons of using internet porn, the answer is a dozen times over: “STOP PMOing! YOU ARE A MUG!” Therefore all PMOers are using not because they want to or because they decided to but because they think they cannot stop. They have to and need to brainwash themselves. They have to and need to keep their heads in the sand.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The strange thing is many men would pay good money for gym and personal trainers to build their muscles and look sculpted. Other treatments such as boosting testosterone with dubious and sometimes dangerous effects are tried out by many men in their real (and imaginary) desperation. Yet, there are many men in that group who would save money and risks by stopping a practice that systematically not only destroys their manhood but also affects their brain’s natural relaxation system.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;This is because they are still thinking with the brainwashed mind of the PMOer. Just take the sand out of your eyes for a moment. Internet porn is a chain reaction and a chain for life. If you do not break that chain, you will remain a user for the rest of your life. Now estimate how much time you think you will spend on PMOing for the rest of your life. The amount will obviously vary with each individual but for the purpose of this exercise let us assume it is a year and half of work hours. You will shortly be making the decision to use your final session (not yet, please - remember the initial instructions). All you have to do to remain a non-PMOer is NOT to fall for the trap again. That is, do not PMO and consciously avoid having “just a peek.” If you do, that one peek will cost you a year and half of your work life. If you think this is a trick way of looking at it, you are still kidding yourself. Just work out how much time you would have saved if you had not taken your very first ‘peek’ right at the start.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;If you see the argument as factual, ask yourself how you would feel if there were a cheque from your state’s lotto for a year and half worth of your current salary lying on your carpet tomorrow? You&amp;rsquo;d be dancing with delight! So start dancing! You are about to start receiving that bonus and that&amp;rsquo;s just one of the several fantastic gains you are about to receive.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;During the withdrawal period you may be tempted to have just one final ‘look’. It will help you to resist the temptation if you remind yourself it will cost you one year’s worth of your peak annual salary (or whatever your estimate is)! I could be making that offer on television and radio programmes yet I bet no-one will take it.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;If you are mentoring someone online for his PMO addiction tell him that he knows someone who has refused a job offer that pays his current annual salary and also gives him a full month’s of PTO. When he ask who that idiot is, tell him, “you!” I know it&amp;rsquo;s rude but you may sometimes need to get your point across in a less-than-polite way.&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
+	</item>
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+	<item>
+		<title>03-15 Self-Imposed Slavery</title>
+		<link>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-15-self-imposed-slavery/</link>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2022 12:06:39 +0200</pubDate>
+		
+		<guid>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-15-self-imposed-slavery/</guid>
+		<description>&lt;p&gt;Usually when PMOers try to stop the main reasons given are health, religion and partner stigma. Part of the brainwashing of this awful drug is the sheer slavery. Man fought hard in the last century to abolish slavery and yet the PMOer spends his life suffering self-imposed slavery. He seems to be oblivious to the fact that when he is allowed to PMO he wishes that he were a non-PMOer. With most of the masturbation we do in our lives, not only do we not enjoy them but we aren&amp;rsquo;t even aware that we are masturbating. It is only after a period of abstinence that we actually suffer the delusion of enjoying PMO (e.g. the first day after a 4 day abstinence with the intent of rebooting etc.). The only time that the porn becomes precious is when we are &amp;rsquo;trying&amp;rsquo; to cut down or abstain or when abstinence is forced on us (e.g. when on a business trips, holiday trips to locations where the Internet is not available and so on).&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The confirmed PMOer should bear in mind that more studies and even more people are coming out and talking about the ill effects of internet porn. This trend will get “worse and worse.” Today, it is non-medical people talking. Tomorrow, it will be in your doctor’s list of diagnostic tests to perform. Gone are the days when the PMOer can hide behind “just a bit of downtime due to work stress” in his or her sex life. Your partner is going to ask you why you are on your laptop at this time too late into the night. The poor PMOer, who was already feeling wretched, wants the ground to open up and swallow him.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I remember every time my partner stayed up late it was an ordeal waiting to open up my laptop. When on business trips the dinner with the clients and colleagues dragged on or was I just going through the natural ups and downs in human interactions? What was I doing? I was thinking, “let&amp;rsquo;s get on with it, so that I can get over with this and go to my room for some porn.” I have thought many times, “am I not lucky? I have got my little reward. The poor non-PMOer with no internet access somewhere in an Amish village hasn&amp;rsquo;t got a reward.” The &amp;lsquo;poor&amp;rsquo; non-PMOer doesn&amp;rsquo;t need a reward. We were not designed to go through life systematically flooding our brains with dopamine and opioids. The pathetic thing is that even when masturbating with internet porn the PMOer doesn&amp;rsquo;t achieve those feelings of peace, confidence and tranquillity that the non-PMOer has experienced for the whole of his non-PMO life. The non-PMOer isn&amp;rsquo;t sitting in the family room, feeling agitated and wishing his life away. He can enjoy the whole of his life.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;No, this wasn&amp;rsquo;t a fourteen-year-old schoolboy but a forty-year-old professional. How pathetic. I wouldn&amp;rsquo;t admit to myself that I wasn&amp;rsquo;t enjoying it. I was looking for the right clip and/or pictures to reach orgasm or better, edge forever. I don&amp;rsquo;t know what I am supposed to be &amp;lsquo;watching&amp;rsquo; sometimes. That is the confusing part. The &amp;rsquo;edging&amp;rsquo; and then the orgasm floods my brain. Yet this was supposed to be my way of relaxing and enjoying my “favourite hobby.”&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;To me, one of the tremendous joys of being a non-PMOer is to be freed from that slavery. To be able to enjoy the whole of my life and not spend half of it craving for more and more internet porn and then, when I get to fire up my browser, wishing I didn&amp;rsquo;t have to do it. PMOers should bear in mind that when they see or meet non-PMOers, it is not the self-righteous non-PMOer who is depriving them but their very own “little monster.”&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
+	</item>
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+	<item>
+		<title>03-14 What Am I Giving Up?</title>
+		<link>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-14-what-am-i-giving-up/</link>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2022 11:49:35 +0200</pubDate>
+		
+		<guid>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-14-what-am-i-giving-up/</guid>
+		<description>&lt;p&gt;ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! The thing that makes it difficult for us to give up is fear. The fear that we are being deprived of our pleasure or prop. The fear that certain pleasant situations will never be quite the same again. The fear of being unable to cope with stressful situations. In other words, the effect of brainwashing is to delude us into believing that sex and by extension orgasm, is a must for all human beings. Or that there is something inherent in Internet porn that we need and that when we stop PMOing we will be self-denying ourselves and there will be a void.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Get it clear in your mind:&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Internet porn&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;DOES NOT FILL A VOID.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;IT CREATES ONE!&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;These bodies of ours are the most sophisticated objects on this planet. Whether you believe in a creator, a process of natural selection or a combination of both, whatever being or system devised these bodies of ours, it is a thousand times more effective than man! Man cannot create the smallest living cell, let alone the miracle of eyesight, reproduction, our circulatory system or our brains. We don’t have our systems upgraded yet to properly assess the supranormal stimulus such as rich high density food or high speed internet novelty porn with multiple active windows.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;If the creator or process had intended us to handle novelty triggering stimuli, we would have been provided with some other brain reward circuits. Our bodies are, in fact, provided with fail-safe warning devices and we ignore these at our peril. Excessive edging results in body pain, irritation, and inflammation. In women, excessive flooding of dopamine and stress enzymes such as prostaglandin-E2 can cause difficulty to orgasm and PME.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;there-is-nothing-to-give-up&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;There Is Nothing To Give Up&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
+&lt;/div&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The beautiful truth is - there is nothing to give up. Once you purge that little monster from your body and the brainwashing (the big monster) from your mind, you will neither want to masturbate often nor need internet porn for it. PMO destroys your sense of self-control. I don’t think PMOers are self-destructive to continue even after knowing the ill-effects of internet porn. They clearly don’t have suicidal tendencies. They don’t enjoy this slavery themselves. Many of them do it in spite of the fact that they know it causes self-sabotage. You see there must be many unknowns and the medical community has no idea of even questioning and determining someone as an internet porn addict yet. So a lot of reported symptoms are wrongly tagged under other causes. It is not that PMOers are generally stupid people; it is just that they are miserable without the PMO. They are caught between the devil and the deep blue sea. They either have to abstain and be miserable because they cannot PMO or be miserable because they are destroying themselves through PMO and feel guilty and despise themselves for it. When they feel that lower back pain or get PIED, their minds are torn between accepting responsibility and looking the other way.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The problem I have is to make a convincing point as I’d have done for, let us say&amp;hellip; smokers? All of us have seen smokers who develop excuses to sneak off for a crafty puff. It is easy to see the true addiction in action. Addicts do not do it because they enjoy it. They do it because they are miserable without it.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Because many of us started out our first sexual experience that ended in an orgasm and we acquired the belief that we cannot enjoy sex without an orgasm. And for men, porn is sold as an aid towards sex, sometimes even as an education to be confident during the act of sex. It used to be static, but now we have supranormal internet porn. But this is nonsense. Internet porn takes away your confidence.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;women-and-porn&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Women And Porn&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
+&lt;/div&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The greatest evidence of the fear that porn instils is in its effect on women. Practically all women are fastidious about their personal appearance. They wouldn&amp;rsquo;t dream of appearing at a social function not immaculately turned out and smelling beautiful. So why would they fall for internet porn ? The traps were set as either a control trap (I can give up when I want) or an educational trap, or a freedom trap (I am entitled). Feminism has freed women from all the bad patriarchal rules of the past but they still need to be aware of supranormal stimulus such as internet porn.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Porn and internet porn does not help your sex life; it destroys it totally. Having to hide your internet footprints, trying to delete your history, fearing accidental exposure to your boyfriend or kids, body pains, doubtful symptoms, fighting self doubts, arguing with yourself about your responsibilities in the ill effects of your addiction&amp;hellip; well, why do you want to put yourself in such a bad situation?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Not only is there nothing to give up but there are marvellous positive gains to be had. When PMOers contemplate quitting they tend to concentrate on health and virility. These are obviously valid and important issues but I personally believe the greatest gains from stopping are psychological:&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;ol&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;The return of your confidence and courage.&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;Freedom from the slavery.&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;Not to have to go through life suffering the awful black shadows at the back of your mind, knowing you are being despised by half of the population and, worst of all, despising yourself.&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ol&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Not only is life better as a non-PMOer but it is infinitely more enjoyable. I do not only mean you will be healthier. I mean you will be happier and enjoy life far more. The marvellous gains from being a non-PMOer are discussed in the next few chapters. Some PMOers find it difficult to appreciate the concept of the &amp;lsquo;void&amp;rsquo; and the following analogy may assist you.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;void-the-void-the-beautiful-void&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Void, the Void, the Beautiful Void!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
+&lt;/div&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Imagine having a cold sore on your face. I&amp;rsquo;ve got this marvellous ointment. I say to you, “try this stuff.” You rub the ointment on and the sore disappears immediately. A week later it reappears. You ask, “do you have any more of that ointment?” I say, “sure, keep the tube. You might need it again.” You apply the ointment once again. Hey presto, the sore disappears again. But every time the sore returns, it gets larger and more painful and the interval gets shorter and shorter. Eventually the sore covers your whole face and is excruciatingly painful. It is now returning every half hour. You know that the ointment will remove it temporarily, but you are very worried. Will the sore eventually spread over your whole body? Will the interval disappear completely? You go to your doctor. He can&amp;rsquo;t cure it. You try other things but nothing helps except this magical ointment.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;By now you are completely dependent on the ointment. You never go out without ensuring that you have a tube of the ointment with you. If you go abroad, you make sure that you take several tubes with you. Now, in addition to your worries about your health, I&amp;rsquo;m charging you $100 per tube. You have no choice but to pay.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;You then read in the medical column of your newspaper that this isn&amp;rsquo;t happening just to you; many other people have been suffering from the same problem. In fact, pharmacists have discovered that the ointment doesn&amp;rsquo;t actually cure the sore. All that it does is to take the sore beneath the surface of the skin. It is the ointment that has caused the sore to grow. All you have to do to get rid of the sore is to stop using the ointment. The sore will eventually disappear in due course.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Would you continue to use the ointment? Would it take willpower not to use the ointment? If you didn&amp;rsquo;t believe the medical article, there might be a few days of apprehension, but once you realized that the sore was beginning to get better, the need or desire to use the ointment would go, Would you be miserable? Of course you wouldn&amp;rsquo;t. You had an awful problem which you thought was insoluble. Now you&amp;rsquo;ve found the solution. Even if it took a year for that sore to disappear completely, each day, as it improved, you&amp;rsquo;d think. “isn&amp;rsquo;t it marvellous? I&amp;rsquo;m not going to die!” This was the magic that happened to me on my final PMO day. Let me make one point quite clear in the analogy of the sore and the ointment.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The sore isn&amp;rsquo;t lung cancer, or arterial sclerosis, or emphysema, or angina, or chronic asthma, or bronchitis, or coronary heart disease. They are all in addition to the sore. It isn&amp;rsquo;t the body pains, lack of normal lust, flagging arousal, fading penetration, the wasted time spent on lifeless two dimensional images, the times when we felt infringed of our entitlement because we are not allowed to PMO. It isn&amp;rsquo;t the lifetime of being despised by other people who caught you or, worst of all, despising yourself. These are all in addition to the sore.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The sore is what makes us close our minds to all these things. It&amp;rsquo;s that panic feeling of, “I want a fix.” Non-PMOers don&amp;rsquo;t suffer from that feeling. The worst thing we ever suffer from is fear, and the greatest gain you will receive is to be rid of that fear. It was as if a great mist had suddenly lifted from my mind. I could see so clearly that that panic feeling of wanting a porn fix wasn&amp;rsquo;t some sort of weakness in me or some magic quality of internet porn. It was caused by the first PMO session; and each subsequent one - far from relieving the feeling, it was actually causing it.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;At the same time I could see all these other “happy” PMOers - the ones who are blinded by their cunning little porn monsters - were going through the same nightmare that I was. Not as bad as mine yet all putting up phony arguments to try to justify their stupidity.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;IT&amp;rsquo;S SO NICE TO BE FREE!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
+	</item>
+	
+	<item>
+		<title>03-13 Social Night PMOing</title>
+		<link>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-13-social-night-pmoing/</link>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2022 11:47:03 +0200</pubDate>
+		
+		<guid>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-13-social-night-pmoing/</guid>
+		<description>&lt;p&gt;This is a misinformation that seems to make sense but then it does not. In order to have control of eating, will you eat at home before leaving to go to a restaurant or a party? This is what you are doing when you PMO before your social night. You will look tired and will not be up to your best. If you have dating jitters then work on it beforehand and then go with the flow even with some butterflies in your stomach. I like a bit of the anxiety in me to keep me going. Tiring yourself mentally and physically with an orgasm is not going to help you, unless of course you are going to see a prostitute. The goal is entirely different in that angle.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The widespread adoption of pick-up techniques has put pressure on guys to perform, to attract and to ‘score’. You can get knowledge but you should know how to use it. I can guarantee that 100% of the other guys hanging at that bar know exactly what you know. It comes down to the ‘how’ of how you use it when you get the chance. Even before that, there is one very critical thing about any knowledge pertaining to human interactions, that ‘knowledge’ should never force your actions. This is important.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I once masturbated and then poured wine to quiet the butterflies in my stomach before a date. I looked tired after just one hour into the date, the loud noise of the bar, dehydration, excessive self-consciousness (PUA teachings) etc. made my time unenjoyable. Somehow the girl and her friend liked it all. However, I do think it would have been better if I had gone without any props. I ended up being successful by claiming my &amp;lsquo;goal(s)&amp;rsquo; - which I consider unfortunate and as random luck.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The PMO session I had before the date triggered a dopamine flooding and its withdrawal hit around the time I was with the date. I had to over-do my conversation to compensate the ineffective dopamine effects after that earlier orgasm. I am also sure that I was suffering from hypofrontality - where my impulses were failing my controls. That gushing moment, an extra decibel in the tone etc. would easily have given my nervousness to the girls - only if I was not protected by the loud noise in the bar. Why do you want to take chances?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;PMO ceases to relieve the withdrawal pangs that it causes in the first place. That is also why heavy PMOers turn to alcohol or other drugs. But I digress. Social night PMOing is occasioned by two or more of our usual reasons for pleasure/prop seeking, e.g. social functions, parties, weddings, school exams, game night, even business meetings. These are examples of occasions that are both stressful and relaxing. This might at first appear to be a contradiction but it isn&amp;rsquo;t. Any form of socializing can be stressful, even with friends, and at the same time you want to be enjoying yourself and be completely relaxed.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;There are situations where multiple reasons are present at one and the same time. To illustrate I will quote driving as one of these. But driving always involves an element of stress. Your life is at stake. You are also having to concentrate. You may not be aware of the last two factors but the fact that they are subconscious doesn&amp;rsquo;t mean they aren&amp;rsquo;t there. And if you are stuck in a traffic jam or have a long motorway drive, you may also be bored and may have ‘promised’ yourself to a PMO after you reach home.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Another classic example is going on a first date. Especially when you know something about the date before hand like their profile from an online dating site. Your mind is throwing questions back and forth. If she is a 10 and in that vicinity or if the date is from another race which is socially ‘perceived’ as a couple of levels above your race then it gets even noisier in your head. Then the surprise to meet the person in flesh, first the looks, then the voice, then the mannerisms. Expectations determine the level of interest you have for her from there on. If your enthusiasm starts to flag you will start to feel too relaxed but then you feel guilty for feeling too relaxed. The tug of war has started. I want sex or get me out of here ASAP - I know where to get it. That will lead you to the next stage of post-date PMOing.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Even if the date went fine and hours later you are at her door and which ever way it goes, you will not be satisfied if your goal is fully on the orgasm-seek. At other times, you drive home alone and all you want to do is to go to your online harem instead of patting yourself on the back for your efforts and enjoying yourself.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;You can bet that this unfortunate guy is going to PMO after he reaches home. It is often after nights like these, when we wake to feel the uneasy emptiness, are often the special ones, the ones that we think we&amp;rsquo;ll miss the most when we are contemplating stopping PMOing. We think that life will never be quite as enjoyable again. In fact, it is the same principle at work: these PMO sessions simply provide relief from withdrawal pangs and at certain times we have greater need to relieve them than at others. You had ended up ‘greasing’ the neural ‘waterslides’ in your brain and made it ready to slide again on the next cue.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Let us make it quite clear. It is not the internet porn and the harem dwellers that are special; it is the occasion. Once we have removed the need for the PMO, such occasions will become more enjoyable and the stressful situations less stressful. This will be explained in greater detail in the next chapter.&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
+	</item>
+	
+	<item>
+		<title>03-12 Relaxation</title>
+		<link>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-12-relaxation/</link>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2022 11:44:10 +0200</pubDate>
+		
+		<guid>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-12-relaxation/</guid>
+		<description>&lt;p&gt;Most PMOers think that PMO helps to relax them. The truth is that internet porn used in PMO acts like a chemical stimulant. The frantic search to get the fix in those “dark alleys of the internet” and the internal struggle to reign in the dog straining at its leash for more shocking clips does not sound much like an activity of relaxation to me.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;One of the favourite PMO sessions for most is the one after a trip to a new place or after along day. As the night rolls in we stop working; we sit down and relax, relieve our hunger and thirst and are then completely satisfied. However, the poor PMOer cannot relax, as he has another hunger to satisfy. He thinks of the PMO as the icing on the cake but it is the &amp;rsquo;little monster&amp;rsquo; that needs feeding.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The truth is that the addict can never be completely relaxed and as you go through life it gets worse. The most stressed people on this planet aren&amp;rsquo;t non-PMOers but those young men and women who have a need to hunt (with the misunderstood goal of orgasm) and their ignorance of and/or low opinion of amative sex. Women who have subscribed to “I must orgasm” teachings are not even aware of the victim they have made of themselves. At this point any sex that leads to climax and orgasm cease to relieve even partially the symptoms that they have created.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I can remember when I was bringing up a family. If my child would do something wrong I would quickly lose my temper to an extent that was out of all proportion to what he had done.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;My partner was “always frigid and not interested in sex.” Now I realize that if I had only tried the amative side of things then maybe I could have relieved myself of a great measure of stress at least - if not at me, I am sure she would have. One online comment&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;“I really believed that I had an evil demon in my make-up. I now know that I had, however it wasn&amp;rsquo;t some inherent flaw in my character but the little internet porn monster that was creating the problem. During those times I thought I had all the problems in the world but when I look back on my life I wonder where all the great stress was. In everything else in my life I was in control. The one thing that controlled me was this porn slavery. The sad thing is that even today I can&amp;rsquo;t convince my children that it was the slavery that caused me to be so irritable.”&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Every time I hear a porn addict trying to justify his addiction the message is, “Oh, it calms me. It helps me to relax.”&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;On the Internet I read about a single dad whose 6 year old son would want to share his bed sometimes in the night after a scary movie yet the dad would refuse under some pretence so he can have his PMO session and edge for hours.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Let me try a smoking analogy here&amp;hellip; a couple of years ago, the adoption authorities threatened to prevent smokers from adopting children. A man rang up, irate. He said, “you are completely wrong. I can remember when I was a child, if I had a contentious matter to raise with my mother, I would wait until she lit a cigarette because she was more relaxed then.” Why couldn&amp;rsquo;t he talk to his mother when she wasn&amp;rsquo;t smoking a cigarette?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Why are PMOers so stressd when they are not getting their fix, even after a real sex with a real woman? I read about a guy who has 9&amp;rsquo;s and 10&amp;rsquo;s open for dating with him as he was in the advertising field. I am talking about dinner and stuff only - but he lost interest in those dinners as his Internet porn is far more ‘easy’ for him - no restaurant spending and no hearing a ‘no’ from his date at the end of an evening. Why would he bother when his little monster tells him about the low-risk high-reward scheme called PMO that is at his fingertips when he reaches home? Those real girls sure have competition.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Why are non-PMOers completely relaxed then? Why are PMOers not able to relax without a fix for a day or two? If you read about the experience of a PMOer taking the abstinence oath and quitting and you notice his struggle with the temptations. You can clearly see that they are not relaxed at all when they are not allowed to have the ‘only pleasure’ they are “entitled to enjoy.” They&amp;rsquo;ve forgotten what it feels like to be completely relaxed. That&amp;rsquo;s one of the many joys you have to come. The whole business of PMOing can be likened to a fly being caught in a pitcher plant. To begin with, the fly is eating the nectar. At some imperceptible stage the plant begins to eat the fly.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Isn&amp;rsquo;t it time you climbed out of that plant?&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
+	</item>
+	
+	<item>
+		<title>03-11 Concentration</title>
+		<link>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-11-concentration/</link>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2022 11:42:13 +0200</pubDate>
+		
+		<guid>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-11-concentration/</guid>
+		<description>&lt;p&gt;Sex and masturbation do not help concentration. That is just another illusion. When you are trying to concentrate, you automatically try to avoid distractions. So when a PMOer wants to concentrate he doesn&amp;rsquo;t even have to think about it. He automatically PMOs, partially ending the craving, gets on with the matter in hand and has already forgotten that he just PMOed. Sex in general do not help concentration. After years of masturbation your brain changes affect abilities such as assessing, planning and impulse control. The PMOer is already suffering: that little monster wants his fix.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;You are also stressed to provide novelty for the next PMO session as the same stuff will not generate enough dopamine and opioids. You have to “roam the internet streets” for novelty - all the while fighting the pull to cross the line towards shock. This creates more stress. After you orgasm, you feel unfulfilled as well.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Concentration is also affected adversely for another reason. Your dopamine receptors have already started to get reduced by building up natural tolerance to these large surges, reducing the benefit of the smaller dopamine boosts from natural de-stressors.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;In fact, your concentration and inspiration will be greatly improved as this process is reversed. For some it will be the concentration aspect that prevents them from succeeding when using the willpower method. They could put up with the irritability and bad temper but when they really needed to concentrate on something difficult they have to have that porn fix. I can well remember the panic I felt when I discovered that the hotel has no internet connection and I had this huge presentation the day after.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The loss of concentration that PMOers suffer when they try to escape is not, in fact, due to your abstinence from sex, let alone PMO. When you are addicted to something, you have mental blocks. When you have such a block, what do you do? You fire up the browser. That doesn&amp;rsquo;t cure the mental block, so then what do you do? You do what you have to do: you get on with it, just as non-PMOers do.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;When you are a PMOer nothing gets blamed on the cause. PMOers never have EDs; they just have an occasional down time. The moment you stop using, everything that goes wrong in your life is blamed on the fact that you&amp;rsquo;ve stopped. Now when you have a mental block, instead of just getting on with it, you start to say, “if only I could check out my favourites now, it would solve my problem.” You then start to question your decision to quit and escape from this slavery.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;If you believe that PMOing is a genuine aid to concentration, worrying about it will guarantee that you won&amp;rsquo;t be able to concentrate. It&amp;rsquo;s the doubting, not the physical withdrawal pangs, that causes the problem. Always remember: it is PMOer who suffers pangs and not non-PMOers. When I quit I went overnight from using everyday to zero without any apparent loss of concentration.&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
+	</item>
+	
+	<item>
+		<title>03-10 Boredom</title>
+		<link>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-10-boredom/</link>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2022 11:40:46 +0200</pubDate>
+		
+		<guid>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-10-boredom/</guid>
+		<description>&lt;p&gt;As soon as you get into your bed - and if you are like many people you are already on your favorite tube site - you will probably have already forgotten about it until I reminded you. It has become second nature. Another fallacy about PMOing is that it relieves boredom. Boredom is a frame of mind. The only time that happens is when you have been deprived for a long time or are trying to cut down, or during those first few PMO sessions after a failed attempt to stop.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The true situation is this: when you are addicted to internet porn’s supranormal novelty and then you decide to abstain from internet porn, there is something missing. If you have something to occupy your mind that isn&amp;rsquo;t stressful, you can go for long periods without being bothered by the absence of the drug. However, when you are bored there&amp;rsquo;s nothing to take your mind off it, so you feed the monster. When you are indulging yourself (i.e. not trying to stop or cut down), even firing up your incognito browser becomes subconscious. The PMOer can perform this ritual automatically. If any PMOer tries to remember the session during the last week, he can only remember a small proportion of them - e.g. the very last one or after a long abstinence.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The truth is that PMOing tend to increase boredom indirectly because orgasms make you feel lethargic and instead of undertaking some energetic activity, PMOers tend to prefer lounge around, bored, relieving their withdrawal pangs. This is why countering the brainwashing is so important. Because it&amp;rsquo;s a fact that PMOers tend to masturbate when they are bored and that we&amp;rsquo;re wired to interpret PMO as interesting. It doesn&amp;rsquo;t occur to us to question the fact how a two dimensional supranormal stimulus relieves boredom.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;We&amp;rsquo;ve also been brainwashed into believing that sex - even a bad sex - aids relaxation. It is a fact that when under stress or sad, couples want to have sex. In the absence of discrimination between amative and propagative sex, the goal is set to achieve orgasms by hook or by crook. Next time you do this watch how you both want to get away from each other as soon as it’s over. It is obvious that if they had just decided to cuddle, speak, hug and touch each other and go to sleep without the mandatory orgasms, the couple would have felt relieved. Well, if in the process, they wanted to have the propagative part then by all means they can but that is a topic not meant to be discussed in this book.&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
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+		<title>03-09 Stress</title>
+		<link>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-09-stress/</link>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2022 11:38:59 +0200</pubDate>
+		
+		<guid>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-09-stress/</guid>
+		<description>&lt;p&gt;I am referring not only to the great tragedies of life but also to the minor stresses, the socializing, the telephone call, the anxieties of the housewife with noisy young children and so on. Let us use the telephone conversation as an example. For most people the telephone is slightly stressful, particularly for the businessman. Most calls aren&amp;rsquo;t from satisfied customers or your boss congratulating you. There&amp;rsquo;s usually some sort of aggravation - something going wrong or somebody making demands. Then he or she comes home to the mundane family life of kids screaming and wife&amp;rsquo;s emotional demands on you. His already PMO weakened de-stressors are in no way ready to take the aggravation. At that time the PMOer, if he isn&amp;rsquo;t already doing so, will fantasize the relief of internet porn that he promised himself that night. He will even allow himself to “take one step more” into the ‘forbidden’ area that he had previously self-excluded. He doesn&amp;rsquo;t know why he does this but he does know that for some reason it appears to help.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;What has actually happened is this: without being conscious of it, he has already been suffering aggravation (i.e. the withdrawal pangs). By partially relieving that aggravation at the same time as normal stress, the total stress is reduced and the PMOer gets a boost. At this point the boost is not, in fact, an illusion. The Internet porn user will feel better than before. However, even when using porn to masturbate he or she is more tense than if he were a non-PMOer because the more you go into the drug, the more it knocks you down and the less it restores you when you masturbate. I promised no shock treatment. In the example I am about to give, I am not trying to shock you, I am merely emphasizing that PMO destroy your nerves rather than relax them.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Try to imagine getting to the stage where you cannot get aroused even with a very sexy and attractive partner. Just for a moment pause and try to visualize life where one very lovely and charming woman has to compete and fail with all the virtual porn stars who are in your &amp;lsquo;harem&amp;rsquo; to get your attention! Try to imagine the frame of mind of a man who, issued with that warning, actually continues PMOing and then dies without ever having had real sex with this charming and willing real woman. I had read real life stories like that from men and dismissed them as weirdos. In fact, I used to wish a doctor would tell me that this weird condition would happen if I continue PMO; then I would have stopped. Yet I was already fully expecting that PIED and hypofrontality where I am guaranteed to lose in a brain war. I didn&amp;rsquo;t think of myself as an impotent, just a heavy PMOer. Now, let’s talk about the stress that this is putting on me.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Such weird stories as the above are not fakes. That is what this awful ‘novelty’ porn drug does to you. As you go through life, it systematically takes away your nerve and courage. The more it takes your courage away, the more you are deluded into believing the porn is doing the opposite.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Have you ever been overtaken by panic when you are out on business travel and the hotel WiFi is down or too slow? Non-PMOers do not suffer from it. The internet porn drug causes that feeling. At the same time, as you go through life, PMO not only destroys your nerves but keeps building a powerful neural ‘water slide’, DeltaFosB, progressively destroying your ability to say no.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;By the time the PMOer reaches the stage at which it has killed his virility, he believes the PMO is his new girlfriend and cannot face life without it. Get it clear in your head that Internet porn is not relieving your nerves; it is slowly but steadily destroying them. One of the great gains of breaking the ‘habit’ is the return of your natural confidence and self-assurance.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;There is no need to self-rate based on your ability to get hard or to satisfy a woman. However, you do ‘know’ deep inside that this is slavery. It is not freedom. And that freedom cannot be achieved by continuing to ‘grease’ - repeating the same behaviour and energizing the ‘water slide’ neural pathways of your brain in ways that undercut your happiness in general and not to mention your libido.&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
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+	<item>
+		<title>03-08 Relieving Withdrawal Pangs</title>
+		<link>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-08-relieving-withdrawal-pangs/</link>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2022 11:36:16 +0200</pubDate>
+		
+		<guid>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-08-relieving-withdrawal-pangs/</guid>
+		<description>&lt;p&gt;As I explained earlier, PMOers think they do it for enjoyment, relaxation or some sort of education. In fact, this an illusion. The actual reason is the relief of withdrawal pangs. In the early days we use the porn as a curious and novel thing or even educational or as a rebel. We can take it or leave it. However, the subtle chain has started. Our subconscious mind begins to learn that internet porn and masturbation taken at certain times tends to be pleasurable. The more we become hooked on the drug, the greater the need to relieve the withdrawal pangs and the further the PMO drags you down and the more you are fooled into believing it is doing the opposite. It all happens so slowly, so gradually, you are not even aware of it. Each day you feel no different from the day before. Most young PMOers don&amp;rsquo;t even realize they are hooked until they actually try to stop and even then many won&amp;rsquo;t admit to it. A few stalwarts just keep their heads in the sand all their lives,trying to convince themselves and other people that they enjoy it.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Listen to this conversation a therapist had with hundreds of teenagers.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;TH: “You realize that internet porn is a drug and that the only reason why you are using is that you cannot stop.”&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;PA: “Nonsense! I enjoy it. If I didn&amp;rsquo;t, I would stop.”&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;TH: “Just stop for a week to prove to me you can if you want to.”&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;PA: “No need. I enjoy it. If I wanted to stop, I would.”&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;TH: “Just stop for a week to prove to yourself you are not hooked.”&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;PA: “What&amp;rsquo;s the point? I enjoy it.”&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;As already stated, PMOers tend to relieve their withdrawal pangs at times of stress, boredom, concentration, relaxation or a combination of these. This point is explained in greater detail in the next few chapters.&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
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+	<item>
+		<title>03-07 Brainwashing and the Primitive Mechanism</title>
+		<link>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-07-brainwashing-and-the-primitive-mechanism/</link>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2022 08:39:02 +0200</pubDate>
+		
+		<guid>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-07-brainwashing-and-the-primitive-mechanism/</guid>
+		<description>&lt;p&gt;How or why do we start PMOing in the first place? To understand this fully you need to examine the powerful effect of the supernormal stimulus. We all tend to think we are intelligent, dominant human beings determining our paths through life. We act and act frequently when our brain reward circuit are rewarded. Nobel laureate Nikolaas Tinbergen coined the term “supranormal stimulus.” He said mammals could be tricked into preferring fake eggs and mates. Female birds, for example, struggled to sit on larger-than life, vividly spotted plaster eggs while their own pale, dappled eggs perished untended.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The stimulation here in internet porn is not it brings stimulating actors and themes to your home - it is a genie at your bidding to create a harem in your mind. You can switch between genres and theme, home-made and viewer rated, commented and discussed, so rapid and so easy. We absolutely are not ready for the high speed internet porn and our brains are not designed to handle this supranormal stimuli.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;We can have an ‘information overload’ from the same internet but our reward circuits are not going to squirt dopamine at the levels when ‘porn overload’ is involved. We are evolutionarily programmed to seek and access sex related stuff. And we wrongly appraise the stimulus mostly based on this reward circuit action. If all you wanted is to masturbate why can’t you just use one clip and get the business done?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Here is another question - next time after a long day or some stressful incident can you consciously embellish your self-talk with “Do you know what I would really enjoy today? The marvellous warm glow of dopamine rush going to my online harem.” You will find that even people who dislike PMO will join you.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;past-misguided-advice&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Past Misguided Advice&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
+&lt;/div&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;There was much misguided advice given in the past and one is that masturbating will lead to blindness. And there are some other scare tactics that clearly over-did it. It is right that those notions were overthrown by science. But now the mainstream threw the baby out with the bath water. TV programs, pop music, literature and movies all subtly show shambolic characters using porn or masturbation. They knowingly or unknowingly mix porn, sex, internet porn, masturbation and orgasm.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;From our earliest years our subconscious minds are bombarded daily with information telling us that sex is good and that the most precious thing on this earth is to ‘achieve’ orgasm. Girls are taught to achieve it and claim it&amp;rsquo;s because they were wrongly suppressed of their sexual side for a very long time and still are. You think I exaggerate? Watch any TV or movie plot and you will see the mix-up of the amative (touch, smell, voice etc.) and the propagative (orgasmic) sides of sex. The impact of this does not register on our conscious minds but the sleeping partner, the subconscious mind, has time to absorb it. What the message is really saying is, “The most precious thing on this earth, my last thought and action, will be the goal of orgasm.” If you don’t have an orgasm then you are an old man with zero libido.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Our children are being bombarded by sex and porn clips and many don’t even know how to protect them from it all. Large hoardings and magazine adverts are loaded with sexual innuendo. Some of the pop videos are extremely suggestive - again they hide behind free speech. Don’t be vexed and feel powerless about it. Make it a game and find you which of the components they are using - is it novelty, shock value, color, size, taboo etc. If the kids are pre-teen some of these can be disclosed to them and it would make an excellent show-and-tell game.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;A while back there was a wave of ‘leaked’ private videos of celebrities on the internet. If the youngster is too smitten by their favourite star, even if the conscious mind blames the ‘leak’ on the blood thirsty internet paparazzi, the &amp;lsquo;sleeping partner&amp;rsquo; is patiently digesting the notion that, “yes, even my shambolic hero does it and if I don’t, I won’t look the part.”&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;the-scientific-reasoning&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Scientific Reasoning&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
+&lt;/div&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;True, there is publicity the other way - the PIED scares, the loss of motivation, preferring virtual porn to real girls, YBOP&lt;sup id=&#34;fnref:1&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#fn:1&#34; class=&#34;footnote-ref&#34; role=&#34;doc-noteref&#34;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;, Reboot&lt;sup id=&#34;fnref:2&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#fn:2&#34; class=&#34;footnote-ref&#34; role=&#34;doc-noteref&#34;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; forums, underground PUA&lt;sup id=&#34;fnref:3&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#fn:3&#34; class=&#34;footnote-ref&#34; role=&#34;doc-noteref&#34;&gt;3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;, the no FAP movement - but these do not actually stop people PMOing. Logically they should, but the fact is they do not. They would not even prevent youngsters from starting no matter how much the YBOP guys try. All the years that I remained a PMOer, I can honestly say, even if I had read all of them before, I would never have become a quitter. The truth is that it doesn&amp;rsquo;t make the slightest bit of difference. The trap is the same today as when you fell into it.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Ironically, the most powerful force in this melee of confusion is the PMOer himself. It is a fallacy that they are weak-willed or are physically weak specimens. You have to be physically strong in order to cope with an addiction after you know it is. This is one of the reasons why PMOers refuse to accept the overwhelming statistics that prove that internet porn with its ‘novelty’ cripples your brain. Add to that the sexologists who are doing half-baked studies and declare PMO is not an issue - they just help to add to the confusion.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Everyone knows a friend who PMOed every day - he started with the ‘static’ to internet porn, always horny in real life, chasing girls and you never doubted him to have sex problems of course. You want to believe him. He never complained about any ED right? Guys and girls like them refuse even to consider the hundreds of ex-addicts and non-PMOers who painfully recount their difficulties. It is the “little monster” brain chemical addiction and the “big monster” - illusions and delusions. In this hackbook, I&amp;rsquo;ve put together almost all the sorts of brainwashing a PMOer can suffer from. There will always be a few out there that I haven&amp;rsquo;t touched upon.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Even more painful is they think of themselves as unsuccessful losers and insufferable introverts. A possible fact is that a PMO friend could have been more interesting in person if he hadn’t put himself down for seeking self-pleasure.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;If you do a small survey among your online forum members, friends and colleagues, you will find that most PMOers are, in fact, strong-willed people. They tend to be self-employed, business executives or in certain specialized professions, such as doctors&lt;sup id=&#34;fnref:4&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#fn:4&#34; class=&#34;footnote-ref&#34; role=&#34;doc-noteref&#34;&gt;4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;, lawyers, policemen, teachers, salesmen, nurses, secretaries, housewives with children, etc. In other words, anybody leading a stressful existence. Yes, I did include women and mothers. It’s the brain and it’s the same for them too. The main delusion of the PMOer is that porn helps to masturbate to orgasm and that relieves stress. This tends to be associated with the dominant type, the type that takes on responsibility and stress and, of course, that is the type that we admire and therefore tend to copy. Another group that tends to get hooked are people in monotonous jobs because the other main reason for PMOing is boredom. However, the idea that internet porn relieves boredom is also an illusion, I am afraid.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;As a society we get all uptight about glue-sniffing, heroin addiction, etc. Actual deaths from glue-sniffing do not amount to ten per annum, and deaths from heroin are less than a hundred a year in this country. There is another drug, internet porn, on which over 45 per cent of us become hooked at some time in our lives and the majority spend the rest of their lives regretting it. Some even don’t know that their ED is due to this.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;the-willpower-method&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Willpower Method&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
+&lt;/div&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;PMOers who quit using the Willpower method blame their own lack of willpower and ruin their peace and happiness. It is one thing to fail in self-discipline and another to self-loathe. There is no law that requires you to get fully hard all the time before sex, and to be properly aroused, and that you must be able to satisfy a woman. We are working on an addiction and not a habit. Habit is something you like to do- for example, golf - at no point you are arguing with yourself to stop golfing? But you do so with your porn addiction. The real question is: why?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Constant exposure to internet porn re-wires your brain. You need to start building resistance to this brainwashing, just as if you were buying a car from a second-hand car dealer. You would be nodding politely but you would not believe a word the man was saying. So don’t believe everything they say either - that you must have sex as much as you can and you must have it exceptional good. And that in the absence of real sex you claim it by the substitute called internet porn - which is only a component of the good old porn.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;And don’t play ‘safe’ porn game either - because your “little porn monster” invented that scheme to lure you. Even the content - ‘amateur’? Really? Is there a certification authority that certifies it? Tube sites and porn producers gather site visitor profiles and cater to their needs. If they see a trend in crowd sourced collection of a particular genre they will focus on that and get content out ASAP. The statistics of what genre users like is collected to the level of how long and which portion the users were preferring. Do not be fooled by their educational intent or the safe female oriented clips (for you ladies). Start asking yourself:&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;ul&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;Why am I doing it?&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;Do I really need to?&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NO, OF COURSE YOU DON&amp;rsquo;T.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I find this brainwashing aspect the most difficult of all to explain. Why is it that an otherwise rational, intelligent human being becomes a complete imbecile about his own addiction? It pains me to confess that out of the thousands of people that I have assisted in kicking the habit, I (not Allen Carr) was the biggest idiot of all.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;At the age of thirteen, although I was doing well at school and games, I was still an insufferable introvert. I read books from the library that were not within my main study list. However, I can see that I was attracted to erotica. I started masturbating to TV programs, song and dance sequences etc. I must have to have it every day. The tired feeling I felt was misappropriated by my ‘little porn monster’ as work stress. I didn’t know my “I-must-masturbate-as-I-am-entitled” attitude was the one that created the ‘stress’ in the first place. Then I got pictures and GIFs via email on my laptop - the first step towards electronic porn. The colour and texture of the images were amazing for me at that time - won’t be now for sure. Then came dial-up but still they were predominantly static pictures. Then came downloadable videos. It’s a pain to download and watch now - but it was heaven sent then as we were coming out of the static porn era! Oh, the streaming tube sites haven’t arrived yet.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;when-real-sex-is-not-enough-anymore&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;When Real Sex Is Not Enough Anymore&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
+&lt;/div&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I even remember opening up my laptop after having real sex (an activity I did due to stress induced by my own irrational rigid self demands to make her orgasm) and I was wanting more. Obviously the prospect of orgasm providing fulfilment rarely happens after prolonged porn use. So, my mind was reaching out to porn.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;At the age of forty, I was visiting my online harem daily, drinking ‘socially’ (whatever that means) and smoking ‘sometimes’ but not so often. I had wrongly subscribed to misguided ideas of ‘moderation’ and ‘entitlement’. I had reached the stage where I couldn&amp;rsquo;t get through a single day without reaching out to porn in the night. With most PMOers, the triggers are the normal stresses of life, like answering the telephone or socializing.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;When I experienced PIED - I knew it was killing my virility. There was no way I could kid myself otherwise. I am smart enough not to ‘project’ the porn fantasies on to real life. But it was like pacifying a dog straining at its leash. But why I couldn&amp;rsquo;t see what it was doing to me mentally, I could not understand. It was almost jumping up and biting me on the nose. The ridiculous thing is that most PMOers suffer the delusion at some time in their life that they enjoy internet porn because it is ‘normal’ and ‘healthy’. I never suffered that delusion, I PMOed because I thought enjoying sex is a ‘birthright’ and I am only doing a normal thing.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Since it was easier at most times for me to get internet porn than a partner I thought I am doing the normal thing. Now I am a non-PMOer, the most difficult part is trying to believe that those days actually happened. It&amp;rsquo;s like awakening from a nightmare and that is about the size of it. Internet porn is a supranormal drug. It is weakening your de-stressing mechanisms, your virility and your energy. The worst aspect of PMO isn&amp;rsquo;t the injury to your health or manliness, it is the warping of the mind. You search for any plausible excuse to go on.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I remember at one stage switching to static images, a failed attempt to cut down on internet porn, in the belief that it was less harmful and I could reign in my ‘habit’. I failed to see the ‘novelty’ and the ‘shock’ demands from my ‘little monster’ to just get more dopamine. Did I ‘stay’ within my boundaries? I ‘favorited’ 2 dimensional photos and my harem collection saw pictures and videos of ‘mild’ type porn rotating in and out like musical chair. When their ‘music’ stopped they ‘exited’. I didn’t understand the novelty-seeking, shock-seeking nature of my brain.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;pied-and-my-excuses&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PIED And My Excuses&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
+&lt;/div&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Once I figured I had PIED, as it had occurred multiple times with two different partners, I switched to more and more sophisticated masturbation. I practised with different artificial vaginas. They are sold as strength training. However, the combo of internet porn and toys needs deft hands, which is off-putting. Besides, by this time I was at the stage of orgasming with a limp member. All I wanted is an orgasm so I did not care about arousal, getting hard and all that. I had a long distance married girlfriend - who likes to share and talk about her sex life in very explicit manner. It turned me on so much that I’d masturbate to orgasm when I am on the phone with her. She knew it and would play with me by cutting off abruptly - to keep me hanging there - making me wanting more when she calls the next time. She had no trouble because I was fully willing to be the subject of playing such games, as long as it led to orgasm. A girl knows when a guy is seeking orgasm and it is his only goal. The only redeeming factor about me was my intelligence and empathy which kept her and my other partners coming back to me.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Most PMOers swear that they only watch static and soft porn and so they are OK. They are actually straining at the leash and thus fighting with their willpower to resist temptations. If they do this too often and for too long they will debit their willpower considerably and fail in other life projects where willpower is of much great value, like in daily exercise, dieting etc. Continuous failure in those areas will make them feel miserable and guilty and very soon they will find themselves back to their entitled relief. If not, they will vent their anger and depression onto their loved ones.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The answer is that once you have become addicted to internet porn, the brainwashing is increased. Your subconscious mind knows that the little monster has to be fed and you block everything else from your mind. As I have already stated, it is fear that keeps people quitting, the fear of that empty, insecure feeling that you get when you stop supplying the brain with dopamine flooding. Just because you are not aware of it doesn&amp;rsquo;t mean it isn&amp;rsquo;t there. You don&amp;rsquo;t have to understand it any more than a cat needs to understand where the under-floor hot-water pipes are. It just knows that if it sits in a certain place it gets the feeling of warmth.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;the-passivity-of-our-mind&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Passivity Of Our Mind&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
+&lt;/div&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;It is the passivity of our minds and dependency on authority leading to brainwashing that is the main difficulty in giving up PMO. The brainwashing of our upbringing in society reinforced with the brainwashing from our own addiction and, most powerful of all, the brainwashing of our friends, relatives and colleagues. Did you notice that up to now I&amp;rsquo;ve frequently referred to &amp;lsquo;giving up&amp;rsquo; PMO, I used the expression at the beginning of the previous paragraph. This is a classic example of the brainwashing. The expression implies a genuine sacrifice. The beautiful truth is that there is absolutely nothing to give up. On the contrary, you will be freeing yourself from a terrible disease and achieving marvellous positive gains. We are going to start removing this brainwashing now. From this point on, no longer will we refer to &amp;lsquo;giving up&amp;rsquo;, but to stopping, quitting or the true position: &lt;strong&gt;ESCAPING!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The only thing that persuades us to PMO in the first place is all the other people doing it. We feel we are missing out. We work so hard to become hooked, yet nobody ever finds out what they have been missing. But every time we see another new video clip it reassures us that there must be something in it, otherwise people wouldn&amp;rsquo;t be doing it - and it wouldn&amp;rsquo;t be such big business all over the world. Even when he has kicked the habit, the ex-PMOer feels he is being deprived when a discussion on a sexy entertainer, singer or even a porn star comes up at a party or other social function. She or he must be good to have all my friends talk about them, no? Do they have ‘hot’ pictures of her in my tube site? He feels safe. He can have just one ‘peek’ that night. And, before he knows it, he is hooked again.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;This brainwashing is extremely powerful and you need to be aware of its effects. I have heard scare stories about wicked men giving heroin mixed candies to kids at schoolyards. The concept of addiction and being compelled to go on taking the drug, filled me with horror. Even to this day, in spite of the fact that I am fairly convinced that &amp;lsquo;pot&amp;rsquo; is not addictive, I would not dare take one puff of marijuana. How ironic that I should have ended up a porn junky. Technology will continue to grow and we will have even faster tube sites and more faster access methods. The industry is investing millions in Virtual Reality so it will become the next best thing. The point is, do we know where we are going? Are we equipped with an under armour of defence so we can enjoy the benefits of technology yet at the same time protect ourselves from its bad effects?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;We are about to remove the brainwashing. It is not the non-PMOer who is being deprived but the poor user who is forfeiting a lifetime of:&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;ul&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HEALTH&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ENERGY&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WEALTH&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PEACE OF MIND&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CONFIDENCE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;COURAGE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SELF-RESPECT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HAPPINESS&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;FREEDOM&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;And what does he gain from these considerable sacrifices? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! Except the illusion of trying to get back to the state of peace, tranquillity and confidence that the non-PMOer enjoys all the time.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;div class=&#34;footnotes&#34; role=&#34;doc-endnotes&#34;&gt;
+&lt;hr&gt;
+&lt;ol&gt;
+&lt;li id=&#34;fn:1&#34;&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;YBOP&lt;/strong&gt; - yourbrainonporn.com, the leading internet porn addiction awareness site.&amp;#160;&lt;a href=&#34;#fnref:1&#34; class=&#34;footnote-backref&#34; role=&#34;doc-backlink&#34;&gt;&amp;#x21a9;&amp;#xfe0e;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li id=&#34;fn:2&#34;&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PUA&lt;/strong&gt; - pickup artist. Someone who teaches men to pick up mates.&amp;#160;&lt;a href=&#34;#fnref:2&#34; class=&#34;footnote-backref&#34; role=&#34;doc-backlink&#34;&gt;&amp;#x21a9;&amp;#xfe0e;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li id=&#34;fn:3&#34;&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reboot forum&lt;/strong&gt; - online resource for those who try temporary abstinence.&amp;#160;&lt;a href=&#34;#fnref:3&#34; class=&#34;footnote-backref&#34; role=&#34;doc-backlink&#34;&gt;&amp;#x21a9;&amp;#xfe0e;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li id=&#34;fn:4&#34;&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Doctors&lt;/strong&gt; - there is a reddit online forum for medical doctors who are quitting.&amp;#160;&lt;a href=&#34;#fnref:4&#34; class=&#34;footnote-backref&#34; role=&#34;doc-backlink&#34;&gt;&amp;#x21a9;&amp;#xfe0e;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ol&gt;
+&lt;/div&gt;
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 		<title>03-06 Internet Porn</title>
 		<link>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-06-internet-porn/</link>
@@ -20,7 +448,7 @@ action more happy feelings.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;So the first time you see porn - dopamine injects itself - you act - you orgasm. All of which will now be stored as a script in your brain for easy access next time. I call this a ‘water slide’. Next time at the cue - a sexy commercial or alone time or stress or feeling a little down - you are ready to take a ride on the ‘water slide’. One more thing is that every time to repeat this you are ‘greasing’ it as well - so it is active, alive and more easier to slide the next time.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;As time passes you are most probably not excited as before of the same clip - the reason will be explained shortly - but of similar type, genre, shock-level, our dopamine seeps into the brain but this time lesser than before. Now you feel less arousal, lesser motivation. This low motivation feeling in itself will trigger a feeling of lower satisfaction as our minds engage in constant rating. Then you seek more motivation. Then you ask for more novelty. Then you click on that amateurish, ugly looking, low quality, but high shock valued clip thumbnail which you had confidently said you won’t on your first time.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My Own Online Harem!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;my-own-online-harem&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My Own Online Harem!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;This cycle of novelty, escalation, satiation, desensitization etc. is not the same as the old porn magazine? Neither can you do that in real life with your partner. Maybe if you own a harem? One of the pros of owning a harem is novelty and the cons are desensitization, escalation and of course the cost.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;Going back to the earlier discussion - in this cycle as you crossed the ‘red line’ you also trigger emotions such as guilt, disgust, embarrassment, anxiety and fear - which in turn raise dopamine levels as well. Now the brain may mistakenly associate feelings of anxiety and fear as sexual arousal. This perpetual cycle is only broken by natural causes - fortunately sooner or later. With its free access and privacy it provides boundless harem-like novelty. The dopamine can be theoretically kept very high for a very very long time. I can be satisfied with one lobster once in awhile. But Internet porn is different. It is even worse than drugs. Don’t let me make you nervous. I will shortly show you how to be free from this slavery.&lt;/p&gt;
@@ -35,13 +463,13 @@ action more happy feelings.&lt;/p&gt;
 use?&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;This dopamine flooding, like a quick-acting drug, falls quickly to induce withdrawal pangs. I must at this point dispel a common illusion that PMOers have about withdrawal pangs. They think that withdrawal pangs are the terrible trauma they suffer when they try or are forced to stop PMOing. These are, in fact, mainly mental; the user is feeling deprived of his pleasure or prop. I will explain more about this later.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Little Monster&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;the-little-monster&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Little Monster&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;The actual pangs of withdrawal from PMO are so subtle that most users have lived and died without even realizing they are like drug addicts. When we use the term ‘porn addict&amp;rsquo; we think we just &amp;lsquo;got into the habit&amp;rsquo;. Most PMOers have a horror of drugs, yet that&amp;rsquo;s exactly what they are - drug addicts. Fortunately it is an easy drug to kick, but you need first to accept that you are addicted. There is no physical pain in the withdrawal from PMO. It is merely an empty, restless feeling, the feeling of something missing, which is why many think it is something to do with their hands. If it is prolonged, the user becomes nervous, insecure, agitated, lacking in confidence and irritable. It is like hunger - for a poison, INTERNET PORN.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;Within seconds of engaging in PMO the dopamine is supplied and the craving ends, resulting in the feeling of fulfilment and pleasure that the action gives to the PMOer. In the early days, when we first start PMOing, the withdrawal pangs and their relief are so slight that we are not even aware that they exist. When we begin to masturbate regularly to internet porn we think it is because we&amp;rsquo;ve either come to enjoy them or got into the &amp;lsquo;habit&amp;rsquo;. The truth is we&amp;rsquo;re already hooked; we do not realize it, but that little monster is already inside our stomach and every now and again we have to feed it.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;All PMOers start seeking porn for stupid reasons. Nobody has to. The only reason why anybody continues PMOing, whether they be a casual or a heavy user, is to feed that little monster. The whole business of porn and PMO is a series of confusing conundrums. All sufferers of PMO know at heart that they are fools and have been trapped by something evil. However, I think the most pathetic aspect about this is that the enjoyment that the PMOer gets from a session is the pleasure of trying to get back to the state of peace, tranquillity and confidence that his body had before he became hooked in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Annoying Burglar Alarm&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;the-annoying-burglar-alarm&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Annoying Burglar Alarm&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;You know that feeling when a neighbour’s burglar alarm has been ringing all day, or there has been some other minor, persistent aggravation. Then the noise suddenly stops - that marvellous feeling of peace and tranquillity is experienced. It is not really peace but the ending of the aggravation. Before we start the next PMO session, our bodies are complete. We then force our brains to pump dopamine into the body using PMO, and when we are done orgasming and the dopamine starts to leave, we suffer withdrawal pangs - not physical pain, just an empty feeling. We are not even aware that it exists, but it is like a dripping tap inside our bodies. Our rational minds do not understand it. They do not need to. All we know is that we want porn and when we masturbate the craving goes, and for the moment we are content and confident again just as we were before we
 became addicted. However, the satisfaction is only temporary because in order to relieve the craving you have to get more porn. As soon as you orgasm the craving starts again and so the chain goes on. It is a chain for life - &lt;strong&gt;UNLESS YOU BREAK IT&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
@@ -55,7 +483,7 @@ became addicted. However, the satisfaction is only temporary because in order to
 &lt;p&gt;The heroin doesn&amp;rsquo;t relieve it. On the contrary, it causes it. Non-PMOers - say a 14 year old in 2008 - didn&amp;rsquo;t suffer the empty feeling of needing internet porn or start to panic when they are off- line. Non-PMOers cannot understand how PMOers can possibly obtain pleasure from two dimensional videos with muted sounds and abnormal body proportions. And do you know something? PMOers themselves cannot understand why they do it after some time either.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;We talk about internet porn being relaxing or giving satisfaction. But how can you be satisfied unless you were dissatisfied in the first place? Why don&amp;rsquo;t non-PMOer suffer from this dissatisfied state and why, after a no-sex date, when the non-PMOers are completely relaxed, are PMOers completely unrelaxed until they have satisfied their &amp;rsquo;little monster&amp;rsquo;?&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Pleasure or Crutch?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;a-pleasure-or-crutch&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Pleasure or Crutch?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;Forgive me if I dwell on this subject for a moment. The main reason that PMOers find it difficult to quit is that they believe that they are giving up a genuine pleasure or crutch. It is absolutely essential to understand that you are giving up nothing whatsoever. The best way to understand the subtleties of the PMO trap is to compare it with eating. If we are in the habit of eating regular meals, we are not aware of being hungry between meals. Only if the meal is delayed are we aware of being hungry, and even then, there is no physical pain, just an empty, insecure feeling which we know as: &amp;lsquo;I need to eat.&amp;rsquo; And the process of satisfying our hunger is a very pleasantpastime.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;PMOing appears to be almost identical. The empty, insecure feeling which we know as: &amp;lsquo;wanting or needing an PMO orgasm’ is identical to a hunger for food, although one will not satisfy the other. Like hunger, there is no physical pain and the feeling is so imperceptible that we are not even aware of it between PMO sessions. It&amp;rsquo;s only if we want to masturbate and aren&amp;rsquo;t able to reach internet for porn that we become aware of any discomfort. But when we do PMO we feel satisfied.&lt;/p&gt;
@@ -67,12 +495,12 @@ became addicted. However, the satisfaction is only temporary because in order to
 &lt;li&gt;Eating doesn&amp;rsquo;t create hunger and genuinely relieves it, whereas the first PMO starts the craving for dopamine and each subsequent one, far from relieving it, ensures that you suffer it for the rest of life.&lt;/li&gt;
 &lt;/ol&gt;
 &lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PMO is a Habit?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;pmo-is-a-habit&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PMO is a Habit?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;This is an opportune moment to dispel another common myth about PMO - that it is a habit. Is eating a habit? If you think so, try breaking it completely. No, to describe eating as a habit would be the same as describing breathing as a habit. Both are essential for survival. It is true that different people are in the habit of satisfying their hunger at different times and with varying types of food. But eating itself is not a habit. Neither is PMO. The only reason any PMOer fires up the browser is to try to end the empty, insecure feeling that the previous orgasm and the PMO session created. It is true that different PMOers are in the habit of trying to relieve their withdrawal pangs at different times, but PMO itself is not a habit.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;On the internet they frequently refer to PMO as a habit and in this hackbook, for convenience, I also refer to the &amp;lsquo;habit&amp;rsquo;. However, be constantly aware that it is not habit, on the contrary it is no more nor less than DRUG ADDICTION! When we start to PMO we have to force ourselves to learn to cope with it. Before we know it, we are ‘escalating’&lt;sup id=&#34;fnref:1&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#fn:1&#34; class=&#34;footnote-ref&#34; role=&#34;doc-noteref&#34;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; - we have to then have more bizarre and more shocking porn. The thrill is in the hunting&amp;hellip; not in the killing. If we don&amp;rsquo;t then panic sets in and as we go through life we tend to novelty-seek more and more. Worse is when this seeking of higher shock level get into our real life. Have you heard about people suffering from PIED, that too in solo? How about wet dreams and fantasies where you are not even there but only involving others? There is no performance stress but I am not even getting hard. Great!&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Crossing The Red Line&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;crossing-the-red-line&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Crossing The Red Line&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;This is because, as with any other drug, the body tends to develop immunity to the effects of the same old porn clips and our brain wants more or something else. After quite a short period of watching the same clip it ceases to relieve completely the withdrawal pangs that the previous PMO session had created. You want to stay on the safe side of your own ‘red line’ but your brain is asking you to click on that ‘forbidden fruit’ clip. There is a tug of war occurring in this supposed porn paradise.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;You feel better than you did before starting this PMO session but you are in fact more nervous and less relaxed than you would be as a non-PMOer, like someone who is living in Loma Linda or in an Amish village, even though you are actually PMOing and living in your supposed “porn paradise.” This position is even more ridiculous than wearing tight shoes because as you go through life an increasing amount of the discomfort remains even when the shoes are removed.&lt;/p&gt;
@@ -85,19 +513,19 @@ became addicted. However, the satisfaction is only temporary because in order to
 &lt;p&gt;What magic drug can suddenly reverse the very effect it had minutes before? If you think about it, what other types of occasion are there in our lives; apart from sleep? The truth is that PMO neither relieves boredom and stress nor promotes concentration and relaxation. It is all just illusion. Apart from being a drug, PMO is also a destroyer of happiness and virility.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;In case you have ideas of toning down to other more ‘realistic’ or ‘soft’ genres of porn and such, I should make it quite clear that the content of this book applies to all porn, yes, that includes, print, webcams, pay-per-views, chat, live shows etc. that is on high speed internet where ‘novelty’ and ‘shock’ is the nature of the game. Imagination goes farther than reality. The human body is the most sophisticated object on our planet. No species, even the lowest amoeba or worm, can survive without knowing the difference between food and poison.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Brain Reward Circuit Mechanics&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;brain-reward-circuit-mechanics&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Brain Reward Circuit Mechanics&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;Through a process of natural selection over thousand of years, our minds and bodies have developed techniques for rewarding actions that multiply and sustain humanity. Yet our minds and bodies are not ready for the supernormal stimulus that is bigger, brighter, colourful, edgier and more shocking than the one we have now. We are attracted proportional to the degree of how far the outlier is from our individual normal. It can be two dimensional clip - and a muted one at that - we will get aroused. Look at the same clip again and again and you won’t be. You just moved your red line close to the outlier and in no time you will enclose it in your normal consciousness. It is natural and it is so that you can multiply and grow this human race. In real life there are checks and balances in place so you take a break and go away do something else. With internet porn you there are no such checks and balances and you are living in a virtual harem!&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;When we took a ‘peep’ at internet porn the first time, a few images were titillating but most were disgusting, causing you to avert your eyes away. Like you would if had accidentally glanced a feeding mother’s breast. And some of us are even revolted with what they saw when the star reminded them of someone dear to their heart or a scene which recalled their own instance of being the victim. Some don’t feel like it to browse and masturbate at the same time. It may be hard to believe for you but the non-PMOs, who don’t PMO after their first time, are the lucky ones. They actually decided that it was not their cup of tea. It must be hard for you to believe but stay with me.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;How many of us don’t visit brothels - even when you are far from home? Why not? It’s not the social stigma? How many of us did not bring home a bottle on your way back from work - even after a hard day? Why not ? You ‘deserve’ it after that big deal you made? You just decided, after your first instance, that it’s not your cup of tea. That&amp;rsquo;s all.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Are PMOers Mentally Weak?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;are-pmoers-mentally-weak&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Are PMOers Mentally Weak?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;It is a fallacy that physically weak and mentally weak-willed people become PMOers. The lucky ones are those who find that first instance repulsive and they are cured for life. Or, alternatively, they are not mentally prepared to go through the severe learning process of fighting the obstructions of self-talking themselves to get hooked, fear of ‘getting caught’, not technical enough to create an online cache, operate privacy settings in the browser etc.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;To me this is the most tragic part of this whole business. How hard we worked to become hooked, and this is why it is difficult to stop teenagers. Because they are skilled in seeking and finding material, they know online privacy options and can clean their tracks - if they still feel some stigma and they (wrongfully) believe they can stop whenever they want to. Why do they not learn from us? Then again, why did we not learn from our PMOers and addicts?&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;Many PMOers believe they enjoy online internet porn. It is an illusion. What we are actually doing when we jump from genre to genre is to keep our ‘novelty’ monkey within the ‘red line’ of ‘safe’ porn genres to get our dopamine fix, like heroin addicts who think that they enjoy injecting themselves. The withdrawal pangs from heroin are relatively severe and all they are really enjoying is the ritual of relieving those pangs.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The High From The Dance Around The Red Line&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;the-high-from-the-dance-around-the-red-line&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The High From The Dance Around The Red Line&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
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 &lt;p&gt;Even with that one clip on which he lingers longer - the PMOer constantly teaches himself to filter out the bad and ugly portions of a porn clip. Even if it is solo, you still do the ‘filtering’ on the body parts that appeal to you the most. In fact some even take pleasure in this game to find an excuse to declare that they like ‘soft’ stuff and are not addicted to supranormal stimuli. Sometimes even this constant dance around the red line in itself produces a sort of high as well.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;Ask a user who believes that he sticks to a certain actor or genre - only because he likes something about the star or the theme (if any) of the clip: “If you cannot get your normal brand of porn and can only obtain a poor or unsafe brand, do you stop masturbating?” No way. A PMOer will masturbate to anything rather than abstain and it doesn&amp;rsquo;t matter if he has to switch to escalating themes, different sex-orientation-themes, look-alike actresses, dangerous settings shocking relationships etc. To begin with they taste awful but if you persevere you will learn to like them. Most PMOers will also try to seek masturbation even after having real sex (unfulfilment, porn-induced unrealistic expectations etc.), or after a long, stressful work day, fever, colds, flu, sore throats and even when admitted in hospitals.&lt;/p&gt;
@@ -108,13 +536,13 @@ became addicted. However, the satisfaction is only temporary because in order to
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 &lt;p&gt;You will quite rightly ask why it is that many PMOers find it so difficult to stop, go through months of torture and spend the rest of their lives pining for it at odd times. The answer is the second reason why we use Internet porn - the brainwashing. The brain-chemical addiction is easy to cope with. Most PMOers go days without online porn - when they are on business trips or travel etc. The withdrawal pangs don’t affect them. Their little porn monster knows that you will open your laptop as soon as you return to hotel room or your den. Ah, you can even survive this obnoxious client and your megalomaniac manager - just ‘knowing’ that the fix is there for your take. It doesn&amp;rsquo;t bother the PMOers.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Smokers Analogy&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;the-smokers-analogy&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Smokers Analogy&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;A good analogy is the situation of smokers - if they went ten hours during the day without a cigarette they&amp;rsquo;d be tearing their hair out. Many smokers will buy a new car nowadays and refrain from smoking in it. Many will visit theatres, supermarkets, churches, etc. and not being able to smoke doesn&amp;rsquo;t bother them. Even on the trains there have been no riots. Smokers are almost pleased for someone or something to force them to stop smoking.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;PMOers will automatically refrain from using internet porn in the home of their parents while visiting for family get togethers etc. with little discomfort to themselves. In fact, most PMOers have extended periods during which they abstain without effort. Even in my case I would quite happily go a week or so without a PMO incident. In the later years as a PMOer I actually used to look forward to these days when I could stop choking my penis (what a ridiculous &amp;lsquo;habit&amp;rsquo;).&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;The brain chemical addiction (little monster) is easy to cope with, even when you are still addicted, and there are thousands of PMOers who remain casual users all their lives. They are just as heavily addicted as the heavy PMOer. There are even heavy PMOers who have kicked the &amp;lsquo;habit&amp;rsquo; but will have an occasional ‘peek’, and that keeps them addicted. You are ‘greasing’ the ‘water slide’ of the brain only to see you slide down at the next dip in your mood.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Big Monster - The Brainwashing&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;the-big-monster---the-brainwashing&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Big Monster - The Brainwashing&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;You are smart enough to know (aside, I will explain shortly why PMOers are in fact a strong willed and hard working bunch) that not all porn workers get a W-2 with 401k and stock options. Only a very rare actor and that too for a very short period of time of their career may be.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;Not all the amateurs are ‘amateurs’ on these tube sites, oversized body parts and overcharged scenarios are the norm, aided by a bit of the ‘viagran’ help.&lt;/p&gt;
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-&lt;p&gt;&amp;lsquo;I&amp;rsquo;M GOING TO CURE THE WORLD OF PMO&amp;rsquo;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;im-going-to-cure-the-world-of-pmo&#34;&gt;&amp;lsquo;I&amp;rsquo;M GOING TO CURE THE WORLD OF PMO&amp;rsquo;&lt;/h2&gt;
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 &lt;p&gt;I was talking to my mentor. He thought that I had flipped. Understandable if you consider that he had watched me fail on numerous attempts to quit. The most recent had been two years previously. I&amp;rsquo;d actually survived six months of sheer purgatory before I finally succumbed and found myself clicking on stacked up tabs of porn sites. I&amp;rsquo;m not ashamed to admit that I cried like a baby. I was crying because I knew that I was condemned to be an addict for life. I&amp;rsquo;d put so much effort into that attempt and suffered so much misery that I knew I would never have the strength to go through that ordeal again. I&amp;rsquo;m not a violent man, but if some patronizing non-PMO’er had been stupid enough at that moment to suggest to me that all users can find it easy to quit, immediately and permanently, I would not have been responsible for my actions. However, I&amp;rsquo;m convinced that any jury in the world, comprised of PMOers only, would have pardoned me on the grounds of justifiable homicide.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;Perhaps you too find it impossible to believe that any PMOer can find it easy to quit. If so, I beg you not to cast this book into the rubbish bin. Please trust me. I assure you that you can find it

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 <p>I was talking to my mentor. He thought that I had flipped. Understandable if you consider that he had watched me fail on numerous attempts to quit. The most recent had been two years previously. I&rsquo;d actually survived six months of sheer purgatory before I finally succumbed and found myself clicking on stacked up tabs of porn sites. I&rsquo;m not ashamed to admit that I cried like a baby. I was crying because I knew that I was condemned to be an addict for life. I&rsquo;d put so much effort into that attempt and suffered so much misery that I knew I would never have the strength to go through that ordeal again. I&rsquo;m not a violent man, but if some patronizing non-PMO’er had been stupid enough at that moment to suggest to me that all users can find it easy to quit, immediately and permanently, I would not have been responsible for my actions. However, I&rsquo;m convinced that any jury in the world, comprised of PMOers only, would have pardoned me on the grounds of justifiable homicide.</p>
 <p>Perhaps you too find it impossible to believe that any PMOer can find it easy to quit. If so, I beg you not to cast this book into the rubbish bin. Please trust me. I assure you that you can find it

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 <p>So the first time you see porn - dopamine injects itself - you act - you orgasm. All of which will now be stored as a script in your brain for easy access next time. I call this a ‘water slide’. Next time at the cue - a sexy commercial or alone time or stress or feeling a little down - you are ready to take a ride on the ‘water slide’. One more thing is that every time to repeat this you are ‘greasing’ it as well - so it is active, alive and more easier to slide the next time.</p>
 <p>As time passes you are most probably not excited as before of the same clip - the reason will be explained shortly - but of similar type, genre, shock-level, our dopamine seeps into the brain but this time lesser than before. Now you feel less arousal, lesser motivation. This low motivation feeling in itself will trigger a feeling of lower satisfaction as our minds engage in constant rating. Then you seek more motivation. Then you ask for more novelty. Then you click on that amateurish, ugly looking, low quality, but high shock valued clip thumbnail which you had confidently said you won’t on your first time.</p>
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-<p><strong>My Own Online Harem!</strong></p>
+<h2 id="my-own-online-harem"><strong>My Own Online Harem!</strong></h2>
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 <p>This cycle of novelty, escalation, satiation, desensitization etc. is not the same as the old porn magazine? Neither can you do that in real life with your partner. Maybe if you own a harem? One of the pros of owning a harem is novelty and the cons are desensitization, escalation and of course the cost.</p>
 <p>Going back to the earlier discussion - in this cycle as you crossed the ‘red line’ you also trigger emotions such as guilt, disgust, embarrassment, anxiety and fear - which in turn raise dopamine levels as well. Now the brain may mistakenly associate feelings of anxiety and fear as sexual arousal. This perpetual cycle is only broken by natural causes - fortunately sooner or later. With its free access and privacy it provides boundless harem-like novelty. The dopamine can be theoretically kept very high for a very very long time. I can be satisfied with one lobster once in awhile. But Internet porn is different. It is even worse than drugs. Don’t let me make you nervous. I will shortly show you how to be free from this slavery.</p>
@@ -36,13 +36,13 @@ action more happy feelings.</p>
 use?</p>
 <p>This dopamine flooding, like a quick-acting drug, falls quickly to induce withdrawal pangs. I must at this point dispel a common illusion that PMOers have about withdrawal pangs. They think that withdrawal pangs are the terrible trauma they suffer when they try or are forced to stop PMOing. These are, in fact, mainly mental; the user is feeling deprived of his pleasure or prop. I will explain more about this later.</p>
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-<p><strong>The Little Monster</strong></p>
+<h2 id="the-little-monster"><strong>The Little Monster</strong></h2>
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 <p>The actual pangs of withdrawal from PMO are so subtle that most users have lived and died without even realizing they are like drug addicts. When we use the term ‘porn addict&rsquo; we think we just &lsquo;got into the habit&rsquo;. Most PMOers have a horror of drugs, yet that&rsquo;s exactly what they are - drug addicts. Fortunately it is an easy drug to kick, but you need first to accept that you are addicted. There is no physical pain in the withdrawal from PMO. It is merely an empty, restless feeling, the feeling of something missing, which is why many think it is something to do with their hands. If it is prolonged, the user becomes nervous, insecure, agitated, lacking in confidence and irritable. It is like hunger - for a poison, INTERNET PORN.</p>
 <p>Within seconds of engaging in PMO the dopamine is supplied and the craving ends, resulting in the feeling of fulfilment and pleasure that the action gives to the PMOer. In the early days, when we first start PMOing, the withdrawal pangs and their relief are so slight that we are not even aware that they exist. When we begin to masturbate regularly to internet porn we think it is because we&rsquo;ve either come to enjoy them or got into the &lsquo;habit&rsquo;. The truth is we&rsquo;re already hooked; we do not realize it, but that little monster is already inside our stomach and every now and again we have to feed it.</p>
 <p>All PMOers start seeking porn for stupid reasons. Nobody has to. The only reason why anybody continues PMOing, whether they be a casual or a heavy user, is to feed that little monster. The whole business of porn and PMO is a series of confusing conundrums. All sufferers of PMO know at heart that they are fools and have been trapped by something evil. However, I think the most pathetic aspect about this is that the enjoyment that the PMOer gets from a session is the pleasure of trying to get back to the state of peace, tranquillity and confidence that his body had before he became hooked in the first place.</p>
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-<p><strong>The Annoying Burglar Alarm</strong></p>
+<h2 id="the-annoying-burglar-alarm"><strong>The Annoying Burglar Alarm</strong></h2>
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 <p>You know that feeling when a neighbour’s burglar alarm has been ringing all day, or there has been some other minor, persistent aggravation. Then the noise suddenly stops - that marvellous feeling of peace and tranquillity is experienced. It is not really peace but the ending of the aggravation. Before we start the next PMO session, our bodies are complete. We then force our brains to pump dopamine into the body using PMO, and when we are done orgasming and the dopamine starts to leave, we suffer withdrawal pangs - not physical pain, just an empty feeling. We are not even aware that it exists, but it is like a dripping tap inside our bodies. Our rational minds do not understand it. They do not need to. All we know is that we want porn and when we masturbate the craving goes, and for the moment we are content and confident again just as we were before we
 became addicted. However, the satisfaction is only temporary because in order to relieve the craving you have to get more porn. As soon as you orgasm the craving starts again and so the chain goes on. It is a chain for life - <strong>UNLESS YOU BREAK IT</strong>.</p>
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ became addicted. However, the satisfaction is only temporary because in order to
 <p>The heroin doesn&rsquo;t relieve it. On the contrary, it causes it. Non-PMOers - say a 14 year old in 2008 - didn&rsquo;t suffer the empty feeling of needing internet porn or start to panic when they are off- line. Non-PMOers cannot understand how PMOers can possibly obtain pleasure from two dimensional videos with muted sounds and abnormal body proportions. And do you know something? PMOers themselves cannot understand why they do it after some time either.</p>
 <p>We talk about internet porn being relaxing or giving satisfaction. But how can you be satisfied unless you were dissatisfied in the first place? Why don&rsquo;t non-PMOer suffer from this dissatisfied state and why, after a no-sex date, when the non-PMOers are completely relaxed, are PMOers completely unrelaxed until they have satisfied their &rsquo;little monster&rsquo;?</p>
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-<p><strong>A Pleasure or Crutch?</strong></p>
+<h2 id="a-pleasure-or-crutch"><strong>A Pleasure or Crutch?</strong></h2>
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 <p>Forgive me if I dwell on this subject for a moment. The main reason that PMOers find it difficult to quit is that they believe that they are giving up a genuine pleasure or crutch. It is absolutely essential to understand that you are giving up nothing whatsoever. The best way to understand the subtleties of the PMO trap is to compare it with eating. If we are in the habit of eating regular meals, we are not aware of being hungry between meals. Only if the meal is delayed are we aware of being hungry, and even then, there is no physical pain, just an empty, insecure feeling which we know as: &lsquo;I need to eat.&rsquo; And the process of satisfying our hunger is a very pleasantpastime.</p>
 <p>PMOing appears to be almost identical. The empty, insecure feeling which we know as: &lsquo;wanting or needing an PMO orgasm’ is identical to a hunger for food, although one will not satisfy the other. Like hunger, there is no physical pain and the feeling is so imperceptible that we are not even aware of it between PMO sessions. It&rsquo;s only if we want to masturbate and aren&rsquo;t able to reach internet for porn that we become aware of any discomfort. But when we do PMO we feel satisfied.</p>
@@ -68,12 +68,12 @@ became addicted. However, the satisfaction is only temporary because in order to
 <li>Eating doesn&rsquo;t create hunger and genuinely relieves it, whereas the first PMO starts the craving for dopamine and each subsequent one, far from relieving it, ensures that you suffer it for the rest of life.</li>
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-<p><strong>PMO is a Habit?</strong></p>
+<h2 id="pmo-is-a-habit"><strong>PMO is a Habit?</strong></h2>
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 <p>This is an opportune moment to dispel another common myth about PMO - that it is a habit. Is eating a habit? If you think so, try breaking it completely. No, to describe eating as a habit would be the same as describing breathing as a habit. Both are essential for survival. It is true that different people are in the habit of satisfying their hunger at different times and with varying types of food. But eating itself is not a habit. Neither is PMO. The only reason any PMOer fires up the browser is to try to end the empty, insecure feeling that the previous orgasm and the PMO session created. It is true that different PMOers are in the habit of trying to relieve their withdrawal pangs at different times, but PMO itself is not a habit.</p>
 <p>On the internet they frequently refer to PMO as a habit and in this hackbook, for convenience, I also refer to the &lsquo;habit&rsquo;. However, be constantly aware that it is not habit, on the contrary it is no more nor less than DRUG ADDICTION! When we start to PMO we have to force ourselves to learn to cope with it. Before we know it, we are ‘escalating’<sup id="fnref:1"><a href="#fn:1" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref">1</a></sup> - we have to then have more bizarre and more shocking porn. The thrill is in the hunting&hellip; not in the killing. If we don&rsquo;t then panic sets in and as we go through life we tend to novelty-seek more and more. Worse is when this seeking of higher shock level get into our real life. Have you heard about people suffering from PIED, that too in solo? How about wet dreams and fantasies where you are not even there but only involving others? There is no performance stress but I am not even getting hard. Great!</p>
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-<p><strong>Crossing The Red Line</strong></p>
+<h2 id="crossing-the-red-line"><strong>Crossing The Red Line</strong></h2>
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 <p>This is because, as with any other drug, the body tends to develop immunity to the effects of the same old porn clips and our brain wants more or something else. After quite a short period of watching the same clip it ceases to relieve completely the withdrawal pangs that the previous PMO session had created. You want to stay on the safe side of your own ‘red line’ but your brain is asking you to click on that ‘forbidden fruit’ clip. There is a tug of war occurring in this supposed porn paradise.</p>
 <p>You feel better than you did before starting this PMO session but you are in fact more nervous and less relaxed than you would be as a non-PMOer, like someone who is living in Loma Linda or in an Amish village, even though you are actually PMOing and living in your supposed “porn paradise.” This position is even more ridiculous than wearing tight shoes because as you go through life an increasing amount of the discomfort remains even when the shoes are removed.</p>
@@ -86,19 +86,19 @@ became addicted. However, the satisfaction is only temporary because in order to
 <p>What magic drug can suddenly reverse the very effect it had minutes before? If you think about it, what other types of occasion are there in our lives; apart from sleep? The truth is that PMO neither relieves boredom and stress nor promotes concentration and relaxation. It is all just illusion. Apart from being a drug, PMO is also a destroyer of happiness and virility.</p>
 <p>In case you have ideas of toning down to other more ‘realistic’ or ‘soft’ genres of porn and such, I should make it quite clear that the content of this book applies to all porn, yes, that includes, print, webcams, pay-per-views, chat, live shows etc. that is on high speed internet where ‘novelty’ and ‘shock’ is the nature of the game. Imagination goes farther than reality. The human body is the most sophisticated object on our planet. No species, even the lowest amoeba or worm, can survive without knowing the difference between food and poison.</p>
 <div style="text-align: center;">
-<p><strong>Brain Reward Circuit Mechanics</strong></p>
+<h2 id="brain-reward-circuit-mechanics"><strong>Brain Reward Circuit Mechanics</strong></h2>
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 <p>Through a process of natural selection over thousand of years, our minds and bodies have developed techniques for rewarding actions that multiply and sustain humanity. Yet our minds and bodies are not ready for the supernormal stimulus that is bigger, brighter, colourful, edgier and more shocking than the one we have now. We are attracted proportional to the degree of how far the outlier is from our individual normal. It can be two dimensional clip - and a muted one at that - we will get aroused. Look at the same clip again and again and you won’t be. You just moved your red line close to the outlier and in no time you will enclose it in your normal consciousness. It is natural and it is so that you can multiply and grow this human race. In real life there are checks and balances in place so you take a break and go away do something else. With internet porn you there are no such checks and balances and you are living in a virtual harem!</p>
 <p>When we took a ‘peep’ at internet porn the first time, a few images were titillating but most were disgusting, causing you to avert your eyes away. Like you would if had accidentally glanced a feeding mother’s breast. And some of us are even revolted with what they saw when the star reminded them of someone dear to their heart or a scene which recalled their own instance of being the victim. Some don’t feel like it to browse and masturbate at the same time. It may be hard to believe for you but the non-PMOs, who don’t PMO after their first time, are the lucky ones. They actually decided that it was not their cup of tea. It must be hard for you to believe but stay with me.</p>
 <p>How many of us don’t visit brothels - even when you are far from home? Why not? It’s not the social stigma? How many of us did not bring home a bottle on your way back from work - even after a hard day? Why not ? You ‘deserve’ it after that big deal you made? You just decided, after your first instance, that it’s not your cup of tea. That&rsquo;s all.</p>
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-<p><strong>Are PMOers Mentally Weak?</strong></p>
+<h2 id="are-pmoers-mentally-weak"><strong>Are PMOers Mentally Weak?</strong></h2>
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 <p>It is a fallacy that physically weak and mentally weak-willed people become PMOers. The lucky ones are those who find that first instance repulsive and they are cured for life. Or, alternatively, they are not mentally prepared to go through the severe learning process of fighting the obstructions of self-talking themselves to get hooked, fear of ‘getting caught’, not technical enough to create an online cache, operate privacy settings in the browser etc.</p>
 <p>To me this is the most tragic part of this whole business. How hard we worked to become hooked, and this is why it is difficult to stop teenagers. Because they are skilled in seeking and finding material, they know online privacy options and can clean their tracks - if they still feel some stigma and they (wrongfully) believe they can stop whenever they want to. Why do they not learn from us? Then again, why did we not learn from our PMOers and addicts?</p>
 <p>Many PMOers believe they enjoy online internet porn. It is an illusion. What we are actually doing when we jump from genre to genre is to keep our ‘novelty’ monkey within the ‘red line’ of ‘safe’ porn genres to get our dopamine fix, like heroin addicts who think that they enjoy injecting themselves. The withdrawal pangs from heroin are relatively severe and all they are really enjoying is the ritual of relieving those pangs.</p>
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-<p><strong>The High From The Dance Around The Red Line</strong></p>
+<h2 id="the-high-from-the-dance-around-the-red-line"><strong>The High From The Dance Around The Red Line</strong></h2>
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 <p>Even with that one clip on which he lingers longer - the PMOer constantly teaches himself to filter out the bad and ugly portions of a porn clip. Even if it is solo, you still do the ‘filtering’ on the body parts that appeal to you the most. In fact some even take pleasure in this game to find an excuse to declare that they like ‘soft’ stuff and are not addicted to supranormal stimuli. Sometimes even this constant dance around the red line in itself produces a sort of high as well.</p>
 <p>Ask a user who believes that he sticks to a certain actor or genre - only because he likes something about the star or the theme (if any) of the clip: “If you cannot get your normal brand of porn and can only obtain a poor or unsafe brand, do you stop masturbating?” No way. A PMOer will masturbate to anything rather than abstain and it doesn&rsquo;t matter if he has to switch to escalating themes, different sex-orientation-themes, look-alike actresses, dangerous settings shocking relationships etc. To begin with they taste awful but if you persevere you will learn to like them. Most PMOers will also try to seek masturbation even after having real sex (unfulfilment, porn-induced unrealistic expectations etc.), or after a long, stressful work day, fever, colds, flu, sore throats and even when admitted in hospitals.</p>
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 <p>You will quite rightly ask why it is that many PMOers find it so difficult to stop, go through months of torture and spend the rest of their lives pining for it at odd times. The answer is the second reason why we use Internet porn - the brainwashing. The brain-chemical addiction is easy to cope with. Most PMOers go days without online porn - when they are on business trips or travel etc. The withdrawal pangs don’t affect them. Their little porn monster knows that you will open your laptop as soon as you return to hotel room or your den. Ah, you can even survive this obnoxious client and your megalomaniac manager - just ‘knowing’ that the fix is there for your take. It doesn&rsquo;t bother the PMOers.</p>
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-<p><strong>The Smokers Analogy</strong></p>
+<h2 id="the-smokers-analogy"><strong>The Smokers Analogy</strong></h2>
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 <p>A good analogy is the situation of smokers - if they went ten hours during the day without a cigarette they&rsquo;d be tearing their hair out. Many smokers will buy a new car nowadays and refrain from smoking in it. Many will visit theatres, supermarkets, churches, etc. and not being able to smoke doesn&rsquo;t bother them. Even on the trains there have been no riots. Smokers are almost pleased for someone or something to force them to stop smoking.</p>
 <p>PMOers will automatically refrain from using internet porn in the home of their parents while visiting for family get togethers etc. with little discomfort to themselves. In fact, most PMOers have extended periods during which they abstain without effort. Even in my case I would quite happily go a week or so without a PMO incident. In the later years as a PMOer I actually used to look forward to these days when I could stop choking my penis (what a ridiculous &lsquo;habit&rsquo;).</p>
 <p>The brain chemical addiction (little monster) is easy to cope with, even when you are still addicted, and there are thousands of PMOers who remain casual users all their lives. They are just as heavily addicted as the heavy PMOer. There are even heavy PMOers who have kicked the &lsquo;habit&rsquo; but will have an occasional ‘peek’, and that keeps them addicted. You are ‘greasing’ the ‘water slide’ of the brain only to see you slide down at the next dip in your mood.</p>
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-<p><strong>The Big Monster - The Brainwashing</strong></p>
+<h2 id="the-big-monster---the-brainwashing"><strong>The Big Monster - The Brainwashing</strong></h2>
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 <p>You are smart enough to know (aside, I will explain shortly why PMOers are in fact a strong willed and hard working bunch) that not all porn workers get a W-2 with 401k and stock options. Only a very rare actor and that too for a very short period of time of their career may be.</p>
 <p>Not all the amateurs are ‘amateurs’ on these tube sites, oversized body parts and overcharged scenarios are the norm, aided by a bit of the ‘viagran’ help.</p>
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+<p>How or why do we start PMOing in the first place? To understand this fully you need to examine the powerful effect of the supernormal stimulus. We all tend to think we are intelligent, dominant human beings determining our paths through life. We act and act frequently when our brain reward circuit are rewarded. Nobel laureate Nikolaas Tinbergen coined the term “supranormal stimulus.” He said mammals could be tricked into preferring fake eggs and mates. Female birds, for example, struggled to sit on larger-than life, vividly spotted plaster eggs while their own pale, dappled eggs perished untended.</p>
+<p>The stimulation here in internet porn is not it brings stimulating actors and themes to your home - it is a genie at your bidding to create a harem in your mind. You can switch between genres and theme, home-made and viewer rated, commented and discussed, so rapid and so easy. We absolutely are not ready for the high speed internet porn and our brains are not designed to handle this supranormal stimuli.</p>
+<p>We can have an ‘information overload’ from the same internet but our reward circuits are not going to squirt dopamine at the levels when ‘porn overload’ is involved. We are evolutionarily programmed to seek and access sex related stuff. And we wrongly appraise the stimulus mostly based on this reward circuit action. If all you wanted is to masturbate why can’t you just use one clip and get the business done?</p>
+<p>Here is another question - next time after a long day or some stressful incident can you consciously embellish your self-talk with “Do you know what I would really enjoy today? The marvellous warm glow of dopamine rush going to my online harem.” You will find that even people who dislike PMO will join you.</p>
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+<h2 id="past-misguided-advice"><strong>Past Misguided Advice</strong></h2>
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+<p>There was much misguided advice given in the past and one is that masturbating will lead to blindness. And there are some other scare tactics that clearly over-did it. It is right that those notions were overthrown by science. But now the mainstream threw the baby out with the bath water. TV programs, pop music, literature and movies all subtly show shambolic characters using porn or masturbation. They knowingly or unknowingly mix porn, sex, internet porn, masturbation and orgasm.</p>
+<p>From our earliest years our subconscious minds are bombarded daily with information telling us that sex is good and that the most precious thing on this earth is to ‘achieve’ orgasm. Girls are taught to achieve it and claim it&rsquo;s because they were wrongly suppressed of their sexual side for a very long time and still are. You think I exaggerate? Watch any TV or movie plot and you will see the mix-up of the amative (touch, smell, voice etc.) and the propagative (orgasmic) sides of sex. The impact of this does not register on our conscious minds but the sleeping partner, the subconscious mind, has time to absorb it. What the message is really saying is, “The most precious thing on this earth, my last thought and action, will be the goal of orgasm.” If you don’t have an orgasm then you are an old man with zero libido.</p>
+<p>Our children are being bombarded by sex and porn clips and many don’t even know how to protect them from it all. Large hoardings and magazine adverts are loaded with sexual innuendo. Some of the pop videos are extremely suggestive - again they hide behind free speech. Don’t be vexed and feel powerless about it. Make it a game and find you which of the components they are using - is it novelty, shock value, color, size, taboo etc. If the kids are pre-teen some of these can be disclosed to them and it would make an excellent show-and-tell game.</p>
+<p>A while back there was a wave of ‘leaked’ private videos of celebrities on the internet. If the youngster is too smitten by their favourite star, even if the conscious mind blames the ‘leak’ on the blood thirsty internet paparazzi, the &lsquo;sleeping partner&rsquo; is patiently digesting the notion that, “yes, even my shambolic hero does it and if I don’t, I won’t look the part.”</p>
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+<h2 id="the-scientific-reasoning"><strong>The Scientific Reasoning</strong></h2>
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+<p>True, there is publicity the other way - the PIED scares, the loss of motivation, preferring virtual porn to real girls, YBOP<sup id="fnref:1"><a href="#fn:1" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref">1</a></sup>, Reboot<sup id="fnref:2"><a href="#fn:2" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref">2</a></sup> forums, underground PUA<sup id="fnref:3"><a href="#fn:3" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref">3</a></sup>, the no FAP movement - but these do not actually stop people PMOing. Logically they should, but the fact is they do not. They would not even prevent youngsters from starting no matter how much the YBOP guys try. All the years that I remained a PMOer, I can honestly say, even if I had read all of them before, I would never have become a quitter. The truth is that it doesn&rsquo;t make the slightest bit of difference. The trap is the same today as when you fell into it.</p>
+<p>Ironically, the most powerful force in this melee of confusion is the PMOer himself. It is a fallacy that they are weak-willed or are physically weak specimens. You have to be physically strong in order to cope with an addiction after you know it is. This is one of the reasons why PMOers refuse to accept the overwhelming statistics that prove that internet porn with its ‘novelty’ cripples your brain. Add to that the sexologists who are doing half-baked studies and declare PMO is not an issue - they just help to add to the confusion.</p>
+<p>Everyone knows a friend who PMOed every day - he started with the ‘static’ to internet porn, always horny in real life, chasing girls and you never doubted him to have sex problems of course. You want to believe him. He never complained about any ED right? Guys and girls like them refuse even to consider the hundreds of ex-addicts and non-PMOers who painfully recount their difficulties. It is the “little monster” brain chemical addiction and the “big monster” - illusions and delusions. In this hackbook, I&rsquo;ve put together almost all the sorts of brainwashing a PMOer can suffer from. There will always be a few out there that I haven&rsquo;t touched upon.</p>
+<p>Even more painful is they think of themselves as unsuccessful losers and insufferable introverts. A possible fact is that a PMO friend could have been more interesting in person if he hadn’t put himself down for seeking self-pleasure.</p>
+<p>If you do a small survey among your online forum members, friends and colleagues, you will find that most PMOers are, in fact, strong-willed people. They tend to be self-employed, business executives or in certain specialized professions, such as doctors<sup id="fnref:4"><a href="#fn:4" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref">4</a></sup>, lawyers, policemen, teachers, salesmen, nurses, secretaries, housewives with children, etc. In other words, anybody leading a stressful existence. Yes, I did include women and mothers. It’s the brain and it’s the same for them too. The main delusion of the PMOer is that porn helps to masturbate to orgasm and that relieves stress. This tends to be associated with the dominant type, the type that takes on responsibility and stress and, of course, that is the type that we admire and therefore tend to copy. Another group that tends to get hooked are people in monotonous jobs because the other main reason for PMOing is boredom. However, the idea that internet porn relieves boredom is also an illusion, I am afraid.</p>
+<p>As a society we get all uptight about glue-sniffing, heroin addiction, etc. Actual deaths from glue-sniffing do not amount to ten per annum, and deaths from heroin are less than a hundred a year in this country. There is another drug, internet porn, on which over 45 per cent of us become hooked at some time in our lives and the majority spend the rest of their lives regretting it. Some even don’t know that their ED is due to this.</p>
+<div style="text-align: center;">
+<h2 id="the-willpower-method"><strong>The Willpower Method</strong></h2>
+</div>
+<p>PMOers who quit using the Willpower method blame their own lack of willpower and ruin their peace and happiness. It is one thing to fail in self-discipline and another to self-loathe. There is no law that requires you to get fully hard all the time before sex, and to be properly aroused, and that you must be able to satisfy a woman. We are working on an addiction and not a habit. Habit is something you like to do- for example, golf - at no point you are arguing with yourself to stop golfing? But you do so with your porn addiction. The real question is: why?</p>
+<p>Constant exposure to internet porn re-wires your brain. You need to start building resistance to this brainwashing, just as if you were buying a car from a second-hand car dealer. You would be nodding politely but you would not believe a word the man was saying. So don’t believe everything they say either - that you must have sex as much as you can and you must have it exceptional good. And that in the absence of real sex you claim it by the substitute called internet porn - which is only a component of the good old porn.</p>
+<p>And don’t play ‘safe’ porn game either - because your “little porn monster” invented that scheme to lure you. Even the content - ‘amateur’? Really? Is there a certification authority that certifies it? Tube sites and porn producers gather site visitor profiles and cater to their needs. If they see a trend in crowd sourced collection of a particular genre they will focus on that and get content out ASAP. The statistics of what genre users like is collected to the level of how long and which portion the users were preferring. Do not be fooled by their educational intent or the safe female oriented clips (for you ladies). Start asking yourself:</p>
+<ul>
+<li>Why am I doing it?</li>
+<li>Do I really need to?</li>
+</ul>
+<p><strong>NO, OF COURSE YOU DON&rsquo;T.</strong></p>
+<p>I find this brainwashing aspect the most difficult of all to explain. Why is it that an otherwise rational, intelligent human being becomes a complete imbecile about his own addiction? It pains me to confess that out of the thousands of people that I have assisted in kicking the habit, I (not Allen Carr) was the biggest idiot of all.</p>
+<p>At the age of thirteen, although I was doing well at school and games, I was still an insufferable introvert. I read books from the library that were not within my main study list. However, I can see that I was attracted to erotica. I started masturbating to TV programs, song and dance sequences etc. I must have to have it every day. The tired feeling I felt was misappropriated by my ‘little porn monster’ as work stress. I didn’t know my “I-must-masturbate-as-I-am-entitled” attitude was the one that created the ‘stress’ in the first place. Then I got pictures and GIFs via email on my laptop - the first step towards electronic porn. The colour and texture of the images were amazing for me at that time - won’t be now for sure. Then came dial-up but still they were predominantly static pictures. Then came downloadable videos. It’s a pain to download and watch now - but it was heaven sent then as we were coming out of the static porn era! Oh, the streaming tube sites haven’t arrived yet.</p>
+<div style="text-align: center;">
+<h2 id="when-real-sex-is-not-enough-anymore"><strong>When Real Sex Is Not Enough Anymore</strong></h2>
+</div>
+<p>I even remember opening up my laptop after having real sex (an activity I did due to stress induced by my own irrational rigid self demands to make her orgasm) and I was wanting more. Obviously the prospect of orgasm providing fulfilment rarely happens after prolonged porn use. So, my mind was reaching out to porn.</p>
+<p>At the age of forty, I was visiting my online harem daily, drinking ‘socially’ (whatever that means) and smoking ‘sometimes’ but not so often. I had wrongly subscribed to misguided ideas of ‘moderation’ and ‘entitlement’. I had reached the stage where I couldn&rsquo;t get through a single day without reaching out to porn in the night. With most PMOers, the triggers are the normal stresses of life, like answering the telephone or socializing.</p>
+<p>When I experienced PIED - I knew it was killing my virility. There was no way I could kid myself otherwise. I am smart enough not to ‘project’ the porn fantasies on to real life. But it was like pacifying a dog straining at its leash. But why I couldn&rsquo;t see what it was doing to me mentally, I could not understand. It was almost jumping up and biting me on the nose. The ridiculous thing is that most PMOers suffer the delusion at some time in their life that they enjoy internet porn because it is ‘normal’ and ‘healthy’. I never suffered that delusion, I PMOed because I thought enjoying sex is a ‘birthright’ and I am only doing a normal thing.</p>
+<p>Since it was easier at most times for me to get internet porn than a partner I thought I am doing the normal thing. Now I am a non-PMOer, the most difficult part is trying to believe that those days actually happened. It&rsquo;s like awakening from a nightmare and that is about the size of it. Internet porn is a supranormal drug. It is weakening your de-stressing mechanisms, your virility and your energy. The worst aspect of PMO isn&rsquo;t the injury to your health or manliness, it is the warping of the mind. You search for any plausible excuse to go on.</p>
+<p>I remember at one stage switching to static images, a failed attempt to cut down on internet porn, in the belief that it was less harmful and I could reign in my ‘habit’. I failed to see the ‘novelty’ and the ‘shock’ demands from my ‘little monster’ to just get more dopamine. Did I ‘stay’ within my boundaries? I ‘favorited’ 2 dimensional photos and my harem collection saw pictures and videos of ‘mild’ type porn rotating in and out like musical chair. When their ‘music’ stopped they ‘exited’. I didn’t understand the novelty-seeking, shock-seeking nature of my brain.</p>
+<div style="text-align: center;">
+<h2 id="pied-and-my-excuses"><strong>PIED And My Excuses</strong></h2>
+</div>
+<p>Once I figured I had PIED, as it had occurred multiple times with two different partners, I switched to more and more sophisticated masturbation. I practised with different artificial vaginas. They are sold as strength training. However, the combo of internet porn and toys needs deft hands, which is off-putting. Besides, by this time I was at the stage of orgasming with a limp member. All I wanted is an orgasm so I did not care about arousal, getting hard and all that. I had a long distance married girlfriend - who likes to share and talk about her sex life in very explicit manner. It turned me on so much that I’d masturbate to orgasm when I am on the phone with her. She knew it and would play with me by cutting off abruptly - to keep me hanging there - making me wanting more when she calls the next time. She had no trouble because I was fully willing to be the subject of playing such games, as long as it led to orgasm. A girl knows when a guy is seeking orgasm and it is his only goal. The only redeeming factor about me was my intelligence and empathy which kept her and my other partners coming back to me.</p>
+<p>Most PMOers swear that they only watch static and soft porn and so they are OK. They are actually straining at the leash and thus fighting with their willpower to resist temptations. If they do this too often and for too long they will debit their willpower considerably and fail in other life projects where willpower is of much great value, like in daily exercise, dieting etc. Continuous failure in those areas will make them feel miserable and guilty and very soon they will find themselves back to their entitled relief. If not, they will vent their anger and depression onto their loved ones.</p>
+<p>The answer is that once you have become addicted to internet porn, the brainwashing is increased. Your subconscious mind knows that the little monster has to be fed and you block everything else from your mind. As I have already stated, it is fear that keeps people quitting, the fear of that empty, insecure feeling that you get when you stop supplying the brain with dopamine flooding. Just because you are not aware of it doesn&rsquo;t mean it isn&rsquo;t there. You don&rsquo;t have to understand it any more than a cat needs to understand where the under-floor hot-water pipes are. It just knows that if it sits in a certain place it gets the feeling of warmth.</p>
+<div style="text-align: center;">
+<h2 id="the-passivity-of-our-mind"><strong>The Passivity Of Our Mind</strong></h2>
+</div>
+<p>It is the passivity of our minds and dependency on authority leading to brainwashing that is the main difficulty in giving up PMO. The brainwashing of our upbringing in society reinforced with the brainwashing from our own addiction and, most powerful of all, the brainwashing of our friends, relatives and colleagues. Did you notice that up to now I&rsquo;ve frequently referred to &lsquo;giving up&rsquo; PMO, I used the expression at the beginning of the previous paragraph. This is a classic example of the brainwashing. The expression implies a genuine sacrifice. The beautiful truth is that there is absolutely nothing to give up. On the contrary, you will be freeing yourself from a terrible disease and achieving marvellous positive gains. We are going to start removing this brainwashing now. From this point on, no longer will we refer to &lsquo;giving up&rsquo;, but to stopping, quitting or the true position: <strong>ESCAPING!</strong></p>
+<p>The only thing that persuades us to PMO in the first place is all the other people doing it. We feel we are missing out. We work so hard to become hooked, yet nobody ever finds out what they have been missing. But every time we see another new video clip it reassures us that there must be something in it, otherwise people wouldn&rsquo;t be doing it - and it wouldn&rsquo;t be such big business all over the world. Even when he has kicked the habit, the ex-PMOer feels he is being deprived when a discussion on a sexy entertainer, singer or even a porn star comes up at a party or other social function. She or he must be good to have all my friends talk about them, no? Do they have ‘hot’ pictures of her in my tube site? He feels safe. He can have just one ‘peek’ that night. And, before he knows it, he is hooked again.</p>
+<p>This brainwashing is extremely powerful and you need to be aware of its effects. I have heard scare stories about wicked men giving heroin mixed candies to kids at schoolyards. The concept of addiction and being compelled to go on taking the drug, filled me with horror. Even to this day, in spite of the fact that I am fairly convinced that &lsquo;pot&rsquo; is not addictive, I would not dare take one puff of marijuana. How ironic that I should have ended up a porn junky. Technology will continue to grow and we will have even faster tube sites and more faster access methods. The industry is investing millions in Virtual Reality so it will become the next best thing. The point is, do we know where we are going? Are we equipped with an under armour of defence so we can enjoy the benefits of technology yet at the same time protect ourselves from its bad effects?</p>
+<p>We are about to remove the brainwashing. It is not the non-PMOer who is being deprived but the poor user who is forfeiting a lifetime of:</p>
+<ul>
+<li><strong>HEALTH</strong></li>
+<li><strong>ENERGY</strong></li>
+<li><strong>WEALTH</strong></li>
+<li><strong>PEACE OF MIND</strong></li>
+<li><strong>CONFIDENCE</strong></li>
+<li><strong>COURAGE</strong></li>
+<li><strong>SELF-RESPECT</strong></li>
+<li><strong>HAPPINESS</strong></li>
+<li><strong>FREEDOM</strong></li>
+</ul>
+<p>And what does he gain from these considerable sacrifices? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! Except the illusion of trying to get back to the state of peace, tranquillity and confidence that the non-PMOer enjoys all the time.</p>
+<div class="footnotes" role="doc-endnotes">
+<hr>
+<ol>
+<li id="fn:1">
+<p><strong>YBOP</strong> - yourbrainonporn.com, the leading internet porn addiction awareness site.&#160;<a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-backref" role="doc-backlink">&#x21a9;&#xfe0e;</a></p>
+</li>
+<li id="fn:2">
+<p><strong>PUA</strong> - pickup artist. Someone who teaches men to pick up mates.&#160;<a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-backref" role="doc-backlink">&#x21a9;&#xfe0e;</a></p>
+</li>
+<li id="fn:3">
+<p><strong>Reboot forum</strong> - online resource for those who try temporary abstinence.&#160;<a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-backref" role="doc-backlink">&#x21a9;&#xfe0e;</a></p>
+</li>
+<li id="fn:4">
+<p><strong>Doctors</strong> - there is a reddit online forum for medical doctors who are quitting.&#160;<a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-backref" role="doc-backlink">&#x21a9;&#xfe0e;</a></p>
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+<p>As I explained earlier, PMOers think they do it for enjoyment, relaxation or some sort of education. In fact, this an illusion. The actual reason is the relief of withdrawal pangs. In the early days we use the porn as a curious and novel thing or even educational or as a rebel. We can take it or leave it. However, the subtle chain has started. Our subconscious mind begins to learn that internet porn and masturbation taken at certain times tends to be pleasurable. The more we become hooked on the drug, the greater the need to relieve the withdrawal pangs and the further the PMO drags you down and the more you are fooled into believing it is doing the opposite. It all happens so slowly, so gradually, you are not even aware of it. Each day you feel no different from the day before. Most young PMOers don&rsquo;t even realize they are hooked until they actually try to stop and even then many won&rsquo;t admit to it. A few stalwarts just keep their heads in the sand all their lives,trying to convince themselves and other people that they enjoy it.</p>
+<p>Listen to this conversation a therapist had with hundreds of teenagers.</p>
+<blockquote>
+<p>TH: “You realize that internet porn is a drug and that the only reason why you are using is that you cannot stop.”</p>
+</blockquote>
+<blockquote>
+<p>PA: “Nonsense! I enjoy it. If I didn&rsquo;t, I would stop.”</p>
+</blockquote>
+<blockquote>
+<p>TH: “Just stop for a week to prove to me you can if you want to.”</p>
+</blockquote>
+<blockquote>
+<p>PA: “No need. I enjoy it. If I wanted to stop, I would.”</p>
+</blockquote>
+<blockquote>
+<p>TH: “Just stop for a week to prove to yourself you are not hooked.”</p>
+</blockquote>
+<blockquote>
+<p>PA: “What&rsquo;s the point? I enjoy it.”</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>As already stated, PMOers tend to relieve their withdrawal pangs at times of stress, boredom, concentration, relaxation or a combination of these. This point is explained in greater detail in the next few chapters.</p>
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+<p>I am referring not only to the great tragedies of life but also to the minor stresses, the socializing, the telephone call, the anxieties of the housewife with noisy young children and so on. Let us use the telephone conversation as an example. For most people the telephone is slightly stressful, particularly for the businessman. Most calls aren&rsquo;t from satisfied customers or your boss congratulating you. There&rsquo;s usually some sort of aggravation - something going wrong or somebody making demands. Then he or she comes home to the mundane family life of kids screaming and wife&rsquo;s emotional demands on you. His already PMO weakened de-stressors are in no way ready to take the aggravation. At that time the PMOer, if he isn&rsquo;t already doing so, will fantasize the relief of internet porn that he promised himself that night. He will even allow himself to “take one step more” into the ‘forbidden’ area that he had previously self-excluded. He doesn&rsquo;t know why he does this but he does know that for some reason it appears to help.</p>
+<p>What has actually happened is this: without being conscious of it, he has already been suffering aggravation (i.e. the withdrawal pangs). By partially relieving that aggravation at the same time as normal stress, the total stress is reduced and the PMOer gets a boost. At this point the boost is not, in fact, an illusion. The Internet porn user will feel better than before. However, even when using porn to masturbate he or she is more tense than if he were a non-PMOer because the more you go into the drug, the more it knocks you down and the less it restores you when you masturbate. I promised no shock treatment. In the example I am about to give, I am not trying to shock you, I am merely emphasizing that PMO destroy your nerves rather than relax them.</p>
+<p>Try to imagine getting to the stage where you cannot get aroused even with a very sexy and attractive partner. Just for a moment pause and try to visualize life where one very lovely and charming woman has to compete and fail with all the virtual porn stars who are in your &lsquo;harem&rsquo; to get your attention! Try to imagine the frame of mind of a man who, issued with that warning, actually continues PMOing and then dies without ever having had real sex with this charming and willing real woman. I had read real life stories like that from men and dismissed them as weirdos. In fact, I used to wish a doctor would tell me that this weird condition would happen if I continue PMO; then I would have stopped. Yet I was already fully expecting that PIED and hypofrontality where I am guaranteed to lose in a brain war. I didn&rsquo;t think of myself as an impotent, just a heavy PMOer. Now, let’s talk about the stress that this is putting on me.</p>
+<p>Such weird stories as the above are not fakes. That is what this awful ‘novelty’ porn drug does to you. As you go through life, it systematically takes away your nerve and courage. The more it takes your courage away, the more you are deluded into believing the porn is doing the opposite.</p>
+<p>Have you ever been overtaken by panic when you are out on business travel and the hotel WiFi is down or too slow? Non-PMOers do not suffer from it. The internet porn drug causes that feeling. At the same time, as you go through life, PMO not only destroys your nerves but keeps building a powerful neural ‘water slide’, DeltaFosB, progressively destroying your ability to say no.</p>
+<p>By the time the PMOer reaches the stage at which it has killed his virility, he believes the PMO is his new girlfriend and cannot face life without it. Get it clear in your head that Internet porn is not relieving your nerves; it is slowly but steadily destroying them. One of the great gains of breaking the ‘habit’ is the return of your natural confidence and self-assurance.</p>
+<p>There is no need to self-rate based on your ability to get hard or to satisfy a woman. However, you do ‘know’ deep inside that this is slavery. It is not freedom. And that freedom cannot be achieved by continuing to ‘grease’ - repeating the same behaviour and energizing the ‘water slide’ neural pathways of your brain in ways that undercut your happiness in general and not to mention your libido.</p>
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+<p>As soon as you get into your bed - and if you are like many people you are already on your favorite tube site - you will probably have already forgotten about it until I reminded you. It has become second nature. Another fallacy about PMOing is that it relieves boredom. Boredom is a frame of mind. The only time that happens is when you have been deprived for a long time or are trying to cut down, or during those first few PMO sessions after a failed attempt to stop.</p>
+<p>The true situation is this: when you are addicted to internet porn’s supranormal novelty and then you decide to abstain from internet porn, there is something missing. If you have something to occupy your mind that isn&rsquo;t stressful, you can go for long periods without being bothered by the absence of the drug. However, when you are bored there&rsquo;s nothing to take your mind off it, so you feed the monster. When you are indulging yourself (i.e. not trying to stop or cut down), even firing up your incognito browser becomes subconscious. The PMOer can perform this ritual automatically. If any PMOer tries to remember the session during the last week, he can only remember a small proportion of them - e.g. the very last one or after a long abstinence.</p>
+<p>The truth is that PMOing tend to increase boredom indirectly because orgasms make you feel lethargic and instead of undertaking some energetic activity, PMOers tend to prefer lounge around, bored, relieving their withdrawal pangs. This is why countering the brainwashing is so important. Because it&rsquo;s a fact that PMOers tend to masturbate when they are bored and that we&rsquo;re wired to interpret PMO as interesting. It doesn&rsquo;t occur to us to question the fact how a two dimensional supranormal stimulus relieves boredom.</p>
+<p>We&rsquo;ve also been brainwashed into believing that sex - even a bad sex - aids relaxation. It is a fact that when under stress or sad, couples want to have sex. In the absence of discrimination between amative and propagative sex, the goal is set to achieve orgasms by hook or by crook. Next time you do this watch how you both want to get away from each other as soon as it’s over. It is obvious that if they had just decided to cuddle, speak, hug and touch each other and go to sleep without the mandatory orgasms, the couple would have felt relieved. Well, if in the process, they wanted to have the propagative part then by all means they can but that is a topic not meant to be discussed in this book.</p>
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+<p>Sex and masturbation do not help concentration. That is just another illusion. When you are trying to concentrate, you automatically try to avoid distractions. So when a PMOer wants to concentrate he doesn&rsquo;t even have to think about it. He automatically PMOs, partially ending the craving, gets on with the matter in hand and has already forgotten that he just PMOed. Sex in general do not help concentration. After years of masturbation your brain changes affect abilities such as assessing, planning and impulse control. The PMOer is already suffering: that little monster wants his fix.</p>
+<p>You are also stressed to provide novelty for the next PMO session as the same stuff will not generate enough dopamine and opioids. You have to “roam the internet streets” for novelty - all the while fighting the pull to cross the line towards shock. This creates more stress. After you orgasm, you feel unfulfilled as well.</p>
+<p>Concentration is also affected adversely for another reason. Your dopamine receptors have already started to get reduced by building up natural tolerance to these large surges, reducing the benefit of the smaller dopamine boosts from natural de-stressors.</p>
+<p>In fact, your concentration and inspiration will be greatly improved as this process is reversed. For some it will be the concentration aspect that prevents them from succeeding when using the willpower method. They could put up with the irritability and bad temper but when they really needed to concentrate on something difficult they have to have that porn fix. I can well remember the panic I felt when I discovered that the hotel has no internet connection and I had this huge presentation the day after.</p>
+<p>The loss of concentration that PMOers suffer when they try to escape is not, in fact, due to your abstinence from sex, let alone PMO. When you are addicted to something, you have mental blocks. When you have such a block, what do you do? You fire up the browser. That doesn&rsquo;t cure the mental block, so then what do you do? You do what you have to do: you get on with it, just as non-PMOers do.</p>
+<p>When you are a PMOer nothing gets blamed on the cause. PMOers never have EDs; they just have an occasional down time. The moment you stop using, everything that goes wrong in your life is blamed on the fact that you&rsquo;ve stopped. Now when you have a mental block, instead of just getting on with it, you start to say, “if only I could check out my favourites now, it would solve my problem.” You then start to question your decision to quit and escape from this slavery.</p>
+<p>If you believe that PMOing is a genuine aid to concentration, worrying about it will guarantee that you won&rsquo;t be able to concentrate. It&rsquo;s the doubting, not the physical withdrawal pangs, that causes the problem. Always remember: it is PMOer who suffers pangs and not non-PMOers. When I quit I went overnight from using everyday to zero without any apparent loss of concentration.</p>
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+<p>Most PMOers think that PMO helps to relax them. The truth is that internet porn used in PMO acts like a chemical stimulant. The frantic search to get the fix in those “dark alleys of the internet” and the internal struggle to reign in the dog straining at its leash for more shocking clips does not sound much like an activity of relaxation to me.</p>
+<p>One of the favourite PMO sessions for most is the one after a trip to a new place or after along day. As the night rolls in we stop working; we sit down and relax, relieve our hunger and thirst and are then completely satisfied. However, the poor PMOer cannot relax, as he has another hunger to satisfy. He thinks of the PMO as the icing on the cake but it is the &rsquo;little monster&rsquo; that needs feeding.</p>
+<p>The truth is that the addict can never be completely relaxed and as you go through life it gets worse. The most stressed people on this planet aren&rsquo;t non-PMOers but those young men and women who have a need to hunt (with the misunderstood goal of orgasm) and their ignorance of and/or low opinion of amative sex. Women who have subscribed to “I must orgasm” teachings are not even aware of the victim they have made of themselves. At this point any sex that leads to climax and orgasm cease to relieve even partially the symptoms that they have created.</p>
+<p>I can remember when I was bringing up a family. If my child would do something wrong I would quickly lose my temper to an extent that was out of all proportion to what he had done.</p>
+<p>My partner was “always frigid and not interested in sex.” Now I realize that if I had only tried the amative side of things then maybe I could have relieved myself of a great measure of stress at least - if not at me, I am sure she would have. One online comment&hellip;</p>
+<p>“I really believed that I had an evil demon in my make-up. I now know that I had, however it wasn&rsquo;t some inherent flaw in my character but the little internet porn monster that was creating the problem. During those times I thought I had all the problems in the world but when I look back on my life I wonder where all the great stress was. In everything else in my life I was in control. The one thing that controlled me was this porn slavery. The sad thing is that even today I can&rsquo;t convince my children that it was the slavery that caused me to be so irritable.”</p>
+<p>Every time I hear a porn addict trying to justify his addiction the message is, “Oh, it calms me. It helps me to relax.”</p>
+<p>On the Internet I read about a single dad whose 6 year old son would want to share his bed sometimes in the night after a scary movie yet the dad would refuse under some pretence so he can have his PMO session and edge for hours.</p>
+<p>Let me try a smoking analogy here&hellip; a couple of years ago, the adoption authorities threatened to prevent smokers from adopting children. A man rang up, irate. He said, “you are completely wrong. I can remember when I was a child, if I had a contentious matter to raise with my mother, I would wait until she lit a cigarette because she was more relaxed then.” Why couldn&rsquo;t he talk to his mother when she wasn&rsquo;t smoking a cigarette?</p>
+<p>Why are PMOers so stressd when they are not getting their fix, even after a real sex with a real woman? I read about a guy who has 9&rsquo;s and 10&rsquo;s open for dating with him as he was in the advertising field. I am talking about dinner and stuff only - but he lost interest in those dinners as his Internet porn is far more ‘easy’ for him - no restaurant spending and no hearing a ‘no’ from his date at the end of an evening. Why would he bother when his little monster tells him about the low-risk high-reward scheme called PMO that is at his fingertips when he reaches home? Those real girls sure have competition.</p>
+<p>Why are non-PMOers completely relaxed then? Why are PMOers not able to relax without a fix for a day or two? If you read about the experience of a PMOer taking the abstinence oath and quitting and you notice his struggle with the temptations. You can clearly see that they are not relaxed at all when they are not allowed to have the ‘only pleasure’ they are “entitled to enjoy.” They&rsquo;ve forgotten what it feels like to be completely relaxed. That&rsquo;s one of the many joys you have to come. The whole business of PMOing can be likened to a fly being caught in a pitcher plant. To begin with, the fly is eating the nectar. At some imperceptible stage the plant begins to eat the fly.</p>
+<p>Isn&rsquo;t it time you climbed out of that plant?</p>
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+<p>This is a misinformation that seems to make sense but then it does not. In order to have control of eating, will you eat at home before leaving to go to a restaurant or a party? This is what you are doing when you PMO before your social night. You will look tired and will not be up to your best. If you have dating jitters then work on it beforehand and then go with the flow even with some butterflies in your stomach. I like a bit of the anxiety in me to keep me going. Tiring yourself mentally and physically with an orgasm is not going to help you, unless of course you are going to see a prostitute. The goal is entirely different in that angle.</p>
+<p>The widespread adoption of pick-up techniques has put pressure on guys to perform, to attract and to ‘score’. You can get knowledge but you should know how to use it. I can guarantee that 100% of the other guys hanging at that bar know exactly what you know. It comes down to the ‘how’ of how you use it when you get the chance. Even before that, there is one very critical thing about any knowledge pertaining to human interactions, that ‘knowledge’ should never force your actions. This is important.</p>
+<p>I once masturbated and then poured wine to quiet the butterflies in my stomach before a date. I looked tired after just one hour into the date, the loud noise of the bar, dehydration, excessive self-consciousness (PUA teachings) etc. made my time unenjoyable. Somehow the girl and her friend liked it all. However, I do think it would have been better if I had gone without any props. I ended up being successful by claiming my &lsquo;goal(s)&rsquo; - which I consider unfortunate and as random luck.</p>
+<p>The PMO session I had before the date triggered a dopamine flooding and its withdrawal hit around the time I was with the date. I had to over-do my conversation to compensate the ineffective dopamine effects after that earlier orgasm. I am also sure that I was suffering from hypofrontality - where my impulses were failing my controls. That gushing moment, an extra decibel in the tone etc. would easily have given my nervousness to the girls - only if I was not protected by the loud noise in the bar. Why do you want to take chances?</p>
+<p>PMO ceases to relieve the withdrawal pangs that it causes in the first place. That is also why heavy PMOers turn to alcohol or other drugs. But I digress. Social night PMOing is occasioned by two or more of our usual reasons for pleasure/prop seeking, e.g. social functions, parties, weddings, school exams, game night, even business meetings. These are examples of occasions that are both stressful and relaxing. This might at first appear to be a contradiction but it isn&rsquo;t. Any form of socializing can be stressful, even with friends, and at the same time you want to be enjoying yourself and be completely relaxed.</p>
+<p>There are situations where multiple reasons are present at one and the same time. To illustrate I will quote driving as one of these. But driving always involves an element of stress. Your life is at stake. You are also having to concentrate. You may not be aware of the last two factors but the fact that they are subconscious doesn&rsquo;t mean they aren&rsquo;t there. And if you are stuck in a traffic jam or have a long motorway drive, you may also be bored and may have ‘promised’ yourself to a PMO after you reach home.</p>
+<p>Another classic example is going on a first date. Especially when you know something about the date before hand like their profile from an online dating site. Your mind is throwing questions back and forth. If she is a 10 and in that vicinity or if the date is from another race which is socially ‘perceived’ as a couple of levels above your race then it gets even noisier in your head. Then the surprise to meet the person in flesh, first the looks, then the voice, then the mannerisms. Expectations determine the level of interest you have for her from there on. If your enthusiasm starts to flag you will start to feel too relaxed but then you feel guilty for feeling too relaxed. The tug of war has started. I want sex or get me out of here ASAP - I know where to get it. That will lead you to the next stage of post-date PMOing.</p>
+<p>Even if the date went fine and hours later you are at her door and which ever way it goes, you will not be satisfied if your goal is fully on the orgasm-seek. At other times, you drive home alone and all you want to do is to go to your online harem instead of patting yourself on the back for your efforts and enjoying yourself.</p>
+<p>You can bet that this unfortunate guy is going to PMO after he reaches home. It is often after nights like these, when we wake to feel the uneasy emptiness, are often the special ones, the ones that we think we&rsquo;ll miss the most when we are contemplating stopping PMOing. We think that life will never be quite as enjoyable again. In fact, it is the same principle at work: these PMO sessions simply provide relief from withdrawal pangs and at certain times we have greater need to relieve them than at others. You had ended up ‘greasing’ the neural ‘waterslides’ in your brain and made it ready to slide again on the next cue.</p>
+<p>Let us make it quite clear. It is not the internet porn and the harem dwellers that are special; it is the occasion. Once we have removed the need for the PMO, such occasions will become more enjoyable and the stressful situations less stressful. This will be explained in greater detail in the next chapter.</p>
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+<p>ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! The thing that makes it difficult for us to give up is fear. The fear that we are being deprived of our pleasure or prop. The fear that certain pleasant situations will never be quite the same again. The fear of being unable to cope with stressful situations. In other words, the effect of brainwashing is to delude us into believing that sex and by extension orgasm, is a must for all human beings. Or that there is something inherent in Internet porn that we need and that when we stop PMOing we will be self-denying ourselves and there will be a void.</p>
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+<p>Get it clear in your mind:</p>
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+<blockquote>
+<p>Internet porn</p>
+</blockquote>
+</blockquote>
+<blockquote>
+<blockquote>
+<p>DOES NOT FILL A VOID.</p>
+</blockquote>
+</blockquote>
+<blockquote>
+<blockquote>
+<p>IT CREATES ONE!</p>
+</blockquote>
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+<p>These bodies of ours are the most sophisticated objects on this planet. Whether you believe in a creator, a process of natural selection or a combination of both, whatever being or system devised these bodies of ours, it is a thousand times more effective than man! Man cannot create the smallest living cell, let alone the miracle of eyesight, reproduction, our circulatory system or our brains. We don’t have our systems upgraded yet to properly assess the supranormal stimulus such as rich high density food or high speed internet novelty porn with multiple active windows.</p>
+<p>If the creator or process had intended us to handle novelty triggering stimuli, we would have been provided with some other brain reward circuits. Our bodies are, in fact, provided with fail-safe warning devices and we ignore these at our peril. Excessive edging results in body pain, irritation, and inflammation. In women, excessive flooding of dopamine and stress enzymes such as prostaglandin-E2 can cause difficulty to orgasm and PME.</p>
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+<p>The beautiful truth is - there is nothing to give up. Once you purge that little monster from your body and the brainwashing (the big monster) from your mind, you will neither want to masturbate often nor need internet porn for it. PMO destroys your sense of self-control. I don’t think PMOers are self-destructive to continue even after knowing the ill-effects of internet porn. They clearly don’t have suicidal tendencies. They don’t enjoy this slavery themselves. Many of them do it in spite of the fact that they know it causes self-sabotage. You see there must be many unknowns and the medical community has no idea of even questioning and determining someone as an internet porn addict yet. So a lot of reported symptoms are wrongly tagged under other causes. It is not that PMOers are generally stupid people; it is just that they are miserable without the PMO. They are caught between the devil and the deep blue sea. They either have to abstain and be miserable because they cannot PMO or be miserable because they are destroying themselves through PMO and feel guilty and despise themselves for it. When they feel that lower back pain or get PIED, their minds are torn between accepting responsibility and looking the other way.</p>
+<p>The problem I have is to make a convincing point as I’d have done for, let us say&hellip; smokers? All of us have seen smokers who develop excuses to sneak off for a crafty puff. It is easy to see the true addiction in action. Addicts do not do it because they enjoy it. They do it because they are miserable without it.</p>
+<p>Because many of us started out our first sexual experience that ended in an orgasm and we acquired the belief that we cannot enjoy sex without an orgasm. And for men, porn is sold as an aid towards sex, sometimes even as an education to be confident during the act of sex. It used to be static, but now we have supranormal internet porn. But this is nonsense. Internet porn takes away your confidence.</p>
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+<h2 id="women-and-porn"><strong>Women And Porn</strong></h2>
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+<p>The greatest evidence of the fear that porn instils is in its effect on women. Practically all women are fastidious about their personal appearance. They wouldn&rsquo;t dream of appearing at a social function not immaculately turned out and smelling beautiful. So why would they fall for internet porn ? The traps were set as either a control trap (I can give up when I want) or an educational trap, or a freedom trap (I am entitled). Feminism has freed women from all the bad patriarchal rules of the past but they still need to be aware of supranormal stimulus such as internet porn.</p>
+<p>Porn and internet porn does not help your sex life; it destroys it totally. Having to hide your internet footprints, trying to delete your history, fearing accidental exposure to your boyfriend or kids, body pains, doubtful symptoms, fighting self doubts, arguing with yourself about your responsibilities in the ill effects of your addiction&hellip; well, why do you want to put yourself in such a bad situation?</p>
+<p>Not only is there nothing to give up but there are marvellous positive gains to be had. When PMOers contemplate quitting they tend to concentrate on health and virility. These are obviously valid and important issues but I personally believe the greatest gains from stopping are psychological:</p>
+<ol>
+<li>The return of your confidence and courage.</li>
+<li>Freedom from the slavery.</li>
+<li>Not to have to go through life suffering the awful black shadows at the back of your mind, knowing you are being despised by half of the population and, worst of all, despising yourself.</li>
+</ol>
+<p>Not only is life better as a non-PMOer but it is infinitely more enjoyable. I do not only mean you will be healthier. I mean you will be happier and enjoy life far more. The marvellous gains from being a non-PMOer are discussed in the next few chapters. Some PMOers find it difficult to appreciate the concept of the &lsquo;void&rsquo; and the following analogy may assist you.</p>
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+<h2 id="void-the-void-the-beautiful-void"><strong>Void, the Void, the Beautiful Void!</strong></h2>
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+<p>Imagine having a cold sore on your face. I&rsquo;ve got this marvellous ointment. I say to you, “try this stuff.” You rub the ointment on and the sore disappears immediately. A week later it reappears. You ask, “do you have any more of that ointment?” I say, “sure, keep the tube. You might need it again.” You apply the ointment once again. Hey presto, the sore disappears again. But every time the sore returns, it gets larger and more painful and the interval gets shorter and shorter. Eventually the sore covers your whole face and is excruciatingly painful. It is now returning every half hour. You know that the ointment will remove it temporarily, but you are very worried. Will the sore eventually spread over your whole body? Will the interval disappear completely? You go to your doctor. He can&rsquo;t cure it. You try other things but nothing helps except this magical ointment.</p>
+<p>By now you are completely dependent on the ointment. You never go out without ensuring that you have a tube of the ointment with you. If you go abroad, you make sure that you take several tubes with you. Now, in addition to your worries about your health, I&rsquo;m charging you $100 per tube. You have no choice but to pay.</p>
+<p>You then read in the medical column of your newspaper that this isn&rsquo;t happening just to you; many other people have been suffering from the same problem. In fact, pharmacists have discovered that the ointment doesn&rsquo;t actually cure the sore. All that it does is to take the sore beneath the surface of the skin. It is the ointment that has caused the sore to grow. All you have to do to get rid of the sore is to stop using the ointment. The sore will eventually disappear in due course.</p>
+<p>Would you continue to use the ointment? Would it take willpower not to use the ointment? If you didn&rsquo;t believe the medical article, there might be a few days of apprehension, but once you realized that the sore was beginning to get better, the need or desire to use the ointment would go, Would you be miserable? Of course you wouldn&rsquo;t. You had an awful problem which you thought was insoluble. Now you&rsquo;ve found the solution. Even if it took a year for that sore to disappear completely, each day, as it improved, you&rsquo;d think. “isn&rsquo;t it marvellous? I&rsquo;m not going to die!” This was the magic that happened to me on my final PMO day. Let me make one point quite clear in the analogy of the sore and the ointment.</p>
+<p>The sore isn&rsquo;t lung cancer, or arterial sclerosis, or emphysema, or angina, or chronic asthma, or bronchitis, or coronary heart disease. They are all in addition to the sore. It isn&rsquo;t the body pains, lack of normal lust, flagging arousal, fading penetration, the wasted time spent on lifeless two dimensional images, the times when we felt infringed of our entitlement because we are not allowed to PMO. It isn&rsquo;t the lifetime of being despised by other people who caught you or, worst of all, despising yourself. These are all in addition to the sore.</p>
+<p>The sore is what makes us close our minds to all these things. It&rsquo;s that panic feeling of, “I want a fix.” Non-PMOers don&rsquo;t suffer from that feeling. The worst thing we ever suffer from is fear, and the greatest gain you will receive is to be rid of that fear. It was as if a great mist had suddenly lifted from my mind. I could see so clearly that that panic feeling of wanting a porn fix wasn&rsquo;t some sort of weakness in me or some magic quality of internet porn. It was caused by the first PMO session; and each subsequent one - far from relieving the feeling, it was actually causing it.</p>
+<p>At the same time I could see all these other “happy” PMOers - the ones who are blinded by their cunning little porn monsters - were going through the same nightmare that I was. Not as bad as mine yet all putting up phony arguments to try to justify their stupidity.</p>
+<p><strong>IT&rsquo;S SO NICE TO BE FREE!</strong></p>
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+<p>Usually when PMOers try to stop the main reasons given are health, religion and partner stigma. Part of the brainwashing of this awful drug is the sheer slavery. Man fought hard in the last century to abolish slavery and yet the PMOer spends his life suffering self-imposed slavery. He seems to be oblivious to the fact that when he is allowed to PMO he wishes that he were a non-PMOer. With most of the masturbation we do in our lives, not only do we not enjoy them but we aren&rsquo;t even aware that we are masturbating. It is only after a period of abstinence that we actually suffer the delusion of enjoying PMO (e.g. the first day after a 4 day abstinence with the intent of rebooting etc.). The only time that the porn becomes precious is when we are &rsquo;trying&rsquo; to cut down or abstain or when abstinence is forced on us (e.g. when on a business trips, holiday trips to locations where the Internet is not available and so on).</p>
+<p>The confirmed PMOer should bear in mind that more studies and even more people are coming out and talking about the ill effects of internet porn. This trend will get “worse and worse.” Today, it is non-medical people talking. Tomorrow, it will be in your doctor’s list of diagnostic tests to perform. Gone are the days when the PMOer can hide behind “just a bit of downtime due to work stress” in his or her sex life. Your partner is going to ask you why you are on your laptop at this time too late into the night. The poor PMOer, who was already feeling wretched, wants the ground to open up and swallow him.</p>
+<p>I remember every time my partner stayed up late it was an ordeal waiting to open up my laptop. When on business trips the dinner with the clients and colleagues dragged on or was I just going through the natural ups and downs in human interactions? What was I doing? I was thinking, “let&rsquo;s get on with it, so that I can get over with this and go to my room for some porn.” I have thought many times, “am I not lucky? I have got my little reward. The poor non-PMOer with no internet access somewhere in an Amish village hasn&rsquo;t got a reward.” The &lsquo;poor&rsquo; non-PMOer doesn&rsquo;t need a reward. We were not designed to go through life systematically flooding our brains with dopamine and opioids. The pathetic thing is that even when masturbating with internet porn the PMOer doesn&rsquo;t achieve those feelings of peace, confidence and tranquillity that the non-PMOer has experienced for the whole of his non-PMO life. The non-PMOer isn&rsquo;t sitting in the family room, feeling agitated and wishing his life away. He can enjoy the whole of his life.</p>
+<p>No, this wasn&rsquo;t a fourteen-year-old schoolboy but a forty-year-old professional. How pathetic. I wouldn&rsquo;t admit to myself that I wasn&rsquo;t enjoying it. I was looking for the right clip and/or pictures to reach orgasm or better, edge forever. I don&rsquo;t know what I am supposed to be &lsquo;watching&rsquo; sometimes. That is the confusing part. The &rsquo;edging&rsquo; and then the orgasm floods my brain. Yet this was supposed to be my way of relaxing and enjoying my “favourite hobby.”</p>
+<p>To me, one of the tremendous joys of being a non-PMOer is to be freed from that slavery. To be able to enjoy the whole of my life and not spend half of it craving for more and more internet porn and then, when I get to fire up my browser, wishing I didn&rsquo;t have to do it. PMOers should bear in mind that when they see or meet non-PMOers, it is not the self-righteous non-PMOer who is depriving them but their very own “little monster.”</p>
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+<p>I cannot repeat too often that it is brainwashing that makes it difficult to stop PMOing. So, the
+more brainwashing we can dispel before we start, the easier you will find it to achieve your goal.
+Occasionally I get into arguments with people whom I call “confirmed PMOers.” By my definition
+a confirmed PMOer is somebody who doesn&rsquo;t believe PMO has any negative effect on his health
+(PME, PIED and hypofrontality etc.) and is not having a mental tug of war. Most times he’d be a
+younger guy or a single but with an occasional sex partner. Thus the internal feedback is lost due to
+the nature of their youth and or it is too infrequent to be observed and registered.</p>
+<p>If he is a young man, I’d rather say to him, “I cannot believe you are not worried about the
+time you are spending.” Usually his eyes light up. If I had attacked him instead on health grounds or
+on the social stigma, he would feel at a disadvantage which will trigger resistance from him. But on
+time&hellip;</p>
+<blockquote>
+<p><em>“Oh, I can afford it. It is only x hours per week and I think it is worth it. It is my only vice or
+pleasure.”</em></p>
+</blockquote>
+<blockquote>
+<p><em>“I still cannot believe you are not worried about the time spent. Say at a minimum half an hour a day on an average including the physical ‘drain’ time of dopamine withdrawals, you are spending approximately one full working day of 8 hours every fortnight. Half an hour a day is a very conservative estimate you would agree. And in a year that will add up to a working month. Have you thought about how much time you are going to spend in your lifetime? What are you doing with that time? You are not even developing real relationships? No, your favourite porn star does not have sympathy for you just because you spent that much time on her site - you are throwing it away! Not only that, you are actually using that time to ruin your physical health, to destroy your nerves and confidence, to suffer a lifetime of slavery, pain, stress, melancholy and peevishness. Surely that must worry you?”</em></p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>It is apparent at this point, particularly with younger PMOers, that they have never considered it a lifetime habit. Occasionally they work out the time they waste in a week and that is alarming. Very occasionally (and only when they think about stopping) they estimate what they spend in a year and that is frightening but over a lifetime it is unthinkable. However, because now we are in an argument, the confirmed PMOer will impulsively say, “I can afford it. It is only so much a week.” He pulls an “encyclopedia salesman” routine on himself.</p>
+<p>Will you refuse a job offer which pays you your current annual salary and also gives you a month off every year? Any PMOer would sign up for this job offer in a heartbeat and would get busy finding vacation deals to exotic places. Figuring out how to spend one full month with no work would be the biggest problem that he now has to solve.</p>
+<p>In every discussion with a confirmed PMOer - and please bear in mind I am not now talking to someone like yourself who plans to stop, I am talking to someone who has no intention of stopping - nobody has ever taken me up on that offer. Why not?</p>
+<p>Often at this point in my consultation, a confirmed PMOer will say, “look, I am not really worried about the money aspect.” If you are thinking along these lines, ask yourself why you are not worried. Why in other aspects of your life will you go to a great deal of trouble to save a few dollars here and there but yet spend thousands of dollars killing your happiness and hang the expense?</p>
+<p>The answer to these questions is this: every other decision that you make in your life will be the result of an analytical process of weighing up the pros and cons and arriving at a rational answer. It may be the wrong answer but at least it will be the result of rational deduction. Whenever any PMOer weighs up the pros and cons of using internet porn, the answer is a dozen times over: “STOP PMOing! YOU ARE A MUG!” Therefore all PMOers are using not because they want to or because they decided to but because they think they cannot stop. They have to and need to brainwash themselves. They have to and need to keep their heads in the sand.</p>
+<p>The strange thing is many men would pay good money for gym and personal trainers to build their muscles and look sculpted. Other treatments such as boosting testosterone with dubious and sometimes dangerous effects are tried out by many men in their real (and imaginary) desperation. Yet, there are many men in that group who would save money and risks by stopping a practice that systematically not only destroys their manhood but also affects their brain’s natural relaxation system.</p>
+<p>This is because they are still thinking with the brainwashed mind of the PMOer. Just take the sand out of your eyes for a moment. Internet porn is a chain reaction and a chain for life. If you do not break that chain, you will remain a user for the rest of your life. Now estimate how much time you think you will spend on PMOing for the rest of your life. The amount will obviously vary with each individual but for the purpose of this exercise let us assume it is a year and half of work hours. You will shortly be making the decision to use your final session (not yet, please - remember the initial instructions). All you have to do to remain a non-PMOer is NOT to fall for the trap again. That is, do not PMO and consciously avoid having “just a peek.” If you do, that one peek will cost you a year and half of your work life. If you think this is a trick way of looking at it, you are still kidding yourself. Just work out how much time you would have saved if you had not taken your very first ‘peek’ right at the start.</p>
+<p>If you see the argument as factual, ask yourself how you would feel if there were a cheque from your state’s lotto for a year and half worth of your current salary lying on your carpet tomorrow? You&rsquo;d be dancing with delight! So start dancing! You are about to start receiving that bonus and that&rsquo;s just one of the several fantastic gains you are about to receive.</p>
+<p>During the withdrawal period you may be tempted to have just one final ‘look’. It will help you to resist the temptation if you remind yourself it will cost you one year’s worth of your peak annual salary (or whatever your estimate is)! I could be making that offer on television and radio programmes yet I bet no-one will take it.</p>
+<p>If you are mentoring someone online for his PMO addiction tell him that he knows someone who has refused a job offer that pays his current annual salary and also gives him a full month’s of PTO. When he ask who that idiot is, tell him, “you!” I know it&rsquo;s rude but you may sometimes need to get your point across in a less-than-polite way.</p>
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+<p>This is the area where the brainwashing is the greatest. PMOers, especially the young and single, think they are aware of the health risks. They are not. Even in my case, when I was expecting my head to explode any moment and honestly believed I was prepared to accept the consequences, I was still kidding myself. I didn&rsquo;t in those days have an app that started a red beeper to flash and sound every time my internet router hits a porn site, followed by a warning voice saying, “OK, this is the one!” Fortunately you do get a warning, and this is it. That warning would say, “Up to now you have got away with it but if you stay another minute your head will explode,” do you think I would have PMOed?</p>
+<p>If you are in doubt about the answer just try walking up to a cliff, stand on the edge with your eyes closed and imagine you then have the choice of either quitting PMO or walking up blindfolded before your next PMO.</p>
+<p>There is no doubt what your choice would be. I had been doing what every internet porn PMOer does all his life: closing my mind and keeping my head in the sand, hoping that I would wake up one morning and just not want to PMO any more. PMOers cannot allow themselves to think of the health risks. If they do, even the illusion of enjoying the &lsquo;habit&rsquo; goes.</p>
+<p>This explains why a shock treatment is so ineffective in the first stages of quitting. It is only non-users who can bring themselves to read the destructive brain changes. It also explains why PMOers, influenced by their little monster, wrongly recall that filthy room mate who PMOed everyday and was still remaining ‘horny’ 24 hours a day – they will ignore the thousands of people who are brought “down” in their prime because of this poisonous ‘habit’.</p>
+<p>About six times a week I have the following conversation with PMOers (usually the younger ones):</p>
+<blockquote>
+<p>ME: Why do you want to stop?</p>
+</blockquote>
+<blockquote>
+<p>PMOer: I read in a PUA guru’s blog that it is good to stop for 4 days to amp myself up.</p>
+</blockquote>
+<blockquote>
+<p>ME: Aren&rsquo;t you worried about the health risks?</p>
+</blockquote>
+<blockquote>
+<p>PMOer:No, I could step under a bus tomorrow.</p>
+</blockquote>
+<blockquote>
+<p>ME: But would you deliberately step under a bus?</p>
+</blockquote>
+<blockquote>
+<p>PMOer:Of course not.</p>
+</blockquote>
+<blockquote>
+<p>ME: Do you not bother to look left and right when you cross the road?</p>
+</blockquote>
+<blockquote>
+<p>PMOer: Of course I do.</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>Exactly. He/she goes through a lot of trouble not to step under a bus and the odds are hundreds of thousands to one against it happening. Yet the PMOer risks the near certainty of being crippled by this ‘habit’ and appears to be completely oblivious to the risks. Such is the power of the brainwashing. The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn&rsquo;t exist. Especially when you are younger or single. So is internet porn - it is the wolf in sheep’s clothing.</p>
+<p>I remember a friend of mine who would not drink or smoke. Yet he would argue with me that internet porn is not different than older safe porn and that it is fun. Isn&rsquo;t it strange that if, for example, we felt there was the slightest fault in an airplane, we wouldn&rsquo;t go up in it, even though the risks are millions to one against death. Yet we take more than a one-in-four certainty with internet porn with its PMO addiction and are apparently oblivious to it. And what does the PMOer get out of it? <em><strong>ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!</strong></em></p>
+<p>Another common myth about PMO is the depression or peevishness. Many of the younger people are not worried about their health because they do not suffer any of the depression or melancholy. The depression or stress itself is not a disease; it is just a symptom. Younger people in general don’t feel the irritability or depression created because of their body’s natural capability to produce more dopamine and also the vigour and cheerfulness of their youthful activities masks those depleting reservoirs. As they age or if their lives experience serious setbacks the depleted resources are overworked and then they will experience full blown symptoms.</p>
+<p>When non-younger PMOers feel stressed, depressed or irritated it is because of the normal dopamine levels are not being effective and or due to excessive ‘flooding’ and its reactionary cutting down of the receptors. It is a reactionary step brain takes to protect its nervous systems from excessive dopamine ‘flooding’ as the dopamine receptors close up. It is one of nature&rsquo;s fail-safe methods. They also develop other neural changes that will keep them in the rut.</p>
+<p>Just think of it this way. If you had a nice car and allowed it to rust without doing anything about it that would be pretty stupid, as it would soon become a heap of rust and not be able to carry you anywhere. However, that would not be the end of the world; it is only a question of money and you could always buy a new car. But your body is the vehicle that carries you through life. We all say that our health is our most valued asset. How true that is, as sick millionaires will tell you. Most of us can look back at some illness or accident in our lives when we prayed to get better. (HOW SOON WE FORGET). By being a PMOer, you are not only letting the rust get in and doing nothing about it; you are systematically destroying the vehicle you need to go through life and you only get one.</p>
+<p>Wise up. You don&rsquo;t have to do it and remember: it is doing ABSOLUTELY NOTHING FOR YOU. Just for a moment take your head out of the sand and ask yourself; if you knew for certain that the next PMO session would be the one to trigger off a process in your body that will make your penis fall away like a hair strand, would you then actually go ahead and do it? Forget the ‘disease’ idea (it is difficult to imagine it) but just imagine you are on your bed, with your partner and your penis is not responding. Or if you are a woman, you are not feeling in any way responsive with someone you deeply love? Now you are not in the beginning of a happy endeavour but instead a tug of war in your mind and in your partner&rsquo;s mind too. “Is it my PMO or is it just stress? Can I spot who the culprit is 100%? Or for her, is it me? Am I not sexy enough for him? Or worse, am I losing my ‘appetite’ too soon due to ageing?” What do you think is going to happen?</p>
+<p>I often speak to the people that it happens to. They didn&rsquo;t think it would happen to them either and the worst thing about it isn&rsquo;t the disease itself but the knowledge they have brought it on themselves. For a very long time as PMOers and abusers we are saying, “I’ll stop tomorrow.” Try to imagine how those people feel who “hit the button.” For them the brainwashing is ended. They then see the &lsquo;habit&rsquo; as it really is and spend the remainder of their lives thinking, “Why did I kid myself I needed to masturbate to internet porn? If only I had the chance to go back!”</p>
+<p>Stop kidding yourself. You have the chance. It&rsquo;s a chain reaction. If you engage in the next PMO session, it will lead you to the next one and the next. It&rsquo;s already happening to you. At the beginning of the book I promised you no shock treatment. If you have already decided you are going to stop, this isn&rsquo;t shock treatment for you. If you are still in doubt, skip the remainder of this chapter and come back to it when you have read the rest of the book.</p>
+<p>Volumes of researches and studies have already been written about the damage that internet porn causes to our sex lives and to our mental well-being. The trouble is that until the PMOer decides to stop he doesn&rsquo;t want to know. Even the forums and mentor groups are a waste of time because the PMOer puts the blinkers on. If he inadvertently reads it, the first thing he does is to open an incognito tab and visit his favourite tube site. PMOers tend to think of the happiness, stress and sex hazards as a hit-and-miss affair, like stepping on a land mine.</p>
+<p>Get it into your head: it is already happening. Every single time you browse to your tube site you are triggering dopamine flooding and the opioids get to work - the neural pathway water slides get greased and the ride takes you smoothly through the next steps that you have already given to the script. The nervous system is now flooded by dopamine and since it is its umpteenth time, it is going to let some of your dopamine receptors to close up. The ‘little monster’ in you is using this slight dip in the pleasure compared to the last time to encourage you to “cross the red line” towards more shocking porn or behaviour in order to release more dopamine. In the process just hit on the ‘novelty’ button that triggers dopamine again. “Let’s keep going,” says the little monster, because you deserve it and you are entitled to this. Now the streaming of so many pictures and videos on a single tab&hellip; that triggers another button called ‘supernormal’ stimulus, injecting more amines.</p>
+<p>All this time your receptors are receiving infomation to shut down inversely proportional to the flooding. Then you get to the orgasm stage. More dopamine, more shutting down of receptors. After this comes the withdrawal, Oh and since you are an ex-PMOer go get one. And why not pour a glass from the fridge of that leftover whiskey? Internet porn kills your sex life and thus it kills your private and public lives as well. If you are not aware of the addiction process or even if you are, you are in denial since the “little monster” craves for its fix because there was no real pain and you could handle the discomfort.</p>
+<p>I confess that the thought of having ED terrified me, which is probably why I just blocked it from my mind. It&rsquo;s amazing how the fear of the horrendous health risks attached to PMOing are overshadowed by the fear of stopping. It&rsquo;s not so much that the latter is a greater fear, but that if we quit today the fear is immediate, whereas the fear of getting ED, PE and OCD related mental illnesses are a fear of the future. Why look on the black side? Perhaps it won&rsquo;t happen. I&rsquo;m bound to have quit by then anyway.</p>
+<p>We tend to think of PMOing as a tug-of-war. On one side is fear: it&rsquo;s unhealthy, filthy and enslaving. On the other side the pluses: it&rsquo;s my pleasure, my friend, my crutch. It never seems to occur to us that this side is also fear. It&rsquo;s not so much that we enjoy them but that we tend to be miserable without them.</p>
+<p>Think of heroin addicts deprived of their heroin: the abject misery they go through. Now picture their utter joy when they are allowed to plunge a needle into their veins and end that terrible craving. Try to imagine how anyone could actually believe they get pleasure from sticking a hypodermic syringe into a vein. Non-heroin addicts don&rsquo;t suffer that panic feeling. Heroin doesn&rsquo;t relieve the feeling, on the contrary, it causes it.</p>
+<p>Non-PMOers (those who don’t ‘need’ or have access to internet porn) don&rsquo;t feel miserable if they are not allowed to PMO. It&rsquo;s only PMOers that suffer that feeling. Internet porn doesn&rsquo;t relieve it, on the contrary it causes it. The fear of ED or PE didn&rsquo;t make me quit because I believed it was rather like walking through a minefield. If you got away with it - fine. If you were unlucky you stepped on a mine.</p>
+<p>You knew the risks you were taking and if you were prepared to take the risk, what had it to do with anyone else? So if a non-PMOer ever tried to make me aware of those risks, I would use the typical evasive tactics that all addicts invariably adopt. They are&hellip;.</p>
+<ul>
+<li><em>“You will eventually get old and lose your sexual prowess anyway&hellip;”</em></li>
+</ul>
+<blockquote>
+<p>Of course you do but sexual prowess is not even the point, we are talking slavery here. Even if that is the case, is that a logical reason for deliberately cutting yourself short?</p>
+</blockquote>
+<ul>
+<li><em>“Quality of life is more important than just living.”</em></li>
+</ul>
+<blockquote>
+<p>Exactly but you are surely not suggesting that the quality of life of an addict is greater than that of someone that isn&rsquo;t addicted? Do you really believe that the quality of a PMOer’s life is better than a non-PMOer? Surely the PMOer loses on both counts his life is spent in trying to cover his head in the sand and being miserable.</p>
+</blockquote>
+<ul>
+<li><em>“I am single and am not planning to ‘settle down’ in the near future so why not?”</em></li>
+</ul>
+<blockquote>
+<p>Even if that were true, is that a logical reason for playing with the brain structure dealing with impulse control that is needed in other areas of life? Can you possibly conceive of anyone being stupid enough to strip naked wherever one is going to be alone? No matter how sure you are that you are not expecting anyone in your life? THAT&rsquo;S WHAT PMOers EFFECTIVELY DO!</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>I can understand why the ED and the risks of ruining one’s mental health didn&rsquo;t help me to quit. I could cope with the former and block my mind to the latter. As you are already aware, my method is not to frighten you into quitting but the complete opposite - to make you realize just how more enjoyable your life will be when you have escaped.</p>
+<p>However, I do believe that if I could have seen what was happening inside my brain, this would have helped me to quit. Now I&rsquo;m not referring to the shock technique of showing a PMOer the effect of the hidden attribute of internet porn on the reward circuit of the brain. It was obvious to me from my unreliable arousals, fading penetrations, lack of energy, unemotional sex (as in just a muscle twitch), hit-seek escalations of porn search for novelty and shock that something is not going right. None of these are catastrophic for me as I have trained myself in cognitive behavioural techniques as discussed before but I did experience them quite often enough. Practising CBT/REBT gave me enough grounding and stability to look at my addiction in a different and better way than I’d have if I were not aware of the cognitive biases. Provided I kept functioning, even at a mediocre level, they were less of an embarrassment than a lost tooth - at least nobody could see my mind.</p>
+<p>What I am referring to is the progressive gunging-up of our reward circuits with excessive stimulation, making them incapable of handling the normal stresses of life. Closing up of dopamine and opioids receptors does not help me in enjoying my life with enough vigour. Porn and masturbation has replaced the natural sexual appetite, like a candy bar replacing real food. The brain has no idea to differentiate one from the other. I don&rsquo;t like the thought of a virus in my smart phone or my laptop. Could you imagine buying the latest one of these gadgets and letting a virus to run every line of the software code but repeat it thrice ? That&rsquo;s what we effectively do to our bodies when we become PMOers.</p>
+<p>Many researchers and doctors are now relating various mental health problems in addition to the physiological ones caused by internet porn and PMO in general. This is no surprise to me. The mainstream medical world has laboured that PMO has never been scientifically proven to be the direct cause of the issues reported by self-confessing individuals. Admitting one’s sexual inability in public is such a shame triggering event, why would anyone do that unless they are really concerned? And probably many have found the cause and have eliminated it. This book is going to help you to get rid of it and also become a happy ex PMOer. No porn whatsoever, no porn aided masturbation. And of course no unnecessary orgasms. The only aid will be the touch, smell and voice of your partner. Like whole wheat bread after a well developed appetite, you will produce enough juices to break down the hard bread and it comes as a beautiful refreshment. No high fructose corn syrup injected fake food. The evidence is so overwhelming as not to need proof. No one ever scientifically proved to me exactly why, when I bang my thumb with a hammer, it hurts. I soon got the message.</p>
+<p>I must emphasize that I am not a doctor but just like the hammer and the thumb, it soon became obvious to me that the periods of my life outside of sex that were marked by low levels of irritation tolerance, lack of energy, temper, moody thoughts, zoning out of social scenes etc. were directly related to my masturbation and especially the supernormal stimulus of IP<sup id="fnref:1"><a href="#fn:1" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref">1</a></sup>. However, I truly believe that the greatest hazard that IP causes to our health is the gradual and progressive deterioration of our sex life caused by super-substitutes. The novelty, shock, variety in size and nature of internet porn can slowly take away the magic of the real sex. Worse, the RC<sup id="fnref:2"><a href="#fn:2" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref">2</a></sup> reward circuits are flooding unnaturally and at high abnormal levels so that they close up  the receptors and also diminish any potency and effectiveness of normal de-stressors that work in the RC. This predisposes one to be depressed and become needy to lot more other ‘crutches’ of life such as cigarettes and alcohol or even causing the host to think of committing suicide. Even the real vagina will not be a match for the death grip of masturbation - and the little monster is kept alive.</p>
+<p>Our lives are ‘blessed’ with challenges – yes, ‘blessed’- they are needed to keep us strong and make us better. If our nervous systems is pre-disposed to making a molehill out of a mountain it will seek a ‘fix. When it seeks a hit or a mountain out of a molehill when it interfaces with reality then is it worth it? Our body and our brain is designed to make use of optimal levels of these brain chemicals. I don’t think a man who fails in satisfying a woman should consider himself worthless.</p>
+<p>You will do well accepting yourself unconditionally and as an extension others and of life in general as well. It needs practice - but you won&rsquo;t practice unless your brain rewards you. External rewards are iffy and most of the time are not forthcoming. If your internal brain chemicals and the reward circuits are humming even a little external reward will go a long way and the lack of external approvals won&rsquo;t even matter at all. If you want to you can be the king of your life. Think about this as one of your greatest benefits.</p>
+<p>Several of the adverse effects that PMO had on my health, some of which I had been suffering from for years, did not become apparent to me until many years after I had stopped. The good news I have for you is this - all of this is reversible. You are the jailer and you are also going to set yourself - the prisoner - free!</p>
+<p>It didn&rsquo;t even occur to me that I was already suffering from ED and PE<sup id="fnref:3"><a href="#fn:3" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref">3</a></sup> myself. Upon my first observation of the damage I quickly attributed it, with the help of my little monster, to (a) the occasional opposition to foreplay by my partner, (b) to the ‘less-than-ideal’ partner (my brain ‘tolerance’ is so high that even if I were with the most sexy one imaginable it’d still be not enough), (c) some silly grudge about my past stopping me to ‘prepare’ us to mood setting or (d) my boss, customer etc. etc.</p>
+<p>When it happened again my little monster brain gave me a BS mix of the above combo which I don’t even want to waste your time with. It never occurred to me that none of these would have stopped me before? So, I decided that I need ‘stamina practice’ since I figured that a toy which comes close to real vagina will ‘train’ me in getting hard and to avoid PE. I later came to read about PE being the result of poor training of the reward circuits. If one’s goal is orgasm then getting hard is not a requirement with masturbation. That being avoided enough times sets up waterslides in your brain and you grease it real nice every time to ride the slide. You can dispute this but I am going to take the Pascal’s Wager and quit - I lose very little, gain big and avoid losing big.</p>
+<p>When you don’t get hard or have unreliable erections, it’s a signal that your mind wants it more than your body - most times. Also of note is my peevishness and melancholy (anger/irritability and moodiness/depression). I told myself that I am a negatively oriented Virgo. While many Virgos are predisposed to think and act ‘negatively’ I failed to notice that actually I am a pretty optimistic guy.</p>
+<p>In fact, the many times I had not gone along for the porn water slide ride, due to external events, even though I had wanted to, I noticed that I did not get affected big time - remember again Pascal’s Wager. But looking back at my life, I have to say that I have been an achiever, in spite of the self-sabotage of PMO and its constant drag. That must be due to the training of tempering my pre-disposition and keeping the negatives to toned down healthy negatives of disappointment, sorrow, concern, annoyance, sadness, regret, frustration, caution, vigilance, irritation etc. I am sure that I am an optimistic and positive guy, how else could I explain that I kept going in spite of my tripping myself with PMO?</p>
+<p>I have been in the stock market and have advised my friends and colleagues. I would show my hands - in real investments and trades. Most of the macho guys would not bring themselves to pull the trigger at those times when I did with no fears but of course with due vigilance and caution.</p>
+<p>I know a person close to me who would masturbate every day at least once. He had no access to porn and was using static magazines and his own imagination. Now, looking back I wonder if this person lost his life’s joy to PMO. He would always be quick to anger and his irritation trigger levels are always very low. Any day-to-day stress will tick him off. He had a secure government job that demanded little from him and so he was lucky to survive until his retirement. Lucky? Maybe not. Anyway, I am sure his RC* had long sent shutdown signals to his receptors and his dopamine and opioids have much diminished effectiveness.</p>
+<p>You might conclude that I am something of a hypochondriac. I believe that I was when I was a PMOer. One of the great evils about addictions such as these is that it fools us into believing that the cigarettes, alcohol, PMO etc. give us courage, when in fact it gradually and imperceptibly dissipates it. I was shocked when I read about a confessor who felt suicidal at 19 due to PMO. Little did I realize that twenty years later I would have exactly the same lack of joie de vivre. You might conclude that this chapter has been one of necessary, or unnecessary, doom and gloom. I promise you it is the complete opposite. I used to fear death when I was a child. A bit later I used to believe that smoking, drinking and porn removed that fear. Perhaps it did. If so, it replaced it with something infinitely worse: <strong>A FEAR OF LIVING!</strong></p>
+<p>Now my fear of dying has returned. Yet it does not bother me. I realize that it only exists because I now enjoy life so much. I don&rsquo;t brood over my fear of dying any more than I did when I was a child. I&rsquo;m far too busy living my life to the full. The odds are against my living to a hundred, but I&rsquo;ll try to. I&rsquo;ll also try to enjoy every precious moment!</p>
+<p>There were two other advantages on the health side that never occurred to me until I had stopped PMOing. One was that I now wake up refreshed in the morning. The subtle well-rested feeling is something sort of what you’d experience after a fever had left you. I get that almost every day but of course some nights are not going to be perfect. I had accepted that there is nothing outside of us that we need to enjoy or cope in our lives.</p>
+<p>The other was the acceptance of the Void in our lives. Those insecure feelings. The emptiness. From what I learned - that is after removing PMO from my life, I could see that these three are present in everyone’s lives. Yes, that includes the playboys and the PUA macs as well. I think they are like the nights that serve to enhance our days. Yes, it is a well known ‘insight’. But then I know of many insights which have never translated to any value to my life. After I quit, it all fell into place. Look, I am not a saint or a guru. But I am not panicking and seeking substitutes when I feel the void, or insecurity or emptiness. There are no outside things that will be a pleasure or crutch.</p>
+<p>Here is a thought experiment for you&hellip; let’s say a woman comes to you and says she doesn’t necessarily want an orgasm but however, she very much wants to make love. Even penetrative. And she wants to do it for as long and as far as you can go without an orgasm but if it happens then its fine. I assure you of a great new experience, far better than anything in your life if you even get that offer. Try it.</p>
+<p>PMOers also suffer the illusion that the ill-effects of internet porn and PMO are overstated. The reverse is the case. There is no doubt that internet porn is the major cause of PIED and other problems. The trouble is that in many cases where PMO causes the ED or is a contributory factor, it is not blamed on PMO in the statistics. It has been estimated that more than 25 per cent of men experience ED or PE and yet I wonder how many divorces have been caused by PMO? There are no reliable ways to know the number of Internet Porn users within the study group. The studies usually mix up traditional and internet porn users and has no way to account for the starting age of the participants, years of use, duration and frequency of usage. There is no way to conduct blind or double blind methods either.</p>
+<p>I was a ‘safe’ user of internet porn - if there is anything ‘safe’ about it. However I noticed that I invariably projected porn fantasies on real life women. Like the episode in Friends where the guys, who were receiving continuous free porn on TV, started to wonder to each other why the pizza delivery girl didn’t ask to check out their ‘big bedroom’. Imagine what ‘careless’ or even ‘accidental’ porn exposure on the darker sides the internet would do to someone who is already at a tipping point in his or her life? Fighting against these ‘porn induce thoughts’, PIT<sup id="fnref:4"><a href="#fn:4" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref">4</a></sup>, is going to be a major drain on his or her mental health.</p>
+<p>The effect of the brainwashing is that we tend to think like the man who, having fallen off a 100-storey building, is heard to say, as he passes the fiftieth floor, “So far, so good!” We think that as we have got away with it so far, one more PMO session won&rsquo;t make the difference. Try to see it another way, the &lsquo;habit&rsquo; is a continuous chain for life, each session creating the need for the next. When you start the habit you light a fuse. The trouble is, YOU DON&rsquo;T KNOW HOW LONG THE FUSE IS. Every time that you give up to a PMO session you are one step nearer to the bomb exploding. HOW WILL YOU KNOW IF IT&rsquo;S THE NEXT ONE?</p>
+<div class="footnotes" role="doc-endnotes">
+<hr>
+<ol>
+<li id="fn:1">
+<p><strong>IP</strong> - internet porn&#160;<a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-backref" role="doc-backlink">&#x21a9;&#xfe0e;</a></p>
+</li>
+<li id="fn:2">
+<p><strong>RC</strong> - reward circuits in the brain that involves dopamine/ opioids, receptors, proteins etc.&#160;<a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-backref" role="doc-backlink">&#x21a9;&#xfe0e;</a></p>
+</li>
+<li id="fn:3">
+<p><strong>PE</strong> - premature ejaculation&#160;<a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-backref" role="doc-backlink">&#x21a9;&#xfe0e;</a></p>
+</li>
+<li id="fn:4">
+<p><strong>PIT</strong> - porn induced thoughts, porn themes crossing over to normal interactions&#160;<a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-backref" role="doc-backlink">&#x21a9;&#xfe0e;</a></p>
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+		<description>&lt;p&gt;This is the area where the brainwashing is the greatest. PMOers, especially the young and single, think they are aware of the health risks. They are not. Even in my case, when I was expecting my head to explode any moment and honestly believed I was prepared to accept the consequences, I was still kidding myself. I didn&amp;rsquo;t in those days have an app that started a red beeper to flash and sound every time my internet router hits a porn site, followed by a warning voice saying, “OK, this is the one!” Fortunately you do get a warning, and this is it. That warning would say, “Up to now you have got away with it but if you stay another minute your head will explode,” do you think I would have PMOed?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;If you are in doubt about the answer just try walking up to a cliff, stand on the edge with your eyes closed and imagine you then have the choice of either quitting PMO or walking up blindfolded before your next PMO.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;There is no doubt what your choice would be. I had been doing what every internet porn PMOer does all his life: closing my mind and keeping my head in the sand, hoping that I would wake up one morning and just not want to PMO any more. PMOers cannot allow themselves to think of the health risks. If they do, even the illusion of enjoying the &amp;lsquo;habit&amp;rsquo; goes.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;This explains why a shock treatment is so ineffective in the first stages of quitting. It is only non-users who can bring themselves to read the destructive brain changes. It also explains why PMOers, influenced by their little monster, wrongly recall that filthy room mate who PMOed everyday and was still remaining ‘horny’ 24 hours a day – they will ignore the thousands of people who are brought “down” in their prime because of this poisonous ‘habit’.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;About six times a week I have the following conversation with PMOers (usually the younger ones):&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;ME: Why do you want to stop?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;PMOer: I read in a PUA guru’s blog that it is good to stop for 4 days to amp myself up.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;ME: Aren&amp;rsquo;t you worried about the health risks?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;PMOer:No, I could step under a bus tomorrow.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;ME: But would you deliberately step under a bus?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;PMOer:Of course not.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;ME: Do you not bother to look left and right when you cross the road?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;PMOer: Of course I do.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Exactly. He/she goes through a lot of trouble not to step under a bus and the odds are hundreds of thousands to one against it happening. Yet the PMOer risks the near certainty of being crippled by this ‘habit’ and appears to be completely oblivious to the risks. Such is the power of the brainwashing. The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn&amp;rsquo;t exist. Especially when you are younger or single. So is internet porn - it is the wolf in sheep’s clothing.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I remember a friend of mine who would not drink or smoke. Yet he would argue with me that internet porn is not different than older safe porn and that it is fun. Isn&amp;rsquo;t it strange that if, for example, we felt there was the slightest fault in an airplane, we wouldn&amp;rsquo;t go up in it, even though the risks are millions to one against death. Yet we take more than a one-in-four certainty with internet porn with its PMO addiction and are apparently oblivious to it. And what does the PMOer get out of it? &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Another common myth about PMO is the depression or peevishness. Many of the younger people are not worried about their health because they do not suffer any of the depression or melancholy. The depression or stress itself is not a disease; it is just a symptom. Younger people in general don’t feel the irritability or depression created because of their body’s natural capability to produce more dopamine and also the vigour and cheerfulness of their youthful activities masks those depleting reservoirs. As they age or if their lives experience serious setbacks the depleted resources are overworked and then they will experience full blown symptoms.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;When non-younger PMOers feel stressed, depressed or irritated it is because of the normal dopamine levels are not being effective and or due to excessive ‘flooding’ and its reactionary cutting down of the receptors. It is a reactionary step brain takes to protect its nervous systems from excessive dopamine ‘flooding’ as the dopamine receptors close up. It is one of nature&amp;rsquo;s fail-safe methods. They also develop other neural changes that will keep them in the rut.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Just think of it this way. If you had a nice car and allowed it to rust without doing anything about it that would be pretty stupid, as it would soon become a heap of rust and not be able to carry you anywhere. However, that would not be the end of the world; it is only a question of money and you could always buy a new car. But your body is the vehicle that carries you through life. We all say that our health is our most valued asset. How true that is, as sick millionaires will tell you. Most of us can look back at some illness or accident in our lives when we prayed to get better. (HOW SOON WE FORGET). By being a PMOer, you are not only letting the rust get in and doing nothing about it; you are systematically destroying the vehicle you need to go through life and you only get one.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Wise up. You don&amp;rsquo;t have to do it and remember: it is doing ABSOLUTELY NOTHING FOR YOU. Just for a moment take your head out of the sand and ask yourself; if you knew for certain that the next PMO session would be the one to trigger off a process in your body that will make your penis fall away like a hair strand, would you then actually go ahead and do it? Forget the ‘disease’ idea (it is difficult to imagine it) but just imagine you are on your bed, with your partner and your penis is not responding. Or if you are a woman, you are not feeling in any way responsive with someone you deeply love? Now you are not in the beginning of a happy endeavour but instead a tug of war in your mind and in your partner&amp;rsquo;s mind too. “Is it my PMO or is it just stress? Can I spot who the culprit is 100%? Or for her, is it me? Am I not sexy enough for him? Or worse, am I losing my ‘appetite’ too soon due to ageing?” What do you think is going to happen?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I often speak to the people that it happens to. They didn&amp;rsquo;t think it would happen to them either and the worst thing about it isn&amp;rsquo;t the disease itself but the knowledge they have brought it on themselves. For a very long time as PMOers and abusers we are saying, “I’ll stop tomorrow.” Try to imagine how those people feel who “hit the button.” For them the brainwashing is ended. They then see the &amp;lsquo;habit&amp;rsquo; as it really is and spend the remainder of their lives thinking, “Why did I kid myself I needed to masturbate to internet porn? If only I had the chance to go back!”&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Stop kidding yourself. You have the chance. It&amp;rsquo;s a chain reaction. If you engage in the next PMO session, it will lead you to the next one and the next. It&amp;rsquo;s already happening to you. At the beginning of the book I promised you no shock treatment. If you have already decided you are going to stop, this isn&amp;rsquo;t shock treatment for you. If you are still in doubt, skip the remainder of this chapter and come back to it when you have read the rest of the book.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Volumes of researches and studies have already been written about the damage that internet porn causes to our sex lives and to our mental well-being. The trouble is that until the PMOer decides to stop he doesn&amp;rsquo;t want to know. Even the forums and mentor groups are a waste of time because the PMOer puts the blinkers on. If he inadvertently reads it, the first thing he does is to open an incognito tab and visit his favourite tube site. PMOers tend to think of the happiness, stress and sex hazards as a hit-and-miss affair, like stepping on a land mine.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Get it into your head: it is already happening. Every single time you browse to your tube site you are triggering dopamine flooding and the opioids get to work - the neural pathway water slides get greased and the ride takes you smoothly through the next steps that you have already given to the script. The nervous system is now flooded by dopamine and since it is its umpteenth time, it is going to let some of your dopamine receptors to close up. The ‘little monster’ in you is using this slight dip in the pleasure compared to the last time to encourage you to “cross the red line” towards more shocking porn or behaviour in order to release more dopamine. In the process just hit on the ‘novelty’ button that triggers dopamine again. “Let’s keep going,” says the little monster, because you deserve it and you are entitled to this. Now the streaming of so many pictures and videos on a single tab&amp;hellip; that triggers another button called ‘supernormal’ stimulus, injecting more amines.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;All this time your receptors are receiving infomation to shut down inversely proportional to the flooding. Then you get to the orgasm stage. More dopamine, more shutting down of receptors. After this comes the withdrawal, Oh and since you are an ex-PMOer go get one. And why not pour a glass from the fridge of that leftover whiskey? Internet porn kills your sex life and thus it kills your private and public lives as well. If you are not aware of the addiction process or even if you are, you are in denial since the “little monster” craves for its fix because there was no real pain and you could handle the discomfort.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I confess that the thought of having ED terrified me, which is probably why I just blocked it from my mind. It&amp;rsquo;s amazing how the fear of the horrendous health risks attached to PMOing are overshadowed by the fear of stopping. It&amp;rsquo;s not so much that the latter is a greater fear, but that if we quit today the fear is immediate, whereas the fear of getting ED, PE and OCD related mental illnesses are a fear of the future. Why look on the black side? Perhaps it won&amp;rsquo;t happen. I&amp;rsquo;m bound to have quit by then anyway.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;We tend to think of PMOing as a tug-of-war. On one side is fear: it&amp;rsquo;s unhealthy, filthy and enslaving. On the other side the pluses: it&amp;rsquo;s my pleasure, my friend, my crutch. It never seems to occur to us that this side is also fear. It&amp;rsquo;s not so much that we enjoy them but that we tend to be miserable without them.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Think of heroin addicts deprived of their heroin: the abject misery they go through. Now picture their utter joy when they are allowed to plunge a needle into their veins and end that terrible craving. Try to imagine how anyone could actually believe they get pleasure from sticking a hypodermic syringe into a vein. Non-heroin addicts don&amp;rsquo;t suffer that panic feeling. Heroin doesn&amp;rsquo;t relieve the feeling, on the contrary, it causes it.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Non-PMOers (those who don’t ‘need’ or have access to internet porn) don&amp;rsquo;t feel miserable if they are not allowed to PMO. It&amp;rsquo;s only PMOers that suffer that feeling. Internet porn doesn&amp;rsquo;t relieve it, on the contrary it causes it. The fear of ED or PE didn&amp;rsquo;t make me quit because I believed it was rather like walking through a minefield. If you got away with it - fine. If you were unlucky you stepped on a mine.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;You knew the risks you were taking and if you were prepared to take the risk, what had it to do with anyone else? So if a non-PMOer ever tried to make me aware of those risks, I would use the typical evasive tactics that all addicts invariably adopt. They are&amp;hellip;.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;ul&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;“You will eventually get old and lose your sexual prowess anyway&amp;hellip;”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Of course you do but sexual prowess is not even the point, we are talking slavery here. Even if that is the case, is that a logical reason for deliberately cutting yourself short?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;ul&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;“Quality of life is more important than just living.”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Exactly but you are surely not suggesting that the quality of life of an addict is greater than that of someone that isn&amp;rsquo;t addicted? Do you really believe that the quality of a PMOer’s life is better than a non-PMOer? Surely the PMOer loses on both counts his life is spent in trying to cover his head in the sand and being miserable.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;ul&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;“I am single and am not planning to ‘settle down’ in the near future so why not?”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Even if that were true, is that a logical reason for playing with the brain structure dealing with impulse control that is needed in other areas of life? Can you possibly conceive of anyone being stupid enough to strip naked wherever one is going to be alone? No matter how sure you are that you are not expecting anyone in your life? THAT&amp;rsquo;S WHAT PMOers EFFECTIVELY DO!&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I can understand why the ED and the risks of ruining one’s mental health didn&amp;rsquo;t help me to quit. I could cope with the former and block my mind to the latter. As you are already aware, my method is not to frighten you into quitting but the complete opposite - to make you realize just how more enjoyable your life will be when you have escaped.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;However, I do believe that if I could have seen what was happening inside my brain, this would have helped me to quit. Now I&amp;rsquo;m not referring to the shock technique of showing a PMOer the effect of the hidden attribute of internet porn on the reward circuit of the brain. It was obvious to me from my unreliable arousals, fading penetrations, lack of energy, unemotional sex (as in just a muscle twitch), hit-seek escalations of porn search for novelty and shock that something is not going right. None of these are catastrophic for me as I have trained myself in cognitive behavioural techniques as discussed before but I did experience them quite often enough. Practising CBT/REBT gave me enough grounding and stability to look at my addiction in a different and better way than I’d have if I were not aware of the cognitive biases. Provided I kept functioning, even at a mediocre level, they were less of an embarrassment than a lost tooth - at least nobody could see my mind.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;What I am referring to is the progressive gunging-up of our reward circuits with excessive stimulation, making them incapable of handling the normal stresses of life. Closing up of dopamine and opioids receptors does not help me in enjoying my life with enough vigour. Porn and masturbation has replaced the natural sexual appetite, like a candy bar replacing real food. The brain has no idea to differentiate one from the other. I don&amp;rsquo;t like the thought of a virus in my smart phone or my laptop. Could you imagine buying the latest one of these gadgets and letting a virus to run every line of the software code but repeat it thrice ? That&amp;rsquo;s what we effectively do to our bodies when we become PMOers.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Many researchers and doctors are now relating various mental health problems in addition to the physiological ones caused by internet porn and PMO in general. This is no surprise to me. The mainstream medical world has laboured that PMO has never been scientifically proven to be the direct cause of the issues reported by self-confessing individuals. Admitting one’s sexual inability in public is such a shame triggering event, why would anyone do that unless they are really concerned? And probably many have found the cause and have eliminated it. This book is going to help you to get rid of it and also become a happy ex PMOer. No porn whatsoever, no porn aided masturbation. And of course no unnecessary orgasms. The only aid will be the touch, smell and voice of your partner. Like whole wheat bread after a well developed appetite, you will produce enough juices to break down the hard bread and it comes as a beautiful refreshment. No high fructose corn syrup injected fake food. The evidence is so overwhelming as not to need proof. No one ever scientifically proved to me exactly why, when I bang my thumb with a hammer, it hurts. I soon got the message.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I must emphasize that I am not a doctor but just like the hammer and the thumb, it soon became obvious to me that the periods of my life outside of sex that were marked by low levels of irritation tolerance, lack of energy, temper, moody thoughts, zoning out of social scenes etc. were directly related to my masturbation and especially the supernormal stimulus of IP&lt;sup id=&#34;fnref:1&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#fn:1&#34; class=&#34;footnote-ref&#34; role=&#34;doc-noteref&#34;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;. However, I truly believe that the greatest hazard that IP causes to our health is the gradual and progressive deterioration of our sex life caused by super-substitutes. The novelty, shock, variety in size and nature of internet porn can slowly take away the magic of the real sex. Worse, the RC&lt;sup id=&#34;fnref:2&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#fn:2&#34; class=&#34;footnote-ref&#34; role=&#34;doc-noteref&#34;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; reward circuits are flooding unnaturally and at high abnormal levels so that they close up  the receptors and also diminish any potency and effectiveness of normal de-stressors that work in the RC. This predisposes one to be depressed and become needy to lot more other ‘crutches’ of life such as cigarettes and alcohol or even causing the host to think of committing suicide. Even the real vagina will not be a match for the death grip of masturbation - and the little monster is kept alive.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Our lives are ‘blessed’ with challenges – yes, ‘blessed’- they are needed to keep us strong and make us better. If our nervous systems is pre-disposed to making a molehill out of a mountain it will seek a ‘fix. When it seeks a hit or a mountain out of a molehill when it interfaces with reality then is it worth it? Our body and our brain is designed to make use of optimal levels of these brain chemicals. I don’t think a man who fails in satisfying a woman should consider himself worthless.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;You will do well accepting yourself unconditionally and as an extension others and of life in general as well. It needs practice - but you won&amp;rsquo;t practice unless your brain rewards you. External rewards are iffy and most of the time are not forthcoming. If your internal brain chemicals and the reward circuits are humming even a little external reward will go a long way and the lack of external approvals won&amp;rsquo;t even matter at all. If you want to you can be the king of your life. Think about this as one of your greatest benefits.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Several of the adverse effects that PMO had on my health, some of which I had been suffering from for years, did not become apparent to me until many years after I had stopped. The good news I have for you is this - all of this is reversible. You are the jailer and you are also going to set yourself - the prisoner - free!&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;It didn&amp;rsquo;t even occur to me that I was already suffering from ED and PE&lt;sup id=&#34;fnref:3&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#fn:3&#34; class=&#34;footnote-ref&#34; role=&#34;doc-noteref&#34;&gt;3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; myself. Upon my first observation of the damage I quickly attributed it, with the help of my little monster, to (a) the occasional opposition to foreplay by my partner, (b) to the ‘less-than-ideal’ partner (my brain ‘tolerance’ is so high that even if I were with the most sexy one imaginable it’d still be not enough), (c) some silly grudge about my past stopping me to ‘prepare’ us to mood setting or (d) my boss, customer etc. etc.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;When it happened again my little monster brain gave me a BS mix of the above combo which I don’t even want to waste your time with. It never occurred to me that none of these would have stopped me before? So, I decided that I need ‘stamina practice’ since I figured that a toy which comes close to real vagina will ‘train’ me in getting hard and to avoid PE. I later came to read about PE being the result of poor training of the reward circuits. If one’s goal is orgasm then getting hard is not a requirement with masturbation. That being avoided enough times sets up waterslides in your brain and you grease it real nice every time to ride the slide. You can dispute this but I am going to take the Pascal’s Wager and quit - I lose very little, gain big and avoid losing big.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;When you don’t get hard or have unreliable erections, it’s a signal that your mind wants it more than your body - most times. Also of note is my peevishness and melancholy (anger/irritability and moodiness/depression). I told myself that I am a negatively oriented Virgo. While many Virgos are predisposed to think and act ‘negatively’ I failed to notice that actually I am a pretty optimistic guy.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;In fact, the many times I had not gone along for the porn water slide ride, due to external events, even though I had wanted to, I noticed that I did not get affected big time - remember again Pascal’s Wager. But looking back at my life, I have to say that I have been an achiever, in spite of the self-sabotage of PMO and its constant drag. That must be due to the training of tempering my pre-disposition and keeping the negatives to toned down healthy negatives of disappointment, sorrow, concern, annoyance, sadness, regret, frustration, caution, vigilance, irritation etc. I am sure that I am an optimistic and positive guy, how else could I explain that I kept going in spite of my tripping myself with PMO?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I have been in the stock market and have advised my friends and colleagues. I would show my hands - in real investments and trades. Most of the macho guys would not bring themselves to pull the trigger at those times when I did with no fears but of course with due vigilance and caution.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I know a person close to me who would masturbate every day at least once. He had no access to porn and was using static magazines and his own imagination. Now, looking back I wonder if this person lost his life’s joy to PMO. He would always be quick to anger and his irritation trigger levels are always very low. Any day-to-day stress will tick him off. He had a secure government job that demanded little from him and so he was lucky to survive until his retirement. Lucky? Maybe not. Anyway, I am sure his RC* had long sent shutdown signals to his receptors and his dopamine and opioids have much diminished effectiveness.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;You might conclude that I am something of a hypochondriac. I believe that I was when I was a PMOer. One of the great evils about addictions such as these is that it fools us into believing that the cigarettes, alcohol, PMO etc. give us courage, when in fact it gradually and imperceptibly dissipates it. I was shocked when I read about a confessor who felt suicidal at 19 due to PMO. Little did I realize that twenty years later I would have exactly the same lack of joie de vivre. You might conclude that this chapter has been one of necessary, or unnecessary, doom and gloom. I promise you it is the complete opposite. I used to fear death when I was a child. A bit later I used to believe that smoking, drinking and porn removed that fear. Perhaps it did. If so, it replaced it with something infinitely worse: &lt;strong&gt;A FEAR OF LIVING!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Now my fear of dying has returned. Yet it does not bother me. I realize that it only exists because I now enjoy life so much. I don&amp;rsquo;t brood over my fear of dying any more than I did when I was a child. I&amp;rsquo;m far too busy living my life to the full. The odds are against my living to a hundred, but I&amp;rsquo;ll try to. I&amp;rsquo;ll also try to enjoy every precious moment!&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;There were two other advantages on the health side that never occurred to me until I had stopped PMOing. One was that I now wake up refreshed in the morning. The subtle well-rested feeling is something sort of what you’d experience after a fever had left you. I get that almost every day but of course some nights are not going to be perfect. I had accepted that there is nothing outside of us that we need to enjoy or cope in our lives.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The other was the acceptance of the Void in our lives. Those insecure feelings. The emptiness. From what I learned - that is after removing PMO from my life, I could see that these three are present in everyone’s lives. Yes, that includes the playboys and the PUA macs as well. I think they are like the nights that serve to enhance our days. Yes, it is a well known ‘insight’. But then I know of many insights which have never translated to any value to my life. After I quit, it all fell into place. Look, I am not a saint or a guru. But I am not panicking and seeking substitutes when I feel the void, or insecurity or emptiness. There are no outside things that will be a pleasure or crutch.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Here is a thought experiment for you&amp;hellip; let’s say a woman comes to you and says she doesn’t necessarily want an orgasm but however, she very much wants to make love. Even penetrative. And she wants to do it for as long and as far as you can go without an orgasm but if it happens then its fine. I assure you of a great new experience, far better than anything in your life if you even get that offer. Try it.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;PMOers also suffer the illusion that the ill-effects of internet porn and PMO are overstated. The reverse is the case. There is no doubt that internet porn is the major cause of PIED and other problems. The trouble is that in many cases where PMO causes the ED or is a contributory factor, it is not blamed on PMO in the statistics. It has been estimated that more than 25 per cent of men experience ED or PE and yet I wonder how many divorces have been caused by PMO? There are no reliable ways to know the number of Internet Porn users within the study group. The studies usually mix up traditional and internet porn users and has no way to account for the starting age of the participants, years of use, duration and frequency of usage. There is no way to conduct blind or double blind methods either.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I was a ‘safe’ user of internet porn - if there is anything ‘safe’ about it. However I noticed that I invariably projected porn fantasies on real life women. Like the episode in Friends where the guys, who were receiving continuous free porn on TV, started to wonder to each other why the pizza delivery girl didn’t ask to check out their ‘big bedroom’. Imagine what ‘careless’ or even ‘accidental’ porn exposure on the darker sides the internet would do to someone who is already at a tipping point in his or her life? Fighting against these ‘porn induce thoughts’, PIT&lt;sup id=&#34;fnref:4&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#fn:4&#34; class=&#34;footnote-ref&#34; role=&#34;doc-noteref&#34;&gt;4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;, is going to be a major drain on his or her mental health.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The effect of the brainwashing is that we tend to think like the man who, having fallen off a 100-storey building, is heard to say, as he passes the fiftieth floor, “So far, so good!” We think that as we have got away with it so far, one more PMO session won&amp;rsquo;t make the difference. Try to see it another way, the &amp;lsquo;habit&amp;rsquo; is a continuous chain for life, each session creating the need for the next. When you start the habit you light a fuse. The trouble is, YOU DON&amp;rsquo;T KNOW HOW LONG THE FUSE IS. Every time that you give up to a PMO session you are one step nearer to the bomb exploding. HOW WILL YOU KNOW IF IT&amp;rsquo;S THE NEXT ONE?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;div class=&#34;footnotes&#34; role=&#34;doc-endnotes&#34;&gt;
+&lt;hr&gt;
+&lt;ol&gt;
+&lt;li id=&#34;fn:1&#34;&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;IP&lt;/strong&gt; - internet porn&amp;#160;&lt;a href=&#34;#fnref:1&#34; class=&#34;footnote-backref&#34; role=&#34;doc-backlink&#34;&gt;&amp;#x21a9;&amp;#xfe0e;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li id=&#34;fn:2&#34;&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;RC&lt;/strong&gt; - reward circuits in the brain that involves dopamine/ opioids, receptors, proteins etc.&amp;#160;&lt;a href=&#34;#fnref:2&#34; class=&#34;footnote-backref&#34; role=&#34;doc-backlink&#34;&gt;&amp;#x21a9;&amp;#xfe0e;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li id=&#34;fn:3&#34;&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PE&lt;/strong&gt; - premature ejaculation&amp;#160;&lt;a href=&#34;#fnref:3&#34; class=&#34;footnote-backref&#34; role=&#34;doc-backlink&#34;&gt;&amp;#x21a9;&amp;#xfe0e;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li id=&#34;fn:4&#34;&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PIT&lt;/strong&gt; - porn induced thoughts, porn themes crossing over to normal interactions&amp;#160;&lt;a href=&#34;#fnref:4&#34; class=&#34;footnote-backref&#34; role=&#34;doc-backlink&#34;&gt;&amp;#x21a9;&amp;#xfe0e;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ol&gt;
+&lt;/div&gt;
+</description>
+	</item>
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+	<item>
+		<title>03-16 I Will Save X Hours a Week</title>
+		<link>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-16-i-will-save-x-hours-a-week/</link>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2022 12:08:55 +0200</pubDate>
+		
+		<guid>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-16-i-will-save-x-hours-a-week/</guid>
+		<description>&lt;p&gt;I cannot repeat too often that it is brainwashing that makes it difficult to stop PMOing. So, the
+more brainwashing we can dispel before we start, the easier you will find it to achieve your goal.
+Occasionally I get into arguments with people whom I call “confirmed PMOers.” By my definition
+a confirmed PMOer is somebody who doesn&amp;rsquo;t believe PMO has any negative effect on his health
+(PME, PIED and hypofrontality etc.) and is not having a mental tug of war. Most times he’d be a
+younger guy or a single but with an occasional sex partner. Thus the internal feedback is lost due to
+the nature of their youth and or it is too infrequent to be observed and registered.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;If he is a young man, I’d rather say to him, “I cannot believe you are not worried about the
+time you are spending.” Usually his eyes light up. If I had attacked him instead on health grounds or
+on the social stigma, he would feel at a disadvantage which will trigger resistance from him. But on
+time&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;“Oh, I can afford it. It is only x hours per week and I think it is worth it. It is my only vice or
+pleasure.”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;“I still cannot believe you are not worried about the time spent. Say at a minimum half an hour a day on an average including the physical ‘drain’ time of dopamine withdrawals, you are spending approximately one full working day of 8 hours every fortnight. Half an hour a day is a very conservative estimate you would agree. And in a year that will add up to a working month. Have you thought about how much time you are going to spend in your lifetime? What are you doing with that time? You are not even developing real relationships? No, your favourite porn star does not have sympathy for you just because you spent that much time on her site - you are throwing it away! Not only that, you are actually using that time to ruin your physical health, to destroy your nerves and confidence, to suffer a lifetime of slavery, pain, stress, melancholy and peevishness. Surely that must worry you?”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;It is apparent at this point, particularly with younger PMOers, that they have never considered it a lifetime habit. Occasionally they work out the time they waste in a week and that is alarming. Very occasionally (and only when they think about stopping) they estimate what they spend in a year and that is frightening but over a lifetime it is unthinkable. However, because now we are in an argument, the confirmed PMOer will impulsively say, “I can afford it. It is only so much a week.” He pulls an “encyclopedia salesman” routine on himself.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Will you refuse a job offer which pays you your current annual salary and also gives you a month off every year? Any PMOer would sign up for this job offer in a heartbeat and would get busy finding vacation deals to exotic places. Figuring out how to spend one full month with no work would be the biggest problem that he now has to solve.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;In every discussion with a confirmed PMOer - and please bear in mind I am not now talking to someone like yourself who plans to stop, I am talking to someone who has no intention of stopping - nobody has ever taken me up on that offer. Why not?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Often at this point in my consultation, a confirmed PMOer will say, “look, I am not really worried about the money aspect.” If you are thinking along these lines, ask yourself why you are not worried. Why in other aspects of your life will you go to a great deal of trouble to save a few dollars here and there but yet spend thousands of dollars killing your happiness and hang the expense?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The answer to these questions is this: every other decision that you make in your life will be the result of an analytical process of weighing up the pros and cons and arriving at a rational answer. It may be the wrong answer but at least it will be the result of rational deduction. Whenever any PMOer weighs up the pros and cons of using internet porn, the answer is a dozen times over: “STOP PMOing! YOU ARE A MUG!” Therefore all PMOers are using not because they want to or because they decided to but because they think they cannot stop. They have to and need to brainwash themselves. They have to and need to keep their heads in the sand.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The strange thing is many men would pay good money for gym and personal trainers to build their muscles and look sculpted. Other treatments such as boosting testosterone with dubious and sometimes dangerous effects are tried out by many men in their real (and imaginary) desperation. Yet, there are many men in that group who would save money and risks by stopping a practice that systematically not only destroys their manhood but also affects their brain’s natural relaxation system.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;This is because they are still thinking with the brainwashed mind of the PMOer. Just take the sand out of your eyes for a moment. Internet porn is a chain reaction and a chain for life. If you do not break that chain, you will remain a user for the rest of your life. Now estimate how much time you think you will spend on PMOing for the rest of your life. The amount will obviously vary with each individual but for the purpose of this exercise let us assume it is a year and half of work hours. You will shortly be making the decision to use your final session (not yet, please - remember the initial instructions). All you have to do to remain a non-PMOer is NOT to fall for the trap again. That is, do not PMO and consciously avoid having “just a peek.” If you do, that one peek will cost you a year and half of your work life. If you think this is a trick way of looking at it, you are still kidding yourself. Just work out how much time you would have saved if you had not taken your very first ‘peek’ right at the start.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;If you see the argument as factual, ask yourself how you would feel if there were a cheque from your state’s lotto for a year and half worth of your current salary lying on your carpet tomorrow? You&amp;rsquo;d be dancing with delight! So start dancing! You are about to start receiving that bonus and that&amp;rsquo;s just one of the several fantastic gains you are about to receive.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;During the withdrawal period you may be tempted to have just one final ‘look’. It will help you to resist the temptation if you remind yourself it will cost you one year’s worth of your peak annual salary (or whatever your estimate is)! I could be making that offer on television and radio programmes yet I bet no-one will take it.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;If you are mentoring someone online for his PMO addiction tell him that he knows someone who has refused a job offer that pays his current annual salary and also gives him a full month’s of PTO. When he ask who that idiot is, tell him, “you!” I know it&amp;rsquo;s rude but you may sometimes need to get your point across in a less-than-polite way.&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
+	</item>
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+	<item>
+		<title>03-15 Self-Imposed Slavery</title>
+		<link>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-15-self-imposed-slavery/</link>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2022 12:06:39 +0200</pubDate>
+		
+		<guid>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-15-self-imposed-slavery/</guid>
+		<description>&lt;p&gt;Usually when PMOers try to stop the main reasons given are health, religion and partner stigma. Part of the brainwashing of this awful drug is the sheer slavery. Man fought hard in the last century to abolish slavery and yet the PMOer spends his life suffering self-imposed slavery. He seems to be oblivious to the fact that when he is allowed to PMO he wishes that he were a non-PMOer. With most of the masturbation we do in our lives, not only do we not enjoy them but we aren&amp;rsquo;t even aware that we are masturbating. It is only after a period of abstinence that we actually suffer the delusion of enjoying PMO (e.g. the first day after a 4 day abstinence with the intent of rebooting etc.). The only time that the porn becomes precious is when we are &amp;rsquo;trying&amp;rsquo; to cut down or abstain or when abstinence is forced on us (e.g. when on a business trips, holiday trips to locations where the Internet is not available and so on).&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The confirmed PMOer should bear in mind that more studies and even more people are coming out and talking about the ill effects of internet porn. This trend will get “worse and worse.” Today, it is non-medical people talking. Tomorrow, it will be in your doctor’s list of diagnostic tests to perform. Gone are the days when the PMOer can hide behind “just a bit of downtime due to work stress” in his or her sex life. Your partner is going to ask you why you are on your laptop at this time too late into the night. The poor PMOer, who was already feeling wretched, wants the ground to open up and swallow him.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I remember every time my partner stayed up late it was an ordeal waiting to open up my laptop. When on business trips the dinner with the clients and colleagues dragged on or was I just going through the natural ups and downs in human interactions? What was I doing? I was thinking, “let&amp;rsquo;s get on with it, so that I can get over with this and go to my room for some porn.” I have thought many times, “am I not lucky? I have got my little reward. The poor non-PMOer with no internet access somewhere in an Amish village hasn&amp;rsquo;t got a reward.” The &amp;lsquo;poor&amp;rsquo; non-PMOer doesn&amp;rsquo;t need a reward. We were not designed to go through life systematically flooding our brains with dopamine and opioids. The pathetic thing is that even when masturbating with internet porn the PMOer doesn&amp;rsquo;t achieve those feelings of peace, confidence and tranquillity that the non-PMOer has experienced for the whole of his non-PMO life. The non-PMOer isn&amp;rsquo;t sitting in the family room, feeling agitated and wishing his life away. He can enjoy the whole of his life.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;No, this wasn&amp;rsquo;t a fourteen-year-old schoolboy but a forty-year-old professional. How pathetic. I wouldn&amp;rsquo;t admit to myself that I wasn&amp;rsquo;t enjoying it. I was looking for the right clip and/or pictures to reach orgasm or better, edge forever. I don&amp;rsquo;t know what I am supposed to be &amp;lsquo;watching&amp;rsquo; sometimes. That is the confusing part. The &amp;rsquo;edging&amp;rsquo; and then the orgasm floods my brain. Yet this was supposed to be my way of relaxing and enjoying my “favourite hobby.”&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;To me, one of the tremendous joys of being a non-PMOer is to be freed from that slavery. To be able to enjoy the whole of my life and not spend half of it craving for more and more internet porn and then, when I get to fire up my browser, wishing I didn&amp;rsquo;t have to do it. PMOers should bear in mind that when they see or meet non-PMOers, it is not the self-righteous non-PMOer who is depriving them but their very own “little monster.”&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
+	</item>
+	
+	<item>
+		<title>03-14 What Am I Giving Up?</title>
+		<link>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-14-what-am-i-giving-up/</link>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2022 11:49:35 +0200</pubDate>
+		
+		<guid>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-14-what-am-i-giving-up/</guid>
+		<description>&lt;p&gt;ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! The thing that makes it difficult for us to give up is fear. The fear that we are being deprived of our pleasure or prop. The fear that certain pleasant situations will never be quite the same again. The fear of being unable to cope with stressful situations. In other words, the effect of brainwashing is to delude us into believing that sex and by extension orgasm, is a must for all human beings. Or that there is something inherent in Internet porn that we need and that when we stop PMOing we will be self-denying ourselves and there will be a void.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Get it clear in your mind:&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Internet porn&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;DOES NOT FILL A VOID.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;IT CREATES ONE!&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;These bodies of ours are the most sophisticated objects on this planet. Whether you believe in a creator, a process of natural selection or a combination of both, whatever being or system devised these bodies of ours, it is a thousand times more effective than man! Man cannot create the smallest living cell, let alone the miracle of eyesight, reproduction, our circulatory system or our brains. We don’t have our systems upgraded yet to properly assess the supranormal stimulus such as rich high density food or high speed internet novelty porn with multiple active windows.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;If the creator or process had intended us to handle novelty triggering stimuli, we would have been provided with some other brain reward circuits. Our bodies are, in fact, provided with fail-safe warning devices and we ignore these at our peril. Excessive edging results in body pain, irritation, and inflammation. In women, excessive flooding of dopamine and stress enzymes such as prostaglandin-E2 can cause difficulty to orgasm and PME.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;there-is-nothing-to-give-up&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;There Is Nothing To Give Up&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
+&lt;/div&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The beautiful truth is - there is nothing to give up. Once you purge that little monster from your body and the brainwashing (the big monster) from your mind, you will neither want to masturbate often nor need internet porn for it. PMO destroys your sense of self-control. I don’t think PMOers are self-destructive to continue even after knowing the ill-effects of internet porn. They clearly don’t have suicidal tendencies. They don’t enjoy this slavery themselves. Many of them do it in spite of the fact that they know it causes self-sabotage. You see there must be many unknowns and the medical community has no idea of even questioning and determining someone as an internet porn addict yet. So a lot of reported symptoms are wrongly tagged under other causes. It is not that PMOers are generally stupid people; it is just that they are miserable without the PMO. They are caught between the devil and the deep blue sea. They either have to abstain and be miserable because they cannot PMO or be miserable because they are destroying themselves through PMO and feel guilty and despise themselves for it. When they feel that lower back pain or get PIED, their minds are torn between accepting responsibility and looking the other way.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The problem I have is to make a convincing point as I’d have done for, let us say&amp;hellip; smokers? All of us have seen smokers who develop excuses to sneak off for a crafty puff. It is easy to see the true addiction in action. Addicts do not do it because they enjoy it. They do it because they are miserable without it.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Because many of us started out our first sexual experience that ended in an orgasm and we acquired the belief that we cannot enjoy sex without an orgasm. And for men, porn is sold as an aid towards sex, sometimes even as an education to be confident during the act of sex. It used to be static, but now we have supranormal internet porn. But this is nonsense. Internet porn takes away your confidence.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;women-and-porn&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Women And Porn&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
+&lt;/div&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The greatest evidence of the fear that porn instils is in its effect on women. Practically all women are fastidious about their personal appearance. They wouldn&amp;rsquo;t dream of appearing at a social function not immaculately turned out and smelling beautiful. So why would they fall for internet porn ? The traps were set as either a control trap (I can give up when I want) or an educational trap, or a freedom trap (I am entitled). Feminism has freed women from all the bad patriarchal rules of the past but they still need to be aware of supranormal stimulus such as internet porn.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Porn and internet porn does not help your sex life; it destroys it totally. Having to hide your internet footprints, trying to delete your history, fearing accidental exposure to your boyfriend or kids, body pains, doubtful symptoms, fighting self doubts, arguing with yourself about your responsibilities in the ill effects of your addiction&amp;hellip; well, why do you want to put yourself in such a bad situation?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Not only is there nothing to give up but there are marvellous positive gains to be had. When PMOers contemplate quitting they tend to concentrate on health and virility. These are obviously valid and important issues but I personally believe the greatest gains from stopping are psychological:&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;ol&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;The return of your confidence and courage.&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;Freedom from the slavery.&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;Not to have to go through life suffering the awful black shadows at the back of your mind, knowing you are being despised by half of the population and, worst of all, despising yourself.&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ol&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Not only is life better as a non-PMOer but it is infinitely more enjoyable. I do not only mean you will be healthier. I mean you will be happier and enjoy life far more. The marvellous gains from being a non-PMOer are discussed in the next few chapters. Some PMOers find it difficult to appreciate the concept of the &amp;lsquo;void&amp;rsquo; and the following analogy may assist you.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;void-the-void-the-beautiful-void&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Void, the Void, the Beautiful Void!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
+&lt;/div&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Imagine having a cold sore on your face. I&amp;rsquo;ve got this marvellous ointment. I say to you, “try this stuff.” You rub the ointment on and the sore disappears immediately. A week later it reappears. You ask, “do you have any more of that ointment?” I say, “sure, keep the tube. You might need it again.” You apply the ointment once again. Hey presto, the sore disappears again. But every time the sore returns, it gets larger and more painful and the interval gets shorter and shorter. Eventually the sore covers your whole face and is excruciatingly painful. It is now returning every half hour. You know that the ointment will remove it temporarily, but you are very worried. Will the sore eventually spread over your whole body? Will the interval disappear completely? You go to your doctor. He can&amp;rsquo;t cure it. You try other things but nothing helps except this magical ointment.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;By now you are completely dependent on the ointment. You never go out without ensuring that you have a tube of the ointment with you. If you go abroad, you make sure that you take several tubes with you. Now, in addition to your worries about your health, I&amp;rsquo;m charging you $100 per tube. You have no choice but to pay.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;You then read in the medical column of your newspaper that this isn&amp;rsquo;t happening just to you; many other people have been suffering from the same problem. In fact, pharmacists have discovered that the ointment doesn&amp;rsquo;t actually cure the sore. All that it does is to take the sore beneath the surface of the skin. It is the ointment that has caused the sore to grow. All you have to do to get rid of the sore is to stop using the ointment. The sore will eventually disappear in due course.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Would you continue to use the ointment? Would it take willpower not to use the ointment? If you didn&amp;rsquo;t believe the medical article, there might be a few days of apprehension, but once you realized that the sore was beginning to get better, the need or desire to use the ointment would go, Would you be miserable? Of course you wouldn&amp;rsquo;t. You had an awful problem which you thought was insoluble. Now you&amp;rsquo;ve found the solution. Even if it took a year for that sore to disappear completely, each day, as it improved, you&amp;rsquo;d think. “isn&amp;rsquo;t it marvellous? I&amp;rsquo;m not going to die!” This was the magic that happened to me on my final PMO day. Let me make one point quite clear in the analogy of the sore and the ointment.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The sore isn&amp;rsquo;t lung cancer, or arterial sclerosis, or emphysema, or angina, or chronic asthma, or bronchitis, or coronary heart disease. They are all in addition to the sore. It isn&amp;rsquo;t the body pains, lack of normal lust, flagging arousal, fading penetration, the wasted time spent on lifeless two dimensional images, the times when we felt infringed of our entitlement because we are not allowed to PMO. It isn&amp;rsquo;t the lifetime of being despised by other people who caught you or, worst of all, despising yourself. These are all in addition to the sore.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The sore is what makes us close our minds to all these things. It&amp;rsquo;s that panic feeling of, “I want a fix.” Non-PMOers don&amp;rsquo;t suffer from that feeling. The worst thing we ever suffer from is fear, and the greatest gain you will receive is to be rid of that fear. It was as if a great mist had suddenly lifted from my mind. I could see so clearly that that panic feeling of wanting a porn fix wasn&amp;rsquo;t some sort of weakness in me or some magic quality of internet porn. It was caused by the first PMO session; and each subsequent one - far from relieving the feeling, it was actually causing it.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;At the same time I could see all these other “happy” PMOers - the ones who are blinded by their cunning little porn monsters - were going through the same nightmare that I was. Not as bad as mine yet all putting up phony arguments to try to justify their stupidity.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;IT&amp;rsquo;S SO NICE TO BE FREE!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
+	</item>
+	
+	<item>
+		<title>03-13 Social Night PMOing</title>
+		<link>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-13-social-night-pmoing/</link>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2022 11:47:03 +0200</pubDate>
+		
+		<guid>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-13-social-night-pmoing/</guid>
+		<description>&lt;p&gt;This is a misinformation that seems to make sense but then it does not. In order to have control of eating, will you eat at home before leaving to go to a restaurant or a party? This is what you are doing when you PMO before your social night. You will look tired and will not be up to your best. If you have dating jitters then work on it beforehand and then go with the flow even with some butterflies in your stomach. I like a bit of the anxiety in me to keep me going. Tiring yourself mentally and physically with an orgasm is not going to help you, unless of course you are going to see a prostitute. The goal is entirely different in that angle.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The widespread adoption of pick-up techniques has put pressure on guys to perform, to attract and to ‘score’. You can get knowledge but you should know how to use it. I can guarantee that 100% of the other guys hanging at that bar know exactly what you know. It comes down to the ‘how’ of how you use it when you get the chance. Even before that, there is one very critical thing about any knowledge pertaining to human interactions, that ‘knowledge’ should never force your actions. This is important.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I once masturbated and then poured wine to quiet the butterflies in my stomach before a date. I looked tired after just one hour into the date, the loud noise of the bar, dehydration, excessive self-consciousness (PUA teachings) etc. made my time unenjoyable. Somehow the girl and her friend liked it all. However, I do think it would have been better if I had gone without any props. I ended up being successful by claiming my &amp;lsquo;goal(s)&amp;rsquo; - which I consider unfortunate and as random luck.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The PMO session I had before the date triggered a dopamine flooding and its withdrawal hit around the time I was with the date. I had to over-do my conversation to compensate the ineffective dopamine effects after that earlier orgasm. I am also sure that I was suffering from hypofrontality - where my impulses were failing my controls. That gushing moment, an extra decibel in the tone etc. would easily have given my nervousness to the girls - only if I was not protected by the loud noise in the bar. Why do you want to take chances?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;PMO ceases to relieve the withdrawal pangs that it causes in the first place. That is also why heavy PMOers turn to alcohol or other drugs. But I digress. Social night PMOing is occasioned by two or more of our usual reasons for pleasure/prop seeking, e.g. social functions, parties, weddings, school exams, game night, even business meetings. These are examples of occasions that are both stressful and relaxing. This might at first appear to be a contradiction but it isn&amp;rsquo;t. Any form of socializing can be stressful, even with friends, and at the same time you want to be enjoying yourself and be completely relaxed.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;There are situations where multiple reasons are present at one and the same time. To illustrate I will quote driving as one of these. But driving always involves an element of stress. Your life is at stake. You are also having to concentrate. You may not be aware of the last two factors but the fact that they are subconscious doesn&amp;rsquo;t mean they aren&amp;rsquo;t there. And if you are stuck in a traffic jam or have a long motorway drive, you may also be bored and may have ‘promised’ yourself to a PMO after you reach home.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Another classic example is going on a first date. Especially when you know something about the date before hand like their profile from an online dating site. Your mind is throwing questions back and forth. If she is a 10 and in that vicinity or if the date is from another race which is socially ‘perceived’ as a couple of levels above your race then it gets even noisier in your head. Then the surprise to meet the person in flesh, first the looks, then the voice, then the mannerisms. Expectations determine the level of interest you have for her from there on. If your enthusiasm starts to flag you will start to feel too relaxed but then you feel guilty for feeling too relaxed. The tug of war has started. I want sex or get me out of here ASAP - I know where to get it. That will lead you to the next stage of post-date PMOing.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Even if the date went fine and hours later you are at her door and which ever way it goes, you will not be satisfied if your goal is fully on the orgasm-seek. At other times, you drive home alone and all you want to do is to go to your online harem instead of patting yourself on the back for your efforts and enjoying yourself.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;You can bet that this unfortunate guy is going to PMO after he reaches home. It is often after nights like these, when we wake to feel the uneasy emptiness, are often the special ones, the ones that we think we&amp;rsquo;ll miss the most when we are contemplating stopping PMOing. We think that life will never be quite as enjoyable again. In fact, it is the same principle at work: these PMO sessions simply provide relief from withdrawal pangs and at certain times we have greater need to relieve them than at others. You had ended up ‘greasing’ the neural ‘waterslides’ in your brain and made it ready to slide again on the next cue.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Let us make it quite clear. It is not the internet porn and the harem dwellers that are special; it is the occasion. Once we have removed the need for the PMO, such occasions will become more enjoyable and the stressful situations less stressful. This will be explained in greater detail in the next chapter.&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
+	</item>
+	
+	<item>
+		<title>03-12 Relaxation</title>
+		<link>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-12-relaxation/</link>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2022 11:44:10 +0200</pubDate>
+		
+		<guid>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-12-relaxation/</guid>
+		<description>&lt;p&gt;Most PMOers think that PMO helps to relax them. The truth is that internet porn used in PMO acts like a chemical stimulant. The frantic search to get the fix in those “dark alleys of the internet” and the internal struggle to reign in the dog straining at its leash for more shocking clips does not sound much like an activity of relaxation to me.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;One of the favourite PMO sessions for most is the one after a trip to a new place or after along day. As the night rolls in we stop working; we sit down and relax, relieve our hunger and thirst and are then completely satisfied. However, the poor PMOer cannot relax, as he has another hunger to satisfy. He thinks of the PMO as the icing on the cake but it is the &amp;rsquo;little monster&amp;rsquo; that needs feeding.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The truth is that the addict can never be completely relaxed and as you go through life it gets worse. The most stressed people on this planet aren&amp;rsquo;t non-PMOers but those young men and women who have a need to hunt (with the misunderstood goal of orgasm) and their ignorance of and/or low opinion of amative sex. Women who have subscribed to “I must orgasm” teachings are not even aware of the victim they have made of themselves. At this point any sex that leads to climax and orgasm cease to relieve even partially the symptoms that they have created.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I can remember when I was bringing up a family. If my child would do something wrong I would quickly lose my temper to an extent that was out of all proportion to what he had done.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;My partner was “always frigid and not interested in sex.” Now I realize that if I had only tried the amative side of things then maybe I could have relieved myself of a great measure of stress at least - if not at me, I am sure she would have. One online comment&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;“I really believed that I had an evil demon in my make-up. I now know that I had, however it wasn&amp;rsquo;t some inherent flaw in my character but the little internet porn monster that was creating the problem. During those times I thought I had all the problems in the world but when I look back on my life I wonder where all the great stress was. In everything else in my life I was in control. The one thing that controlled me was this porn slavery. The sad thing is that even today I can&amp;rsquo;t convince my children that it was the slavery that caused me to be so irritable.”&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Every time I hear a porn addict trying to justify his addiction the message is, “Oh, it calms me. It helps me to relax.”&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;On the Internet I read about a single dad whose 6 year old son would want to share his bed sometimes in the night after a scary movie yet the dad would refuse under some pretence so he can have his PMO session and edge for hours.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Let me try a smoking analogy here&amp;hellip; a couple of years ago, the adoption authorities threatened to prevent smokers from adopting children. A man rang up, irate. He said, “you are completely wrong. I can remember when I was a child, if I had a contentious matter to raise with my mother, I would wait until she lit a cigarette because she was more relaxed then.” Why couldn&amp;rsquo;t he talk to his mother when she wasn&amp;rsquo;t smoking a cigarette?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Why are PMOers so stressd when they are not getting their fix, even after a real sex with a real woman? I read about a guy who has 9&amp;rsquo;s and 10&amp;rsquo;s open for dating with him as he was in the advertising field. I am talking about dinner and stuff only - but he lost interest in those dinners as his Internet porn is far more ‘easy’ for him - no restaurant spending and no hearing a ‘no’ from his date at the end of an evening. Why would he bother when his little monster tells him about the low-risk high-reward scheme called PMO that is at his fingertips when he reaches home? Those real girls sure have competition.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Why are non-PMOers completely relaxed then? Why are PMOers not able to relax without a fix for a day or two? If you read about the experience of a PMOer taking the abstinence oath and quitting and you notice his struggle with the temptations. You can clearly see that they are not relaxed at all when they are not allowed to have the ‘only pleasure’ they are “entitled to enjoy.” They&amp;rsquo;ve forgotten what it feels like to be completely relaxed. That&amp;rsquo;s one of the many joys you have to come. The whole business of PMOing can be likened to a fly being caught in a pitcher plant. To begin with, the fly is eating the nectar. At some imperceptible stage the plant begins to eat the fly.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Isn&amp;rsquo;t it time you climbed out of that plant?&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
+	</item>
+	
+	<item>
+		<title>03-11 Concentration</title>
+		<link>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-11-concentration/</link>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2022 11:42:13 +0200</pubDate>
+		
+		<guid>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-11-concentration/</guid>
+		<description>&lt;p&gt;Sex and masturbation do not help concentration. That is just another illusion. When you are trying to concentrate, you automatically try to avoid distractions. So when a PMOer wants to concentrate he doesn&amp;rsquo;t even have to think about it. He automatically PMOs, partially ending the craving, gets on with the matter in hand and has already forgotten that he just PMOed. Sex in general do not help concentration. After years of masturbation your brain changes affect abilities such as assessing, planning and impulse control. The PMOer is already suffering: that little monster wants his fix.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;You are also stressed to provide novelty for the next PMO session as the same stuff will not generate enough dopamine and opioids. You have to “roam the internet streets” for novelty - all the while fighting the pull to cross the line towards shock. This creates more stress. After you orgasm, you feel unfulfilled as well.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Concentration is also affected adversely for another reason. Your dopamine receptors have already started to get reduced by building up natural tolerance to these large surges, reducing the benefit of the smaller dopamine boosts from natural de-stressors.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;In fact, your concentration and inspiration will be greatly improved as this process is reversed. For some it will be the concentration aspect that prevents them from succeeding when using the willpower method. They could put up with the irritability and bad temper but when they really needed to concentrate on something difficult they have to have that porn fix. I can well remember the panic I felt when I discovered that the hotel has no internet connection and I had this huge presentation the day after.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The loss of concentration that PMOers suffer when they try to escape is not, in fact, due to your abstinence from sex, let alone PMO. When you are addicted to something, you have mental blocks. When you have such a block, what do you do? You fire up the browser. That doesn&amp;rsquo;t cure the mental block, so then what do you do? You do what you have to do: you get on with it, just as non-PMOers do.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;When you are a PMOer nothing gets blamed on the cause. PMOers never have EDs; they just have an occasional down time. The moment you stop using, everything that goes wrong in your life is blamed on the fact that you&amp;rsquo;ve stopped. Now when you have a mental block, instead of just getting on with it, you start to say, “if only I could check out my favourites now, it would solve my problem.” You then start to question your decision to quit and escape from this slavery.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;If you believe that PMOing is a genuine aid to concentration, worrying about it will guarantee that you won&amp;rsquo;t be able to concentrate. It&amp;rsquo;s the doubting, not the physical withdrawal pangs, that causes the problem. Always remember: it is PMOer who suffers pangs and not non-PMOers. When I quit I went overnight from using everyday to zero without any apparent loss of concentration.&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
+	</item>
+	
+	<item>
+		<title>03-10 Boredom</title>
+		<link>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-10-boredom/</link>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2022 11:40:46 +0200</pubDate>
+		
+		<guid>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-10-boredom/</guid>
+		<description>&lt;p&gt;As soon as you get into your bed - and if you are like many people you are already on your favorite tube site - you will probably have already forgotten about it until I reminded you. It has become second nature. Another fallacy about PMOing is that it relieves boredom. Boredom is a frame of mind. The only time that happens is when you have been deprived for a long time or are trying to cut down, or during those first few PMO sessions after a failed attempt to stop.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The true situation is this: when you are addicted to internet porn’s supranormal novelty and then you decide to abstain from internet porn, there is something missing. If you have something to occupy your mind that isn&amp;rsquo;t stressful, you can go for long periods without being bothered by the absence of the drug. However, when you are bored there&amp;rsquo;s nothing to take your mind off it, so you feed the monster. When you are indulging yourself (i.e. not trying to stop or cut down), even firing up your incognito browser becomes subconscious. The PMOer can perform this ritual automatically. If any PMOer tries to remember the session during the last week, he can only remember a small proportion of them - e.g. the very last one or after a long abstinence.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The truth is that PMOing tend to increase boredom indirectly because orgasms make you feel lethargic and instead of undertaking some energetic activity, PMOers tend to prefer lounge around, bored, relieving their withdrawal pangs. This is why countering the brainwashing is so important. Because it&amp;rsquo;s a fact that PMOers tend to masturbate when they are bored and that we&amp;rsquo;re wired to interpret PMO as interesting. It doesn&amp;rsquo;t occur to us to question the fact how a two dimensional supranormal stimulus relieves boredom.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;We&amp;rsquo;ve also been brainwashed into believing that sex - even a bad sex - aids relaxation. It is a fact that when under stress or sad, couples want to have sex. In the absence of discrimination between amative and propagative sex, the goal is set to achieve orgasms by hook or by crook. Next time you do this watch how you both want to get away from each other as soon as it’s over. It is obvious that if they had just decided to cuddle, speak, hug and touch each other and go to sleep without the mandatory orgasms, the couple would have felt relieved. Well, if in the process, they wanted to have the propagative part then by all means they can but that is a topic not meant to be discussed in this book.&lt;/p&gt;
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+		<title>03-09 Stress</title>
+		<link>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-09-stress/</link>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2022 11:38:59 +0200</pubDate>
+		
+		<guid>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-09-stress/</guid>
+		<description>&lt;p&gt;I am referring not only to the great tragedies of life but also to the minor stresses, the socializing, the telephone call, the anxieties of the housewife with noisy young children and so on. Let us use the telephone conversation as an example. For most people the telephone is slightly stressful, particularly for the businessman. Most calls aren&amp;rsquo;t from satisfied customers or your boss congratulating you. There&amp;rsquo;s usually some sort of aggravation - something going wrong or somebody making demands. Then he or she comes home to the mundane family life of kids screaming and wife&amp;rsquo;s emotional demands on you. His already PMO weakened de-stressors are in no way ready to take the aggravation. At that time the PMOer, if he isn&amp;rsquo;t already doing so, will fantasize the relief of internet porn that he promised himself that night. He will even allow himself to “take one step more” into the ‘forbidden’ area that he had previously self-excluded. He doesn&amp;rsquo;t know why he does this but he does know that for some reason it appears to help.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;What has actually happened is this: without being conscious of it, he has already been suffering aggravation (i.e. the withdrawal pangs). By partially relieving that aggravation at the same time as normal stress, the total stress is reduced and the PMOer gets a boost. At this point the boost is not, in fact, an illusion. The Internet porn user will feel better than before. However, even when using porn to masturbate he or she is more tense than if he were a non-PMOer because the more you go into the drug, the more it knocks you down and the less it restores you when you masturbate. I promised no shock treatment. In the example I am about to give, I am not trying to shock you, I am merely emphasizing that PMO destroy your nerves rather than relax them.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Try to imagine getting to the stage where you cannot get aroused even with a very sexy and attractive partner. Just for a moment pause and try to visualize life where one very lovely and charming woman has to compete and fail with all the virtual porn stars who are in your &amp;lsquo;harem&amp;rsquo; to get your attention! Try to imagine the frame of mind of a man who, issued with that warning, actually continues PMOing and then dies without ever having had real sex with this charming and willing real woman. I had read real life stories like that from men and dismissed them as weirdos. In fact, I used to wish a doctor would tell me that this weird condition would happen if I continue PMO; then I would have stopped. Yet I was already fully expecting that PIED and hypofrontality where I am guaranteed to lose in a brain war. I didn&amp;rsquo;t think of myself as an impotent, just a heavy PMOer. Now, let’s talk about the stress that this is putting on me.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Such weird stories as the above are not fakes. That is what this awful ‘novelty’ porn drug does to you. As you go through life, it systematically takes away your nerve and courage. The more it takes your courage away, the more you are deluded into believing the porn is doing the opposite.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Have you ever been overtaken by panic when you are out on business travel and the hotel WiFi is down or too slow? Non-PMOers do not suffer from it. The internet porn drug causes that feeling. At the same time, as you go through life, PMO not only destroys your nerves but keeps building a powerful neural ‘water slide’, DeltaFosB, progressively destroying your ability to say no.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;By the time the PMOer reaches the stage at which it has killed his virility, he believes the PMO is his new girlfriend and cannot face life without it. Get it clear in your head that Internet porn is not relieving your nerves; it is slowly but steadily destroying them. One of the great gains of breaking the ‘habit’ is the return of your natural confidence and self-assurance.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;There is no need to self-rate based on your ability to get hard or to satisfy a woman. However, you do ‘know’ deep inside that this is slavery. It is not freedom. And that freedom cannot be achieved by continuing to ‘grease’ - repeating the same behaviour and energizing the ‘water slide’ neural pathways of your brain in ways that undercut your happiness in general and not to mention your libido.&lt;/p&gt;
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+		<title>03-08 Relieving Withdrawal Pangs</title>
+		<link>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-08-relieving-withdrawal-pangs/</link>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2022 11:36:16 +0200</pubDate>
+		
+		<guid>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-08-relieving-withdrawal-pangs/</guid>
+		<description>&lt;p&gt;As I explained earlier, PMOers think they do it for enjoyment, relaxation or some sort of education. In fact, this an illusion. The actual reason is the relief of withdrawal pangs. In the early days we use the porn as a curious and novel thing or even educational or as a rebel. We can take it or leave it. However, the subtle chain has started. Our subconscious mind begins to learn that internet porn and masturbation taken at certain times tends to be pleasurable. The more we become hooked on the drug, the greater the need to relieve the withdrawal pangs and the further the PMO drags you down and the more you are fooled into believing it is doing the opposite. It all happens so slowly, so gradually, you are not even aware of it. Each day you feel no different from the day before. Most young PMOers don&amp;rsquo;t even realize they are hooked until they actually try to stop and even then many won&amp;rsquo;t admit to it. A few stalwarts just keep their heads in the sand all their lives,trying to convince themselves and other people that they enjoy it.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Listen to this conversation a therapist had with hundreds of teenagers.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;TH: “You realize that internet porn is a drug and that the only reason why you are using is that you cannot stop.”&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;PA: “Nonsense! I enjoy it. If I didn&amp;rsquo;t, I would stop.”&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;TH: “Just stop for a week to prove to me you can if you want to.”&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;PA: “No need. I enjoy it. If I wanted to stop, I would.”&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;TH: “Just stop for a week to prove to yourself you are not hooked.”&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;PA: “What&amp;rsquo;s the point? I enjoy it.”&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;As already stated, PMOers tend to relieve their withdrawal pangs at times of stress, boredom, concentration, relaxation or a combination of these. This point is explained in greater detail in the next few chapters.&lt;/p&gt;
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+		<title>03-07 Brainwashing and the Primitive Mechanism</title>
+		<link>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-07-brainwashing-and-the-primitive-mechanism/</link>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2022 08:39:02 +0200</pubDate>
+		
+		<guid>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-07-brainwashing-and-the-primitive-mechanism/</guid>
+		<description>&lt;p&gt;How or why do we start PMOing in the first place? To understand this fully you need to examine the powerful effect of the supernormal stimulus. We all tend to think we are intelligent, dominant human beings determining our paths through life. We act and act frequently when our brain reward circuit are rewarded. Nobel laureate Nikolaas Tinbergen coined the term “supranormal stimulus.” He said mammals could be tricked into preferring fake eggs and mates. Female birds, for example, struggled to sit on larger-than life, vividly spotted plaster eggs while their own pale, dappled eggs perished untended.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The stimulation here in internet porn is not it brings stimulating actors and themes to your home - it is a genie at your bidding to create a harem in your mind. You can switch between genres and theme, home-made and viewer rated, commented and discussed, so rapid and so easy. We absolutely are not ready for the high speed internet porn and our brains are not designed to handle this supranormal stimuli.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;We can have an ‘information overload’ from the same internet but our reward circuits are not going to squirt dopamine at the levels when ‘porn overload’ is involved. We are evolutionarily programmed to seek and access sex related stuff. And we wrongly appraise the stimulus mostly based on this reward circuit action. If all you wanted is to masturbate why can’t you just use one clip and get the business done?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Here is another question - next time after a long day or some stressful incident can you consciously embellish your self-talk with “Do you know what I would really enjoy today? The marvellous warm glow of dopamine rush going to my online harem.” You will find that even people who dislike PMO will join you.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;past-misguided-advice&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Past Misguided Advice&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
+&lt;/div&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;There was much misguided advice given in the past and one is that masturbating will lead to blindness. And there are some other scare tactics that clearly over-did it. It is right that those notions were overthrown by science. But now the mainstream threw the baby out with the bath water. TV programs, pop music, literature and movies all subtly show shambolic characters using porn or masturbation. They knowingly or unknowingly mix porn, sex, internet porn, masturbation and orgasm.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;From our earliest years our subconscious minds are bombarded daily with information telling us that sex is good and that the most precious thing on this earth is to ‘achieve’ orgasm. Girls are taught to achieve it and claim it&amp;rsquo;s because they were wrongly suppressed of their sexual side for a very long time and still are. You think I exaggerate? Watch any TV or movie plot and you will see the mix-up of the amative (touch, smell, voice etc.) and the propagative (orgasmic) sides of sex. The impact of this does not register on our conscious minds but the sleeping partner, the subconscious mind, has time to absorb it. What the message is really saying is, “The most precious thing on this earth, my last thought and action, will be the goal of orgasm.” If you don’t have an orgasm then you are an old man with zero libido.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Our children are being bombarded by sex and porn clips and many don’t even know how to protect them from it all. Large hoardings and magazine adverts are loaded with sexual innuendo. Some of the pop videos are extremely suggestive - again they hide behind free speech. Don’t be vexed and feel powerless about it. Make it a game and find you which of the components they are using - is it novelty, shock value, color, size, taboo etc. If the kids are pre-teen some of these can be disclosed to them and it would make an excellent show-and-tell game.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;A while back there was a wave of ‘leaked’ private videos of celebrities on the internet. If the youngster is too smitten by their favourite star, even if the conscious mind blames the ‘leak’ on the blood thirsty internet paparazzi, the &amp;lsquo;sleeping partner&amp;rsquo; is patiently digesting the notion that, “yes, even my shambolic hero does it and if I don’t, I won’t look the part.”&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;the-scientific-reasoning&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Scientific Reasoning&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
+&lt;/div&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;True, there is publicity the other way - the PIED scares, the loss of motivation, preferring virtual porn to real girls, YBOP&lt;sup id=&#34;fnref:1&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#fn:1&#34; class=&#34;footnote-ref&#34; role=&#34;doc-noteref&#34;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;, Reboot&lt;sup id=&#34;fnref:2&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#fn:2&#34; class=&#34;footnote-ref&#34; role=&#34;doc-noteref&#34;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; forums, underground PUA&lt;sup id=&#34;fnref:3&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#fn:3&#34; class=&#34;footnote-ref&#34; role=&#34;doc-noteref&#34;&gt;3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;, the no FAP movement - but these do not actually stop people PMOing. Logically they should, but the fact is they do not. They would not even prevent youngsters from starting no matter how much the YBOP guys try. All the years that I remained a PMOer, I can honestly say, even if I had read all of them before, I would never have become a quitter. The truth is that it doesn&amp;rsquo;t make the slightest bit of difference. The trap is the same today as when you fell into it.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Ironically, the most powerful force in this melee of confusion is the PMOer himself. It is a fallacy that they are weak-willed or are physically weak specimens. You have to be physically strong in order to cope with an addiction after you know it is. This is one of the reasons why PMOers refuse to accept the overwhelming statistics that prove that internet porn with its ‘novelty’ cripples your brain. Add to that the sexologists who are doing half-baked studies and declare PMO is not an issue - they just help to add to the confusion.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Everyone knows a friend who PMOed every day - he started with the ‘static’ to internet porn, always horny in real life, chasing girls and you never doubted him to have sex problems of course. You want to believe him. He never complained about any ED right? Guys and girls like them refuse even to consider the hundreds of ex-addicts and non-PMOers who painfully recount their difficulties. It is the “little monster” brain chemical addiction and the “big monster” - illusions and delusions. In this hackbook, I&amp;rsquo;ve put together almost all the sorts of brainwashing a PMOer can suffer from. There will always be a few out there that I haven&amp;rsquo;t touched upon.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Even more painful is they think of themselves as unsuccessful losers and insufferable introverts. A possible fact is that a PMO friend could have been more interesting in person if he hadn’t put himself down for seeking self-pleasure.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;If you do a small survey among your online forum members, friends and colleagues, you will find that most PMOers are, in fact, strong-willed people. They tend to be self-employed, business executives or in certain specialized professions, such as doctors&lt;sup id=&#34;fnref:4&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#fn:4&#34; class=&#34;footnote-ref&#34; role=&#34;doc-noteref&#34;&gt;4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;, lawyers, policemen, teachers, salesmen, nurses, secretaries, housewives with children, etc. In other words, anybody leading a stressful existence. Yes, I did include women and mothers. It’s the brain and it’s the same for them too. The main delusion of the PMOer is that porn helps to masturbate to orgasm and that relieves stress. This tends to be associated with the dominant type, the type that takes on responsibility and stress and, of course, that is the type that we admire and therefore tend to copy. Another group that tends to get hooked are people in monotonous jobs because the other main reason for PMOing is boredom. However, the idea that internet porn relieves boredom is also an illusion, I am afraid.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;As a society we get all uptight about glue-sniffing, heroin addiction, etc. Actual deaths from glue-sniffing do not amount to ten per annum, and deaths from heroin are less than a hundred a year in this country. There is another drug, internet porn, on which over 45 per cent of us become hooked at some time in our lives and the majority spend the rest of their lives regretting it. Some even don’t know that their ED is due to this.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;the-willpower-method&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Willpower Method&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
+&lt;/div&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;PMOers who quit using the Willpower method blame their own lack of willpower and ruin their peace and happiness. It is one thing to fail in self-discipline and another to self-loathe. There is no law that requires you to get fully hard all the time before sex, and to be properly aroused, and that you must be able to satisfy a woman. We are working on an addiction and not a habit. Habit is something you like to do- for example, golf - at no point you are arguing with yourself to stop golfing? But you do so with your porn addiction. The real question is: why?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Constant exposure to internet porn re-wires your brain. You need to start building resistance to this brainwashing, just as if you were buying a car from a second-hand car dealer. You would be nodding politely but you would not believe a word the man was saying. So don’t believe everything they say either - that you must have sex as much as you can and you must have it exceptional good. And that in the absence of real sex you claim it by the substitute called internet porn - which is only a component of the good old porn.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;And don’t play ‘safe’ porn game either - because your “little porn monster” invented that scheme to lure you. Even the content - ‘amateur’? Really? Is there a certification authority that certifies it? Tube sites and porn producers gather site visitor profiles and cater to their needs. If they see a trend in crowd sourced collection of a particular genre they will focus on that and get content out ASAP. The statistics of what genre users like is collected to the level of how long and which portion the users were preferring. Do not be fooled by their educational intent or the safe female oriented clips (for you ladies). Start asking yourself:&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;ul&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;Why am I doing it?&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;Do I really need to?&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NO, OF COURSE YOU DON&amp;rsquo;T.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I find this brainwashing aspect the most difficult of all to explain. Why is it that an otherwise rational, intelligent human being becomes a complete imbecile about his own addiction? It pains me to confess that out of the thousands of people that I have assisted in kicking the habit, I (not Allen Carr) was the biggest idiot of all.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;At the age of thirteen, although I was doing well at school and games, I was still an insufferable introvert. I read books from the library that were not within my main study list. However, I can see that I was attracted to erotica. I started masturbating to TV programs, song and dance sequences etc. I must have to have it every day. The tired feeling I felt was misappropriated by my ‘little porn monster’ as work stress. I didn’t know my “I-must-masturbate-as-I-am-entitled” attitude was the one that created the ‘stress’ in the first place. Then I got pictures and GIFs via email on my laptop - the first step towards electronic porn. The colour and texture of the images were amazing for me at that time - won’t be now for sure. Then came dial-up but still they were predominantly static pictures. Then came downloadable videos. It’s a pain to download and watch now - but it was heaven sent then as we were coming out of the static porn era! Oh, the streaming tube sites haven’t arrived yet.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;when-real-sex-is-not-enough-anymore&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;When Real Sex Is Not Enough Anymore&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
+&lt;/div&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I even remember opening up my laptop after having real sex (an activity I did due to stress induced by my own irrational rigid self demands to make her orgasm) and I was wanting more. Obviously the prospect of orgasm providing fulfilment rarely happens after prolonged porn use. So, my mind was reaching out to porn.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;At the age of forty, I was visiting my online harem daily, drinking ‘socially’ (whatever that means) and smoking ‘sometimes’ but not so often. I had wrongly subscribed to misguided ideas of ‘moderation’ and ‘entitlement’. I had reached the stage where I couldn&amp;rsquo;t get through a single day without reaching out to porn in the night. With most PMOers, the triggers are the normal stresses of life, like answering the telephone or socializing.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;When I experienced PIED - I knew it was killing my virility. There was no way I could kid myself otherwise. I am smart enough not to ‘project’ the porn fantasies on to real life. But it was like pacifying a dog straining at its leash. But why I couldn&amp;rsquo;t see what it was doing to me mentally, I could not understand. It was almost jumping up and biting me on the nose. The ridiculous thing is that most PMOers suffer the delusion at some time in their life that they enjoy internet porn because it is ‘normal’ and ‘healthy’. I never suffered that delusion, I PMOed because I thought enjoying sex is a ‘birthright’ and I am only doing a normal thing.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Since it was easier at most times for me to get internet porn than a partner I thought I am doing the normal thing. Now I am a non-PMOer, the most difficult part is trying to believe that those days actually happened. It&amp;rsquo;s like awakening from a nightmare and that is about the size of it. Internet porn is a supranormal drug. It is weakening your de-stressing mechanisms, your virility and your energy. The worst aspect of PMO isn&amp;rsquo;t the injury to your health or manliness, it is the warping of the mind. You search for any plausible excuse to go on.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I remember at one stage switching to static images, a failed attempt to cut down on internet porn, in the belief that it was less harmful and I could reign in my ‘habit’. I failed to see the ‘novelty’ and the ‘shock’ demands from my ‘little monster’ to just get more dopamine. Did I ‘stay’ within my boundaries? I ‘favorited’ 2 dimensional photos and my harem collection saw pictures and videos of ‘mild’ type porn rotating in and out like musical chair. When their ‘music’ stopped they ‘exited’. I didn’t understand the novelty-seeking, shock-seeking nature of my brain.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;pied-and-my-excuses&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PIED And My Excuses&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
+&lt;/div&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Once I figured I had PIED, as it had occurred multiple times with two different partners, I switched to more and more sophisticated masturbation. I practised with different artificial vaginas. They are sold as strength training. However, the combo of internet porn and toys needs deft hands, which is off-putting. Besides, by this time I was at the stage of orgasming with a limp member. All I wanted is an orgasm so I did not care about arousal, getting hard and all that. I had a long distance married girlfriend - who likes to share and talk about her sex life in very explicit manner. It turned me on so much that I’d masturbate to orgasm when I am on the phone with her. She knew it and would play with me by cutting off abruptly - to keep me hanging there - making me wanting more when she calls the next time. She had no trouble because I was fully willing to be the subject of playing such games, as long as it led to orgasm. A girl knows when a guy is seeking orgasm and it is his only goal. The only redeeming factor about me was my intelligence and empathy which kept her and my other partners coming back to me.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Most PMOers swear that they only watch static and soft porn and so they are OK. They are actually straining at the leash and thus fighting with their willpower to resist temptations. If they do this too often and for too long they will debit their willpower considerably and fail in other life projects where willpower is of much great value, like in daily exercise, dieting etc. Continuous failure in those areas will make them feel miserable and guilty and very soon they will find themselves back to their entitled relief. If not, they will vent their anger and depression onto their loved ones.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The answer is that once you have become addicted to internet porn, the brainwashing is increased. Your subconscious mind knows that the little monster has to be fed and you block everything else from your mind. As I have already stated, it is fear that keeps people quitting, the fear of that empty, insecure feeling that you get when you stop supplying the brain with dopamine flooding. Just because you are not aware of it doesn&amp;rsquo;t mean it isn&amp;rsquo;t there. You don&amp;rsquo;t have to understand it any more than a cat needs to understand where the under-floor hot-water pipes are. It just knows that if it sits in a certain place it gets the feeling of warmth.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;the-passivity-of-our-mind&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Passivity Of Our Mind&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
+&lt;/div&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;It is the passivity of our minds and dependency on authority leading to brainwashing that is the main difficulty in giving up PMO. The brainwashing of our upbringing in society reinforced with the brainwashing from our own addiction and, most powerful of all, the brainwashing of our friends, relatives and colleagues. Did you notice that up to now I&amp;rsquo;ve frequently referred to &amp;lsquo;giving up&amp;rsquo; PMO, I used the expression at the beginning of the previous paragraph. This is a classic example of the brainwashing. The expression implies a genuine sacrifice. The beautiful truth is that there is absolutely nothing to give up. On the contrary, you will be freeing yourself from a terrible disease and achieving marvellous positive gains. We are going to start removing this brainwashing now. From this point on, no longer will we refer to &amp;lsquo;giving up&amp;rsquo;, but to stopping, quitting or the true position: &lt;strong&gt;ESCAPING!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The only thing that persuades us to PMO in the first place is all the other people doing it. We feel we are missing out. We work so hard to become hooked, yet nobody ever finds out what they have been missing. But every time we see another new video clip it reassures us that there must be something in it, otherwise people wouldn&amp;rsquo;t be doing it - and it wouldn&amp;rsquo;t be such big business all over the world. Even when he has kicked the habit, the ex-PMOer feels he is being deprived when a discussion on a sexy entertainer, singer or even a porn star comes up at a party or other social function. She or he must be good to have all my friends talk about them, no? Do they have ‘hot’ pictures of her in my tube site? He feels safe. He can have just one ‘peek’ that night. And, before he knows it, he is hooked again.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;This brainwashing is extremely powerful and you need to be aware of its effects. I have heard scare stories about wicked men giving heroin mixed candies to kids at schoolyards. The concept of addiction and being compelled to go on taking the drug, filled me with horror. Even to this day, in spite of the fact that I am fairly convinced that &amp;lsquo;pot&amp;rsquo; is not addictive, I would not dare take one puff of marijuana. How ironic that I should have ended up a porn junky. Technology will continue to grow and we will have even faster tube sites and more faster access methods. The industry is investing millions in Virtual Reality so it will become the next best thing. The point is, do we know where we are going? Are we equipped with an under armour of defence so we can enjoy the benefits of technology yet at the same time protect ourselves from its bad effects?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;We are about to remove the brainwashing. It is not the non-PMOer who is being deprived but the poor user who is forfeiting a lifetime of:&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;ul&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HEALTH&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ENERGY&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WEALTH&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PEACE OF MIND&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CONFIDENCE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;COURAGE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SELF-RESPECT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HAPPINESS&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;FREEDOM&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;And what does he gain from these considerable sacrifices? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! Except the illusion of trying to get back to the state of peace, tranquillity and confidence that the non-PMOer enjoys all the time.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;div class=&#34;footnotes&#34; role=&#34;doc-endnotes&#34;&gt;
+&lt;hr&gt;
+&lt;ol&gt;
+&lt;li id=&#34;fn:1&#34;&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;YBOP&lt;/strong&gt; - yourbrainonporn.com, the leading internet porn addiction awareness site.&amp;#160;&lt;a href=&#34;#fnref:1&#34; class=&#34;footnote-backref&#34; role=&#34;doc-backlink&#34;&gt;&amp;#x21a9;&amp;#xfe0e;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li id=&#34;fn:2&#34;&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PUA&lt;/strong&gt; - pickup artist. Someone who teaches men to pick up mates.&amp;#160;&lt;a href=&#34;#fnref:2&#34; class=&#34;footnote-backref&#34; role=&#34;doc-backlink&#34;&gt;&amp;#x21a9;&amp;#xfe0e;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li id=&#34;fn:3&#34;&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reboot forum&lt;/strong&gt; - online resource for those who try temporary abstinence.&amp;#160;&lt;a href=&#34;#fnref:3&#34; class=&#34;footnote-backref&#34; role=&#34;doc-backlink&#34;&gt;&amp;#x21a9;&amp;#xfe0e;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li id=&#34;fn:4&#34;&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Doctors&lt;/strong&gt; - there is a reddit online forum for medical doctors who are quitting.&amp;#160;&lt;a href=&#34;#fnref:4&#34; class=&#34;footnote-backref&#34; role=&#34;doc-backlink&#34;&gt;&amp;#x21a9;&amp;#xfe0e;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ol&gt;
+&lt;/div&gt;
+</description>
+	</item>
+	
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 		<title>03-06 Internet Porn</title>
 		<link>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-06-internet-porn/</link>
@@ -21,7 +449,7 @@ action more happy feelings.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;So the first time you see porn - dopamine injects itself - you act - you orgasm. All of which will now be stored as a script in your brain for easy access next time. I call this a ‘water slide’. Next time at the cue - a sexy commercial or alone time or stress or feeling a little down - you are ready to take a ride on the ‘water slide’. One more thing is that every time to repeat this you are ‘greasing’ it as well - so it is active, alive and more easier to slide the next time.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;As time passes you are most probably not excited as before of the same clip - the reason will be explained shortly - but of similar type, genre, shock-level, our dopamine seeps into the brain but this time lesser than before. Now you feel less arousal, lesser motivation. This low motivation feeling in itself will trigger a feeling of lower satisfaction as our minds engage in constant rating. Then you seek more motivation. Then you ask for more novelty. Then you click on that amateurish, ugly looking, low quality, but high shock valued clip thumbnail which you had confidently said you won’t on your first time.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My Own Online Harem!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;my-own-online-harem&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My Own Online Harem!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;This cycle of novelty, escalation, satiation, desensitization etc. is not the same as the old porn magazine? Neither can you do that in real life with your partner. Maybe if you own a harem? One of the pros of owning a harem is novelty and the cons are desensitization, escalation and of course the cost.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;Going back to the earlier discussion - in this cycle as you crossed the ‘red line’ you also trigger emotions such as guilt, disgust, embarrassment, anxiety and fear - which in turn raise dopamine levels as well. Now the brain may mistakenly associate feelings of anxiety and fear as sexual arousal. This perpetual cycle is only broken by natural causes - fortunately sooner or later. With its free access and privacy it provides boundless harem-like novelty. The dopamine can be theoretically kept very high for a very very long time. I can be satisfied with one lobster once in awhile. But Internet porn is different. It is even worse than drugs. Don’t let me make you nervous. I will shortly show you how to be free from this slavery.&lt;/p&gt;
@@ -36,13 +464,13 @@ action more happy feelings.&lt;/p&gt;
 use?&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;This dopamine flooding, like a quick-acting drug, falls quickly to induce withdrawal pangs. I must at this point dispel a common illusion that PMOers have about withdrawal pangs. They think that withdrawal pangs are the terrible trauma they suffer when they try or are forced to stop PMOing. These are, in fact, mainly mental; the user is feeling deprived of his pleasure or prop. I will explain more about this later.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Little Monster&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;the-little-monster&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Little Monster&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;The actual pangs of withdrawal from PMO are so subtle that most users have lived and died without even realizing they are like drug addicts. When we use the term ‘porn addict&amp;rsquo; we think we just &amp;lsquo;got into the habit&amp;rsquo;. Most PMOers have a horror of drugs, yet that&amp;rsquo;s exactly what they are - drug addicts. Fortunately it is an easy drug to kick, but you need first to accept that you are addicted. There is no physical pain in the withdrawal from PMO. It is merely an empty, restless feeling, the feeling of something missing, which is why many think it is something to do with their hands. If it is prolonged, the user becomes nervous, insecure, agitated, lacking in confidence and irritable. It is like hunger - for a poison, INTERNET PORN.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;Within seconds of engaging in PMO the dopamine is supplied and the craving ends, resulting in the feeling of fulfilment and pleasure that the action gives to the PMOer. In the early days, when we first start PMOing, the withdrawal pangs and their relief are so slight that we are not even aware that they exist. When we begin to masturbate regularly to internet porn we think it is because we&amp;rsquo;ve either come to enjoy them or got into the &amp;lsquo;habit&amp;rsquo;. The truth is we&amp;rsquo;re already hooked; we do not realize it, but that little monster is already inside our stomach and every now and again we have to feed it.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;All PMOers start seeking porn for stupid reasons. Nobody has to. The only reason why anybody continues PMOing, whether they be a casual or a heavy user, is to feed that little monster. The whole business of porn and PMO is a series of confusing conundrums. All sufferers of PMO know at heart that they are fools and have been trapped by something evil. However, I think the most pathetic aspect about this is that the enjoyment that the PMOer gets from a session is the pleasure of trying to get back to the state of peace, tranquillity and confidence that his body had before he became hooked in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Annoying Burglar Alarm&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;the-annoying-burglar-alarm&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Annoying Burglar Alarm&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;You know that feeling when a neighbour’s burglar alarm has been ringing all day, or there has been some other minor, persistent aggravation. Then the noise suddenly stops - that marvellous feeling of peace and tranquillity is experienced. It is not really peace but the ending of the aggravation. Before we start the next PMO session, our bodies are complete. We then force our brains to pump dopamine into the body using PMO, and when we are done orgasming and the dopamine starts to leave, we suffer withdrawal pangs - not physical pain, just an empty feeling. We are not even aware that it exists, but it is like a dripping tap inside our bodies. Our rational minds do not understand it. They do not need to. All we know is that we want porn and when we masturbate the craving goes, and for the moment we are content and confident again just as we were before we
 became addicted. However, the satisfaction is only temporary because in order to relieve the craving you have to get more porn. As soon as you orgasm the craving starts again and so the chain goes on. It is a chain for life - &lt;strong&gt;UNLESS YOU BREAK IT&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
@@ -56,7 +484,7 @@ became addicted. However, the satisfaction is only temporary because in order to
 &lt;p&gt;The heroin doesn&amp;rsquo;t relieve it. On the contrary, it causes it. Non-PMOers - say a 14 year old in 2008 - didn&amp;rsquo;t suffer the empty feeling of needing internet porn or start to panic when they are off- line. Non-PMOers cannot understand how PMOers can possibly obtain pleasure from two dimensional videos with muted sounds and abnormal body proportions. And do you know something? PMOers themselves cannot understand why they do it after some time either.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;We talk about internet porn being relaxing or giving satisfaction. But how can you be satisfied unless you were dissatisfied in the first place? Why don&amp;rsquo;t non-PMOer suffer from this dissatisfied state and why, after a no-sex date, when the non-PMOers are completely relaxed, are PMOers completely unrelaxed until they have satisfied their &amp;rsquo;little monster&amp;rsquo;?&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Pleasure or Crutch?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;a-pleasure-or-crutch&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Pleasure or Crutch?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;Forgive me if I dwell on this subject for a moment. The main reason that PMOers find it difficult to quit is that they believe that they are giving up a genuine pleasure or crutch. It is absolutely essential to understand that you are giving up nothing whatsoever. The best way to understand the subtleties of the PMO trap is to compare it with eating. If we are in the habit of eating regular meals, we are not aware of being hungry between meals. Only if the meal is delayed are we aware of being hungry, and even then, there is no physical pain, just an empty, insecure feeling which we know as: &amp;lsquo;I need to eat.&amp;rsquo; And the process of satisfying our hunger is a very pleasantpastime.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;PMOing appears to be almost identical. The empty, insecure feeling which we know as: &amp;lsquo;wanting or needing an PMO orgasm’ is identical to a hunger for food, although one will not satisfy the other. Like hunger, there is no physical pain and the feeling is so imperceptible that we are not even aware of it between PMO sessions. It&amp;rsquo;s only if we want to masturbate and aren&amp;rsquo;t able to reach internet for porn that we become aware of any discomfort. But when we do PMO we feel satisfied.&lt;/p&gt;
@@ -68,12 +496,12 @@ became addicted. However, the satisfaction is only temporary because in order to
 &lt;li&gt;Eating doesn&amp;rsquo;t create hunger and genuinely relieves it, whereas the first PMO starts the craving for dopamine and each subsequent one, far from relieving it, ensures that you suffer it for the rest of life.&lt;/li&gt;
 &lt;/ol&gt;
 &lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PMO is a Habit?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;pmo-is-a-habit&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PMO is a Habit?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;This is an opportune moment to dispel another common myth about PMO - that it is a habit. Is eating a habit? If you think so, try breaking it completely. No, to describe eating as a habit would be the same as describing breathing as a habit. Both are essential for survival. It is true that different people are in the habit of satisfying their hunger at different times and with varying types of food. But eating itself is not a habit. Neither is PMO. The only reason any PMOer fires up the browser is to try to end the empty, insecure feeling that the previous orgasm and the PMO session created. It is true that different PMOers are in the habit of trying to relieve their withdrawal pangs at different times, but PMO itself is not a habit.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;On the internet they frequently refer to PMO as a habit and in this hackbook, for convenience, I also refer to the &amp;lsquo;habit&amp;rsquo;. However, be constantly aware that it is not habit, on the contrary it is no more nor less than DRUG ADDICTION! When we start to PMO we have to force ourselves to learn to cope with it. Before we know it, we are ‘escalating’&lt;sup id=&#34;fnref:1&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#fn:1&#34; class=&#34;footnote-ref&#34; role=&#34;doc-noteref&#34;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; - we have to then have more bizarre and more shocking porn. The thrill is in the hunting&amp;hellip; not in the killing. If we don&amp;rsquo;t then panic sets in and as we go through life we tend to novelty-seek more and more. Worse is when this seeking of higher shock level get into our real life. Have you heard about people suffering from PIED, that too in solo? How about wet dreams and fantasies where you are not even there but only involving others? There is no performance stress but I am not even getting hard. Great!&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Crossing The Red Line&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;crossing-the-red-line&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Crossing The Red Line&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;This is because, as with any other drug, the body tends to develop immunity to the effects of the same old porn clips and our brain wants more or something else. After quite a short period of watching the same clip it ceases to relieve completely the withdrawal pangs that the previous PMO session had created. You want to stay on the safe side of your own ‘red line’ but your brain is asking you to click on that ‘forbidden fruit’ clip. There is a tug of war occurring in this supposed porn paradise.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;You feel better than you did before starting this PMO session but you are in fact more nervous and less relaxed than you would be as a non-PMOer, like someone who is living in Loma Linda or in an Amish village, even though you are actually PMOing and living in your supposed “porn paradise.” This position is even more ridiculous than wearing tight shoes because as you go through life an increasing amount of the discomfort remains even when the shoes are removed.&lt;/p&gt;
@@ -86,19 +514,19 @@ became addicted. However, the satisfaction is only temporary because in order to
 &lt;p&gt;What magic drug can suddenly reverse the very effect it had minutes before? If you think about it, what other types of occasion are there in our lives; apart from sleep? The truth is that PMO neither relieves boredom and stress nor promotes concentration and relaxation. It is all just illusion. Apart from being a drug, PMO is also a destroyer of happiness and virility.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;In case you have ideas of toning down to other more ‘realistic’ or ‘soft’ genres of porn and such, I should make it quite clear that the content of this book applies to all porn, yes, that includes, print, webcams, pay-per-views, chat, live shows etc. that is on high speed internet where ‘novelty’ and ‘shock’ is the nature of the game. Imagination goes farther than reality. The human body is the most sophisticated object on our planet. No species, even the lowest amoeba or worm, can survive without knowing the difference between food and poison.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Brain Reward Circuit Mechanics&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;brain-reward-circuit-mechanics&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Brain Reward Circuit Mechanics&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;Through a process of natural selection over thousand of years, our minds and bodies have developed techniques for rewarding actions that multiply and sustain humanity. Yet our minds and bodies are not ready for the supernormal stimulus that is bigger, brighter, colourful, edgier and more shocking than the one we have now. We are attracted proportional to the degree of how far the outlier is from our individual normal. It can be two dimensional clip - and a muted one at that - we will get aroused. Look at the same clip again and again and you won’t be. You just moved your red line close to the outlier and in no time you will enclose it in your normal consciousness. It is natural and it is so that you can multiply and grow this human race. In real life there are checks and balances in place so you take a break and go away do something else. With internet porn you there are no such checks and balances and you are living in a virtual harem!&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;When we took a ‘peep’ at internet porn the first time, a few images were titillating but most were disgusting, causing you to avert your eyes away. Like you would if had accidentally glanced a feeding mother’s breast. And some of us are even revolted with what they saw when the star reminded them of someone dear to their heart or a scene which recalled their own instance of being the victim. Some don’t feel like it to browse and masturbate at the same time. It may be hard to believe for you but the non-PMOs, who don’t PMO after their first time, are the lucky ones. They actually decided that it was not their cup of tea. It must be hard for you to believe but stay with me.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;How many of us don’t visit brothels - even when you are far from home? Why not? It’s not the social stigma? How many of us did not bring home a bottle on your way back from work - even after a hard day? Why not ? You ‘deserve’ it after that big deal you made? You just decided, after your first instance, that it’s not your cup of tea. That&amp;rsquo;s all.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Are PMOers Mentally Weak?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;are-pmoers-mentally-weak&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Are PMOers Mentally Weak?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;It is a fallacy that physically weak and mentally weak-willed people become PMOers. The lucky ones are those who find that first instance repulsive and they are cured for life. Or, alternatively, they are not mentally prepared to go through the severe learning process of fighting the obstructions of self-talking themselves to get hooked, fear of ‘getting caught’, not technical enough to create an online cache, operate privacy settings in the browser etc.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;To me this is the most tragic part of this whole business. How hard we worked to become hooked, and this is why it is difficult to stop teenagers. Because they are skilled in seeking and finding material, they know online privacy options and can clean their tracks - if they still feel some stigma and they (wrongfully) believe they can stop whenever they want to. Why do they not learn from us? Then again, why did we not learn from our PMOers and addicts?&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;Many PMOers believe they enjoy online internet porn. It is an illusion. What we are actually doing when we jump from genre to genre is to keep our ‘novelty’ monkey within the ‘red line’ of ‘safe’ porn genres to get our dopamine fix, like heroin addicts who think that they enjoy injecting themselves. The withdrawal pangs from heroin are relatively severe and all they are really enjoying is the ritual of relieving those pangs.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The High From The Dance Around The Red Line&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;the-high-from-the-dance-around-the-red-line&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The High From The Dance Around The Red Line&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;Even with that one clip on which he lingers longer - the PMOer constantly teaches himself to filter out the bad and ugly portions of a porn clip. Even if it is solo, you still do the ‘filtering’ on the body parts that appeal to you the most. In fact some even take pleasure in this game to find an excuse to declare that they like ‘soft’ stuff and are not addicted to supranormal stimuli. Sometimes even this constant dance around the red line in itself produces a sort of high as well.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;Ask a user who believes that he sticks to a certain actor or genre - only because he likes something about the star or the theme (if any) of the clip: “If you cannot get your normal brand of porn and can only obtain a poor or unsafe brand, do you stop masturbating?” No way. A PMOer will masturbate to anything rather than abstain and it doesn&amp;rsquo;t matter if he has to switch to escalating themes, different sex-orientation-themes, look-alike actresses, dangerous settings shocking relationships etc. To begin with they taste awful but if you persevere you will learn to like them. Most PMOers will also try to seek masturbation even after having real sex (unfulfilment, porn-induced unrealistic expectations etc.), or after a long, stressful work day, fever, colds, flu, sore throats and even when admitted in hospitals.&lt;/p&gt;
@@ -109,13 +537,13 @@ became addicted. However, the satisfaction is only temporary because in order to
 &lt;/ol&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;You will quite rightly ask why it is that many PMOers find it so difficult to stop, go through months of torture and spend the rest of their lives pining for it at odd times. The answer is the second reason why we use Internet porn - the brainwashing. The brain-chemical addiction is easy to cope with. Most PMOers go days without online porn - when they are on business trips or travel etc. The withdrawal pangs don’t affect them. Their little porn monster knows that you will open your laptop as soon as you return to hotel room or your den. Ah, you can even survive this obnoxious client and your megalomaniac manager - just ‘knowing’ that the fix is there for your take. It doesn&amp;rsquo;t bother the PMOers.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Smokers Analogy&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;the-smokers-analogy&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Smokers Analogy&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;A good analogy is the situation of smokers - if they went ten hours during the day without a cigarette they&amp;rsquo;d be tearing their hair out. Many smokers will buy a new car nowadays and refrain from smoking in it. Many will visit theatres, supermarkets, churches, etc. and not being able to smoke doesn&amp;rsquo;t bother them. Even on the trains there have been no riots. Smokers are almost pleased for someone or something to force them to stop smoking.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;PMOers will automatically refrain from using internet porn in the home of their parents while visiting for family get togethers etc. with little discomfort to themselves. In fact, most PMOers have extended periods during which they abstain without effort. Even in my case I would quite happily go a week or so without a PMO incident. In the later years as a PMOer I actually used to look forward to these days when I could stop choking my penis (what a ridiculous &amp;lsquo;habit&amp;rsquo;).&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;The brain chemical addiction (little monster) is easy to cope with, even when you are still addicted, and there are thousands of PMOers who remain casual users all their lives. They are just as heavily addicted as the heavy PMOer. There are even heavy PMOers who have kicked the &amp;lsquo;habit&amp;rsquo; but will have an occasional ‘peek’, and that keeps them addicted. You are ‘greasing’ the ‘water slide’ of the brain only to see you slide down at the next dip in your mood.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Big Monster - The Brainwashing&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;the-big-monster---the-brainwashing&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Big Monster - The Brainwashing&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;You are smart enough to know (aside, I will explain shortly why PMOers are in fact a strong willed and hard working bunch) that not all porn workers get a W-2 with 401k and stock options. Only a very rare actor and that too for a very short period of time of their career may be.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;Not all the amateurs are ‘amateurs’ on these tube sites, oversized body parts and overcharged scenarios are the norm, aided by a bit of the ‘viagran’ help.&lt;/p&gt;
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+&lt;h2 id=&#34;im-going-to-cure-the-world-of-pmo&#34;&gt;&amp;lsquo;I&amp;rsquo;M GOING TO CURE THE WORLD OF PMO&amp;rsquo;&lt;/h2&gt;
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 &lt;p&gt;I was talking to my mentor. He thought that I had flipped. Understandable if you consider that he had watched me fail on numerous attempts to quit. The most recent had been two years previously. I&amp;rsquo;d actually survived six months of sheer purgatory before I finally succumbed and found myself clicking on stacked up tabs of porn sites. I&amp;rsquo;m not ashamed to admit that I cried like a baby. I was crying because I knew that I was condemned to be an addict for life. I&amp;rsquo;d put so much effort into that attempt and suffered so much misery that I knew I would never have the strength to go through that ordeal again. I&amp;rsquo;m not a violent man, but if some patronizing non-PMO’er had been stupid enough at that moment to suggest to me that all users can find it easy to quit, immediately and permanently, I would not have been responsible for my actions. However, I&amp;rsquo;m convinced that any jury in the world, comprised of PMOers only, would have pardoned me on the grounds of justifiable homicide.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;Perhaps you too find it impossible to believe that any PMOer can find it easy to quit. If so, I beg you not to cast this book into the rubbish bin. Please trust me. I assure you that you can find it

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+		<title>03-17 Health</title>
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+		<description>&lt;p&gt;This is the area where the brainwashing is the greatest. PMOers, especially the young and single, think they are aware of the health risks. They are not. Even in my case, when I was expecting my head to explode any moment and honestly believed I was prepared to accept the consequences, I was still kidding myself. I didn&amp;rsquo;t in those days have an app that started a red beeper to flash and sound every time my internet router hits a porn site, followed by a warning voice saying, “OK, this is the one!” Fortunately you do get a warning, and this is it. That warning would say, “Up to now you have got away with it but if you stay another minute your head will explode,” do you think I would have PMOed?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;If you are in doubt about the answer just try walking up to a cliff, stand on the edge with your eyes closed and imagine you then have the choice of either quitting PMO or walking up blindfolded before your next PMO.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;There is no doubt what your choice would be. I had been doing what every internet porn PMOer does all his life: closing my mind and keeping my head in the sand, hoping that I would wake up one morning and just not want to PMO any more. PMOers cannot allow themselves to think of the health risks. If they do, even the illusion of enjoying the &amp;lsquo;habit&amp;rsquo; goes.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;This explains why a shock treatment is so ineffective in the first stages of quitting. It is only non-users who can bring themselves to read the destructive brain changes. It also explains why PMOers, influenced by their little monster, wrongly recall that filthy room mate who PMOed everyday and was still remaining ‘horny’ 24 hours a day – they will ignore the thousands of people who are brought “down” in their prime because of this poisonous ‘habit’.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;About six times a week I have the following conversation with PMOers (usually the younger ones):&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;ME: Why do you want to stop?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;PMOer: I read in a PUA guru’s blog that it is good to stop for 4 days to amp myself up.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;ME: Aren&amp;rsquo;t you worried about the health risks?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;PMOer:No, I could step under a bus tomorrow.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;ME: But would you deliberately step under a bus?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;PMOer:Of course not.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;ME: Do you not bother to look left and right when you cross the road?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;PMOer: Of course I do.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Exactly. He/she goes through a lot of trouble not to step under a bus and the odds are hundreds of thousands to one against it happening. Yet the PMOer risks the near certainty of being crippled by this ‘habit’ and appears to be completely oblivious to the risks. Such is the power of the brainwashing. The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn&amp;rsquo;t exist. Especially when you are younger or single. So is internet porn - it is the wolf in sheep’s clothing.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I remember a friend of mine who would not drink or smoke. Yet he would argue with me that internet porn is not different than older safe porn and that it is fun. Isn&amp;rsquo;t it strange that if, for example, we felt there was the slightest fault in an airplane, we wouldn&amp;rsquo;t go up in it, even though the risks are millions to one against death. Yet we take more than a one-in-four certainty with internet porn with its PMO addiction and are apparently oblivious to it. And what does the PMOer get out of it? &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Another common myth about PMO is the depression or peevishness. Many of the younger people are not worried about their health because they do not suffer any of the depression or melancholy. The depression or stress itself is not a disease; it is just a symptom. Younger people in general don’t feel the irritability or depression created because of their body’s natural capability to produce more dopamine and also the vigour and cheerfulness of their youthful activities masks those depleting reservoirs. As they age or if their lives experience serious setbacks the depleted resources are overworked and then they will experience full blown symptoms.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;When non-younger PMOers feel stressed, depressed or irritated it is because of the normal dopamine levels are not being effective and or due to excessive ‘flooding’ and its reactionary cutting down of the receptors. It is a reactionary step brain takes to protect its nervous systems from excessive dopamine ‘flooding’ as the dopamine receptors close up. It is one of nature&amp;rsquo;s fail-safe methods. They also develop other neural changes that will keep them in the rut.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Just think of it this way. If you had a nice car and allowed it to rust without doing anything about it that would be pretty stupid, as it would soon become a heap of rust and not be able to carry you anywhere. However, that would not be the end of the world; it is only a question of money and you could always buy a new car. But your body is the vehicle that carries you through life. We all say that our health is our most valued asset. How true that is, as sick millionaires will tell you. Most of us can look back at some illness or accident in our lives when we prayed to get better. (HOW SOON WE FORGET). By being a PMOer, you are not only letting the rust get in and doing nothing about it; you are systematically destroying the vehicle you need to go through life and you only get one.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Wise up. You don&amp;rsquo;t have to do it and remember: it is doing ABSOLUTELY NOTHING FOR YOU. Just for a moment take your head out of the sand and ask yourself; if you knew for certain that the next PMO session would be the one to trigger off a process in your body that will make your penis fall away like a hair strand, would you then actually go ahead and do it? Forget the ‘disease’ idea (it is difficult to imagine it) but just imagine you are on your bed, with your partner and your penis is not responding. Or if you are a woman, you are not feeling in any way responsive with someone you deeply love? Now you are not in the beginning of a happy endeavour but instead a tug of war in your mind and in your partner&amp;rsquo;s mind too. “Is it my PMO or is it just stress? Can I spot who the culprit is 100%? Or for her, is it me? Am I not sexy enough for him? Or worse, am I losing my ‘appetite’ too soon due to ageing?” What do you think is going to happen?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I often speak to the people that it happens to. They didn&amp;rsquo;t think it would happen to them either and the worst thing about it isn&amp;rsquo;t the disease itself but the knowledge they have brought it on themselves. For a very long time as PMOers and abusers we are saying, “I’ll stop tomorrow.” Try to imagine how those people feel who “hit the button.” For them the brainwashing is ended. They then see the &amp;lsquo;habit&amp;rsquo; as it really is and spend the remainder of their lives thinking, “Why did I kid myself I needed to masturbate to internet porn? If only I had the chance to go back!”&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Stop kidding yourself. You have the chance. It&amp;rsquo;s a chain reaction. If you engage in the next PMO session, it will lead you to the next one and the next. It&amp;rsquo;s already happening to you. At the beginning of the book I promised you no shock treatment. If you have already decided you are going to stop, this isn&amp;rsquo;t shock treatment for you. If you are still in doubt, skip the remainder of this chapter and come back to it when you have read the rest of the book.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Volumes of researches and studies have already been written about the damage that internet porn causes to our sex lives and to our mental well-being. The trouble is that until the PMOer decides to stop he doesn&amp;rsquo;t want to know. Even the forums and mentor groups are a waste of time because the PMOer puts the blinkers on. If he inadvertently reads it, the first thing he does is to open an incognito tab and visit his favourite tube site. PMOers tend to think of the happiness, stress and sex hazards as a hit-and-miss affair, like stepping on a land mine.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Get it into your head: it is already happening. Every single time you browse to your tube site you are triggering dopamine flooding and the opioids get to work - the neural pathway water slides get greased and the ride takes you smoothly through the next steps that you have already given to the script. The nervous system is now flooded by dopamine and since it is its umpteenth time, it is going to let some of your dopamine receptors to close up. The ‘little monster’ in you is using this slight dip in the pleasure compared to the last time to encourage you to “cross the red line” towards more shocking porn or behaviour in order to release more dopamine. In the process just hit on the ‘novelty’ button that triggers dopamine again. “Let’s keep going,” says the little monster, because you deserve it and you are entitled to this. Now the streaming of so many pictures and videos on a single tab&amp;hellip; that triggers another button called ‘supernormal’ stimulus, injecting more amines.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;All this time your receptors are receiving infomation to shut down inversely proportional to the flooding. Then you get to the orgasm stage. More dopamine, more shutting down of receptors. After this comes the withdrawal, Oh and since you are an ex-PMOer go get one. And why not pour a glass from the fridge of that leftover whiskey? Internet porn kills your sex life and thus it kills your private and public lives as well. If you are not aware of the addiction process or even if you are, you are in denial since the “little monster” craves for its fix because there was no real pain and you could handle the discomfort.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I confess that the thought of having ED terrified me, which is probably why I just blocked it from my mind. It&amp;rsquo;s amazing how the fear of the horrendous health risks attached to PMOing are overshadowed by the fear of stopping. It&amp;rsquo;s not so much that the latter is a greater fear, but that if we quit today the fear is immediate, whereas the fear of getting ED, PE and OCD related mental illnesses are a fear of the future. Why look on the black side? Perhaps it won&amp;rsquo;t happen. I&amp;rsquo;m bound to have quit by then anyway.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;We tend to think of PMOing as a tug-of-war. On one side is fear: it&amp;rsquo;s unhealthy, filthy and enslaving. On the other side the pluses: it&amp;rsquo;s my pleasure, my friend, my crutch. It never seems to occur to us that this side is also fear. It&amp;rsquo;s not so much that we enjoy them but that we tend to be miserable without them.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Think of heroin addicts deprived of their heroin: the abject misery they go through. Now picture their utter joy when they are allowed to plunge a needle into their veins and end that terrible craving. Try to imagine how anyone could actually believe they get pleasure from sticking a hypodermic syringe into a vein. Non-heroin addicts don&amp;rsquo;t suffer that panic feeling. Heroin doesn&amp;rsquo;t relieve the feeling, on the contrary, it causes it.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Non-PMOers (those who don’t ‘need’ or have access to internet porn) don&amp;rsquo;t feel miserable if they are not allowed to PMO. It&amp;rsquo;s only PMOers that suffer that feeling. Internet porn doesn&amp;rsquo;t relieve it, on the contrary it causes it. The fear of ED or PE didn&amp;rsquo;t make me quit because I believed it was rather like walking through a minefield. If you got away with it - fine. If you were unlucky you stepped on a mine.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;You knew the risks you were taking and if you were prepared to take the risk, what had it to do with anyone else? So if a non-PMOer ever tried to make me aware of those risks, I would use the typical evasive tactics that all addicts invariably adopt. They are&amp;hellip;.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;ul&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;“You will eventually get old and lose your sexual prowess anyway&amp;hellip;”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Of course you do but sexual prowess is not even the point, we are talking slavery here. Even if that is the case, is that a logical reason for deliberately cutting yourself short?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;ul&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;“Quality of life is more important than just living.”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Exactly but you are surely not suggesting that the quality of life of an addict is greater than that of someone that isn&amp;rsquo;t addicted? Do you really believe that the quality of a PMOer’s life is better than a non-PMOer? Surely the PMOer loses on both counts his life is spent in trying to cover his head in the sand and being miserable.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;ul&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;“I am single and am not planning to ‘settle down’ in the near future so why not?”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Even if that were true, is that a logical reason for playing with the brain structure dealing with impulse control that is needed in other areas of life? Can you possibly conceive of anyone being stupid enough to strip naked wherever one is going to be alone? No matter how sure you are that you are not expecting anyone in your life? THAT&amp;rsquo;S WHAT PMOers EFFECTIVELY DO!&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I can understand why the ED and the risks of ruining one’s mental health didn&amp;rsquo;t help me to quit. I could cope with the former and block my mind to the latter. As you are already aware, my method is not to frighten you into quitting but the complete opposite - to make you realize just how more enjoyable your life will be when you have escaped.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;However, I do believe that if I could have seen what was happening inside my brain, this would have helped me to quit. Now I&amp;rsquo;m not referring to the shock technique of showing a PMOer the effect of the hidden attribute of internet porn on the reward circuit of the brain. It was obvious to me from my unreliable arousals, fading penetrations, lack of energy, unemotional sex (as in just a muscle twitch), hit-seek escalations of porn search for novelty and shock that something is not going right. None of these are catastrophic for me as I have trained myself in cognitive behavioural techniques as discussed before but I did experience them quite often enough. Practising CBT/REBT gave me enough grounding and stability to look at my addiction in a different and better way than I’d have if I were not aware of the cognitive biases. Provided I kept functioning, even at a mediocre level, they were less of an embarrassment than a lost tooth - at least nobody could see my mind.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;What I am referring to is the progressive gunging-up of our reward circuits with excessive stimulation, making them incapable of handling the normal stresses of life. Closing up of dopamine and opioids receptors does not help me in enjoying my life with enough vigour. Porn and masturbation has replaced the natural sexual appetite, like a candy bar replacing real food. The brain has no idea to differentiate one from the other. I don&amp;rsquo;t like the thought of a virus in my smart phone or my laptop. Could you imagine buying the latest one of these gadgets and letting a virus to run every line of the software code but repeat it thrice ? That&amp;rsquo;s what we effectively do to our bodies when we become PMOers.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Many researchers and doctors are now relating various mental health problems in addition to the physiological ones caused by internet porn and PMO in general. This is no surprise to me. The mainstream medical world has laboured that PMO has never been scientifically proven to be the direct cause of the issues reported by self-confessing individuals. Admitting one’s sexual inability in public is such a shame triggering event, why would anyone do that unless they are really concerned? And probably many have found the cause and have eliminated it. This book is going to help you to get rid of it and also become a happy ex PMOer. No porn whatsoever, no porn aided masturbation. And of course no unnecessary orgasms. The only aid will be the touch, smell and voice of your partner. Like whole wheat bread after a well developed appetite, you will produce enough juices to break down the hard bread and it comes as a beautiful refreshment. No high fructose corn syrup injected fake food. The evidence is so overwhelming as not to need proof. No one ever scientifically proved to me exactly why, when I bang my thumb with a hammer, it hurts. I soon got the message.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I must emphasize that I am not a doctor but just like the hammer and the thumb, it soon became obvious to me that the periods of my life outside of sex that were marked by low levels of irritation tolerance, lack of energy, temper, moody thoughts, zoning out of social scenes etc. were directly related to my masturbation and especially the supernormal stimulus of IP&lt;sup id=&#34;fnref:1&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#fn:1&#34; class=&#34;footnote-ref&#34; role=&#34;doc-noteref&#34;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;. However, I truly believe that the greatest hazard that IP causes to our health is the gradual and progressive deterioration of our sex life caused by super-substitutes. The novelty, shock, variety in size and nature of internet porn can slowly take away the magic of the real sex. Worse, the RC&lt;sup id=&#34;fnref:2&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#fn:2&#34; class=&#34;footnote-ref&#34; role=&#34;doc-noteref&#34;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; reward circuits are flooding unnaturally and at high abnormal levels so that they close up  the receptors and also diminish any potency and effectiveness of normal de-stressors that work in the RC. This predisposes one to be depressed and become needy to lot more other ‘crutches’ of life such as cigarettes and alcohol or even causing the host to think of committing suicide. Even the real vagina will not be a match for the death grip of masturbation - and the little monster is kept alive.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Our lives are ‘blessed’ with challenges – yes, ‘blessed’- they are needed to keep us strong and make us better. If our nervous systems is pre-disposed to making a molehill out of a mountain it will seek a ‘fix. When it seeks a hit or a mountain out of a molehill when it interfaces with reality then is it worth it? Our body and our brain is designed to make use of optimal levels of these brain chemicals. I don’t think a man who fails in satisfying a woman should consider himself worthless.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;You will do well accepting yourself unconditionally and as an extension others and of life in general as well. It needs practice - but you won&amp;rsquo;t practice unless your brain rewards you. External rewards are iffy and most of the time are not forthcoming. If your internal brain chemicals and the reward circuits are humming even a little external reward will go a long way and the lack of external approvals won&amp;rsquo;t even matter at all. If you want to you can be the king of your life. Think about this as one of your greatest benefits.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Several of the adverse effects that PMO had on my health, some of which I had been suffering from for years, did not become apparent to me until many years after I had stopped. The good news I have for you is this - all of this is reversible. You are the jailer and you are also going to set yourself - the prisoner - free!&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;It didn&amp;rsquo;t even occur to me that I was already suffering from ED and PE&lt;sup id=&#34;fnref:3&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#fn:3&#34; class=&#34;footnote-ref&#34; role=&#34;doc-noteref&#34;&gt;3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; myself. Upon my first observation of the damage I quickly attributed it, with the help of my little monster, to (a) the occasional opposition to foreplay by my partner, (b) to the ‘less-than-ideal’ partner (my brain ‘tolerance’ is so high that even if I were with the most sexy one imaginable it’d still be not enough), (c) some silly grudge about my past stopping me to ‘prepare’ us to mood setting or (d) my boss, customer etc. etc.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;When it happened again my little monster brain gave me a BS mix of the above combo which I don’t even want to waste your time with. It never occurred to me that none of these would have stopped me before? So, I decided that I need ‘stamina practice’ since I figured that a toy which comes close to real vagina will ‘train’ me in getting hard and to avoid PE. I later came to read about PE being the result of poor training of the reward circuits. If one’s goal is orgasm then getting hard is not a requirement with masturbation. That being avoided enough times sets up waterslides in your brain and you grease it real nice every time to ride the slide. You can dispute this but I am going to take the Pascal’s Wager and quit - I lose very little, gain big and avoid losing big.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;When you don’t get hard or have unreliable erections, it’s a signal that your mind wants it more than your body - most times. Also of note is my peevishness and melancholy (anger/irritability and moodiness/depression). I told myself that I am a negatively oriented Virgo. While many Virgos are predisposed to think and act ‘negatively’ I failed to notice that actually I am a pretty optimistic guy.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;In fact, the many times I had not gone along for the porn water slide ride, due to external events, even though I had wanted to, I noticed that I did not get affected big time - remember again Pascal’s Wager. But looking back at my life, I have to say that I have been an achiever, in spite of the self-sabotage of PMO and its constant drag. That must be due to the training of tempering my pre-disposition and keeping the negatives to toned down healthy negatives of disappointment, sorrow, concern, annoyance, sadness, regret, frustration, caution, vigilance, irritation etc. I am sure that I am an optimistic and positive guy, how else could I explain that I kept going in spite of my tripping myself with PMO?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I have been in the stock market and have advised my friends and colleagues. I would show my hands - in real investments and trades. Most of the macho guys would not bring themselves to pull the trigger at those times when I did with no fears but of course with due vigilance and caution.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I know a person close to me who would masturbate every day at least once. He had no access to porn and was using static magazines and his own imagination. Now, looking back I wonder if this person lost his life’s joy to PMO. He would always be quick to anger and his irritation trigger levels are always very low. Any day-to-day stress will tick him off. He had a secure government job that demanded little from him and so he was lucky to survive until his retirement. Lucky? Maybe not. Anyway, I am sure his RC* had long sent shutdown signals to his receptors and his dopamine and opioids have much diminished effectiveness.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;You might conclude that I am something of a hypochondriac. I believe that I was when I was a PMOer. One of the great evils about addictions such as these is that it fools us into believing that the cigarettes, alcohol, PMO etc. give us courage, when in fact it gradually and imperceptibly dissipates it. I was shocked when I read about a confessor who felt suicidal at 19 due to PMO. Little did I realize that twenty years later I would have exactly the same lack of joie de vivre. You might conclude that this chapter has been one of necessary, or unnecessary, doom and gloom. I promise you it is the complete opposite. I used to fear death when I was a child. A bit later I used to believe that smoking, drinking and porn removed that fear. Perhaps it did. If so, it replaced it with something infinitely worse: &lt;strong&gt;A FEAR OF LIVING!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Now my fear of dying has returned. Yet it does not bother me. I realize that it only exists because I now enjoy life so much. I don&amp;rsquo;t brood over my fear of dying any more than I did when I was a child. I&amp;rsquo;m far too busy living my life to the full. The odds are against my living to a hundred, but I&amp;rsquo;ll try to. I&amp;rsquo;ll also try to enjoy every precious moment!&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;There were two other advantages on the health side that never occurred to me until I had stopped PMOing. One was that I now wake up refreshed in the morning. The subtle well-rested feeling is something sort of what you’d experience after a fever had left you. I get that almost every day but of course some nights are not going to be perfect. I had accepted that there is nothing outside of us that we need to enjoy or cope in our lives.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The other was the acceptance of the Void in our lives. Those insecure feelings. The emptiness. From what I learned - that is after removing PMO from my life, I could see that these three are present in everyone’s lives. Yes, that includes the playboys and the PUA macs as well. I think they are like the nights that serve to enhance our days. Yes, it is a well known ‘insight’. But then I know of many insights which have never translated to any value to my life. After I quit, it all fell into place. Look, I am not a saint or a guru. But I am not panicking and seeking substitutes when I feel the void, or insecurity or emptiness. There are no outside things that will be a pleasure or crutch.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Here is a thought experiment for you&amp;hellip; let’s say a woman comes to you and says she doesn’t necessarily want an orgasm but however, she very much wants to make love. Even penetrative. And she wants to do it for as long and as far as you can go without an orgasm but if it happens then its fine. I assure you of a great new experience, far better than anything in your life if you even get that offer. Try it.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;PMOers also suffer the illusion that the ill-effects of internet porn and PMO are overstated. The reverse is the case. There is no doubt that internet porn is the major cause of PIED and other problems. The trouble is that in many cases where PMO causes the ED or is a contributory factor, it is not blamed on PMO in the statistics. It has been estimated that more than 25 per cent of men experience ED or PE and yet I wonder how many divorces have been caused by PMO? There are no reliable ways to know the number of Internet Porn users within the study group. The studies usually mix up traditional and internet porn users and has no way to account for the starting age of the participants, years of use, duration and frequency of usage. There is no way to conduct blind or double blind methods either.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I was a ‘safe’ user of internet porn - if there is anything ‘safe’ about it. However I noticed that I invariably projected porn fantasies on real life women. Like the episode in Friends where the guys, who were receiving continuous free porn on TV, started to wonder to each other why the pizza delivery girl didn’t ask to check out their ‘big bedroom’. Imagine what ‘careless’ or even ‘accidental’ porn exposure on the darker sides the internet would do to someone who is already at a tipping point in his or her life? Fighting against these ‘porn induce thoughts’, PIT&lt;sup id=&#34;fnref:4&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#fn:4&#34; class=&#34;footnote-ref&#34; role=&#34;doc-noteref&#34;&gt;4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;, is going to be a major drain on his or her mental health.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The effect of the brainwashing is that we tend to think like the man who, having fallen off a 100-storey building, is heard to say, as he passes the fiftieth floor, “So far, so good!” We think that as we have got away with it so far, one more PMO session won&amp;rsquo;t make the difference. Try to see it another way, the &amp;lsquo;habit&amp;rsquo; is a continuous chain for life, each session creating the need for the next. When you start the habit you light a fuse. The trouble is, YOU DON&amp;rsquo;T KNOW HOW LONG THE FUSE IS. Every time that you give up to a PMO session you are one step nearer to the bomb exploding. HOW WILL YOU KNOW IF IT&amp;rsquo;S THE NEXT ONE?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;div class=&#34;footnotes&#34; role=&#34;doc-endnotes&#34;&gt;
+&lt;hr&gt;
+&lt;ol&gt;
+&lt;li id=&#34;fn:1&#34;&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;IP&lt;/strong&gt; - internet porn&amp;#160;&lt;a href=&#34;#fnref:1&#34; class=&#34;footnote-backref&#34; role=&#34;doc-backlink&#34;&gt;&amp;#x21a9;&amp;#xfe0e;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li id=&#34;fn:2&#34;&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;RC&lt;/strong&gt; - reward circuits in the brain that involves dopamine/ opioids, receptors, proteins etc.&amp;#160;&lt;a href=&#34;#fnref:2&#34; class=&#34;footnote-backref&#34; role=&#34;doc-backlink&#34;&gt;&amp;#x21a9;&amp;#xfe0e;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li id=&#34;fn:3&#34;&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PE&lt;/strong&gt; - premature ejaculation&amp;#160;&lt;a href=&#34;#fnref:3&#34; class=&#34;footnote-backref&#34; role=&#34;doc-backlink&#34;&gt;&amp;#x21a9;&amp;#xfe0e;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li id=&#34;fn:4&#34;&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PIT&lt;/strong&gt; - porn induced thoughts, porn themes crossing over to normal interactions&amp;#160;&lt;a href=&#34;#fnref:4&#34; class=&#34;footnote-backref&#34; role=&#34;doc-backlink&#34;&gt;&amp;#x21a9;&amp;#xfe0e;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ol&gt;
+&lt;/div&gt;
+</description>
+	</item>
+	
+	<item>
+		<title>03-16 I Will Save X Hours a Week</title>
+		<link>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-16-i-will-save-x-hours-a-week/</link>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2022 12:08:55 +0200</pubDate>
+		
+		<guid>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-16-i-will-save-x-hours-a-week/</guid>
+		<description>&lt;p&gt;I cannot repeat too often that it is brainwashing that makes it difficult to stop PMOing. So, the
+more brainwashing we can dispel before we start, the easier you will find it to achieve your goal.
+Occasionally I get into arguments with people whom I call “confirmed PMOers.” By my definition
+a confirmed PMOer is somebody who doesn&amp;rsquo;t believe PMO has any negative effect on his health
+(PME, PIED and hypofrontality etc.) and is not having a mental tug of war. Most times he’d be a
+younger guy or a single but with an occasional sex partner. Thus the internal feedback is lost due to
+the nature of their youth and or it is too infrequent to be observed and registered.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;If he is a young man, I’d rather say to him, “I cannot believe you are not worried about the
+time you are spending.” Usually his eyes light up. If I had attacked him instead on health grounds or
+on the social stigma, he would feel at a disadvantage which will trigger resistance from him. But on
+time&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;“Oh, I can afford it. It is only x hours per week and I think it is worth it. It is my only vice or
+pleasure.”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;“I still cannot believe you are not worried about the time spent. Say at a minimum half an hour a day on an average including the physical ‘drain’ time of dopamine withdrawals, you are spending approximately one full working day of 8 hours every fortnight. Half an hour a day is a very conservative estimate you would agree. And in a year that will add up to a working month. Have you thought about how much time you are going to spend in your lifetime? What are you doing with that time? You are not even developing real relationships? No, your favourite porn star does not have sympathy for you just because you spent that much time on her site - you are throwing it away! Not only that, you are actually using that time to ruin your physical health, to destroy your nerves and confidence, to suffer a lifetime of slavery, pain, stress, melancholy and peevishness. Surely that must worry you?”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;It is apparent at this point, particularly with younger PMOers, that they have never considered it a lifetime habit. Occasionally they work out the time they waste in a week and that is alarming. Very occasionally (and only when they think about stopping) they estimate what they spend in a year and that is frightening but over a lifetime it is unthinkable. However, because now we are in an argument, the confirmed PMOer will impulsively say, “I can afford it. It is only so much a week.” He pulls an “encyclopedia salesman” routine on himself.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Will you refuse a job offer which pays you your current annual salary and also gives you a month off every year? Any PMOer would sign up for this job offer in a heartbeat and would get busy finding vacation deals to exotic places. Figuring out how to spend one full month with no work would be the biggest problem that he now has to solve.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;In every discussion with a confirmed PMOer - and please bear in mind I am not now talking to someone like yourself who plans to stop, I am talking to someone who has no intention of stopping - nobody has ever taken me up on that offer. Why not?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Often at this point in my consultation, a confirmed PMOer will say, “look, I am not really worried about the money aspect.” If you are thinking along these lines, ask yourself why you are not worried. Why in other aspects of your life will you go to a great deal of trouble to save a few dollars here and there but yet spend thousands of dollars killing your happiness and hang the expense?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The answer to these questions is this: every other decision that you make in your life will be the result of an analytical process of weighing up the pros and cons and arriving at a rational answer. It may be the wrong answer but at least it will be the result of rational deduction. Whenever any PMOer weighs up the pros and cons of using internet porn, the answer is a dozen times over: “STOP PMOing! YOU ARE A MUG!” Therefore all PMOers are using not because they want to or because they decided to but because they think they cannot stop. They have to and need to brainwash themselves. They have to and need to keep their heads in the sand.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The strange thing is many men would pay good money for gym and personal trainers to build their muscles and look sculpted. Other treatments such as boosting testosterone with dubious and sometimes dangerous effects are tried out by many men in their real (and imaginary) desperation. Yet, there are many men in that group who would save money and risks by stopping a practice that systematically not only destroys their manhood but also affects their brain’s natural relaxation system.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;This is because they are still thinking with the brainwashed mind of the PMOer. Just take the sand out of your eyes for a moment. Internet porn is a chain reaction and a chain for life. If you do not break that chain, you will remain a user for the rest of your life. Now estimate how much time you think you will spend on PMOing for the rest of your life. The amount will obviously vary with each individual but for the purpose of this exercise let us assume it is a year and half of work hours. You will shortly be making the decision to use your final session (not yet, please - remember the initial instructions). All you have to do to remain a non-PMOer is NOT to fall for the trap again. That is, do not PMO and consciously avoid having “just a peek.” If you do, that one peek will cost you a year and half of your work life. If you think this is a trick way of looking at it, you are still kidding yourself. Just work out how much time you would have saved if you had not taken your very first ‘peek’ right at the start.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;If you see the argument as factual, ask yourself how you would feel if there were a cheque from your state’s lotto for a year and half worth of your current salary lying on your carpet tomorrow? You&amp;rsquo;d be dancing with delight! So start dancing! You are about to start receiving that bonus and that&amp;rsquo;s just one of the several fantastic gains you are about to receive.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;During the withdrawal period you may be tempted to have just one final ‘look’. It will help you to resist the temptation if you remind yourself it will cost you one year’s worth of your peak annual salary (or whatever your estimate is)! I could be making that offer on television and radio programmes yet I bet no-one will take it.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;If you are mentoring someone online for his PMO addiction tell him that he knows someone who has refused a job offer that pays his current annual salary and also gives him a full month’s of PTO. When he ask who that idiot is, tell him, “you!” I know it&amp;rsquo;s rude but you may sometimes need to get your point across in a less-than-polite way.&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
+	</item>
+	
+	<item>
+		<title>03-15 Self-Imposed Slavery</title>
+		<link>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-15-self-imposed-slavery/</link>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2022 12:06:39 +0200</pubDate>
+		
+		<guid>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-15-self-imposed-slavery/</guid>
+		<description>&lt;p&gt;Usually when PMOers try to stop the main reasons given are health, religion and partner stigma. Part of the brainwashing of this awful drug is the sheer slavery. Man fought hard in the last century to abolish slavery and yet the PMOer spends his life suffering self-imposed slavery. He seems to be oblivious to the fact that when he is allowed to PMO he wishes that he were a non-PMOer. With most of the masturbation we do in our lives, not only do we not enjoy them but we aren&amp;rsquo;t even aware that we are masturbating. It is only after a period of abstinence that we actually suffer the delusion of enjoying PMO (e.g. the first day after a 4 day abstinence with the intent of rebooting etc.). The only time that the porn becomes precious is when we are &amp;rsquo;trying&amp;rsquo; to cut down or abstain or when abstinence is forced on us (e.g. when on a business trips, holiday trips to locations where the Internet is not available and so on).&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The confirmed PMOer should bear in mind that more studies and even more people are coming out and talking about the ill effects of internet porn. This trend will get “worse and worse.” Today, it is non-medical people talking. Tomorrow, it will be in your doctor’s list of diagnostic tests to perform. Gone are the days when the PMOer can hide behind “just a bit of downtime due to work stress” in his or her sex life. Your partner is going to ask you why you are on your laptop at this time too late into the night. The poor PMOer, who was already feeling wretched, wants the ground to open up and swallow him.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I remember every time my partner stayed up late it was an ordeal waiting to open up my laptop. When on business trips the dinner with the clients and colleagues dragged on or was I just going through the natural ups and downs in human interactions? What was I doing? I was thinking, “let&amp;rsquo;s get on with it, so that I can get over with this and go to my room for some porn.” I have thought many times, “am I not lucky? I have got my little reward. The poor non-PMOer with no internet access somewhere in an Amish village hasn&amp;rsquo;t got a reward.” The &amp;lsquo;poor&amp;rsquo; non-PMOer doesn&amp;rsquo;t need a reward. We were not designed to go through life systematically flooding our brains with dopamine and opioids. The pathetic thing is that even when masturbating with internet porn the PMOer doesn&amp;rsquo;t achieve those feelings of peace, confidence and tranquillity that the non-PMOer has experienced for the whole of his non-PMO life. The non-PMOer isn&amp;rsquo;t sitting in the family room, feeling agitated and wishing his life away. He can enjoy the whole of his life.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;No, this wasn&amp;rsquo;t a fourteen-year-old schoolboy but a forty-year-old professional. How pathetic. I wouldn&amp;rsquo;t admit to myself that I wasn&amp;rsquo;t enjoying it. I was looking for the right clip and/or pictures to reach orgasm or better, edge forever. I don&amp;rsquo;t know what I am supposed to be &amp;lsquo;watching&amp;rsquo; sometimes. That is the confusing part. The &amp;rsquo;edging&amp;rsquo; and then the orgasm floods my brain. Yet this was supposed to be my way of relaxing and enjoying my “favourite hobby.”&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;To me, one of the tremendous joys of being a non-PMOer is to be freed from that slavery. To be able to enjoy the whole of my life and not spend half of it craving for more and more internet porn and then, when I get to fire up my browser, wishing I didn&amp;rsquo;t have to do it. PMOers should bear in mind that when they see or meet non-PMOers, it is not the self-righteous non-PMOer who is depriving them but their very own “little monster.”&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
+	</item>
+	
+	<item>
+		<title>03-14 What Am I Giving Up?</title>
+		<link>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-14-what-am-i-giving-up/</link>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2022 11:49:35 +0200</pubDate>
+		
+		<guid>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-14-what-am-i-giving-up/</guid>
+		<description>&lt;p&gt;ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! The thing that makes it difficult for us to give up is fear. The fear that we are being deprived of our pleasure or prop. The fear that certain pleasant situations will never be quite the same again. The fear of being unable to cope with stressful situations. In other words, the effect of brainwashing is to delude us into believing that sex and by extension orgasm, is a must for all human beings. Or that there is something inherent in Internet porn that we need and that when we stop PMOing we will be self-denying ourselves and there will be a void.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Get it clear in your mind:&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Internet porn&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;DOES NOT FILL A VOID.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;IT CREATES ONE!&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;These bodies of ours are the most sophisticated objects on this planet. Whether you believe in a creator, a process of natural selection or a combination of both, whatever being or system devised these bodies of ours, it is a thousand times more effective than man! Man cannot create the smallest living cell, let alone the miracle of eyesight, reproduction, our circulatory system or our brains. We don’t have our systems upgraded yet to properly assess the supranormal stimulus such as rich high density food or high speed internet novelty porn with multiple active windows.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;If the creator or process had intended us to handle novelty triggering stimuli, we would have been provided with some other brain reward circuits. Our bodies are, in fact, provided with fail-safe warning devices and we ignore these at our peril. Excessive edging results in body pain, irritation, and inflammation. In women, excessive flooding of dopamine and stress enzymes such as prostaglandin-E2 can cause difficulty to orgasm and PME.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;there-is-nothing-to-give-up&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;There Is Nothing To Give Up&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
+&lt;/div&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The beautiful truth is - there is nothing to give up. Once you purge that little monster from your body and the brainwashing (the big monster) from your mind, you will neither want to masturbate often nor need internet porn for it. PMO destroys your sense of self-control. I don’t think PMOers are self-destructive to continue even after knowing the ill-effects of internet porn. They clearly don’t have suicidal tendencies. They don’t enjoy this slavery themselves. Many of them do it in spite of the fact that they know it causes self-sabotage. You see there must be many unknowns and the medical community has no idea of even questioning and determining someone as an internet porn addict yet. So a lot of reported symptoms are wrongly tagged under other causes. It is not that PMOers are generally stupid people; it is just that they are miserable without the PMO. They are caught between the devil and the deep blue sea. They either have to abstain and be miserable because they cannot PMO or be miserable because they are destroying themselves through PMO and feel guilty and despise themselves for it. When they feel that lower back pain or get PIED, their minds are torn between accepting responsibility and looking the other way.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The problem I have is to make a convincing point as I’d have done for, let us say&amp;hellip; smokers? All of us have seen smokers who develop excuses to sneak off for a crafty puff. It is easy to see the true addiction in action. Addicts do not do it because they enjoy it. They do it because they are miserable without it.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Because many of us started out our first sexual experience that ended in an orgasm and we acquired the belief that we cannot enjoy sex without an orgasm. And for men, porn is sold as an aid towards sex, sometimes even as an education to be confident during the act of sex. It used to be static, but now we have supranormal internet porn. But this is nonsense. Internet porn takes away your confidence.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;women-and-porn&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Women And Porn&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
+&lt;/div&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The greatest evidence of the fear that porn instils is in its effect on women. Practically all women are fastidious about their personal appearance. They wouldn&amp;rsquo;t dream of appearing at a social function not immaculately turned out and smelling beautiful. So why would they fall for internet porn ? The traps were set as either a control trap (I can give up when I want) or an educational trap, or a freedom trap (I am entitled). Feminism has freed women from all the bad patriarchal rules of the past but they still need to be aware of supranormal stimulus such as internet porn.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Porn and internet porn does not help your sex life; it destroys it totally. Having to hide your internet footprints, trying to delete your history, fearing accidental exposure to your boyfriend or kids, body pains, doubtful symptoms, fighting self doubts, arguing with yourself about your responsibilities in the ill effects of your addiction&amp;hellip; well, why do you want to put yourself in such a bad situation?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Not only is there nothing to give up but there are marvellous positive gains to be had. When PMOers contemplate quitting they tend to concentrate on health and virility. These are obviously valid and important issues but I personally believe the greatest gains from stopping are psychological:&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;ol&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;The return of your confidence and courage.&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;Freedom from the slavery.&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;Not to have to go through life suffering the awful black shadows at the back of your mind, knowing you are being despised by half of the population and, worst of all, despising yourself.&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ol&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Not only is life better as a non-PMOer but it is infinitely more enjoyable. I do not only mean you will be healthier. I mean you will be happier and enjoy life far more. The marvellous gains from being a non-PMOer are discussed in the next few chapters. Some PMOers find it difficult to appreciate the concept of the &amp;lsquo;void&amp;rsquo; and the following analogy may assist you.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;void-the-void-the-beautiful-void&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Void, the Void, the Beautiful Void!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
+&lt;/div&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Imagine having a cold sore on your face. I&amp;rsquo;ve got this marvellous ointment. I say to you, “try this stuff.” You rub the ointment on and the sore disappears immediately. A week later it reappears. You ask, “do you have any more of that ointment?” I say, “sure, keep the tube. You might need it again.” You apply the ointment once again. Hey presto, the sore disappears again. But every time the sore returns, it gets larger and more painful and the interval gets shorter and shorter. Eventually the sore covers your whole face and is excruciatingly painful. It is now returning every half hour. You know that the ointment will remove it temporarily, but you are very worried. Will the sore eventually spread over your whole body? Will the interval disappear completely? You go to your doctor. He can&amp;rsquo;t cure it. You try other things but nothing helps except this magical ointment.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;By now you are completely dependent on the ointment. You never go out without ensuring that you have a tube of the ointment with you. If you go abroad, you make sure that you take several tubes with you. Now, in addition to your worries about your health, I&amp;rsquo;m charging you $100 per tube. You have no choice but to pay.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;You then read in the medical column of your newspaper that this isn&amp;rsquo;t happening just to you; many other people have been suffering from the same problem. In fact, pharmacists have discovered that the ointment doesn&amp;rsquo;t actually cure the sore. All that it does is to take the sore beneath the surface of the skin. It is the ointment that has caused the sore to grow. All you have to do to get rid of the sore is to stop using the ointment. The sore will eventually disappear in due course.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Would you continue to use the ointment? Would it take willpower not to use the ointment? If you didn&amp;rsquo;t believe the medical article, there might be a few days of apprehension, but once you realized that the sore was beginning to get better, the need or desire to use the ointment would go, Would you be miserable? Of course you wouldn&amp;rsquo;t. You had an awful problem which you thought was insoluble. Now you&amp;rsquo;ve found the solution. Even if it took a year for that sore to disappear completely, each day, as it improved, you&amp;rsquo;d think. “isn&amp;rsquo;t it marvellous? I&amp;rsquo;m not going to die!” This was the magic that happened to me on my final PMO day. Let me make one point quite clear in the analogy of the sore and the ointment.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The sore isn&amp;rsquo;t lung cancer, or arterial sclerosis, or emphysema, or angina, or chronic asthma, or bronchitis, or coronary heart disease. They are all in addition to the sore. It isn&amp;rsquo;t the body pains, lack of normal lust, flagging arousal, fading penetration, the wasted time spent on lifeless two dimensional images, the times when we felt infringed of our entitlement because we are not allowed to PMO. It isn&amp;rsquo;t the lifetime of being despised by other people who caught you or, worst of all, despising yourself. These are all in addition to the sore.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The sore is what makes us close our minds to all these things. It&amp;rsquo;s that panic feeling of, “I want a fix.” Non-PMOers don&amp;rsquo;t suffer from that feeling. The worst thing we ever suffer from is fear, and the greatest gain you will receive is to be rid of that fear. It was as if a great mist had suddenly lifted from my mind. I could see so clearly that that panic feeling of wanting a porn fix wasn&amp;rsquo;t some sort of weakness in me or some magic quality of internet porn. It was caused by the first PMO session; and each subsequent one - far from relieving the feeling, it was actually causing it.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;At the same time I could see all these other “happy” PMOers - the ones who are blinded by their cunning little porn monsters - were going through the same nightmare that I was. Not as bad as mine yet all putting up phony arguments to try to justify their stupidity.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;IT&amp;rsquo;S SO NICE TO BE FREE!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
+	</item>
+	
+	<item>
+		<title>03-13 Social Night PMOing</title>
+		<link>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-13-social-night-pmoing/</link>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2022 11:47:03 +0200</pubDate>
+		
+		<guid>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-13-social-night-pmoing/</guid>
+		<description>&lt;p&gt;This is a misinformation that seems to make sense but then it does not. In order to have control of eating, will you eat at home before leaving to go to a restaurant or a party? This is what you are doing when you PMO before your social night. You will look tired and will not be up to your best. If you have dating jitters then work on it beforehand and then go with the flow even with some butterflies in your stomach. I like a bit of the anxiety in me to keep me going. Tiring yourself mentally and physically with an orgasm is not going to help you, unless of course you are going to see a prostitute. The goal is entirely different in that angle.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The widespread adoption of pick-up techniques has put pressure on guys to perform, to attract and to ‘score’. You can get knowledge but you should know how to use it. I can guarantee that 100% of the other guys hanging at that bar know exactly what you know. It comes down to the ‘how’ of how you use it when you get the chance. Even before that, there is one very critical thing about any knowledge pertaining to human interactions, that ‘knowledge’ should never force your actions. This is important.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I once masturbated and then poured wine to quiet the butterflies in my stomach before a date. I looked tired after just one hour into the date, the loud noise of the bar, dehydration, excessive self-consciousness (PUA teachings) etc. made my time unenjoyable. Somehow the girl and her friend liked it all. However, I do think it would have been better if I had gone without any props. I ended up being successful by claiming my &amp;lsquo;goal(s)&amp;rsquo; - which I consider unfortunate and as random luck.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The PMO session I had before the date triggered a dopamine flooding and its withdrawal hit around the time I was with the date. I had to over-do my conversation to compensate the ineffective dopamine effects after that earlier orgasm. I am also sure that I was suffering from hypofrontality - where my impulses were failing my controls. That gushing moment, an extra decibel in the tone etc. would easily have given my nervousness to the girls - only if I was not protected by the loud noise in the bar. Why do you want to take chances?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;PMO ceases to relieve the withdrawal pangs that it causes in the first place. That is also why heavy PMOers turn to alcohol or other drugs. But I digress. Social night PMOing is occasioned by two or more of our usual reasons for pleasure/prop seeking, e.g. social functions, parties, weddings, school exams, game night, even business meetings. These are examples of occasions that are both stressful and relaxing. This might at first appear to be a contradiction but it isn&amp;rsquo;t. Any form of socializing can be stressful, even with friends, and at the same time you want to be enjoying yourself and be completely relaxed.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;There are situations where multiple reasons are present at one and the same time. To illustrate I will quote driving as one of these. But driving always involves an element of stress. Your life is at stake. You are also having to concentrate. You may not be aware of the last two factors but the fact that they are subconscious doesn&amp;rsquo;t mean they aren&amp;rsquo;t there. And if you are stuck in a traffic jam or have a long motorway drive, you may also be bored and may have ‘promised’ yourself to a PMO after you reach home.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Another classic example is going on a first date. Especially when you know something about the date before hand like their profile from an online dating site. Your mind is throwing questions back and forth. If she is a 10 and in that vicinity or if the date is from another race which is socially ‘perceived’ as a couple of levels above your race then it gets even noisier in your head. Then the surprise to meet the person in flesh, first the looks, then the voice, then the mannerisms. Expectations determine the level of interest you have for her from there on. If your enthusiasm starts to flag you will start to feel too relaxed but then you feel guilty for feeling too relaxed. The tug of war has started. I want sex or get me out of here ASAP - I know where to get it. That will lead you to the next stage of post-date PMOing.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Even if the date went fine and hours later you are at her door and which ever way it goes, you will not be satisfied if your goal is fully on the orgasm-seek. At other times, you drive home alone and all you want to do is to go to your online harem instead of patting yourself on the back for your efforts and enjoying yourself.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;You can bet that this unfortunate guy is going to PMO after he reaches home. It is often after nights like these, when we wake to feel the uneasy emptiness, are often the special ones, the ones that we think we&amp;rsquo;ll miss the most when we are contemplating stopping PMOing. We think that life will never be quite as enjoyable again. In fact, it is the same principle at work: these PMO sessions simply provide relief from withdrawal pangs and at certain times we have greater need to relieve them than at others. You had ended up ‘greasing’ the neural ‘waterslides’ in your brain and made it ready to slide again on the next cue.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Let us make it quite clear. It is not the internet porn and the harem dwellers that are special; it is the occasion. Once we have removed the need for the PMO, such occasions will become more enjoyable and the stressful situations less stressful. This will be explained in greater detail in the next chapter.&lt;/p&gt;
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+		<title>03-12 Relaxation</title>
+		<link>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-12-relaxation/</link>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2022 11:44:10 +0200</pubDate>
+		
+		<guid>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-12-relaxation/</guid>
+		<description>&lt;p&gt;Most PMOers think that PMO helps to relax them. The truth is that internet porn used in PMO acts like a chemical stimulant. The frantic search to get the fix in those “dark alleys of the internet” and the internal struggle to reign in the dog straining at its leash for more shocking clips does not sound much like an activity of relaxation to me.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;One of the favourite PMO sessions for most is the one after a trip to a new place or after along day. As the night rolls in we stop working; we sit down and relax, relieve our hunger and thirst and are then completely satisfied. However, the poor PMOer cannot relax, as he has another hunger to satisfy. He thinks of the PMO as the icing on the cake but it is the &amp;rsquo;little monster&amp;rsquo; that needs feeding.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The truth is that the addict can never be completely relaxed and as you go through life it gets worse. The most stressed people on this planet aren&amp;rsquo;t non-PMOers but those young men and women who have a need to hunt (with the misunderstood goal of orgasm) and their ignorance of and/or low opinion of amative sex. Women who have subscribed to “I must orgasm” teachings are not even aware of the victim they have made of themselves. At this point any sex that leads to climax and orgasm cease to relieve even partially the symptoms that they have created.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I can remember when I was bringing up a family. If my child would do something wrong I would quickly lose my temper to an extent that was out of all proportion to what he had done.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;My partner was “always frigid and not interested in sex.” Now I realize that if I had only tried the amative side of things then maybe I could have relieved myself of a great measure of stress at least - if not at me, I am sure she would have. One online comment&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;“I really believed that I had an evil demon in my make-up. I now know that I had, however it wasn&amp;rsquo;t some inherent flaw in my character but the little internet porn monster that was creating the problem. During those times I thought I had all the problems in the world but when I look back on my life I wonder where all the great stress was. In everything else in my life I was in control. The one thing that controlled me was this porn slavery. The sad thing is that even today I can&amp;rsquo;t convince my children that it was the slavery that caused me to be so irritable.”&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Every time I hear a porn addict trying to justify his addiction the message is, “Oh, it calms me. It helps me to relax.”&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;On the Internet I read about a single dad whose 6 year old son would want to share his bed sometimes in the night after a scary movie yet the dad would refuse under some pretence so he can have his PMO session and edge for hours.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Let me try a smoking analogy here&amp;hellip; a couple of years ago, the adoption authorities threatened to prevent smokers from adopting children. A man rang up, irate. He said, “you are completely wrong. I can remember when I was a child, if I had a contentious matter to raise with my mother, I would wait until she lit a cigarette because she was more relaxed then.” Why couldn&amp;rsquo;t he talk to his mother when she wasn&amp;rsquo;t smoking a cigarette?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Why are PMOers so stressd when they are not getting their fix, even after a real sex with a real woman? I read about a guy who has 9&amp;rsquo;s and 10&amp;rsquo;s open for dating with him as he was in the advertising field. I am talking about dinner and stuff only - but he lost interest in those dinners as his Internet porn is far more ‘easy’ for him - no restaurant spending and no hearing a ‘no’ from his date at the end of an evening. Why would he bother when his little monster tells him about the low-risk high-reward scheme called PMO that is at his fingertips when he reaches home? Those real girls sure have competition.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Why are non-PMOers completely relaxed then? Why are PMOers not able to relax without a fix for a day or two? If you read about the experience of a PMOer taking the abstinence oath and quitting and you notice his struggle with the temptations. You can clearly see that they are not relaxed at all when they are not allowed to have the ‘only pleasure’ they are “entitled to enjoy.” They&amp;rsquo;ve forgotten what it feels like to be completely relaxed. That&amp;rsquo;s one of the many joys you have to come. The whole business of PMOing can be likened to a fly being caught in a pitcher plant. To begin with, the fly is eating the nectar. At some imperceptible stage the plant begins to eat the fly.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Isn&amp;rsquo;t it time you climbed out of that plant?&lt;/p&gt;
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+		<title>03-11 Concentration</title>
+		<link>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-11-concentration/</link>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2022 11:42:13 +0200</pubDate>
+		
+		<guid>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-11-concentration/</guid>
+		<description>&lt;p&gt;Sex and masturbation do not help concentration. That is just another illusion. When you are trying to concentrate, you automatically try to avoid distractions. So when a PMOer wants to concentrate he doesn&amp;rsquo;t even have to think about it. He automatically PMOs, partially ending the craving, gets on with the matter in hand and has already forgotten that he just PMOed. Sex in general do not help concentration. After years of masturbation your brain changes affect abilities such as assessing, planning and impulse control. The PMOer is already suffering: that little monster wants his fix.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;You are also stressed to provide novelty for the next PMO session as the same stuff will not generate enough dopamine and opioids. You have to “roam the internet streets” for novelty - all the while fighting the pull to cross the line towards shock. This creates more stress. After you orgasm, you feel unfulfilled as well.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Concentration is also affected adversely for another reason. Your dopamine receptors have already started to get reduced by building up natural tolerance to these large surges, reducing the benefit of the smaller dopamine boosts from natural de-stressors.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;In fact, your concentration and inspiration will be greatly improved as this process is reversed. For some it will be the concentration aspect that prevents them from succeeding when using the willpower method. They could put up with the irritability and bad temper but when they really needed to concentrate on something difficult they have to have that porn fix. I can well remember the panic I felt when I discovered that the hotel has no internet connection and I had this huge presentation the day after.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The loss of concentration that PMOers suffer when they try to escape is not, in fact, due to your abstinence from sex, let alone PMO. When you are addicted to something, you have mental blocks. When you have such a block, what do you do? You fire up the browser. That doesn&amp;rsquo;t cure the mental block, so then what do you do? You do what you have to do: you get on with it, just as non-PMOers do.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;When you are a PMOer nothing gets blamed on the cause. PMOers never have EDs; they just have an occasional down time. The moment you stop using, everything that goes wrong in your life is blamed on the fact that you&amp;rsquo;ve stopped. Now when you have a mental block, instead of just getting on with it, you start to say, “if only I could check out my favourites now, it would solve my problem.” You then start to question your decision to quit and escape from this slavery.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;If you believe that PMOing is a genuine aid to concentration, worrying about it will guarantee that you won&amp;rsquo;t be able to concentrate. It&amp;rsquo;s the doubting, not the physical withdrawal pangs, that causes the problem. Always remember: it is PMOer who suffers pangs and not non-PMOers. When I quit I went overnight from using everyday to zero without any apparent loss of concentration.&lt;/p&gt;
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+		<title>03-10 Boredom</title>
+		<link>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-10-boredom/</link>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2022 11:40:46 +0200</pubDate>
+		
+		<guid>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-10-boredom/</guid>
+		<description>&lt;p&gt;As soon as you get into your bed - and if you are like many people you are already on your favorite tube site - you will probably have already forgotten about it until I reminded you. It has become second nature. Another fallacy about PMOing is that it relieves boredom. Boredom is a frame of mind. The only time that happens is when you have been deprived for a long time or are trying to cut down, or during those first few PMO sessions after a failed attempt to stop.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The true situation is this: when you are addicted to internet porn’s supranormal novelty and then you decide to abstain from internet porn, there is something missing. If you have something to occupy your mind that isn&amp;rsquo;t stressful, you can go for long periods without being bothered by the absence of the drug. However, when you are bored there&amp;rsquo;s nothing to take your mind off it, so you feed the monster. When you are indulging yourself (i.e. not trying to stop or cut down), even firing up your incognito browser becomes subconscious. The PMOer can perform this ritual automatically. If any PMOer tries to remember the session during the last week, he can only remember a small proportion of them - e.g. the very last one or after a long abstinence.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The truth is that PMOing tend to increase boredom indirectly because orgasms make you feel lethargic and instead of undertaking some energetic activity, PMOers tend to prefer lounge around, bored, relieving their withdrawal pangs. This is why countering the brainwashing is so important. Because it&amp;rsquo;s a fact that PMOers tend to masturbate when they are bored and that we&amp;rsquo;re wired to interpret PMO as interesting. It doesn&amp;rsquo;t occur to us to question the fact how a two dimensional supranormal stimulus relieves boredom.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;We&amp;rsquo;ve also been brainwashed into believing that sex - even a bad sex - aids relaxation. It is a fact that when under stress or sad, couples want to have sex. In the absence of discrimination between amative and propagative sex, the goal is set to achieve orgasms by hook or by crook. Next time you do this watch how you both want to get away from each other as soon as it’s over. It is obvious that if they had just decided to cuddle, speak, hug and touch each other and go to sleep without the mandatory orgasms, the couple would have felt relieved. Well, if in the process, they wanted to have the propagative part then by all means they can but that is a topic not meant to be discussed in this book.&lt;/p&gt;
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+		<title>03-09 Stress</title>
+		<link>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-09-stress/</link>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2022 11:38:59 +0200</pubDate>
+		
+		<guid>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-09-stress/</guid>
+		<description>&lt;p&gt;I am referring not only to the great tragedies of life but also to the minor stresses, the socializing, the telephone call, the anxieties of the housewife with noisy young children and so on. Let us use the telephone conversation as an example. For most people the telephone is slightly stressful, particularly for the businessman. Most calls aren&amp;rsquo;t from satisfied customers or your boss congratulating you. There&amp;rsquo;s usually some sort of aggravation - something going wrong or somebody making demands. Then he or she comes home to the mundane family life of kids screaming and wife&amp;rsquo;s emotional demands on you. His already PMO weakened de-stressors are in no way ready to take the aggravation. At that time the PMOer, if he isn&amp;rsquo;t already doing so, will fantasize the relief of internet porn that he promised himself that night. He will even allow himself to “take one step more” into the ‘forbidden’ area that he had previously self-excluded. He doesn&amp;rsquo;t know why he does this but he does know that for some reason it appears to help.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;What has actually happened is this: without being conscious of it, he has already been suffering aggravation (i.e. the withdrawal pangs). By partially relieving that aggravation at the same time as normal stress, the total stress is reduced and the PMOer gets a boost. At this point the boost is not, in fact, an illusion. The Internet porn user will feel better than before. However, even when using porn to masturbate he or she is more tense than if he were a non-PMOer because the more you go into the drug, the more it knocks you down and the less it restores you when you masturbate. I promised no shock treatment. In the example I am about to give, I am not trying to shock you, I am merely emphasizing that PMO destroy your nerves rather than relax them.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Try to imagine getting to the stage where you cannot get aroused even with a very sexy and attractive partner. Just for a moment pause and try to visualize life where one very lovely and charming woman has to compete and fail with all the virtual porn stars who are in your &amp;lsquo;harem&amp;rsquo; to get your attention! Try to imagine the frame of mind of a man who, issued with that warning, actually continues PMOing and then dies without ever having had real sex with this charming and willing real woman. I had read real life stories like that from men and dismissed them as weirdos. In fact, I used to wish a doctor would tell me that this weird condition would happen if I continue PMO; then I would have stopped. Yet I was already fully expecting that PIED and hypofrontality where I am guaranteed to lose in a brain war. I didn&amp;rsquo;t think of myself as an impotent, just a heavy PMOer. Now, let’s talk about the stress that this is putting on me.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Such weird stories as the above are not fakes. That is what this awful ‘novelty’ porn drug does to you. As you go through life, it systematically takes away your nerve and courage. The more it takes your courage away, the more you are deluded into believing the porn is doing the opposite.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Have you ever been overtaken by panic when you are out on business travel and the hotel WiFi is down or too slow? Non-PMOers do not suffer from it. The internet porn drug causes that feeling. At the same time, as you go through life, PMO not only destroys your nerves but keeps building a powerful neural ‘water slide’, DeltaFosB, progressively destroying your ability to say no.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;By the time the PMOer reaches the stage at which it has killed his virility, he believes the PMO is his new girlfriend and cannot face life without it. Get it clear in your head that Internet porn is not relieving your nerves; it is slowly but steadily destroying them. One of the great gains of breaking the ‘habit’ is the return of your natural confidence and self-assurance.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;There is no need to self-rate based on your ability to get hard or to satisfy a woman. However, you do ‘know’ deep inside that this is slavery. It is not freedom. And that freedom cannot be achieved by continuing to ‘grease’ - repeating the same behaviour and energizing the ‘water slide’ neural pathways of your brain in ways that undercut your happiness in general and not to mention your libido.&lt;/p&gt;
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+		<title>03-08 Relieving Withdrawal Pangs</title>
+		<link>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-08-relieving-withdrawal-pangs/</link>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2022 11:36:16 +0200</pubDate>
+		
+		<guid>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-08-relieving-withdrawal-pangs/</guid>
+		<description>&lt;p&gt;As I explained earlier, PMOers think they do it for enjoyment, relaxation or some sort of education. In fact, this an illusion. The actual reason is the relief of withdrawal pangs. In the early days we use the porn as a curious and novel thing or even educational or as a rebel. We can take it or leave it. However, the subtle chain has started. Our subconscious mind begins to learn that internet porn and masturbation taken at certain times tends to be pleasurable. The more we become hooked on the drug, the greater the need to relieve the withdrawal pangs and the further the PMO drags you down and the more you are fooled into believing it is doing the opposite. It all happens so slowly, so gradually, you are not even aware of it. Each day you feel no different from the day before. Most young PMOers don&amp;rsquo;t even realize they are hooked until they actually try to stop and even then many won&amp;rsquo;t admit to it. A few stalwarts just keep their heads in the sand all their lives,trying to convince themselves and other people that they enjoy it.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Listen to this conversation a therapist had with hundreds of teenagers.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;TH: “You realize that internet porn is a drug and that the only reason why you are using is that you cannot stop.”&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;PA: “Nonsense! I enjoy it. If I didn&amp;rsquo;t, I would stop.”&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;TH: “Just stop for a week to prove to me you can if you want to.”&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;PA: “No need. I enjoy it. If I wanted to stop, I would.”&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;TH: “Just stop for a week to prove to yourself you are not hooked.”&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;PA: “What&amp;rsquo;s the point? I enjoy it.”&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;As already stated, PMOers tend to relieve their withdrawal pangs at times of stress, boredom, concentration, relaxation or a combination of these. This point is explained in greater detail in the next few chapters.&lt;/p&gt;
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+		<title>03-07 Brainwashing and the Primitive Mechanism</title>
+		<link>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-07-brainwashing-and-the-primitive-mechanism/</link>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2022 08:39:02 +0200</pubDate>
+		
+		<guid>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-07-brainwashing-and-the-primitive-mechanism/</guid>
+		<description>&lt;p&gt;How or why do we start PMOing in the first place? To understand this fully you need to examine the powerful effect of the supernormal stimulus. We all tend to think we are intelligent, dominant human beings determining our paths through life. We act and act frequently when our brain reward circuit are rewarded. Nobel laureate Nikolaas Tinbergen coined the term “supranormal stimulus.” He said mammals could be tricked into preferring fake eggs and mates. Female birds, for example, struggled to sit on larger-than life, vividly spotted plaster eggs while their own pale, dappled eggs perished untended.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The stimulation here in internet porn is not it brings stimulating actors and themes to your home - it is a genie at your bidding to create a harem in your mind. You can switch between genres and theme, home-made and viewer rated, commented and discussed, so rapid and so easy. We absolutely are not ready for the high speed internet porn and our brains are not designed to handle this supranormal stimuli.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;We can have an ‘information overload’ from the same internet but our reward circuits are not going to squirt dopamine at the levels when ‘porn overload’ is involved. We are evolutionarily programmed to seek and access sex related stuff. And we wrongly appraise the stimulus mostly based on this reward circuit action. If all you wanted is to masturbate why can’t you just use one clip and get the business done?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Here is another question - next time after a long day or some stressful incident can you consciously embellish your self-talk with “Do you know what I would really enjoy today? The marvellous warm glow of dopamine rush going to my online harem.” You will find that even people who dislike PMO will join you.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;past-misguided-advice&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Past Misguided Advice&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
+&lt;/div&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;There was much misguided advice given in the past and one is that masturbating will lead to blindness. And there are some other scare tactics that clearly over-did it. It is right that those notions were overthrown by science. But now the mainstream threw the baby out with the bath water. TV programs, pop music, literature and movies all subtly show shambolic characters using porn or masturbation. They knowingly or unknowingly mix porn, sex, internet porn, masturbation and orgasm.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;From our earliest years our subconscious minds are bombarded daily with information telling us that sex is good and that the most precious thing on this earth is to ‘achieve’ orgasm. Girls are taught to achieve it and claim it&amp;rsquo;s because they were wrongly suppressed of their sexual side for a very long time and still are. You think I exaggerate? Watch any TV or movie plot and you will see the mix-up of the amative (touch, smell, voice etc.) and the propagative (orgasmic) sides of sex. The impact of this does not register on our conscious minds but the sleeping partner, the subconscious mind, has time to absorb it. What the message is really saying is, “The most precious thing on this earth, my last thought and action, will be the goal of orgasm.” If you don’t have an orgasm then you are an old man with zero libido.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Our children are being bombarded by sex and porn clips and many don’t even know how to protect them from it all. Large hoardings and magazine adverts are loaded with sexual innuendo. Some of the pop videos are extremely suggestive - again they hide behind free speech. Don’t be vexed and feel powerless about it. Make it a game and find you which of the components they are using - is it novelty, shock value, color, size, taboo etc. If the kids are pre-teen some of these can be disclosed to them and it would make an excellent show-and-tell game.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;A while back there was a wave of ‘leaked’ private videos of celebrities on the internet. If the youngster is too smitten by their favourite star, even if the conscious mind blames the ‘leak’ on the blood thirsty internet paparazzi, the &amp;lsquo;sleeping partner&amp;rsquo; is patiently digesting the notion that, “yes, even my shambolic hero does it and if I don’t, I won’t look the part.”&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;the-scientific-reasoning&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Scientific Reasoning&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
+&lt;/div&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;True, there is publicity the other way - the PIED scares, the loss of motivation, preferring virtual porn to real girls, YBOP&lt;sup id=&#34;fnref:1&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#fn:1&#34; class=&#34;footnote-ref&#34; role=&#34;doc-noteref&#34;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;, Reboot&lt;sup id=&#34;fnref:2&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#fn:2&#34; class=&#34;footnote-ref&#34; role=&#34;doc-noteref&#34;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; forums, underground PUA&lt;sup id=&#34;fnref:3&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#fn:3&#34; class=&#34;footnote-ref&#34; role=&#34;doc-noteref&#34;&gt;3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;, the no FAP movement - but these do not actually stop people PMOing. Logically they should, but the fact is they do not. They would not even prevent youngsters from starting no matter how much the YBOP guys try. All the years that I remained a PMOer, I can honestly say, even if I had read all of them before, I would never have become a quitter. The truth is that it doesn&amp;rsquo;t make the slightest bit of difference. The trap is the same today as when you fell into it.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Ironically, the most powerful force in this melee of confusion is the PMOer himself. It is a fallacy that they are weak-willed or are physically weak specimens. You have to be physically strong in order to cope with an addiction after you know it is. This is one of the reasons why PMOers refuse to accept the overwhelming statistics that prove that internet porn with its ‘novelty’ cripples your brain. Add to that the sexologists who are doing half-baked studies and declare PMO is not an issue - they just help to add to the confusion.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Everyone knows a friend who PMOed every day - he started with the ‘static’ to internet porn, always horny in real life, chasing girls and you never doubted him to have sex problems of course. You want to believe him. He never complained about any ED right? Guys and girls like them refuse even to consider the hundreds of ex-addicts and non-PMOers who painfully recount their difficulties. It is the “little monster” brain chemical addiction and the “big monster” - illusions and delusions. In this hackbook, I&amp;rsquo;ve put together almost all the sorts of brainwashing a PMOer can suffer from. There will always be a few out there that I haven&amp;rsquo;t touched upon.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Even more painful is they think of themselves as unsuccessful losers and insufferable introverts. A possible fact is that a PMO friend could have been more interesting in person if he hadn’t put himself down for seeking self-pleasure.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;If you do a small survey among your online forum members, friends and colleagues, you will find that most PMOers are, in fact, strong-willed people. They tend to be self-employed, business executives or in certain specialized professions, such as doctors&lt;sup id=&#34;fnref:4&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#fn:4&#34; class=&#34;footnote-ref&#34; role=&#34;doc-noteref&#34;&gt;4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;, lawyers, policemen, teachers, salesmen, nurses, secretaries, housewives with children, etc. In other words, anybody leading a stressful existence. Yes, I did include women and mothers. It’s the brain and it’s the same for them too. The main delusion of the PMOer is that porn helps to masturbate to orgasm and that relieves stress. This tends to be associated with the dominant type, the type that takes on responsibility and stress and, of course, that is the type that we admire and therefore tend to copy. Another group that tends to get hooked are people in monotonous jobs because the other main reason for PMOing is boredom. However, the idea that internet porn relieves boredom is also an illusion, I am afraid.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;As a society we get all uptight about glue-sniffing, heroin addiction, etc. Actual deaths from glue-sniffing do not amount to ten per annum, and deaths from heroin are less than a hundred a year in this country. There is another drug, internet porn, on which over 45 per cent of us become hooked at some time in our lives and the majority spend the rest of their lives regretting it. Some even don’t know that their ED is due to this.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;the-willpower-method&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Willpower Method&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
+&lt;/div&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;PMOers who quit using the Willpower method blame their own lack of willpower and ruin their peace and happiness. It is one thing to fail in self-discipline and another to self-loathe. There is no law that requires you to get fully hard all the time before sex, and to be properly aroused, and that you must be able to satisfy a woman. We are working on an addiction and not a habit. Habit is something you like to do- for example, golf - at no point you are arguing with yourself to stop golfing? But you do so with your porn addiction. The real question is: why?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Constant exposure to internet porn re-wires your brain. You need to start building resistance to this brainwashing, just as if you were buying a car from a second-hand car dealer. You would be nodding politely but you would not believe a word the man was saying. So don’t believe everything they say either - that you must have sex as much as you can and you must have it exceptional good. And that in the absence of real sex you claim it by the substitute called internet porn - which is only a component of the good old porn.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;And don’t play ‘safe’ porn game either - because your “little porn monster” invented that scheme to lure you. Even the content - ‘amateur’? Really? Is there a certification authority that certifies it? Tube sites and porn producers gather site visitor profiles and cater to their needs. If they see a trend in crowd sourced collection of a particular genre they will focus on that and get content out ASAP. The statistics of what genre users like is collected to the level of how long and which portion the users were preferring. Do not be fooled by their educational intent or the safe female oriented clips (for you ladies). Start asking yourself:&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;ul&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;Why am I doing it?&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;Do I really need to?&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NO, OF COURSE YOU DON&amp;rsquo;T.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I find this brainwashing aspect the most difficult of all to explain. Why is it that an otherwise rational, intelligent human being becomes a complete imbecile about his own addiction? It pains me to confess that out of the thousands of people that I have assisted in kicking the habit, I (not Allen Carr) was the biggest idiot of all.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;At the age of thirteen, although I was doing well at school and games, I was still an insufferable introvert. I read books from the library that were not within my main study list. However, I can see that I was attracted to erotica. I started masturbating to TV programs, song and dance sequences etc. I must have to have it every day. The tired feeling I felt was misappropriated by my ‘little porn monster’ as work stress. I didn’t know my “I-must-masturbate-as-I-am-entitled” attitude was the one that created the ‘stress’ in the first place. Then I got pictures and GIFs via email on my laptop - the first step towards electronic porn. The colour and texture of the images were amazing for me at that time - won’t be now for sure. Then came dial-up but still they were predominantly static pictures. Then came downloadable videos. It’s a pain to download and watch now - but it was heaven sent then as we were coming out of the static porn era! Oh, the streaming tube sites haven’t arrived yet.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;when-real-sex-is-not-enough-anymore&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;When Real Sex Is Not Enough Anymore&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
+&lt;/div&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I even remember opening up my laptop after having real sex (an activity I did due to stress induced by my own irrational rigid self demands to make her orgasm) and I was wanting more. Obviously the prospect of orgasm providing fulfilment rarely happens after prolonged porn use. So, my mind was reaching out to porn.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;At the age of forty, I was visiting my online harem daily, drinking ‘socially’ (whatever that means) and smoking ‘sometimes’ but not so often. I had wrongly subscribed to misguided ideas of ‘moderation’ and ‘entitlement’. I had reached the stage where I couldn&amp;rsquo;t get through a single day without reaching out to porn in the night. With most PMOers, the triggers are the normal stresses of life, like answering the telephone or socializing.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;When I experienced PIED - I knew it was killing my virility. There was no way I could kid myself otherwise. I am smart enough not to ‘project’ the porn fantasies on to real life. But it was like pacifying a dog straining at its leash. But why I couldn&amp;rsquo;t see what it was doing to me mentally, I could not understand. It was almost jumping up and biting me on the nose. The ridiculous thing is that most PMOers suffer the delusion at some time in their life that they enjoy internet porn because it is ‘normal’ and ‘healthy’. I never suffered that delusion, I PMOed because I thought enjoying sex is a ‘birthright’ and I am only doing a normal thing.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Since it was easier at most times for me to get internet porn than a partner I thought I am doing the normal thing. Now I am a non-PMOer, the most difficult part is trying to believe that those days actually happened. It&amp;rsquo;s like awakening from a nightmare and that is about the size of it. Internet porn is a supranormal drug. It is weakening your de-stressing mechanisms, your virility and your energy. The worst aspect of PMO isn&amp;rsquo;t the injury to your health or manliness, it is the warping of the mind. You search for any plausible excuse to go on.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I remember at one stage switching to static images, a failed attempt to cut down on internet porn, in the belief that it was less harmful and I could reign in my ‘habit’. I failed to see the ‘novelty’ and the ‘shock’ demands from my ‘little monster’ to just get more dopamine. Did I ‘stay’ within my boundaries? I ‘favorited’ 2 dimensional photos and my harem collection saw pictures and videos of ‘mild’ type porn rotating in and out like musical chair. When their ‘music’ stopped they ‘exited’. I didn’t understand the novelty-seeking, shock-seeking nature of my brain.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;pied-and-my-excuses&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PIED And My Excuses&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
+&lt;/div&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Once I figured I had PIED, as it had occurred multiple times with two different partners, I switched to more and more sophisticated masturbation. I practised with different artificial vaginas. They are sold as strength training. However, the combo of internet porn and toys needs deft hands, which is off-putting. Besides, by this time I was at the stage of orgasming with a limp member. All I wanted is an orgasm so I did not care about arousal, getting hard and all that. I had a long distance married girlfriend - who likes to share and talk about her sex life in very explicit manner. It turned me on so much that I’d masturbate to orgasm when I am on the phone with her. She knew it and would play with me by cutting off abruptly - to keep me hanging there - making me wanting more when she calls the next time. She had no trouble because I was fully willing to be the subject of playing such games, as long as it led to orgasm. A girl knows when a guy is seeking orgasm and it is his only goal. The only redeeming factor about me was my intelligence and empathy which kept her and my other partners coming back to me.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Most PMOers swear that they only watch static and soft porn and so they are OK. They are actually straining at the leash and thus fighting with their willpower to resist temptations. If they do this too often and for too long they will debit their willpower considerably and fail in other life projects where willpower is of much great value, like in daily exercise, dieting etc. Continuous failure in those areas will make them feel miserable and guilty and very soon they will find themselves back to their entitled relief. If not, they will vent their anger and depression onto their loved ones.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The answer is that once you have become addicted to internet porn, the brainwashing is increased. Your subconscious mind knows that the little monster has to be fed and you block everything else from your mind. As I have already stated, it is fear that keeps people quitting, the fear of that empty, insecure feeling that you get when you stop supplying the brain with dopamine flooding. Just because you are not aware of it doesn&amp;rsquo;t mean it isn&amp;rsquo;t there. You don&amp;rsquo;t have to understand it any more than a cat needs to understand where the under-floor hot-water pipes are. It just knows that if it sits in a certain place it gets the feeling of warmth.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;the-passivity-of-our-mind&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Passivity Of Our Mind&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
+&lt;/div&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;It is the passivity of our minds and dependency on authority leading to brainwashing that is the main difficulty in giving up PMO. The brainwashing of our upbringing in society reinforced with the brainwashing from our own addiction and, most powerful of all, the brainwashing of our friends, relatives and colleagues. Did you notice that up to now I&amp;rsquo;ve frequently referred to &amp;lsquo;giving up&amp;rsquo; PMO, I used the expression at the beginning of the previous paragraph. This is a classic example of the brainwashing. The expression implies a genuine sacrifice. The beautiful truth is that there is absolutely nothing to give up. On the contrary, you will be freeing yourself from a terrible disease and achieving marvellous positive gains. We are going to start removing this brainwashing now. From this point on, no longer will we refer to &amp;lsquo;giving up&amp;rsquo;, but to stopping, quitting or the true position: &lt;strong&gt;ESCAPING!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The only thing that persuades us to PMO in the first place is all the other people doing it. We feel we are missing out. We work so hard to become hooked, yet nobody ever finds out what they have been missing. But every time we see another new video clip it reassures us that there must be something in it, otherwise people wouldn&amp;rsquo;t be doing it - and it wouldn&amp;rsquo;t be such big business all over the world. Even when he has kicked the habit, the ex-PMOer feels he is being deprived when a discussion on a sexy entertainer, singer or even a porn star comes up at a party or other social function. She or he must be good to have all my friends talk about them, no? Do they have ‘hot’ pictures of her in my tube site? He feels safe. He can have just one ‘peek’ that night. And, before he knows it, he is hooked again.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;This brainwashing is extremely powerful and you need to be aware of its effects. I have heard scare stories about wicked men giving heroin mixed candies to kids at schoolyards. The concept of addiction and being compelled to go on taking the drug, filled me with horror. Even to this day, in spite of the fact that I am fairly convinced that &amp;lsquo;pot&amp;rsquo; is not addictive, I would not dare take one puff of marijuana. How ironic that I should have ended up a porn junky. Technology will continue to grow and we will have even faster tube sites and more faster access methods. The industry is investing millions in Virtual Reality so it will become the next best thing. The point is, do we know where we are going? Are we equipped with an under armour of defence so we can enjoy the benefits of technology yet at the same time protect ourselves from its bad effects?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;We are about to remove the brainwashing. It is not the non-PMOer who is being deprived but the poor user who is forfeiting a lifetime of:&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;ul&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HEALTH&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ENERGY&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WEALTH&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PEACE OF MIND&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CONFIDENCE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;COURAGE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SELF-RESPECT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HAPPINESS&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;FREEDOM&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;And what does he gain from these considerable sacrifices? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! Except the illusion of trying to get back to the state of peace, tranquillity and confidence that the non-PMOer enjoys all the time.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;div class=&#34;footnotes&#34; role=&#34;doc-endnotes&#34;&gt;
+&lt;hr&gt;
+&lt;ol&gt;
+&lt;li id=&#34;fn:1&#34;&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;YBOP&lt;/strong&gt; - yourbrainonporn.com, the leading internet porn addiction awareness site.&amp;#160;&lt;a href=&#34;#fnref:1&#34; class=&#34;footnote-backref&#34; role=&#34;doc-backlink&#34;&gt;&amp;#x21a9;&amp;#xfe0e;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li id=&#34;fn:2&#34;&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PUA&lt;/strong&gt; - pickup artist. Someone who teaches men to pick up mates.&amp;#160;&lt;a href=&#34;#fnref:2&#34; class=&#34;footnote-backref&#34; role=&#34;doc-backlink&#34;&gt;&amp;#x21a9;&amp;#xfe0e;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li id=&#34;fn:3&#34;&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reboot forum&lt;/strong&gt; - online resource for those who try temporary abstinence.&amp;#160;&lt;a href=&#34;#fnref:3&#34; class=&#34;footnote-backref&#34; role=&#34;doc-backlink&#34;&gt;&amp;#x21a9;&amp;#xfe0e;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li id=&#34;fn:4&#34;&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Doctors&lt;/strong&gt; - there is a reddit online forum for medical doctors who are quitting.&amp;#160;&lt;a href=&#34;#fnref:4&#34; class=&#34;footnote-backref&#34; role=&#34;doc-backlink&#34;&gt;&amp;#x21a9;&amp;#xfe0e;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ol&gt;
+&lt;/div&gt;
+</description>
+	</item>
+	
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 		<title>03-06 Internet Porn</title>
 		<link>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-06-internet-porn/</link>
@@ -21,7 +449,7 @@ action more happy feelings.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;So the first time you see porn - dopamine injects itself - you act - you orgasm. All of which will now be stored as a script in your brain for easy access next time. I call this a ‘water slide’. Next time at the cue - a sexy commercial or alone time or stress or feeling a little down - you are ready to take a ride on the ‘water slide’. One more thing is that every time to repeat this you are ‘greasing’ it as well - so it is active, alive and more easier to slide the next time.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;As time passes you are most probably not excited as before of the same clip - the reason will be explained shortly - but of similar type, genre, shock-level, our dopamine seeps into the brain but this time lesser than before. Now you feel less arousal, lesser motivation. This low motivation feeling in itself will trigger a feeling of lower satisfaction as our minds engage in constant rating. Then you seek more motivation. Then you ask for more novelty. Then you click on that amateurish, ugly looking, low quality, but high shock valued clip thumbnail which you had confidently said you won’t on your first time.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My Own Online Harem!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;my-own-online-harem&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My Own Online Harem!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;This cycle of novelty, escalation, satiation, desensitization etc. is not the same as the old porn magazine? Neither can you do that in real life with your partner. Maybe if you own a harem? One of the pros of owning a harem is novelty and the cons are desensitization, escalation and of course the cost.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;Going back to the earlier discussion - in this cycle as you crossed the ‘red line’ you also trigger emotions such as guilt, disgust, embarrassment, anxiety and fear - which in turn raise dopamine levels as well. Now the brain may mistakenly associate feelings of anxiety and fear as sexual arousal. This perpetual cycle is only broken by natural causes - fortunately sooner or later. With its free access and privacy it provides boundless harem-like novelty. The dopamine can be theoretically kept very high for a very very long time. I can be satisfied with one lobster once in awhile. But Internet porn is different. It is even worse than drugs. Don’t let me make you nervous. I will shortly show you how to be free from this slavery.&lt;/p&gt;
@@ -36,13 +464,13 @@ action more happy feelings.&lt;/p&gt;
 use?&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;This dopamine flooding, like a quick-acting drug, falls quickly to induce withdrawal pangs. I must at this point dispel a common illusion that PMOers have about withdrawal pangs. They think that withdrawal pangs are the terrible trauma they suffer when they try or are forced to stop PMOing. These are, in fact, mainly mental; the user is feeling deprived of his pleasure or prop. I will explain more about this later.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Little Monster&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;the-little-monster&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Little Monster&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;The actual pangs of withdrawal from PMO are so subtle that most users have lived and died without even realizing they are like drug addicts. When we use the term ‘porn addict&amp;rsquo; we think we just &amp;lsquo;got into the habit&amp;rsquo;. Most PMOers have a horror of drugs, yet that&amp;rsquo;s exactly what they are - drug addicts. Fortunately it is an easy drug to kick, but you need first to accept that you are addicted. There is no physical pain in the withdrawal from PMO. It is merely an empty, restless feeling, the feeling of something missing, which is why many think it is something to do with their hands. If it is prolonged, the user becomes nervous, insecure, agitated, lacking in confidence and irritable. It is like hunger - for a poison, INTERNET PORN.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;Within seconds of engaging in PMO the dopamine is supplied and the craving ends, resulting in the feeling of fulfilment and pleasure that the action gives to the PMOer. In the early days, when we first start PMOing, the withdrawal pangs and their relief are so slight that we are not even aware that they exist. When we begin to masturbate regularly to internet porn we think it is because we&amp;rsquo;ve either come to enjoy them or got into the &amp;lsquo;habit&amp;rsquo;. The truth is we&amp;rsquo;re already hooked; we do not realize it, but that little monster is already inside our stomach and every now and again we have to feed it.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;All PMOers start seeking porn for stupid reasons. Nobody has to. The only reason why anybody continues PMOing, whether they be a casual or a heavy user, is to feed that little monster. The whole business of porn and PMO is a series of confusing conundrums. All sufferers of PMO know at heart that they are fools and have been trapped by something evil. However, I think the most pathetic aspect about this is that the enjoyment that the PMOer gets from a session is the pleasure of trying to get back to the state of peace, tranquillity and confidence that his body had before he became hooked in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Annoying Burglar Alarm&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;the-annoying-burglar-alarm&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Annoying Burglar Alarm&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;You know that feeling when a neighbour’s burglar alarm has been ringing all day, or there has been some other minor, persistent aggravation. Then the noise suddenly stops - that marvellous feeling of peace and tranquillity is experienced. It is not really peace but the ending of the aggravation. Before we start the next PMO session, our bodies are complete. We then force our brains to pump dopamine into the body using PMO, and when we are done orgasming and the dopamine starts to leave, we suffer withdrawal pangs - not physical pain, just an empty feeling. We are not even aware that it exists, but it is like a dripping tap inside our bodies. Our rational minds do not understand it. They do not need to. All we know is that we want porn and when we masturbate the craving goes, and for the moment we are content and confident again just as we were before we
 became addicted. However, the satisfaction is only temporary because in order to relieve the craving you have to get more porn. As soon as you orgasm the craving starts again and so the chain goes on. It is a chain for life - &lt;strong&gt;UNLESS YOU BREAK IT&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
@@ -56,7 +484,7 @@ became addicted. However, the satisfaction is only temporary because in order to
 &lt;p&gt;The heroin doesn&amp;rsquo;t relieve it. On the contrary, it causes it. Non-PMOers - say a 14 year old in 2008 - didn&amp;rsquo;t suffer the empty feeling of needing internet porn or start to panic when they are off- line. Non-PMOers cannot understand how PMOers can possibly obtain pleasure from two dimensional videos with muted sounds and abnormal body proportions. And do you know something? PMOers themselves cannot understand why they do it after some time either.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;We talk about internet porn being relaxing or giving satisfaction. But how can you be satisfied unless you were dissatisfied in the first place? Why don&amp;rsquo;t non-PMOer suffer from this dissatisfied state and why, after a no-sex date, when the non-PMOers are completely relaxed, are PMOers completely unrelaxed until they have satisfied their &amp;rsquo;little monster&amp;rsquo;?&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Pleasure or Crutch?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;a-pleasure-or-crutch&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Pleasure or Crutch?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;Forgive me if I dwell on this subject for a moment. The main reason that PMOers find it difficult to quit is that they believe that they are giving up a genuine pleasure or crutch. It is absolutely essential to understand that you are giving up nothing whatsoever. The best way to understand the subtleties of the PMO trap is to compare it with eating. If we are in the habit of eating regular meals, we are not aware of being hungry between meals. Only if the meal is delayed are we aware of being hungry, and even then, there is no physical pain, just an empty, insecure feeling which we know as: &amp;lsquo;I need to eat.&amp;rsquo; And the process of satisfying our hunger is a very pleasantpastime.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;PMOing appears to be almost identical. The empty, insecure feeling which we know as: &amp;lsquo;wanting or needing an PMO orgasm’ is identical to a hunger for food, although one will not satisfy the other. Like hunger, there is no physical pain and the feeling is so imperceptible that we are not even aware of it between PMO sessions. It&amp;rsquo;s only if we want to masturbate and aren&amp;rsquo;t able to reach internet for porn that we become aware of any discomfort. But when we do PMO we feel satisfied.&lt;/p&gt;
@@ -68,12 +496,12 @@ became addicted. However, the satisfaction is only temporary because in order to
 &lt;li&gt;Eating doesn&amp;rsquo;t create hunger and genuinely relieves it, whereas the first PMO starts the craving for dopamine and each subsequent one, far from relieving it, ensures that you suffer it for the rest of life.&lt;/li&gt;
 &lt;/ol&gt;
 &lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PMO is a Habit?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;pmo-is-a-habit&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PMO is a Habit?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;This is an opportune moment to dispel another common myth about PMO - that it is a habit. Is eating a habit? If you think so, try breaking it completely. No, to describe eating as a habit would be the same as describing breathing as a habit. Both are essential for survival. It is true that different people are in the habit of satisfying their hunger at different times and with varying types of food. But eating itself is not a habit. Neither is PMO. The only reason any PMOer fires up the browser is to try to end the empty, insecure feeling that the previous orgasm and the PMO session created. It is true that different PMOers are in the habit of trying to relieve their withdrawal pangs at different times, but PMO itself is not a habit.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;On the internet they frequently refer to PMO as a habit and in this hackbook, for convenience, I also refer to the &amp;lsquo;habit&amp;rsquo;. However, be constantly aware that it is not habit, on the contrary it is no more nor less than DRUG ADDICTION! When we start to PMO we have to force ourselves to learn to cope with it. Before we know it, we are ‘escalating’&lt;sup id=&#34;fnref:1&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#fn:1&#34; class=&#34;footnote-ref&#34; role=&#34;doc-noteref&#34;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; - we have to then have more bizarre and more shocking porn. The thrill is in the hunting&amp;hellip; not in the killing. If we don&amp;rsquo;t then panic sets in and as we go through life we tend to novelty-seek more and more. Worse is when this seeking of higher shock level get into our real life. Have you heard about people suffering from PIED, that too in solo? How about wet dreams and fantasies where you are not even there but only involving others? There is no performance stress but I am not even getting hard. Great!&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Crossing The Red Line&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;crossing-the-red-line&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Crossing The Red Line&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;This is because, as with any other drug, the body tends to develop immunity to the effects of the same old porn clips and our brain wants more or something else. After quite a short period of watching the same clip it ceases to relieve completely the withdrawal pangs that the previous PMO session had created. You want to stay on the safe side of your own ‘red line’ but your brain is asking you to click on that ‘forbidden fruit’ clip. There is a tug of war occurring in this supposed porn paradise.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;You feel better than you did before starting this PMO session but you are in fact more nervous and less relaxed than you would be as a non-PMOer, like someone who is living in Loma Linda or in an Amish village, even though you are actually PMOing and living in your supposed “porn paradise.” This position is even more ridiculous than wearing tight shoes because as you go through life an increasing amount of the discomfort remains even when the shoes are removed.&lt;/p&gt;
@@ -86,19 +514,19 @@ became addicted. However, the satisfaction is only temporary because in order to
 &lt;p&gt;What magic drug can suddenly reverse the very effect it had minutes before? If you think about it, what other types of occasion are there in our lives; apart from sleep? The truth is that PMO neither relieves boredom and stress nor promotes concentration and relaxation. It is all just illusion. Apart from being a drug, PMO is also a destroyer of happiness and virility.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;In case you have ideas of toning down to other more ‘realistic’ or ‘soft’ genres of porn and such, I should make it quite clear that the content of this book applies to all porn, yes, that includes, print, webcams, pay-per-views, chat, live shows etc. that is on high speed internet where ‘novelty’ and ‘shock’ is the nature of the game. Imagination goes farther than reality. The human body is the most sophisticated object on our planet. No species, even the lowest amoeba or worm, can survive without knowing the difference between food and poison.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Brain Reward Circuit Mechanics&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;brain-reward-circuit-mechanics&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Brain Reward Circuit Mechanics&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;Through a process of natural selection over thousand of years, our minds and bodies have developed techniques for rewarding actions that multiply and sustain humanity. Yet our minds and bodies are not ready for the supernormal stimulus that is bigger, brighter, colourful, edgier and more shocking than the one we have now. We are attracted proportional to the degree of how far the outlier is from our individual normal. It can be two dimensional clip - and a muted one at that - we will get aroused. Look at the same clip again and again and you won’t be. You just moved your red line close to the outlier and in no time you will enclose it in your normal consciousness. It is natural and it is so that you can multiply and grow this human race. In real life there are checks and balances in place so you take a break and go away do something else. With internet porn you there are no such checks and balances and you are living in a virtual harem!&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;When we took a ‘peep’ at internet porn the first time, a few images were titillating but most were disgusting, causing you to avert your eyes away. Like you would if had accidentally glanced a feeding mother’s breast. And some of us are even revolted with what they saw when the star reminded them of someone dear to their heart or a scene which recalled their own instance of being the victim. Some don’t feel like it to browse and masturbate at the same time. It may be hard to believe for you but the non-PMOs, who don’t PMO after their first time, are the lucky ones. They actually decided that it was not their cup of tea. It must be hard for you to believe but stay with me.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;How many of us don’t visit brothels - even when you are far from home? Why not? It’s not the social stigma? How many of us did not bring home a bottle on your way back from work - even after a hard day? Why not ? You ‘deserve’ it after that big deal you made? You just decided, after your first instance, that it’s not your cup of tea. That&amp;rsquo;s all.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Are PMOers Mentally Weak?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;are-pmoers-mentally-weak&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Are PMOers Mentally Weak?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;It is a fallacy that physically weak and mentally weak-willed people become PMOers. The lucky ones are those who find that first instance repulsive and they are cured for life. Or, alternatively, they are not mentally prepared to go through the severe learning process of fighting the obstructions of self-talking themselves to get hooked, fear of ‘getting caught’, not technical enough to create an online cache, operate privacy settings in the browser etc.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;To me this is the most tragic part of this whole business. How hard we worked to become hooked, and this is why it is difficult to stop teenagers. Because they are skilled in seeking and finding material, they know online privacy options and can clean their tracks - if they still feel some stigma and they (wrongfully) believe they can stop whenever they want to. Why do they not learn from us? Then again, why did we not learn from our PMOers and addicts?&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;Many PMOers believe they enjoy online internet porn. It is an illusion. What we are actually doing when we jump from genre to genre is to keep our ‘novelty’ monkey within the ‘red line’ of ‘safe’ porn genres to get our dopamine fix, like heroin addicts who think that they enjoy injecting themselves. The withdrawal pangs from heroin are relatively severe and all they are really enjoying is the ritual of relieving those pangs.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The High From The Dance Around The Red Line&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;the-high-from-the-dance-around-the-red-line&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The High From The Dance Around The Red Line&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;Even with that one clip on which he lingers longer - the PMOer constantly teaches himself to filter out the bad and ugly portions of a porn clip. Even if it is solo, you still do the ‘filtering’ on the body parts that appeal to you the most. In fact some even take pleasure in this game to find an excuse to declare that they like ‘soft’ stuff and are not addicted to supranormal stimuli. Sometimes even this constant dance around the red line in itself produces a sort of high as well.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;Ask a user who believes that he sticks to a certain actor or genre - only because he likes something about the star or the theme (if any) of the clip: “If you cannot get your normal brand of porn and can only obtain a poor or unsafe brand, do you stop masturbating?” No way. A PMOer will masturbate to anything rather than abstain and it doesn&amp;rsquo;t matter if he has to switch to escalating themes, different sex-orientation-themes, look-alike actresses, dangerous settings shocking relationships etc. To begin with they taste awful but if you persevere you will learn to like them. Most PMOers will also try to seek masturbation even after having real sex (unfulfilment, porn-induced unrealistic expectations etc.), or after a long, stressful work day, fever, colds, flu, sore throats and even when admitted in hospitals.&lt;/p&gt;
@@ -109,13 +537,13 @@ became addicted. However, the satisfaction is only temporary because in order to
 &lt;/ol&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;You will quite rightly ask why it is that many PMOers find it so difficult to stop, go through months of torture and spend the rest of their lives pining for it at odd times. The answer is the second reason why we use Internet porn - the brainwashing. The brain-chemical addiction is easy to cope with. Most PMOers go days without online porn - when they are on business trips or travel etc. The withdrawal pangs don’t affect them. Their little porn monster knows that you will open your laptop as soon as you return to hotel room or your den. Ah, you can even survive this obnoxious client and your megalomaniac manager - just ‘knowing’ that the fix is there for your take. It doesn&amp;rsquo;t bother the PMOers.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Smokers Analogy&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;the-smokers-analogy&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Smokers Analogy&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;A good analogy is the situation of smokers - if they went ten hours during the day without a cigarette they&amp;rsquo;d be tearing their hair out. Many smokers will buy a new car nowadays and refrain from smoking in it. Many will visit theatres, supermarkets, churches, etc. and not being able to smoke doesn&amp;rsquo;t bother them. Even on the trains there have been no riots. Smokers are almost pleased for someone or something to force them to stop smoking.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;PMOers will automatically refrain from using internet porn in the home of their parents while visiting for family get togethers etc. with little discomfort to themselves. In fact, most PMOers have extended periods during which they abstain without effort. Even in my case I would quite happily go a week or so without a PMO incident. In the later years as a PMOer I actually used to look forward to these days when I could stop choking my penis (what a ridiculous &amp;lsquo;habit&amp;rsquo;).&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;The brain chemical addiction (little monster) is easy to cope with, even when you are still addicted, and there are thousands of PMOers who remain casual users all their lives. They are just as heavily addicted as the heavy PMOer. There are even heavy PMOers who have kicked the &amp;lsquo;habit&amp;rsquo; but will have an occasional ‘peek’, and that keeps them addicted. You are ‘greasing’ the ‘water slide’ of the brain only to see you slide down at the next dip in your mood.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Big Monster - The Brainwashing&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;the-big-monster---the-brainwashing&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Big Monster - The Brainwashing&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;You are smart enough to know (aside, I will explain shortly why PMOers are in fact a strong willed and hard working bunch) that not all porn workers get a W-2 with 401k and stock options. Only a very rare actor and that too for a very short period of time of their career may be.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;Not all the amateurs are ‘amateurs’ on these tube sites, oversized body parts and overcharged scenarios are the norm, aided by a bit of the ‘viagran’ help.&lt;/p&gt;
@@ -346,7 +774,7 @@ Do not take anything for granted. Question not only what I tell you but also you
 		
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-&lt;p&gt;&amp;lsquo;I&amp;rsquo;M GOING TO CURE THE WORLD OF PMO&amp;rsquo;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;im-going-to-cure-the-world-of-pmo&#34;&gt;&amp;lsquo;I&amp;rsquo;M GOING TO CURE THE WORLD OF PMO&amp;rsquo;&lt;/h2&gt;
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 &lt;p&gt;I was talking to my mentor. He thought that I had flipped. Understandable if you consider that he had watched me fail on numerous attempts to quit. The most recent had been two years previously. I&amp;rsquo;d actually survived six months of sheer purgatory before I finally succumbed and found myself clicking on stacked up tabs of porn sites. I&amp;rsquo;m not ashamed to admit that I cried like a baby. I was crying because I knew that I was condemned to be an addict for life. I&amp;rsquo;d put so much effort into that attempt and suffered so much misery that I knew I would never have the strength to go through that ordeal again. I&amp;rsquo;m not a violent man, but if some patronizing non-PMO’er had been stupid enough at that moment to suggest to me that all users can find it easy to quit, immediately and permanently, I would not have been responsible for my actions. However, I&amp;rsquo;m convinced that any jury in the world, comprised of PMOers only, would have pardoned me on the grounds of justifiable homicide.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;Perhaps you too find it impossible to believe that any PMOer can find it easy to quit. If so, I beg you not to cast this book into the rubbish bin. Please trust me. I assure you that you can find it

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+		<description>&lt;p&gt;This is the area where the brainwashing is the greatest. PMOers, especially the young and single, think they are aware of the health risks. They are not. Even in my case, when I was expecting my head to explode any moment and honestly believed I was prepared to accept the consequences, I was still kidding myself. I didn&amp;rsquo;t in those days have an app that started a red beeper to flash and sound every time my internet router hits a porn site, followed by a warning voice saying, “OK, this is the one!” Fortunately you do get a warning, and this is it. That warning would say, “Up to now you have got away with it but if you stay another minute your head will explode,” do you think I would have PMOed?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;If you are in doubt about the answer just try walking up to a cliff, stand on the edge with your eyes closed and imagine you then have the choice of either quitting PMO or walking up blindfolded before your next PMO.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;There is no doubt what your choice would be. I had been doing what every internet porn PMOer does all his life: closing my mind and keeping my head in the sand, hoping that I would wake up one morning and just not want to PMO any more. PMOers cannot allow themselves to think of the health risks. If they do, even the illusion of enjoying the &amp;lsquo;habit&amp;rsquo; goes.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;This explains why a shock treatment is so ineffective in the first stages of quitting. It is only non-users who can bring themselves to read the destructive brain changes. It also explains why PMOers, influenced by their little monster, wrongly recall that filthy room mate who PMOed everyday and was still remaining ‘horny’ 24 hours a day – they will ignore the thousands of people who are brought “down” in their prime because of this poisonous ‘habit’.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;About six times a week I have the following conversation with PMOers (usually the younger ones):&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;ME: Why do you want to stop?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;PMOer: I read in a PUA guru’s blog that it is good to stop for 4 days to amp myself up.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;ME: Aren&amp;rsquo;t you worried about the health risks?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;PMOer:No, I could step under a bus tomorrow.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;ME: But would you deliberately step under a bus?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;PMOer:Of course not.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;ME: Do you not bother to look left and right when you cross the road?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;PMOer: Of course I do.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Exactly. He/she goes through a lot of trouble not to step under a bus and the odds are hundreds of thousands to one against it happening. Yet the PMOer risks the near certainty of being crippled by this ‘habit’ and appears to be completely oblivious to the risks. Such is the power of the brainwashing. The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn&amp;rsquo;t exist. Especially when you are younger or single. So is internet porn - it is the wolf in sheep’s clothing.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I remember a friend of mine who would not drink or smoke. Yet he would argue with me that internet porn is not different than older safe porn and that it is fun. Isn&amp;rsquo;t it strange that if, for example, we felt there was the slightest fault in an airplane, we wouldn&amp;rsquo;t go up in it, even though the risks are millions to one against death. Yet we take more than a one-in-four certainty with internet porn with its PMO addiction and are apparently oblivious to it. And what does the PMOer get out of it? &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Another common myth about PMO is the depression or peevishness. Many of the younger people are not worried about their health because they do not suffer any of the depression or melancholy. The depression or stress itself is not a disease; it is just a symptom. Younger people in general don’t feel the irritability or depression created because of their body’s natural capability to produce more dopamine and also the vigour and cheerfulness of their youthful activities masks those depleting reservoirs. As they age or if their lives experience serious setbacks the depleted resources are overworked and then they will experience full blown symptoms.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;When non-younger PMOers feel stressed, depressed or irritated it is because of the normal dopamine levels are not being effective and or due to excessive ‘flooding’ and its reactionary cutting down of the receptors. It is a reactionary step brain takes to protect its nervous systems from excessive dopamine ‘flooding’ as the dopamine receptors close up. It is one of nature&amp;rsquo;s fail-safe methods. They also develop other neural changes that will keep them in the rut.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Just think of it this way. If you had a nice car and allowed it to rust without doing anything about it that would be pretty stupid, as it would soon become a heap of rust and not be able to carry you anywhere. However, that would not be the end of the world; it is only a question of money and you could always buy a new car. But your body is the vehicle that carries you through life. We all say that our health is our most valued asset. How true that is, as sick millionaires will tell you. Most of us can look back at some illness or accident in our lives when we prayed to get better. (HOW SOON WE FORGET). By being a PMOer, you are not only letting the rust get in and doing nothing about it; you are systematically destroying the vehicle you need to go through life and you only get one.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Wise up. You don&amp;rsquo;t have to do it and remember: it is doing ABSOLUTELY NOTHING FOR YOU. Just for a moment take your head out of the sand and ask yourself; if you knew for certain that the next PMO session would be the one to trigger off a process in your body that will make your penis fall away like a hair strand, would you then actually go ahead and do it? Forget the ‘disease’ idea (it is difficult to imagine it) but just imagine you are on your bed, with your partner and your penis is not responding. Or if you are a woman, you are not feeling in any way responsive with someone you deeply love? Now you are not in the beginning of a happy endeavour but instead a tug of war in your mind and in your partner&amp;rsquo;s mind too. “Is it my PMO or is it just stress? Can I spot who the culprit is 100%? Or for her, is it me? Am I not sexy enough for him? Or worse, am I losing my ‘appetite’ too soon due to ageing?” What do you think is going to happen?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I often speak to the people that it happens to. They didn&amp;rsquo;t think it would happen to them either and the worst thing about it isn&amp;rsquo;t the disease itself but the knowledge they have brought it on themselves. For a very long time as PMOers and abusers we are saying, “I’ll stop tomorrow.” Try to imagine how those people feel who “hit the button.” For them the brainwashing is ended. They then see the &amp;lsquo;habit&amp;rsquo; as it really is and spend the remainder of their lives thinking, “Why did I kid myself I needed to masturbate to internet porn? If only I had the chance to go back!”&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Stop kidding yourself. You have the chance. It&amp;rsquo;s a chain reaction. If you engage in the next PMO session, it will lead you to the next one and the next. It&amp;rsquo;s already happening to you. At the beginning of the book I promised you no shock treatment. If you have already decided you are going to stop, this isn&amp;rsquo;t shock treatment for you. If you are still in doubt, skip the remainder of this chapter and come back to it when you have read the rest of the book.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Volumes of researches and studies have already been written about the damage that internet porn causes to our sex lives and to our mental well-being. The trouble is that until the PMOer decides to stop he doesn&amp;rsquo;t want to know. Even the forums and mentor groups are a waste of time because the PMOer puts the blinkers on. If he inadvertently reads it, the first thing he does is to open an incognito tab and visit his favourite tube site. PMOers tend to think of the happiness, stress and sex hazards as a hit-and-miss affair, like stepping on a land mine.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Get it into your head: it is already happening. Every single time you browse to your tube site you are triggering dopamine flooding and the opioids get to work - the neural pathway water slides get greased and the ride takes you smoothly through the next steps that you have already given to the script. The nervous system is now flooded by dopamine and since it is its umpteenth time, it is going to let some of your dopamine receptors to close up. The ‘little monster’ in you is using this slight dip in the pleasure compared to the last time to encourage you to “cross the red line” towards more shocking porn or behaviour in order to release more dopamine. In the process just hit on the ‘novelty’ button that triggers dopamine again. “Let’s keep going,” says the little monster, because you deserve it and you are entitled to this. Now the streaming of so many pictures and videos on a single tab&amp;hellip; that triggers another button called ‘supernormal’ stimulus, injecting more amines.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;All this time your receptors are receiving infomation to shut down inversely proportional to the flooding. Then you get to the orgasm stage. More dopamine, more shutting down of receptors. After this comes the withdrawal, Oh and since you are an ex-PMOer go get one. And why not pour a glass from the fridge of that leftover whiskey? Internet porn kills your sex life and thus it kills your private and public lives as well. If you are not aware of the addiction process or even if you are, you are in denial since the “little monster” craves for its fix because there was no real pain and you could handle the discomfort.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I confess that the thought of having ED terrified me, which is probably why I just blocked it from my mind. It&amp;rsquo;s amazing how the fear of the horrendous health risks attached to PMOing are overshadowed by the fear of stopping. It&amp;rsquo;s not so much that the latter is a greater fear, but that if we quit today the fear is immediate, whereas the fear of getting ED, PE and OCD related mental illnesses are a fear of the future. Why look on the black side? Perhaps it won&amp;rsquo;t happen. I&amp;rsquo;m bound to have quit by then anyway.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;We tend to think of PMOing as a tug-of-war. On one side is fear: it&amp;rsquo;s unhealthy, filthy and enslaving. On the other side the pluses: it&amp;rsquo;s my pleasure, my friend, my crutch. It never seems to occur to us that this side is also fear. It&amp;rsquo;s not so much that we enjoy them but that we tend to be miserable without them.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Think of heroin addicts deprived of their heroin: the abject misery they go through. Now picture their utter joy when they are allowed to plunge a needle into their veins and end that terrible craving. Try to imagine how anyone could actually believe they get pleasure from sticking a hypodermic syringe into a vein. Non-heroin addicts don&amp;rsquo;t suffer that panic feeling. Heroin doesn&amp;rsquo;t relieve the feeling, on the contrary, it causes it.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Non-PMOers (those who don’t ‘need’ or have access to internet porn) don&amp;rsquo;t feel miserable if they are not allowed to PMO. It&amp;rsquo;s only PMOers that suffer that feeling. Internet porn doesn&amp;rsquo;t relieve it, on the contrary it causes it. The fear of ED or PE didn&amp;rsquo;t make me quit because I believed it was rather like walking through a minefield. If you got away with it - fine. If you were unlucky you stepped on a mine.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;You knew the risks you were taking and if you were prepared to take the risk, what had it to do with anyone else? So if a non-PMOer ever tried to make me aware of those risks, I would use the typical evasive tactics that all addicts invariably adopt. They are&amp;hellip;.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;ul&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;“You will eventually get old and lose your sexual prowess anyway&amp;hellip;”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Of course you do but sexual prowess is not even the point, we are talking slavery here. Even if that is the case, is that a logical reason for deliberately cutting yourself short?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;ul&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;“Quality of life is more important than just living.”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Exactly but you are surely not suggesting that the quality of life of an addict is greater than that of someone that isn&amp;rsquo;t addicted? Do you really believe that the quality of a PMOer’s life is better than a non-PMOer? Surely the PMOer loses on both counts his life is spent in trying to cover his head in the sand and being miserable.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;ul&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;“I am single and am not planning to ‘settle down’ in the near future so why not?”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Even if that were true, is that a logical reason for playing with the brain structure dealing with impulse control that is needed in other areas of life? Can you possibly conceive of anyone being stupid enough to strip naked wherever one is going to be alone? No matter how sure you are that you are not expecting anyone in your life? THAT&amp;rsquo;S WHAT PMOers EFFECTIVELY DO!&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I can understand why the ED and the risks of ruining one’s mental health didn&amp;rsquo;t help me to quit. I could cope with the former and block my mind to the latter. As you are already aware, my method is not to frighten you into quitting but the complete opposite - to make you realize just how more enjoyable your life will be when you have escaped.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;However, I do believe that if I could have seen what was happening inside my brain, this would have helped me to quit. Now I&amp;rsquo;m not referring to the shock technique of showing a PMOer the effect of the hidden attribute of internet porn on the reward circuit of the brain. It was obvious to me from my unreliable arousals, fading penetrations, lack of energy, unemotional sex (as in just a muscle twitch), hit-seek escalations of porn search for novelty and shock that something is not going right. None of these are catastrophic for me as I have trained myself in cognitive behavioural techniques as discussed before but I did experience them quite often enough. Practising CBT/REBT gave me enough grounding and stability to look at my addiction in a different and better way than I’d have if I were not aware of the cognitive biases. Provided I kept functioning, even at a mediocre level, they were less of an embarrassment than a lost tooth - at least nobody could see my mind.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;What I am referring to is the progressive gunging-up of our reward circuits with excessive stimulation, making them incapable of handling the normal stresses of life. Closing up of dopamine and opioids receptors does not help me in enjoying my life with enough vigour. Porn and masturbation has replaced the natural sexual appetite, like a candy bar replacing real food. The brain has no idea to differentiate one from the other. I don&amp;rsquo;t like the thought of a virus in my smart phone or my laptop. Could you imagine buying the latest one of these gadgets and letting a virus to run every line of the software code but repeat it thrice ? That&amp;rsquo;s what we effectively do to our bodies when we become PMOers.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Many researchers and doctors are now relating various mental health problems in addition to the physiological ones caused by internet porn and PMO in general. This is no surprise to me. The mainstream medical world has laboured that PMO has never been scientifically proven to be the direct cause of the issues reported by self-confessing individuals. Admitting one’s sexual inability in public is such a shame triggering event, why would anyone do that unless they are really concerned? And probably many have found the cause and have eliminated it. This book is going to help you to get rid of it and also become a happy ex PMOer. No porn whatsoever, no porn aided masturbation. And of course no unnecessary orgasms. The only aid will be the touch, smell and voice of your partner. Like whole wheat bread after a well developed appetite, you will produce enough juices to break down the hard bread and it comes as a beautiful refreshment. No high fructose corn syrup injected fake food. The evidence is so overwhelming as not to need proof. No one ever scientifically proved to me exactly why, when I bang my thumb with a hammer, it hurts. I soon got the message.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I must emphasize that I am not a doctor but just like the hammer and the thumb, it soon became obvious to me that the periods of my life outside of sex that were marked by low levels of irritation tolerance, lack of energy, temper, moody thoughts, zoning out of social scenes etc. were directly related to my masturbation and especially the supernormal stimulus of IP&lt;sup id=&#34;fnref:1&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#fn:1&#34; class=&#34;footnote-ref&#34; role=&#34;doc-noteref&#34;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;. However, I truly believe that the greatest hazard that IP causes to our health is the gradual and progressive deterioration of our sex life caused by super-substitutes. The novelty, shock, variety in size and nature of internet porn can slowly take away the magic of the real sex. Worse, the RC&lt;sup id=&#34;fnref:2&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#fn:2&#34; class=&#34;footnote-ref&#34; role=&#34;doc-noteref&#34;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; reward circuits are flooding unnaturally and at high abnormal levels so that they close up  the receptors and also diminish any potency and effectiveness of normal de-stressors that work in the RC. This predisposes one to be depressed and become needy to lot more other ‘crutches’ of life such as cigarettes and alcohol or even causing the host to think of committing suicide. Even the real vagina will not be a match for the death grip of masturbation - and the little monster is kept alive.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Our lives are ‘blessed’ with challenges – yes, ‘blessed’- they are needed to keep us strong and make us better. If our nervous systems is pre-disposed to making a molehill out of a mountain it will seek a ‘fix. When it seeks a hit or a mountain out of a molehill when it interfaces with reality then is it worth it? Our body and our brain is designed to make use of optimal levels of these brain chemicals. I don’t think a man who fails in satisfying a woman should consider himself worthless.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;You will do well accepting yourself unconditionally and as an extension others and of life in general as well. It needs practice - but you won&amp;rsquo;t practice unless your brain rewards you. External rewards are iffy and most of the time are not forthcoming. If your internal brain chemicals and the reward circuits are humming even a little external reward will go a long way and the lack of external approvals won&amp;rsquo;t even matter at all. If you want to you can be the king of your life. Think about this as one of your greatest benefits.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Several of the adverse effects that PMO had on my health, some of which I had been suffering from for years, did not become apparent to me until many years after I had stopped. The good news I have for you is this - all of this is reversible. You are the jailer and you are also going to set yourself - the prisoner - free!&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;It didn&amp;rsquo;t even occur to me that I was already suffering from ED and PE&lt;sup id=&#34;fnref:3&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#fn:3&#34; class=&#34;footnote-ref&#34; role=&#34;doc-noteref&#34;&gt;3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; myself. Upon my first observation of the damage I quickly attributed it, with the help of my little monster, to (a) the occasional opposition to foreplay by my partner, (b) to the ‘less-than-ideal’ partner (my brain ‘tolerance’ is so high that even if I were with the most sexy one imaginable it’d still be not enough), (c) some silly grudge about my past stopping me to ‘prepare’ us to mood setting or (d) my boss, customer etc. etc.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;When it happened again my little monster brain gave me a BS mix of the above combo which I don’t even want to waste your time with. It never occurred to me that none of these would have stopped me before? So, I decided that I need ‘stamina practice’ since I figured that a toy which comes close to real vagina will ‘train’ me in getting hard and to avoid PE. I later came to read about PE being the result of poor training of the reward circuits. If one’s goal is orgasm then getting hard is not a requirement with masturbation. That being avoided enough times sets up waterslides in your brain and you grease it real nice every time to ride the slide. You can dispute this but I am going to take the Pascal’s Wager and quit - I lose very little, gain big and avoid losing big.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;When you don’t get hard or have unreliable erections, it’s a signal that your mind wants it more than your body - most times. Also of note is my peevishness and melancholy (anger/irritability and moodiness/depression). I told myself that I am a negatively oriented Virgo. While many Virgos are predisposed to think and act ‘negatively’ I failed to notice that actually I am a pretty optimistic guy.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;In fact, the many times I had not gone along for the porn water slide ride, due to external events, even though I had wanted to, I noticed that I did not get affected big time - remember again Pascal’s Wager. But looking back at my life, I have to say that I have been an achiever, in spite of the self-sabotage of PMO and its constant drag. That must be due to the training of tempering my pre-disposition and keeping the negatives to toned down healthy negatives of disappointment, sorrow, concern, annoyance, sadness, regret, frustration, caution, vigilance, irritation etc. I am sure that I am an optimistic and positive guy, how else could I explain that I kept going in spite of my tripping myself with PMO?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I have been in the stock market and have advised my friends and colleagues. I would show my hands - in real investments and trades. Most of the macho guys would not bring themselves to pull the trigger at those times when I did with no fears but of course with due vigilance and caution.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I know a person close to me who would masturbate every day at least once. He had no access to porn and was using static magazines and his own imagination. Now, looking back I wonder if this person lost his life’s joy to PMO. He would always be quick to anger and his irritation trigger levels are always very low. Any day-to-day stress will tick him off. He had a secure government job that demanded little from him and so he was lucky to survive until his retirement. Lucky? Maybe not. Anyway, I am sure his RC* had long sent shutdown signals to his receptors and his dopamine and opioids have much diminished effectiveness.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;You might conclude that I am something of a hypochondriac. I believe that I was when I was a PMOer. One of the great evils about addictions such as these is that it fools us into believing that the cigarettes, alcohol, PMO etc. give us courage, when in fact it gradually and imperceptibly dissipates it. I was shocked when I read about a confessor who felt suicidal at 19 due to PMO. Little did I realize that twenty years later I would have exactly the same lack of joie de vivre. You might conclude that this chapter has been one of necessary, or unnecessary, doom and gloom. I promise you it is the complete opposite. I used to fear death when I was a child. A bit later I used to believe that smoking, drinking and porn removed that fear. Perhaps it did. If so, it replaced it with something infinitely worse: &lt;strong&gt;A FEAR OF LIVING!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Now my fear of dying has returned. Yet it does not bother me. I realize that it only exists because I now enjoy life so much. I don&amp;rsquo;t brood over my fear of dying any more than I did when I was a child. I&amp;rsquo;m far too busy living my life to the full. The odds are against my living to a hundred, but I&amp;rsquo;ll try to. I&amp;rsquo;ll also try to enjoy every precious moment!&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;There were two other advantages on the health side that never occurred to me until I had stopped PMOing. One was that I now wake up refreshed in the morning. The subtle well-rested feeling is something sort of what you’d experience after a fever had left you. I get that almost every day but of course some nights are not going to be perfect. I had accepted that there is nothing outside of us that we need to enjoy or cope in our lives.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The other was the acceptance of the Void in our lives. Those insecure feelings. The emptiness. From what I learned - that is after removing PMO from my life, I could see that these three are present in everyone’s lives. Yes, that includes the playboys and the PUA macs as well. I think they are like the nights that serve to enhance our days. Yes, it is a well known ‘insight’. But then I know of many insights which have never translated to any value to my life. After I quit, it all fell into place. Look, I am not a saint or a guru. But I am not panicking and seeking substitutes when I feel the void, or insecurity or emptiness. There are no outside things that will be a pleasure or crutch.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Here is a thought experiment for you&amp;hellip; let’s say a woman comes to you and says she doesn’t necessarily want an orgasm but however, she very much wants to make love. Even penetrative. And she wants to do it for as long and as far as you can go without an orgasm but if it happens then its fine. I assure you of a great new experience, far better than anything in your life if you even get that offer. Try it.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;PMOers also suffer the illusion that the ill-effects of internet porn and PMO are overstated. The reverse is the case. There is no doubt that internet porn is the major cause of PIED and other problems. The trouble is that in many cases where PMO causes the ED or is a contributory factor, it is not blamed on PMO in the statistics. It has been estimated that more than 25 per cent of men experience ED or PE and yet I wonder how many divorces have been caused by PMO? There are no reliable ways to know the number of Internet Porn users within the study group. The studies usually mix up traditional and internet porn users and has no way to account for the starting age of the participants, years of use, duration and frequency of usage. There is no way to conduct blind or double blind methods either.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I was a ‘safe’ user of internet porn - if there is anything ‘safe’ about it. However I noticed that I invariably projected porn fantasies on real life women. Like the episode in Friends where the guys, who were receiving continuous free porn on TV, started to wonder to each other why the pizza delivery girl didn’t ask to check out their ‘big bedroom’. Imagine what ‘careless’ or even ‘accidental’ porn exposure on the darker sides the internet would do to someone who is already at a tipping point in his or her life? Fighting against these ‘porn induce thoughts’, PIT&lt;sup id=&#34;fnref:4&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#fn:4&#34; class=&#34;footnote-ref&#34; role=&#34;doc-noteref&#34;&gt;4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;, is going to be a major drain on his or her mental health.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The effect of the brainwashing is that we tend to think like the man who, having fallen off a 100-storey building, is heard to say, as he passes the fiftieth floor, “So far, so good!” We think that as we have got away with it so far, one more PMO session won&amp;rsquo;t make the difference. Try to see it another way, the &amp;lsquo;habit&amp;rsquo; is a continuous chain for life, each session creating the need for the next. When you start the habit you light a fuse. The trouble is, YOU DON&amp;rsquo;T KNOW HOW LONG THE FUSE IS. Every time that you give up to a PMO session you are one step nearer to the bomb exploding. HOW WILL YOU KNOW IF IT&amp;rsquo;S THE NEXT ONE?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;div class=&#34;footnotes&#34; role=&#34;doc-endnotes&#34;&gt;
+&lt;hr&gt;
+&lt;ol&gt;
+&lt;li id=&#34;fn:1&#34;&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;IP&lt;/strong&gt; - internet porn&amp;#160;&lt;a href=&#34;#fnref:1&#34; class=&#34;footnote-backref&#34; role=&#34;doc-backlink&#34;&gt;&amp;#x21a9;&amp;#xfe0e;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li id=&#34;fn:2&#34;&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;RC&lt;/strong&gt; - reward circuits in the brain that involves dopamine/ opioids, receptors, proteins etc.&amp;#160;&lt;a href=&#34;#fnref:2&#34; class=&#34;footnote-backref&#34; role=&#34;doc-backlink&#34;&gt;&amp;#x21a9;&amp;#xfe0e;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li id=&#34;fn:3&#34;&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PE&lt;/strong&gt; - premature ejaculation&amp;#160;&lt;a href=&#34;#fnref:3&#34; class=&#34;footnote-backref&#34; role=&#34;doc-backlink&#34;&gt;&amp;#x21a9;&amp;#xfe0e;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li id=&#34;fn:4&#34;&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PIT&lt;/strong&gt; - porn induced thoughts, porn themes crossing over to normal interactions&amp;#160;&lt;a href=&#34;#fnref:4&#34; class=&#34;footnote-backref&#34; role=&#34;doc-backlink&#34;&gt;&amp;#x21a9;&amp;#xfe0e;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ol&gt;
+&lt;/div&gt;
+</description>
+	</item>
+	
+	<item>
+		<title>03-16 I Will Save X Hours a Week</title>
+		<link>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-16-i-will-save-x-hours-a-week/</link>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2022 12:08:55 +0200</pubDate>
+		
+		<guid>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-16-i-will-save-x-hours-a-week/</guid>
+		<description>&lt;p&gt;I cannot repeat too often that it is brainwashing that makes it difficult to stop PMOing. So, the
+more brainwashing we can dispel before we start, the easier you will find it to achieve your goal.
+Occasionally I get into arguments with people whom I call “confirmed PMOers.” By my definition
+a confirmed PMOer is somebody who doesn&amp;rsquo;t believe PMO has any negative effect on his health
+(PME, PIED and hypofrontality etc.) and is not having a mental tug of war. Most times he’d be a
+younger guy or a single but with an occasional sex partner. Thus the internal feedback is lost due to
+the nature of their youth and or it is too infrequent to be observed and registered.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;If he is a young man, I’d rather say to him, “I cannot believe you are not worried about the
+time you are spending.” Usually his eyes light up. If I had attacked him instead on health grounds or
+on the social stigma, he would feel at a disadvantage which will trigger resistance from him. But on
+time&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;“Oh, I can afford it. It is only x hours per week and I think it is worth it. It is my only vice or
+pleasure.”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;“I still cannot believe you are not worried about the time spent. Say at a minimum half an hour a day on an average including the physical ‘drain’ time of dopamine withdrawals, you are spending approximately one full working day of 8 hours every fortnight. Half an hour a day is a very conservative estimate you would agree. And in a year that will add up to a working month. Have you thought about how much time you are going to spend in your lifetime? What are you doing with that time? You are not even developing real relationships? No, your favourite porn star does not have sympathy for you just because you spent that much time on her site - you are throwing it away! Not only that, you are actually using that time to ruin your physical health, to destroy your nerves and confidence, to suffer a lifetime of slavery, pain, stress, melancholy and peevishness. Surely that must worry you?”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;It is apparent at this point, particularly with younger PMOers, that they have never considered it a lifetime habit. Occasionally they work out the time they waste in a week and that is alarming. Very occasionally (and only when they think about stopping) they estimate what they spend in a year and that is frightening but over a lifetime it is unthinkable. However, because now we are in an argument, the confirmed PMOer will impulsively say, “I can afford it. It is only so much a week.” He pulls an “encyclopedia salesman” routine on himself.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Will you refuse a job offer which pays you your current annual salary and also gives you a month off every year? Any PMOer would sign up for this job offer in a heartbeat and would get busy finding vacation deals to exotic places. Figuring out how to spend one full month with no work would be the biggest problem that he now has to solve.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;In every discussion with a confirmed PMOer - and please bear in mind I am not now talking to someone like yourself who plans to stop, I am talking to someone who has no intention of stopping - nobody has ever taken me up on that offer. Why not?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Often at this point in my consultation, a confirmed PMOer will say, “look, I am not really worried about the money aspect.” If you are thinking along these lines, ask yourself why you are not worried. Why in other aspects of your life will you go to a great deal of trouble to save a few dollars here and there but yet spend thousands of dollars killing your happiness and hang the expense?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The answer to these questions is this: every other decision that you make in your life will be the result of an analytical process of weighing up the pros and cons and arriving at a rational answer. It may be the wrong answer but at least it will be the result of rational deduction. Whenever any PMOer weighs up the pros and cons of using internet porn, the answer is a dozen times over: “STOP PMOing! YOU ARE A MUG!” Therefore all PMOers are using not because they want to or because they decided to but because they think they cannot stop. They have to and need to brainwash themselves. They have to and need to keep their heads in the sand.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The strange thing is many men would pay good money for gym and personal trainers to build their muscles and look sculpted. Other treatments such as boosting testosterone with dubious and sometimes dangerous effects are tried out by many men in their real (and imaginary) desperation. Yet, there are many men in that group who would save money and risks by stopping a practice that systematically not only destroys their manhood but also affects their brain’s natural relaxation system.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;This is because they are still thinking with the brainwashed mind of the PMOer. Just take the sand out of your eyes for a moment. Internet porn is a chain reaction and a chain for life. If you do not break that chain, you will remain a user for the rest of your life. Now estimate how much time you think you will spend on PMOing for the rest of your life. The amount will obviously vary with each individual but for the purpose of this exercise let us assume it is a year and half of work hours. You will shortly be making the decision to use your final session (not yet, please - remember the initial instructions). All you have to do to remain a non-PMOer is NOT to fall for the trap again. That is, do not PMO and consciously avoid having “just a peek.” If you do, that one peek will cost you a year and half of your work life. If you think this is a trick way of looking at it, you are still kidding yourself. Just work out how much time you would have saved if you had not taken your very first ‘peek’ right at the start.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;If you see the argument as factual, ask yourself how you would feel if there were a cheque from your state’s lotto for a year and half worth of your current salary lying on your carpet tomorrow? You&amp;rsquo;d be dancing with delight! So start dancing! You are about to start receiving that bonus and that&amp;rsquo;s just one of the several fantastic gains you are about to receive.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;During the withdrawal period you may be tempted to have just one final ‘look’. It will help you to resist the temptation if you remind yourself it will cost you one year’s worth of your peak annual salary (or whatever your estimate is)! I could be making that offer on television and radio programmes yet I bet no-one will take it.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;If you are mentoring someone online for his PMO addiction tell him that he knows someone who has refused a job offer that pays his current annual salary and also gives him a full month’s of PTO. When he ask who that idiot is, tell him, “you!” I know it&amp;rsquo;s rude but you may sometimes need to get your point across in a less-than-polite way.&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
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+		<title>03-15 Self-Imposed Slavery</title>
+		<link>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-15-self-imposed-slavery/</link>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2022 12:06:39 +0200</pubDate>
+		
+		<guid>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-15-self-imposed-slavery/</guid>
+		<description>&lt;p&gt;Usually when PMOers try to stop the main reasons given are health, religion and partner stigma. Part of the brainwashing of this awful drug is the sheer slavery. Man fought hard in the last century to abolish slavery and yet the PMOer spends his life suffering self-imposed slavery. He seems to be oblivious to the fact that when he is allowed to PMO he wishes that he were a non-PMOer. With most of the masturbation we do in our lives, not only do we not enjoy them but we aren&amp;rsquo;t even aware that we are masturbating. It is only after a period of abstinence that we actually suffer the delusion of enjoying PMO (e.g. the first day after a 4 day abstinence with the intent of rebooting etc.). The only time that the porn becomes precious is when we are &amp;rsquo;trying&amp;rsquo; to cut down or abstain or when abstinence is forced on us (e.g. when on a business trips, holiday trips to locations where the Internet is not available and so on).&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The confirmed PMOer should bear in mind that more studies and even more people are coming out and talking about the ill effects of internet porn. This trend will get “worse and worse.” Today, it is non-medical people talking. Tomorrow, it will be in your doctor’s list of diagnostic tests to perform. Gone are the days when the PMOer can hide behind “just a bit of downtime due to work stress” in his or her sex life. Your partner is going to ask you why you are on your laptop at this time too late into the night. The poor PMOer, who was already feeling wretched, wants the ground to open up and swallow him.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I remember every time my partner stayed up late it was an ordeal waiting to open up my laptop. When on business trips the dinner with the clients and colleagues dragged on or was I just going through the natural ups and downs in human interactions? What was I doing? I was thinking, “let&amp;rsquo;s get on with it, so that I can get over with this and go to my room for some porn.” I have thought many times, “am I not lucky? I have got my little reward. The poor non-PMOer with no internet access somewhere in an Amish village hasn&amp;rsquo;t got a reward.” The &amp;lsquo;poor&amp;rsquo; non-PMOer doesn&amp;rsquo;t need a reward. We were not designed to go through life systematically flooding our brains with dopamine and opioids. The pathetic thing is that even when masturbating with internet porn the PMOer doesn&amp;rsquo;t achieve those feelings of peace, confidence and tranquillity that the non-PMOer has experienced for the whole of his non-PMO life. The non-PMOer isn&amp;rsquo;t sitting in the family room, feeling agitated and wishing his life away. He can enjoy the whole of his life.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;No, this wasn&amp;rsquo;t a fourteen-year-old schoolboy but a forty-year-old professional. How pathetic. I wouldn&amp;rsquo;t admit to myself that I wasn&amp;rsquo;t enjoying it. I was looking for the right clip and/or pictures to reach orgasm or better, edge forever. I don&amp;rsquo;t know what I am supposed to be &amp;lsquo;watching&amp;rsquo; sometimes. That is the confusing part. The &amp;rsquo;edging&amp;rsquo; and then the orgasm floods my brain. Yet this was supposed to be my way of relaxing and enjoying my “favourite hobby.”&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;To me, one of the tremendous joys of being a non-PMOer is to be freed from that slavery. To be able to enjoy the whole of my life and not spend half of it craving for more and more internet porn and then, when I get to fire up my browser, wishing I didn&amp;rsquo;t have to do it. PMOers should bear in mind that when they see or meet non-PMOers, it is not the self-righteous non-PMOer who is depriving them but their very own “little monster.”&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
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+		<title>03-14 What Am I Giving Up?</title>
+		<link>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-14-what-am-i-giving-up/</link>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2022 11:49:35 +0200</pubDate>
+		
+		<guid>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-14-what-am-i-giving-up/</guid>
+		<description>&lt;p&gt;ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! The thing that makes it difficult for us to give up is fear. The fear that we are being deprived of our pleasure or prop. The fear that certain pleasant situations will never be quite the same again. The fear of being unable to cope with stressful situations. In other words, the effect of brainwashing is to delude us into believing that sex and by extension orgasm, is a must for all human beings. Or that there is something inherent in Internet porn that we need and that when we stop PMOing we will be self-denying ourselves and there will be a void.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Get it clear in your mind:&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Internet porn&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;DOES NOT FILL A VOID.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;IT CREATES ONE!&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;These bodies of ours are the most sophisticated objects on this planet. Whether you believe in a creator, a process of natural selection or a combination of both, whatever being or system devised these bodies of ours, it is a thousand times more effective than man! Man cannot create the smallest living cell, let alone the miracle of eyesight, reproduction, our circulatory system or our brains. We don’t have our systems upgraded yet to properly assess the supranormal stimulus such as rich high density food or high speed internet novelty porn with multiple active windows.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;If the creator or process had intended us to handle novelty triggering stimuli, we would have been provided with some other brain reward circuits. Our bodies are, in fact, provided with fail-safe warning devices and we ignore these at our peril. Excessive edging results in body pain, irritation, and inflammation. In women, excessive flooding of dopamine and stress enzymes such as prostaglandin-E2 can cause difficulty to orgasm and PME.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;there-is-nothing-to-give-up&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;There Is Nothing To Give Up&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
+&lt;/div&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The beautiful truth is - there is nothing to give up. Once you purge that little monster from your body and the brainwashing (the big monster) from your mind, you will neither want to masturbate often nor need internet porn for it. PMO destroys your sense of self-control. I don’t think PMOers are self-destructive to continue even after knowing the ill-effects of internet porn. They clearly don’t have suicidal tendencies. They don’t enjoy this slavery themselves. Many of them do it in spite of the fact that they know it causes self-sabotage. You see there must be many unknowns and the medical community has no idea of even questioning and determining someone as an internet porn addict yet. So a lot of reported symptoms are wrongly tagged under other causes. It is not that PMOers are generally stupid people; it is just that they are miserable without the PMO. They are caught between the devil and the deep blue sea. They either have to abstain and be miserable because they cannot PMO or be miserable because they are destroying themselves through PMO and feel guilty and despise themselves for it. When they feel that lower back pain or get PIED, their minds are torn between accepting responsibility and looking the other way.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The problem I have is to make a convincing point as I’d have done for, let us say&amp;hellip; smokers? All of us have seen smokers who develop excuses to sneak off for a crafty puff. It is easy to see the true addiction in action. Addicts do not do it because they enjoy it. They do it because they are miserable without it.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Because many of us started out our first sexual experience that ended in an orgasm and we acquired the belief that we cannot enjoy sex without an orgasm. And for men, porn is sold as an aid towards sex, sometimes even as an education to be confident during the act of sex. It used to be static, but now we have supranormal internet porn. But this is nonsense. Internet porn takes away your confidence.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;women-and-porn&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Women And Porn&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
+&lt;/div&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The greatest evidence of the fear that porn instils is in its effect on women. Practically all women are fastidious about their personal appearance. They wouldn&amp;rsquo;t dream of appearing at a social function not immaculately turned out and smelling beautiful. So why would they fall for internet porn ? The traps were set as either a control trap (I can give up when I want) or an educational trap, or a freedom trap (I am entitled). Feminism has freed women from all the bad patriarchal rules of the past but they still need to be aware of supranormal stimulus such as internet porn.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Porn and internet porn does not help your sex life; it destroys it totally. Having to hide your internet footprints, trying to delete your history, fearing accidental exposure to your boyfriend or kids, body pains, doubtful symptoms, fighting self doubts, arguing with yourself about your responsibilities in the ill effects of your addiction&amp;hellip; well, why do you want to put yourself in such a bad situation?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Not only is there nothing to give up but there are marvellous positive gains to be had. When PMOers contemplate quitting they tend to concentrate on health and virility. These are obviously valid and important issues but I personally believe the greatest gains from stopping are psychological:&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;ol&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;The return of your confidence and courage.&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;Freedom from the slavery.&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;Not to have to go through life suffering the awful black shadows at the back of your mind, knowing you are being despised by half of the population and, worst of all, despising yourself.&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ol&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Not only is life better as a non-PMOer but it is infinitely more enjoyable. I do not only mean you will be healthier. I mean you will be happier and enjoy life far more. The marvellous gains from being a non-PMOer are discussed in the next few chapters. Some PMOers find it difficult to appreciate the concept of the &amp;lsquo;void&amp;rsquo; and the following analogy may assist you.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;void-the-void-the-beautiful-void&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Void, the Void, the Beautiful Void!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
+&lt;/div&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Imagine having a cold sore on your face. I&amp;rsquo;ve got this marvellous ointment. I say to you, “try this stuff.” You rub the ointment on and the sore disappears immediately. A week later it reappears. You ask, “do you have any more of that ointment?” I say, “sure, keep the tube. You might need it again.” You apply the ointment once again. Hey presto, the sore disappears again. But every time the sore returns, it gets larger and more painful and the interval gets shorter and shorter. Eventually the sore covers your whole face and is excruciatingly painful. It is now returning every half hour. You know that the ointment will remove it temporarily, but you are very worried. Will the sore eventually spread over your whole body? Will the interval disappear completely? You go to your doctor. He can&amp;rsquo;t cure it. You try other things but nothing helps except this magical ointment.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;By now you are completely dependent on the ointment. You never go out without ensuring that you have a tube of the ointment with you. If you go abroad, you make sure that you take several tubes with you. Now, in addition to your worries about your health, I&amp;rsquo;m charging you $100 per tube. You have no choice but to pay.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;You then read in the medical column of your newspaper that this isn&amp;rsquo;t happening just to you; many other people have been suffering from the same problem. In fact, pharmacists have discovered that the ointment doesn&amp;rsquo;t actually cure the sore. All that it does is to take the sore beneath the surface of the skin. It is the ointment that has caused the sore to grow. All you have to do to get rid of the sore is to stop using the ointment. The sore will eventually disappear in due course.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Would you continue to use the ointment? Would it take willpower not to use the ointment? If you didn&amp;rsquo;t believe the medical article, there might be a few days of apprehension, but once you realized that the sore was beginning to get better, the need or desire to use the ointment would go, Would you be miserable? Of course you wouldn&amp;rsquo;t. You had an awful problem which you thought was insoluble. Now you&amp;rsquo;ve found the solution. Even if it took a year for that sore to disappear completely, each day, as it improved, you&amp;rsquo;d think. “isn&amp;rsquo;t it marvellous? I&amp;rsquo;m not going to die!” This was the magic that happened to me on my final PMO day. Let me make one point quite clear in the analogy of the sore and the ointment.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The sore isn&amp;rsquo;t lung cancer, or arterial sclerosis, or emphysema, or angina, or chronic asthma, or bronchitis, or coronary heart disease. They are all in addition to the sore. It isn&amp;rsquo;t the body pains, lack of normal lust, flagging arousal, fading penetration, the wasted time spent on lifeless two dimensional images, the times when we felt infringed of our entitlement because we are not allowed to PMO. It isn&amp;rsquo;t the lifetime of being despised by other people who caught you or, worst of all, despising yourself. These are all in addition to the sore.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The sore is what makes us close our minds to all these things. It&amp;rsquo;s that panic feeling of, “I want a fix.” Non-PMOers don&amp;rsquo;t suffer from that feeling. The worst thing we ever suffer from is fear, and the greatest gain you will receive is to be rid of that fear. It was as if a great mist had suddenly lifted from my mind. I could see so clearly that that panic feeling of wanting a porn fix wasn&amp;rsquo;t some sort of weakness in me or some magic quality of internet porn. It was caused by the first PMO session; and each subsequent one - far from relieving the feeling, it was actually causing it.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;At the same time I could see all these other “happy” PMOers - the ones who are blinded by their cunning little porn monsters - were going through the same nightmare that I was. Not as bad as mine yet all putting up phony arguments to try to justify their stupidity.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;IT&amp;rsquo;S SO NICE TO BE FREE!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
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+	<item>
+		<title>03-13 Social Night PMOing</title>
+		<link>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-13-social-night-pmoing/</link>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2022 11:47:03 +0200</pubDate>
+		
+		<guid>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-13-social-night-pmoing/</guid>
+		<description>&lt;p&gt;This is a misinformation that seems to make sense but then it does not. In order to have control of eating, will you eat at home before leaving to go to a restaurant or a party? This is what you are doing when you PMO before your social night. You will look tired and will not be up to your best. If you have dating jitters then work on it beforehand and then go with the flow even with some butterflies in your stomach. I like a bit of the anxiety in me to keep me going. Tiring yourself mentally and physically with an orgasm is not going to help you, unless of course you are going to see a prostitute. The goal is entirely different in that angle.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The widespread adoption of pick-up techniques has put pressure on guys to perform, to attract and to ‘score’. You can get knowledge but you should know how to use it. I can guarantee that 100% of the other guys hanging at that bar know exactly what you know. It comes down to the ‘how’ of how you use it when you get the chance. Even before that, there is one very critical thing about any knowledge pertaining to human interactions, that ‘knowledge’ should never force your actions. This is important.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I once masturbated and then poured wine to quiet the butterflies in my stomach before a date. I looked tired after just one hour into the date, the loud noise of the bar, dehydration, excessive self-consciousness (PUA teachings) etc. made my time unenjoyable. Somehow the girl and her friend liked it all. However, I do think it would have been better if I had gone without any props. I ended up being successful by claiming my &amp;lsquo;goal(s)&amp;rsquo; - which I consider unfortunate and as random luck.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The PMO session I had before the date triggered a dopamine flooding and its withdrawal hit around the time I was with the date. I had to over-do my conversation to compensate the ineffective dopamine effects after that earlier orgasm. I am also sure that I was suffering from hypofrontality - where my impulses were failing my controls. That gushing moment, an extra decibel in the tone etc. would easily have given my nervousness to the girls - only if I was not protected by the loud noise in the bar. Why do you want to take chances?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;PMO ceases to relieve the withdrawal pangs that it causes in the first place. That is also why heavy PMOers turn to alcohol or other drugs. But I digress. Social night PMOing is occasioned by two or more of our usual reasons for pleasure/prop seeking, e.g. social functions, parties, weddings, school exams, game night, even business meetings. These are examples of occasions that are both stressful and relaxing. This might at first appear to be a contradiction but it isn&amp;rsquo;t. Any form of socializing can be stressful, even with friends, and at the same time you want to be enjoying yourself and be completely relaxed.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;There are situations where multiple reasons are present at one and the same time. To illustrate I will quote driving as one of these. But driving always involves an element of stress. Your life is at stake. You are also having to concentrate. You may not be aware of the last two factors but the fact that they are subconscious doesn&amp;rsquo;t mean they aren&amp;rsquo;t there. And if you are stuck in a traffic jam or have a long motorway drive, you may also be bored and may have ‘promised’ yourself to a PMO after you reach home.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Another classic example is going on a first date. Especially when you know something about the date before hand like their profile from an online dating site. Your mind is throwing questions back and forth. If she is a 10 and in that vicinity or if the date is from another race which is socially ‘perceived’ as a couple of levels above your race then it gets even noisier in your head. Then the surprise to meet the person in flesh, first the looks, then the voice, then the mannerisms. Expectations determine the level of interest you have for her from there on. If your enthusiasm starts to flag you will start to feel too relaxed but then you feel guilty for feeling too relaxed. The tug of war has started. I want sex or get me out of here ASAP - I know where to get it. That will lead you to the next stage of post-date PMOing.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Even if the date went fine and hours later you are at her door and which ever way it goes, you will not be satisfied if your goal is fully on the orgasm-seek. At other times, you drive home alone and all you want to do is to go to your online harem instead of patting yourself on the back for your efforts and enjoying yourself.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;You can bet that this unfortunate guy is going to PMO after he reaches home. It is often after nights like these, when we wake to feel the uneasy emptiness, are often the special ones, the ones that we think we&amp;rsquo;ll miss the most when we are contemplating stopping PMOing. We think that life will never be quite as enjoyable again. In fact, it is the same principle at work: these PMO sessions simply provide relief from withdrawal pangs and at certain times we have greater need to relieve them than at others. You had ended up ‘greasing’ the neural ‘waterslides’ in your brain and made it ready to slide again on the next cue.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Let us make it quite clear. It is not the internet porn and the harem dwellers that are special; it is the occasion. Once we have removed the need for the PMO, such occasions will become more enjoyable and the stressful situations less stressful. This will be explained in greater detail in the next chapter.&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
+	</item>
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+	<item>
+		<title>03-12 Relaxation</title>
+		<link>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-12-relaxation/</link>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2022 11:44:10 +0200</pubDate>
+		
+		<guid>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-12-relaxation/</guid>
+		<description>&lt;p&gt;Most PMOers think that PMO helps to relax them. The truth is that internet porn used in PMO acts like a chemical stimulant. The frantic search to get the fix in those “dark alleys of the internet” and the internal struggle to reign in the dog straining at its leash for more shocking clips does not sound much like an activity of relaxation to me.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;One of the favourite PMO sessions for most is the one after a trip to a new place or after along day. As the night rolls in we stop working; we sit down and relax, relieve our hunger and thirst and are then completely satisfied. However, the poor PMOer cannot relax, as he has another hunger to satisfy. He thinks of the PMO as the icing on the cake but it is the &amp;rsquo;little monster&amp;rsquo; that needs feeding.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The truth is that the addict can never be completely relaxed and as you go through life it gets worse. The most stressed people on this planet aren&amp;rsquo;t non-PMOers but those young men and women who have a need to hunt (with the misunderstood goal of orgasm) and their ignorance of and/or low opinion of amative sex. Women who have subscribed to “I must orgasm” teachings are not even aware of the victim they have made of themselves. At this point any sex that leads to climax and orgasm cease to relieve even partially the symptoms that they have created.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I can remember when I was bringing up a family. If my child would do something wrong I would quickly lose my temper to an extent that was out of all proportion to what he had done.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;My partner was “always frigid and not interested in sex.” Now I realize that if I had only tried the amative side of things then maybe I could have relieved myself of a great measure of stress at least - if not at me, I am sure she would have. One online comment&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;“I really believed that I had an evil demon in my make-up. I now know that I had, however it wasn&amp;rsquo;t some inherent flaw in my character but the little internet porn monster that was creating the problem. During those times I thought I had all the problems in the world but when I look back on my life I wonder where all the great stress was. In everything else in my life I was in control. The one thing that controlled me was this porn slavery. The sad thing is that even today I can&amp;rsquo;t convince my children that it was the slavery that caused me to be so irritable.”&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Every time I hear a porn addict trying to justify his addiction the message is, “Oh, it calms me. It helps me to relax.”&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;On the Internet I read about a single dad whose 6 year old son would want to share his bed sometimes in the night after a scary movie yet the dad would refuse under some pretence so he can have his PMO session and edge for hours.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Let me try a smoking analogy here&amp;hellip; a couple of years ago, the adoption authorities threatened to prevent smokers from adopting children. A man rang up, irate. He said, “you are completely wrong. I can remember when I was a child, if I had a contentious matter to raise with my mother, I would wait until she lit a cigarette because she was more relaxed then.” Why couldn&amp;rsquo;t he talk to his mother when she wasn&amp;rsquo;t smoking a cigarette?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Why are PMOers so stressd when they are not getting their fix, even after a real sex with a real woman? I read about a guy who has 9&amp;rsquo;s and 10&amp;rsquo;s open for dating with him as he was in the advertising field. I am talking about dinner and stuff only - but he lost interest in those dinners as his Internet porn is far more ‘easy’ for him - no restaurant spending and no hearing a ‘no’ from his date at the end of an evening. Why would he bother when his little monster tells him about the low-risk high-reward scheme called PMO that is at his fingertips when he reaches home? Those real girls sure have competition.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Why are non-PMOers completely relaxed then? Why are PMOers not able to relax without a fix for a day or two? If you read about the experience of a PMOer taking the abstinence oath and quitting and you notice his struggle with the temptations. You can clearly see that they are not relaxed at all when they are not allowed to have the ‘only pleasure’ they are “entitled to enjoy.” They&amp;rsquo;ve forgotten what it feels like to be completely relaxed. That&amp;rsquo;s one of the many joys you have to come. The whole business of PMOing can be likened to a fly being caught in a pitcher plant. To begin with, the fly is eating the nectar. At some imperceptible stage the plant begins to eat the fly.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Isn&amp;rsquo;t it time you climbed out of that plant?&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
+	</item>
+	
+	<item>
+		<title>03-11 Concentration</title>
+		<link>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-11-concentration/</link>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2022 11:42:13 +0200</pubDate>
+		
+		<guid>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-11-concentration/</guid>
+		<description>&lt;p&gt;Sex and masturbation do not help concentration. That is just another illusion. When you are trying to concentrate, you automatically try to avoid distractions. So when a PMOer wants to concentrate he doesn&amp;rsquo;t even have to think about it. He automatically PMOs, partially ending the craving, gets on with the matter in hand and has already forgotten that he just PMOed. Sex in general do not help concentration. After years of masturbation your brain changes affect abilities such as assessing, planning and impulse control. The PMOer is already suffering: that little monster wants his fix.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;You are also stressed to provide novelty for the next PMO session as the same stuff will not generate enough dopamine and opioids. You have to “roam the internet streets” for novelty - all the while fighting the pull to cross the line towards shock. This creates more stress. After you orgasm, you feel unfulfilled as well.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Concentration is also affected adversely for another reason. Your dopamine receptors have already started to get reduced by building up natural tolerance to these large surges, reducing the benefit of the smaller dopamine boosts from natural de-stressors.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;In fact, your concentration and inspiration will be greatly improved as this process is reversed. For some it will be the concentration aspect that prevents them from succeeding when using the willpower method. They could put up with the irritability and bad temper but when they really needed to concentrate on something difficult they have to have that porn fix. I can well remember the panic I felt when I discovered that the hotel has no internet connection and I had this huge presentation the day after.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The loss of concentration that PMOers suffer when they try to escape is not, in fact, due to your abstinence from sex, let alone PMO. When you are addicted to something, you have mental blocks. When you have such a block, what do you do? You fire up the browser. That doesn&amp;rsquo;t cure the mental block, so then what do you do? You do what you have to do: you get on with it, just as non-PMOers do.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;When you are a PMOer nothing gets blamed on the cause. PMOers never have EDs; they just have an occasional down time. The moment you stop using, everything that goes wrong in your life is blamed on the fact that you&amp;rsquo;ve stopped. Now when you have a mental block, instead of just getting on with it, you start to say, “if only I could check out my favourites now, it would solve my problem.” You then start to question your decision to quit and escape from this slavery.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;If you believe that PMOing is a genuine aid to concentration, worrying about it will guarantee that you won&amp;rsquo;t be able to concentrate. It&amp;rsquo;s the doubting, not the physical withdrawal pangs, that causes the problem. Always remember: it is PMOer who suffers pangs and not non-PMOers. When I quit I went overnight from using everyday to zero without any apparent loss of concentration.&lt;/p&gt;
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+		<title>03-10 Boredom</title>
+		<link>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-10-boredom/</link>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2022 11:40:46 +0200</pubDate>
+		
+		<guid>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-10-boredom/</guid>
+		<description>&lt;p&gt;As soon as you get into your bed - and if you are like many people you are already on your favorite tube site - you will probably have already forgotten about it until I reminded you. It has become second nature. Another fallacy about PMOing is that it relieves boredom. Boredom is a frame of mind. The only time that happens is when you have been deprived for a long time or are trying to cut down, or during those first few PMO sessions after a failed attempt to stop.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The true situation is this: when you are addicted to internet porn’s supranormal novelty and then you decide to abstain from internet porn, there is something missing. If you have something to occupy your mind that isn&amp;rsquo;t stressful, you can go for long periods without being bothered by the absence of the drug. However, when you are bored there&amp;rsquo;s nothing to take your mind off it, so you feed the monster. When you are indulging yourself (i.e. not trying to stop or cut down), even firing up your incognito browser becomes subconscious. The PMOer can perform this ritual automatically. If any PMOer tries to remember the session during the last week, he can only remember a small proportion of them - e.g. the very last one or after a long abstinence.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The truth is that PMOing tend to increase boredom indirectly because orgasms make you feel lethargic and instead of undertaking some energetic activity, PMOers tend to prefer lounge around, bored, relieving their withdrawal pangs. This is why countering the brainwashing is so important. Because it&amp;rsquo;s a fact that PMOers tend to masturbate when they are bored and that we&amp;rsquo;re wired to interpret PMO as interesting. It doesn&amp;rsquo;t occur to us to question the fact how a two dimensional supranormal stimulus relieves boredom.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;We&amp;rsquo;ve also been brainwashed into believing that sex - even a bad sex - aids relaxation. It is a fact that when under stress or sad, couples want to have sex. In the absence of discrimination between amative and propagative sex, the goal is set to achieve orgasms by hook or by crook. Next time you do this watch how you both want to get away from each other as soon as it’s over. It is obvious that if they had just decided to cuddle, speak, hug and touch each other and go to sleep without the mandatory orgasms, the couple would have felt relieved. Well, if in the process, they wanted to have the propagative part then by all means they can but that is a topic not meant to be discussed in this book.&lt;/p&gt;
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+		<title>03-09 Stress</title>
+		<link>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-09-stress/</link>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2022 11:38:59 +0200</pubDate>
+		
+		<guid>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-09-stress/</guid>
+		<description>&lt;p&gt;I am referring not only to the great tragedies of life but also to the minor stresses, the socializing, the telephone call, the anxieties of the housewife with noisy young children and so on. Let us use the telephone conversation as an example. For most people the telephone is slightly stressful, particularly for the businessman. Most calls aren&amp;rsquo;t from satisfied customers or your boss congratulating you. There&amp;rsquo;s usually some sort of aggravation - something going wrong or somebody making demands. Then he or she comes home to the mundane family life of kids screaming and wife&amp;rsquo;s emotional demands on you. His already PMO weakened de-stressors are in no way ready to take the aggravation. At that time the PMOer, if he isn&amp;rsquo;t already doing so, will fantasize the relief of internet porn that he promised himself that night. He will even allow himself to “take one step more” into the ‘forbidden’ area that he had previously self-excluded. He doesn&amp;rsquo;t know why he does this but he does know that for some reason it appears to help.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;What has actually happened is this: without being conscious of it, he has already been suffering aggravation (i.e. the withdrawal pangs). By partially relieving that aggravation at the same time as normal stress, the total stress is reduced and the PMOer gets a boost. At this point the boost is not, in fact, an illusion. The Internet porn user will feel better than before. However, even when using porn to masturbate he or she is more tense than if he were a non-PMOer because the more you go into the drug, the more it knocks you down and the less it restores you when you masturbate. I promised no shock treatment. In the example I am about to give, I am not trying to shock you, I am merely emphasizing that PMO destroy your nerves rather than relax them.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Try to imagine getting to the stage where you cannot get aroused even with a very sexy and attractive partner. Just for a moment pause and try to visualize life where one very lovely and charming woman has to compete and fail with all the virtual porn stars who are in your &amp;lsquo;harem&amp;rsquo; to get your attention! Try to imagine the frame of mind of a man who, issued with that warning, actually continues PMOing and then dies without ever having had real sex with this charming and willing real woman. I had read real life stories like that from men and dismissed them as weirdos. In fact, I used to wish a doctor would tell me that this weird condition would happen if I continue PMO; then I would have stopped. Yet I was already fully expecting that PIED and hypofrontality where I am guaranteed to lose in a brain war. I didn&amp;rsquo;t think of myself as an impotent, just a heavy PMOer. Now, let’s talk about the stress that this is putting on me.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Such weird stories as the above are not fakes. That is what this awful ‘novelty’ porn drug does to you. As you go through life, it systematically takes away your nerve and courage. The more it takes your courage away, the more you are deluded into believing the porn is doing the opposite.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Have you ever been overtaken by panic when you are out on business travel and the hotel WiFi is down or too slow? Non-PMOers do not suffer from it. The internet porn drug causes that feeling. At the same time, as you go through life, PMO not only destroys your nerves but keeps building a powerful neural ‘water slide’, DeltaFosB, progressively destroying your ability to say no.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;By the time the PMOer reaches the stage at which it has killed his virility, he believes the PMO is his new girlfriend and cannot face life without it. Get it clear in your head that Internet porn is not relieving your nerves; it is slowly but steadily destroying them. One of the great gains of breaking the ‘habit’ is the return of your natural confidence and self-assurance.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;There is no need to self-rate based on your ability to get hard or to satisfy a woman. However, you do ‘know’ deep inside that this is slavery. It is not freedom. And that freedom cannot be achieved by continuing to ‘grease’ - repeating the same behaviour and energizing the ‘water slide’ neural pathways of your brain in ways that undercut your happiness in general and not to mention your libido.&lt;/p&gt;
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+		<title>03-08 Relieving Withdrawal Pangs</title>
+		<link>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-08-relieving-withdrawal-pangs/</link>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2022 11:36:16 +0200</pubDate>
+		
+		<guid>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-08-relieving-withdrawal-pangs/</guid>
+		<description>&lt;p&gt;As I explained earlier, PMOers think they do it for enjoyment, relaxation or some sort of education. In fact, this an illusion. The actual reason is the relief of withdrawal pangs. In the early days we use the porn as a curious and novel thing or even educational or as a rebel. We can take it or leave it. However, the subtle chain has started. Our subconscious mind begins to learn that internet porn and masturbation taken at certain times tends to be pleasurable. The more we become hooked on the drug, the greater the need to relieve the withdrawal pangs and the further the PMO drags you down and the more you are fooled into believing it is doing the opposite. It all happens so slowly, so gradually, you are not even aware of it. Each day you feel no different from the day before. Most young PMOers don&amp;rsquo;t even realize they are hooked until they actually try to stop and even then many won&amp;rsquo;t admit to it. A few stalwarts just keep their heads in the sand all their lives,trying to convince themselves and other people that they enjoy it.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Listen to this conversation a therapist had with hundreds of teenagers.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;TH: “You realize that internet porn is a drug and that the only reason why you are using is that you cannot stop.”&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;PA: “Nonsense! I enjoy it. If I didn&amp;rsquo;t, I would stop.”&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;TH: “Just stop for a week to prove to me you can if you want to.”&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;PA: “No need. I enjoy it. If I wanted to stop, I would.”&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;TH: “Just stop for a week to prove to yourself you are not hooked.”&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;PA: “What&amp;rsquo;s the point? I enjoy it.”&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;As already stated, PMOers tend to relieve their withdrawal pangs at times of stress, boredom, concentration, relaxation or a combination of these. This point is explained in greater detail in the next few chapters.&lt;/p&gt;
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+		<title>03-07 Brainwashing and the Primitive Mechanism</title>
+		<link>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-07-brainwashing-and-the-primitive-mechanism/</link>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2022 08:39:02 +0200</pubDate>
+		
+		<guid>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-07-brainwashing-and-the-primitive-mechanism/</guid>
+		<description>&lt;p&gt;How or why do we start PMOing in the first place? To understand this fully you need to examine the powerful effect of the supernormal stimulus. We all tend to think we are intelligent, dominant human beings determining our paths through life. We act and act frequently when our brain reward circuit are rewarded. Nobel laureate Nikolaas Tinbergen coined the term “supranormal stimulus.” He said mammals could be tricked into preferring fake eggs and mates. Female birds, for example, struggled to sit on larger-than life, vividly spotted plaster eggs while their own pale, dappled eggs perished untended.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The stimulation here in internet porn is not it brings stimulating actors and themes to your home - it is a genie at your bidding to create a harem in your mind. You can switch between genres and theme, home-made and viewer rated, commented and discussed, so rapid and so easy. We absolutely are not ready for the high speed internet porn and our brains are not designed to handle this supranormal stimuli.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;We can have an ‘information overload’ from the same internet but our reward circuits are not going to squirt dopamine at the levels when ‘porn overload’ is involved. We are evolutionarily programmed to seek and access sex related stuff. And we wrongly appraise the stimulus mostly based on this reward circuit action. If all you wanted is to masturbate why can’t you just use one clip and get the business done?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Here is another question - next time after a long day or some stressful incident can you consciously embellish your self-talk with “Do you know what I would really enjoy today? The marvellous warm glow of dopamine rush going to my online harem.” You will find that even people who dislike PMO will join you.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;past-misguided-advice&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Past Misguided Advice&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
+&lt;/div&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;There was much misguided advice given in the past and one is that masturbating will lead to blindness. And there are some other scare tactics that clearly over-did it. It is right that those notions were overthrown by science. But now the mainstream threw the baby out with the bath water. TV programs, pop music, literature and movies all subtly show shambolic characters using porn or masturbation. They knowingly or unknowingly mix porn, sex, internet porn, masturbation and orgasm.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;From our earliest years our subconscious minds are bombarded daily with information telling us that sex is good and that the most precious thing on this earth is to ‘achieve’ orgasm. Girls are taught to achieve it and claim it&amp;rsquo;s because they were wrongly suppressed of their sexual side for a very long time and still are. You think I exaggerate? Watch any TV or movie plot and you will see the mix-up of the amative (touch, smell, voice etc.) and the propagative (orgasmic) sides of sex. The impact of this does not register on our conscious minds but the sleeping partner, the subconscious mind, has time to absorb it. What the message is really saying is, “The most precious thing on this earth, my last thought and action, will be the goal of orgasm.” If you don’t have an orgasm then you are an old man with zero libido.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Our children are being bombarded by sex and porn clips and many don’t even know how to protect them from it all. Large hoardings and magazine adverts are loaded with sexual innuendo. Some of the pop videos are extremely suggestive - again they hide behind free speech. Don’t be vexed and feel powerless about it. Make it a game and find you which of the components they are using - is it novelty, shock value, color, size, taboo etc. If the kids are pre-teen some of these can be disclosed to them and it would make an excellent show-and-tell game.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;A while back there was a wave of ‘leaked’ private videos of celebrities on the internet. If the youngster is too smitten by their favourite star, even if the conscious mind blames the ‘leak’ on the blood thirsty internet paparazzi, the &amp;lsquo;sleeping partner&amp;rsquo; is patiently digesting the notion that, “yes, even my shambolic hero does it and if I don’t, I won’t look the part.”&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;the-scientific-reasoning&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Scientific Reasoning&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
+&lt;/div&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;True, there is publicity the other way - the PIED scares, the loss of motivation, preferring virtual porn to real girls, YBOP&lt;sup id=&#34;fnref:1&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#fn:1&#34; class=&#34;footnote-ref&#34; role=&#34;doc-noteref&#34;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;, Reboot&lt;sup id=&#34;fnref:2&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#fn:2&#34; class=&#34;footnote-ref&#34; role=&#34;doc-noteref&#34;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; forums, underground PUA&lt;sup id=&#34;fnref:3&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#fn:3&#34; class=&#34;footnote-ref&#34; role=&#34;doc-noteref&#34;&gt;3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;, the no FAP movement - but these do not actually stop people PMOing. Logically they should, but the fact is they do not. They would not even prevent youngsters from starting no matter how much the YBOP guys try. All the years that I remained a PMOer, I can honestly say, even if I had read all of them before, I would never have become a quitter. The truth is that it doesn&amp;rsquo;t make the slightest bit of difference. The trap is the same today as when you fell into it.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Ironically, the most powerful force in this melee of confusion is the PMOer himself. It is a fallacy that they are weak-willed or are physically weak specimens. You have to be physically strong in order to cope with an addiction after you know it is. This is one of the reasons why PMOers refuse to accept the overwhelming statistics that prove that internet porn with its ‘novelty’ cripples your brain. Add to that the sexologists who are doing half-baked studies and declare PMO is not an issue - they just help to add to the confusion.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Everyone knows a friend who PMOed every day - he started with the ‘static’ to internet porn, always horny in real life, chasing girls and you never doubted him to have sex problems of course. You want to believe him. He never complained about any ED right? Guys and girls like them refuse even to consider the hundreds of ex-addicts and non-PMOers who painfully recount their difficulties. It is the “little monster” brain chemical addiction and the “big monster” - illusions and delusions. In this hackbook, I&amp;rsquo;ve put together almost all the sorts of brainwashing a PMOer can suffer from. There will always be a few out there that I haven&amp;rsquo;t touched upon.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Even more painful is they think of themselves as unsuccessful losers and insufferable introverts. A possible fact is that a PMO friend could have been more interesting in person if he hadn’t put himself down for seeking self-pleasure.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;If you do a small survey among your online forum members, friends and colleagues, you will find that most PMOers are, in fact, strong-willed people. They tend to be self-employed, business executives or in certain specialized professions, such as doctors&lt;sup id=&#34;fnref:4&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#fn:4&#34; class=&#34;footnote-ref&#34; role=&#34;doc-noteref&#34;&gt;4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;, lawyers, policemen, teachers, salesmen, nurses, secretaries, housewives with children, etc. In other words, anybody leading a stressful existence. Yes, I did include women and mothers. It’s the brain and it’s the same for them too. The main delusion of the PMOer is that porn helps to masturbate to orgasm and that relieves stress. This tends to be associated with the dominant type, the type that takes on responsibility and stress and, of course, that is the type that we admire and therefore tend to copy. Another group that tends to get hooked are people in monotonous jobs because the other main reason for PMOing is boredom. However, the idea that internet porn relieves boredom is also an illusion, I am afraid.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;As a society we get all uptight about glue-sniffing, heroin addiction, etc. Actual deaths from glue-sniffing do not amount to ten per annum, and deaths from heroin are less than a hundred a year in this country. There is another drug, internet porn, on which over 45 per cent of us become hooked at some time in our lives and the majority spend the rest of their lives regretting it. Some even don’t know that their ED is due to this.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;the-willpower-method&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Willpower Method&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
+&lt;/div&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;PMOers who quit using the Willpower method blame their own lack of willpower and ruin their peace and happiness. It is one thing to fail in self-discipline and another to self-loathe. There is no law that requires you to get fully hard all the time before sex, and to be properly aroused, and that you must be able to satisfy a woman. We are working on an addiction and not a habit. Habit is something you like to do- for example, golf - at no point you are arguing with yourself to stop golfing? But you do so with your porn addiction. The real question is: why?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Constant exposure to internet porn re-wires your brain. You need to start building resistance to this brainwashing, just as if you were buying a car from a second-hand car dealer. You would be nodding politely but you would not believe a word the man was saying. So don’t believe everything they say either - that you must have sex as much as you can and you must have it exceptional good. And that in the absence of real sex you claim it by the substitute called internet porn - which is only a component of the good old porn.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;And don’t play ‘safe’ porn game either - because your “little porn monster” invented that scheme to lure you. Even the content - ‘amateur’? Really? Is there a certification authority that certifies it? Tube sites and porn producers gather site visitor profiles and cater to their needs. If they see a trend in crowd sourced collection of a particular genre they will focus on that and get content out ASAP. The statistics of what genre users like is collected to the level of how long and which portion the users were preferring. Do not be fooled by their educational intent or the safe female oriented clips (for you ladies). Start asking yourself:&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;ul&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;Why am I doing it?&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;Do I really need to?&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NO, OF COURSE YOU DON&amp;rsquo;T.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I find this brainwashing aspect the most difficult of all to explain. Why is it that an otherwise rational, intelligent human being becomes a complete imbecile about his own addiction? It pains me to confess that out of the thousands of people that I have assisted in kicking the habit, I (not Allen Carr) was the biggest idiot of all.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;At the age of thirteen, although I was doing well at school and games, I was still an insufferable introvert. I read books from the library that were not within my main study list. However, I can see that I was attracted to erotica. I started masturbating to TV programs, song and dance sequences etc. I must have to have it every day. The tired feeling I felt was misappropriated by my ‘little porn monster’ as work stress. I didn’t know my “I-must-masturbate-as-I-am-entitled” attitude was the one that created the ‘stress’ in the first place. Then I got pictures and GIFs via email on my laptop - the first step towards electronic porn. The colour and texture of the images were amazing for me at that time - won’t be now for sure. Then came dial-up but still they were predominantly static pictures. Then came downloadable videos. It’s a pain to download and watch now - but it was heaven sent then as we were coming out of the static porn era! Oh, the streaming tube sites haven’t arrived yet.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;when-real-sex-is-not-enough-anymore&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;When Real Sex Is Not Enough Anymore&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
+&lt;/div&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I even remember opening up my laptop after having real sex (an activity I did due to stress induced by my own irrational rigid self demands to make her orgasm) and I was wanting more. Obviously the prospect of orgasm providing fulfilment rarely happens after prolonged porn use. So, my mind was reaching out to porn.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;At the age of forty, I was visiting my online harem daily, drinking ‘socially’ (whatever that means) and smoking ‘sometimes’ but not so often. I had wrongly subscribed to misguided ideas of ‘moderation’ and ‘entitlement’. I had reached the stage where I couldn&amp;rsquo;t get through a single day without reaching out to porn in the night. With most PMOers, the triggers are the normal stresses of life, like answering the telephone or socializing.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;When I experienced PIED - I knew it was killing my virility. There was no way I could kid myself otherwise. I am smart enough not to ‘project’ the porn fantasies on to real life. But it was like pacifying a dog straining at its leash. But why I couldn&amp;rsquo;t see what it was doing to me mentally, I could not understand. It was almost jumping up and biting me on the nose. The ridiculous thing is that most PMOers suffer the delusion at some time in their life that they enjoy internet porn because it is ‘normal’ and ‘healthy’. I never suffered that delusion, I PMOed because I thought enjoying sex is a ‘birthright’ and I am only doing a normal thing.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Since it was easier at most times for me to get internet porn than a partner I thought I am doing the normal thing. Now I am a non-PMOer, the most difficult part is trying to believe that those days actually happened. It&amp;rsquo;s like awakening from a nightmare and that is about the size of it. Internet porn is a supranormal drug. It is weakening your de-stressing mechanisms, your virility and your energy. The worst aspect of PMO isn&amp;rsquo;t the injury to your health or manliness, it is the warping of the mind. You search for any plausible excuse to go on.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I remember at one stage switching to static images, a failed attempt to cut down on internet porn, in the belief that it was less harmful and I could reign in my ‘habit’. I failed to see the ‘novelty’ and the ‘shock’ demands from my ‘little monster’ to just get more dopamine. Did I ‘stay’ within my boundaries? I ‘favorited’ 2 dimensional photos and my harem collection saw pictures and videos of ‘mild’ type porn rotating in and out like musical chair. When their ‘music’ stopped they ‘exited’. I didn’t understand the novelty-seeking, shock-seeking nature of my brain.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;pied-and-my-excuses&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PIED And My Excuses&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
+&lt;/div&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Once I figured I had PIED, as it had occurred multiple times with two different partners, I switched to more and more sophisticated masturbation. I practised with different artificial vaginas. They are sold as strength training. However, the combo of internet porn and toys needs deft hands, which is off-putting. Besides, by this time I was at the stage of orgasming with a limp member. All I wanted is an orgasm so I did not care about arousal, getting hard and all that. I had a long distance married girlfriend - who likes to share and talk about her sex life in very explicit manner. It turned me on so much that I’d masturbate to orgasm when I am on the phone with her. She knew it and would play with me by cutting off abruptly - to keep me hanging there - making me wanting more when she calls the next time. She had no trouble because I was fully willing to be the subject of playing such games, as long as it led to orgasm. A girl knows when a guy is seeking orgasm and it is his only goal. The only redeeming factor about me was my intelligence and empathy which kept her and my other partners coming back to me.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Most PMOers swear that they only watch static and soft porn and so they are OK. They are actually straining at the leash and thus fighting with their willpower to resist temptations. If they do this too often and for too long they will debit their willpower considerably and fail in other life projects where willpower is of much great value, like in daily exercise, dieting etc. Continuous failure in those areas will make them feel miserable and guilty and very soon they will find themselves back to their entitled relief. If not, they will vent their anger and depression onto their loved ones.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The answer is that once you have become addicted to internet porn, the brainwashing is increased. Your subconscious mind knows that the little monster has to be fed and you block everything else from your mind. As I have already stated, it is fear that keeps people quitting, the fear of that empty, insecure feeling that you get when you stop supplying the brain with dopamine flooding. Just because you are not aware of it doesn&amp;rsquo;t mean it isn&amp;rsquo;t there. You don&amp;rsquo;t have to understand it any more than a cat needs to understand where the under-floor hot-water pipes are. It just knows that if it sits in a certain place it gets the feeling of warmth.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;the-passivity-of-our-mind&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Passivity Of Our Mind&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
+&lt;/div&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;It is the passivity of our minds and dependency on authority leading to brainwashing that is the main difficulty in giving up PMO. The brainwashing of our upbringing in society reinforced with the brainwashing from our own addiction and, most powerful of all, the brainwashing of our friends, relatives and colleagues. Did you notice that up to now I&amp;rsquo;ve frequently referred to &amp;lsquo;giving up&amp;rsquo; PMO, I used the expression at the beginning of the previous paragraph. This is a classic example of the brainwashing. The expression implies a genuine sacrifice. The beautiful truth is that there is absolutely nothing to give up. On the contrary, you will be freeing yourself from a terrible disease and achieving marvellous positive gains. We are going to start removing this brainwashing now. From this point on, no longer will we refer to &amp;lsquo;giving up&amp;rsquo;, but to stopping, quitting or the true position: &lt;strong&gt;ESCAPING!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The only thing that persuades us to PMO in the first place is all the other people doing it. We feel we are missing out. We work so hard to become hooked, yet nobody ever finds out what they have been missing. But every time we see another new video clip it reassures us that there must be something in it, otherwise people wouldn&amp;rsquo;t be doing it - and it wouldn&amp;rsquo;t be such big business all over the world. Even when he has kicked the habit, the ex-PMOer feels he is being deprived when a discussion on a sexy entertainer, singer or even a porn star comes up at a party or other social function. She or he must be good to have all my friends talk about them, no? Do they have ‘hot’ pictures of her in my tube site? He feels safe. He can have just one ‘peek’ that night. And, before he knows it, he is hooked again.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;This brainwashing is extremely powerful and you need to be aware of its effects. I have heard scare stories about wicked men giving heroin mixed candies to kids at schoolyards. The concept of addiction and being compelled to go on taking the drug, filled me with horror. Even to this day, in spite of the fact that I am fairly convinced that &amp;lsquo;pot&amp;rsquo; is not addictive, I would not dare take one puff of marijuana. How ironic that I should have ended up a porn junky. Technology will continue to grow and we will have even faster tube sites and more faster access methods. The industry is investing millions in Virtual Reality so it will become the next best thing. The point is, do we know where we are going? Are we equipped with an under armour of defence so we can enjoy the benefits of technology yet at the same time protect ourselves from its bad effects?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;We are about to remove the brainwashing. It is not the non-PMOer who is being deprived but the poor user who is forfeiting a lifetime of:&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;ul&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HEALTH&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ENERGY&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WEALTH&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PEACE OF MIND&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CONFIDENCE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;COURAGE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SELF-RESPECT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HAPPINESS&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;FREEDOM&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;And what does he gain from these considerable sacrifices? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! Except the illusion of trying to get back to the state of peace, tranquillity and confidence that the non-PMOer enjoys all the time.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;div class=&#34;footnotes&#34; role=&#34;doc-endnotes&#34;&gt;
+&lt;hr&gt;
+&lt;ol&gt;
+&lt;li id=&#34;fn:1&#34;&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;YBOP&lt;/strong&gt; - yourbrainonporn.com, the leading internet porn addiction awareness site.&amp;#160;&lt;a href=&#34;#fnref:1&#34; class=&#34;footnote-backref&#34; role=&#34;doc-backlink&#34;&gt;&amp;#x21a9;&amp;#xfe0e;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li id=&#34;fn:2&#34;&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PUA&lt;/strong&gt; - pickup artist. Someone who teaches men to pick up mates.&amp;#160;&lt;a href=&#34;#fnref:2&#34; class=&#34;footnote-backref&#34; role=&#34;doc-backlink&#34;&gt;&amp;#x21a9;&amp;#xfe0e;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li id=&#34;fn:3&#34;&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reboot forum&lt;/strong&gt; - online resource for those who try temporary abstinence.&amp;#160;&lt;a href=&#34;#fnref:3&#34; class=&#34;footnote-backref&#34; role=&#34;doc-backlink&#34;&gt;&amp;#x21a9;&amp;#xfe0e;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li id=&#34;fn:4&#34;&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Doctors&lt;/strong&gt; - there is a reddit online forum for medical doctors who are quitting.&amp;#160;&lt;a href=&#34;#fnref:4&#34; class=&#34;footnote-backref&#34; role=&#34;doc-backlink&#34;&gt;&amp;#x21a9;&amp;#xfe0e;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ol&gt;
+&lt;/div&gt;
+</description>
+	</item>
+	
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 		<title>03-06 Internet Porn</title>
 		<link>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-06-internet-porn/</link>
@@ -21,7 +449,7 @@ action more happy feelings.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;So the first time you see porn - dopamine injects itself - you act - you orgasm. All of which will now be stored as a script in your brain for easy access next time. I call this a ‘water slide’. Next time at the cue - a sexy commercial or alone time or stress or feeling a little down - you are ready to take a ride on the ‘water slide’. One more thing is that every time to repeat this you are ‘greasing’ it as well - so it is active, alive and more easier to slide the next time.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;As time passes you are most probably not excited as before of the same clip - the reason will be explained shortly - but of similar type, genre, shock-level, our dopamine seeps into the brain but this time lesser than before. Now you feel less arousal, lesser motivation. This low motivation feeling in itself will trigger a feeling of lower satisfaction as our minds engage in constant rating. Then you seek more motivation. Then you ask for more novelty. Then you click on that amateurish, ugly looking, low quality, but high shock valued clip thumbnail which you had confidently said you won’t on your first time.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My Own Online Harem!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;my-own-online-harem&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My Own Online Harem!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;This cycle of novelty, escalation, satiation, desensitization etc. is not the same as the old porn magazine? Neither can you do that in real life with your partner. Maybe if you own a harem? One of the pros of owning a harem is novelty and the cons are desensitization, escalation and of course the cost.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;Going back to the earlier discussion - in this cycle as you crossed the ‘red line’ you also trigger emotions such as guilt, disgust, embarrassment, anxiety and fear - which in turn raise dopamine levels as well. Now the brain may mistakenly associate feelings of anxiety and fear as sexual arousal. This perpetual cycle is only broken by natural causes - fortunately sooner or later. With its free access and privacy it provides boundless harem-like novelty. The dopamine can be theoretically kept very high for a very very long time. I can be satisfied with one lobster once in awhile. But Internet porn is different. It is even worse than drugs. Don’t let me make you nervous. I will shortly show you how to be free from this slavery.&lt;/p&gt;
@@ -36,13 +464,13 @@ action more happy feelings.&lt;/p&gt;
 use?&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;This dopamine flooding, like a quick-acting drug, falls quickly to induce withdrawal pangs. I must at this point dispel a common illusion that PMOers have about withdrawal pangs. They think that withdrawal pangs are the terrible trauma they suffer when they try or are forced to stop PMOing. These are, in fact, mainly mental; the user is feeling deprived of his pleasure or prop. I will explain more about this later.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Little Monster&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;the-little-monster&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Little Monster&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;The actual pangs of withdrawal from PMO are so subtle that most users have lived and died without even realizing they are like drug addicts. When we use the term ‘porn addict&amp;rsquo; we think we just &amp;lsquo;got into the habit&amp;rsquo;. Most PMOers have a horror of drugs, yet that&amp;rsquo;s exactly what they are - drug addicts. Fortunately it is an easy drug to kick, but you need first to accept that you are addicted. There is no physical pain in the withdrawal from PMO. It is merely an empty, restless feeling, the feeling of something missing, which is why many think it is something to do with their hands. If it is prolonged, the user becomes nervous, insecure, agitated, lacking in confidence and irritable. It is like hunger - for a poison, INTERNET PORN.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;Within seconds of engaging in PMO the dopamine is supplied and the craving ends, resulting in the feeling of fulfilment and pleasure that the action gives to the PMOer. In the early days, when we first start PMOing, the withdrawal pangs and their relief are so slight that we are not even aware that they exist. When we begin to masturbate regularly to internet porn we think it is because we&amp;rsquo;ve either come to enjoy them or got into the &amp;lsquo;habit&amp;rsquo;. The truth is we&amp;rsquo;re already hooked; we do not realize it, but that little monster is already inside our stomach and every now and again we have to feed it.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;All PMOers start seeking porn for stupid reasons. Nobody has to. The only reason why anybody continues PMOing, whether they be a casual or a heavy user, is to feed that little monster. The whole business of porn and PMO is a series of confusing conundrums. All sufferers of PMO know at heart that they are fools and have been trapped by something evil. However, I think the most pathetic aspect about this is that the enjoyment that the PMOer gets from a session is the pleasure of trying to get back to the state of peace, tranquillity and confidence that his body had before he became hooked in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Annoying Burglar Alarm&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;the-annoying-burglar-alarm&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Annoying Burglar Alarm&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;You know that feeling when a neighbour’s burglar alarm has been ringing all day, or there has been some other minor, persistent aggravation. Then the noise suddenly stops - that marvellous feeling of peace and tranquillity is experienced. It is not really peace but the ending of the aggravation. Before we start the next PMO session, our bodies are complete. We then force our brains to pump dopamine into the body using PMO, and when we are done orgasming and the dopamine starts to leave, we suffer withdrawal pangs - not physical pain, just an empty feeling. We are not even aware that it exists, but it is like a dripping tap inside our bodies. Our rational minds do not understand it. They do not need to. All we know is that we want porn and when we masturbate the craving goes, and for the moment we are content and confident again just as we were before we
 became addicted. However, the satisfaction is only temporary because in order to relieve the craving you have to get more porn. As soon as you orgasm the craving starts again and so the chain goes on. It is a chain for life - &lt;strong&gt;UNLESS YOU BREAK IT&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
@@ -56,7 +484,7 @@ became addicted. However, the satisfaction is only temporary because in order to
 &lt;p&gt;The heroin doesn&amp;rsquo;t relieve it. On the contrary, it causes it. Non-PMOers - say a 14 year old in 2008 - didn&amp;rsquo;t suffer the empty feeling of needing internet porn or start to panic when they are off- line. Non-PMOers cannot understand how PMOers can possibly obtain pleasure from two dimensional videos with muted sounds and abnormal body proportions. And do you know something? PMOers themselves cannot understand why they do it after some time either.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;We talk about internet porn being relaxing or giving satisfaction. But how can you be satisfied unless you were dissatisfied in the first place? Why don&amp;rsquo;t non-PMOer suffer from this dissatisfied state and why, after a no-sex date, when the non-PMOers are completely relaxed, are PMOers completely unrelaxed until they have satisfied their &amp;rsquo;little monster&amp;rsquo;?&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Pleasure or Crutch?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;a-pleasure-or-crutch&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Pleasure or Crutch?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;Forgive me if I dwell on this subject for a moment. The main reason that PMOers find it difficult to quit is that they believe that they are giving up a genuine pleasure or crutch. It is absolutely essential to understand that you are giving up nothing whatsoever. The best way to understand the subtleties of the PMO trap is to compare it with eating. If we are in the habit of eating regular meals, we are not aware of being hungry between meals. Only if the meal is delayed are we aware of being hungry, and even then, there is no physical pain, just an empty, insecure feeling which we know as: &amp;lsquo;I need to eat.&amp;rsquo; And the process of satisfying our hunger is a very pleasantpastime.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;PMOing appears to be almost identical. The empty, insecure feeling which we know as: &amp;lsquo;wanting or needing an PMO orgasm’ is identical to a hunger for food, although one will not satisfy the other. Like hunger, there is no physical pain and the feeling is so imperceptible that we are not even aware of it between PMO sessions. It&amp;rsquo;s only if we want to masturbate and aren&amp;rsquo;t able to reach internet for porn that we become aware of any discomfort. But when we do PMO we feel satisfied.&lt;/p&gt;
@@ -68,12 +496,12 @@ became addicted. However, the satisfaction is only temporary because in order to
 &lt;li&gt;Eating doesn&amp;rsquo;t create hunger and genuinely relieves it, whereas the first PMO starts the craving for dopamine and each subsequent one, far from relieving it, ensures that you suffer it for the rest of life.&lt;/li&gt;
 &lt;/ol&gt;
 &lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PMO is a Habit?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;pmo-is-a-habit&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PMO is a Habit?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;This is an opportune moment to dispel another common myth about PMO - that it is a habit. Is eating a habit? If you think so, try breaking it completely. No, to describe eating as a habit would be the same as describing breathing as a habit. Both are essential for survival. It is true that different people are in the habit of satisfying their hunger at different times and with varying types of food. But eating itself is not a habit. Neither is PMO. The only reason any PMOer fires up the browser is to try to end the empty, insecure feeling that the previous orgasm and the PMO session created. It is true that different PMOers are in the habit of trying to relieve their withdrawal pangs at different times, but PMO itself is not a habit.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;On the internet they frequently refer to PMO as a habit and in this hackbook, for convenience, I also refer to the &amp;lsquo;habit&amp;rsquo;. However, be constantly aware that it is not habit, on the contrary it is no more nor less than DRUG ADDICTION! When we start to PMO we have to force ourselves to learn to cope with it. Before we know it, we are ‘escalating’&lt;sup id=&#34;fnref:1&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#fn:1&#34; class=&#34;footnote-ref&#34; role=&#34;doc-noteref&#34;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; - we have to then have more bizarre and more shocking porn. The thrill is in the hunting&amp;hellip; not in the killing. If we don&amp;rsquo;t then panic sets in and as we go through life we tend to novelty-seek more and more. Worse is when this seeking of higher shock level get into our real life. Have you heard about people suffering from PIED, that too in solo? How about wet dreams and fantasies where you are not even there but only involving others? There is no performance stress but I am not even getting hard. Great!&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Crossing The Red Line&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;crossing-the-red-line&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Crossing The Red Line&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;This is because, as with any other drug, the body tends to develop immunity to the effects of the same old porn clips and our brain wants more or something else. After quite a short period of watching the same clip it ceases to relieve completely the withdrawal pangs that the previous PMO session had created. You want to stay on the safe side of your own ‘red line’ but your brain is asking you to click on that ‘forbidden fruit’ clip. There is a tug of war occurring in this supposed porn paradise.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;You feel better than you did before starting this PMO session but you are in fact more nervous and less relaxed than you would be as a non-PMOer, like someone who is living in Loma Linda or in an Amish village, even though you are actually PMOing and living in your supposed “porn paradise.” This position is even more ridiculous than wearing tight shoes because as you go through life an increasing amount of the discomfort remains even when the shoes are removed.&lt;/p&gt;
@@ -86,19 +514,19 @@ became addicted. However, the satisfaction is only temporary because in order to
 &lt;p&gt;What magic drug can suddenly reverse the very effect it had minutes before? If you think about it, what other types of occasion are there in our lives; apart from sleep? The truth is that PMO neither relieves boredom and stress nor promotes concentration and relaxation. It is all just illusion. Apart from being a drug, PMO is also a destroyer of happiness and virility.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;In case you have ideas of toning down to other more ‘realistic’ or ‘soft’ genres of porn and such, I should make it quite clear that the content of this book applies to all porn, yes, that includes, print, webcams, pay-per-views, chat, live shows etc. that is on high speed internet where ‘novelty’ and ‘shock’ is the nature of the game. Imagination goes farther than reality. The human body is the most sophisticated object on our planet. No species, even the lowest amoeba or worm, can survive without knowing the difference between food and poison.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Brain Reward Circuit Mechanics&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;brain-reward-circuit-mechanics&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Brain Reward Circuit Mechanics&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;Through a process of natural selection over thousand of years, our minds and bodies have developed techniques for rewarding actions that multiply and sustain humanity. Yet our minds and bodies are not ready for the supernormal stimulus that is bigger, brighter, colourful, edgier and more shocking than the one we have now. We are attracted proportional to the degree of how far the outlier is from our individual normal. It can be two dimensional clip - and a muted one at that - we will get aroused. Look at the same clip again and again and you won’t be. You just moved your red line close to the outlier and in no time you will enclose it in your normal consciousness. It is natural and it is so that you can multiply and grow this human race. In real life there are checks and balances in place so you take a break and go away do something else. With internet porn you there are no such checks and balances and you are living in a virtual harem!&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;When we took a ‘peep’ at internet porn the first time, a few images were titillating but most were disgusting, causing you to avert your eyes away. Like you would if had accidentally glanced a feeding mother’s breast. And some of us are even revolted with what they saw when the star reminded them of someone dear to their heart or a scene which recalled their own instance of being the victim. Some don’t feel like it to browse and masturbate at the same time. It may be hard to believe for you but the non-PMOs, who don’t PMO after their first time, are the lucky ones. They actually decided that it was not their cup of tea. It must be hard for you to believe but stay with me.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;How many of us don’t visit brothels - even when you are far from home? Why not? It’s not the social stigma? How many of us did not bring home a bottle on your way back from work - even after a hard day? Why not ? You ‘deserve’ it after that big deal you made? You just decided, after your first instance, that it’s not your cup of tea. That&amp;rsquo;s all.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Are PMOers Mentally Weak?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;are-pmoers-mentally-weak&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Are PMOers Mentally Weak?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;It is a fallacy that physically weak and mentally weak-willed people become PMOers. The lucky ones are those who find that first instance repulsive and they are cured for life. Or, alternatively, they are not mentally prepared to go through the severe learning process of fighting the obstructions of self-talking themselves to get hooked, fear of ‘getting caught’, not technical enough to create an online cache, operate privacy settings in the browser etc.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;To me this is the most tragic part of this whole business. How hard we worked to become hooked, and this is why it is difficult to stop teenagers. Because they are skilled in seeking and finding material, they know online privacy options and can clean their tracks - if they still feel some stigma and they (wrongfully) believe they can stop whenever they want to. Why do they not learn from us? Then again, why did we not learn from our PMOers and addicts?&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;Many PMOers believe they enjoy online internet porn. It is an illusion. What we are actually doing when we jump from genre to genre is to keep our ‘novelty’ monkey within the ‘red line’ of ‘safe’ porn genres to get our dopamine fix, like heroin addicts who think that they enjoy injecting themselves. The withdrawal pangs from heroin are relatively severe and all they are really enjoying is the ritual of relieving those pangs.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The High From The Dance Around The Red Line&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;the-high-from-the-dance-around-the-red-line&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The High From The Dance Around The Red Line&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;Even with that one clip on which he lingers longer - the PMOer constantly teaches himself to filter out the bad and ugly portions of a porn clip. Even if it is solo, you still do the ‘filtering’ on the body parts that appeal to you the most. In fact some even take pleasure in this game to find an excuse to declare that they like ‘soft’ stuff and are not addicted to supranormal stimuli. Sometimes even this constant dance around the red line in itself produces a sort of high as well.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;Ask a user who believes that he sticks to a certain actor or genre - only because he likes something about the star or the theme (if any) of the clip: “If you cannot get your normal brand of porn and can only obtain a poor or unsafe brand, do you stop masturbating?” No way. A PMOer will masturbate to anything rather than abstain and it doesn&amp;rsquo;t matter if he has to switch to escalating themes, different sex-orientation-themes, look-alike actresses, dangerous settings shocking relationships etc. To begin with they taste awful but if you persevere you will learn to like them. Most PMOers will also try to seek masturbation even after having real sex (unfulfilment, porn-induced unrealistic expectations etc.), or after a long, stressful work day, fever, colds, flu, sore throats and even when admitted in hospitals.&lt;/p&gt;
@@ -109,13 +537,13 @@ became addicted. However, the satisfaction is only temporary because in order to
 &lt;/ol&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;You will quite rightly ask why it is that many PMOers find it so difficult to stop, go through months of torture and spend the rest of their lives pining for it at odd times. The answer is the second reason why we use Internet porn - the brainwashing. The brain-chemical addiction is easy to cope with. Most PMOers go days without online porn - when they are on business trips or travel etc. The withdrawal pangs don’t affect them. Their little porn monster knows that you will open your laptop as soon as you return to hotel room or your den. Ah, you can even survive this obnoxious client and your megalomaniac manager - just ‘knowing’ that the fix is there for your take. It doesn&amp;rsquo;t bother the PMOers.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Smokers Analogy&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;the-smokers-analogy&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Smokers Analogy&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
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 &lt;p&gt;A good analogy is the situation of smokers - if they went ten hours during the day without a cigarette they&amp;rsquo;d be tearing their hair out. Many smokers will buy a new car nowadays and refrain from smoking in it. Many will visit theatres, supermarkets, churches, etc. and not being able to smoke doesn&amp;rsquo;t bother them. Even on the trains there have been no riots. Smokers are almost pleased for someone or something to force them to stop smoking.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;PMOers will automatically refrain from using internet porn in the home of their parents while visiting for family get togethers etc. with little discomfort to themselves. In fact, most PMOers have extended periods during which they abstain without effort. Even in my case I would quite happily go a week or so without a PMO incident. In the later years as a PMOer I actually used to look forward to these days when I could stop choking my penis (what a ridiculous &amp;lsquo;habit&amp;rsquo;).&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;The brain chemical addiction (little monster) is easy to cope with, even when you are still addicted, and there are thousands of PMOers who remain casual users all their lives. They are just as heavily addicted as the heavy PMOer. There are even heavy PMOers who have kicked the &amp;lsquo;habit&amp;rsquo; but will have an occasional ‘peek’, and that keeps them addicted. You are ‘greasing’ the ‘water slide’ of the brain only to see you slide down at the next dip in your mood.&lt;/p&gt;
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-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Big Monster - The Brainwashing&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;the-big-monster---the-brainwashing&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Big Monster - The Brainwashing&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
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 &lt;p&gt;You are smart enough to know (aside, I will explain shortly why PMOers are in fact a strong willed and hard working bunch) that not all porn workers get a W-2 with 401k and stock options. Only a very rare actor and that too for a very short period of time of their career may be.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;Not all the amateurs are ‘amateurs’ on these tube sites, oversized body parts and overcharged scenarios are the norm, aided by a bit of the ‘viagran’ help.&lt;/p&gt;
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-&lt;p&gt;&amp;lsquo;I&amp;rsquo;M GOING TO CURE THE WORLD OF PMO&amp;rsquo;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;im-going-to-cure-the-world-of-pmo&#34;&gt;&amp;lsquo;I&amp;rsquo;M GOING TO CURE THE WORLD OF PMO&amp;rsquo;&lt;/h2&gt;
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 &lt;p&gt;I was talking to my mentor. He thought that I had flipped. Understandable if you consider that he had watched me fail on numerous attempts to quit. The most recent had been two years previously. I&amp;rsquo;d actually survived six months of sheer purgatory before I finally succumbed and found myself clicking on stacked up tabs of porn sites. I&amp;rsquo;m not ashamed to admit that I cried like a baby. I was crying because I knew that I was condemned to be an addict for life. I&amp;rsquo;d put so much effort into that attempt and suffered so much misery that I knew I would never have the strength to go through that ordeal again. I&amp;rsquo;m not a violent man, but if some patronizing non-PMO’er had been stupid enough at that moment to suggest to me that all users can find it easy to quit, immediately and permanently, I would not have been responsible for my actions. However, I&amp;rsquo;m convinced that any jury in the world, comprised of PMOers only, would have pardoned me on the grounds of justifiable homicide.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;Perhaps you too find it impossible to believe that any PMOer can find it easy to quit. If so, I beg you not to cast this book into the rubbish bin. Please trust me. I assure you that you can find it

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+		<title>03-17 Health</title>
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+		<description>&lt;p&gt;This is the area where the brainwashing is the greatest. PMOers, especially the young and single, think they are aware of the health risks. They are not. Even in my case, when I was expecting my head to explode any moment and honestly believed I was prepared to accept the consequences, I was still kidding myself. I didn&amp;rsquo;t in those days have an app that started a red beeper to flash and sound every time my internet router hits a porn site, followed by a warning voice saying, “OK, this is the one!” Fortunately you do get a warning, and this is it. That warning would say, “Up to now you have got away with it but if you stay another minute your head will explode,” do you think I would have PMOed?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;If you are in doubt about the answer just try walking up to a cliff, stand on the edge with your eyes closed and imagine you then have the choice of either quitting PMO or walking up blindfolded before your next PMO.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;There is no doubt what your choice would be. I had been doing what every internet porn PMOer does all his life: closing my mind and keeping my head in the sand, hoping that I would wake up one morning and just not want to PMO any more. PMOers cannot allow themselves to think of the health risks. If they do, even the illusion of enjoying the &amp;lsquo;habit&amp;rsquo; goes.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;This explains why a shock treatment is so ineffective in the first stages of quitting. It is only non-users who can bring themselves to read the destructive brain changes. It also explains why PMOers, influenced by their little monster, wrongly recall that filthy room mate who PMOed everyday and was still remaining ‘horny’ 24 hours a day – they will ignore the thousands of people who are brought “down” in their prime because of this poisonous ‘habit’.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;About six times a week I have the following conversation with PMOers (usually the younger ones):&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;ME: Why do you want to stop?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;PMOer: I read in a PUA guru’s blog that it is good to stop for 4 days to amp myself up.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;ME: Aren&amp;rsquo;t you worried about the health risks?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;PMOer:No, I could step under a bus tomorrow.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;ME: But would you deliberately step under a bus?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;PMOer:Of course not.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;ME: Do you not bother to look left and right when you cross the road?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;PMOer: Of course I do.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Exactly. He/she goes through a lot of trouble not to step under a bus and the odds are hundreds of thousands to one against it happening. Yet the PMOer risks the near certainty of being crippled by this ‘habit’ and appears to be completely oblivious to the risks. Such is the power of the brainwashing. The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn&amp;rsquo;t exist. Especially when you are younger or single. So is internet porn - it is the wolf in sheep’s clothing.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I remember a friend of mine who would not drink or smoke. Yet he would argue with me that internet porn is not different than older safe porn and that it is fun. Isn&amp;rsquo;t it strange that if, for example, we felt there was the slightest fault in an airplane, we wouldn&amp;rsquo;t go up in it, even though the risks are millions to one against death. Yet we take more than a one-in-four certainty with internet porn with its PMO addiction and are apparently oblivious to it. And what does the PMOer get out of it? &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Another common myth about PMO is the depression or peevishness. Many of the younger people are not worried about their health because they do not suffer any of the depression or melancholy. The depression or stress itself is not a disease; it is just a symptom. Younger people in general don’t feel the irritability or depression created because of their body’s natural capability to produce more dopamine and also the vigour and cheerfulness of their youthful activities masks those depleting reservoirs. As they age or if their lives experience serious setbacks the depleted resources are overworked and then they will experience full blown symptoms.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;When non-younger PMOers feel stressed, depressed or irritated it is because of the normal dopamine levels are not being effective and or due to excessive ‘flooding’ and its reactionary cutting down of the receptors. It is a reactionary step brain takes to protect its nervous systems from excessive dopamine ‘flooding’ as the dopamine receptors close up. It is one of nature&amp;rsquo;s fail-safe methods. They also develop other neural changes that will keep them in the rut.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Just think of it this way. If you had a nice car and allowed it to rust without doing anything about it that would be pretty stupid, as it would soon become a heap of rust and not be able to carry you anywhere. However, that would not be the end of the world; it is only a question of money and you could always buy a new car. But your body is the vehicle that carries you through life. We all say that our health is our most valued asset. How true that is, as sick millionaires will tell you. Most of us can look back at some illness or accident in our lives when we prayed to get better. (HOW SOON WE FORGET). By being a PMOer, you are not only letting the rust get in and doing nothing about it; you are systematically destroying the vehicle you need to go through life and you only get one.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Wise up. You don&amp;rsquo;t have to do it and remember: it is doing ABSOLUTELY NOTHING FOR YOU. Just for a moment take your head out of the sand and ask yourself; if you knew for certain that the next PMO session would be the one to trigger off a process in your body that will make your penis fall away like a hair strand, would you then actually go ahead and do it? Forget the ‘disease’ idea (it is difficult to imagine it) but just imagine you are on your bed, with your partner and your penis is not responding. Or if you are a woman, you are not feeling in any way responsive with someone you deeply love? Now you are not in the beginning of a happy endeavour but instead a tug of war in your mind and in your partner&amp;rsquo;s mind too. “Is it my PMO or is it just stress? Can I spot who the culprit is 100%? Or for her, is it me? Am I not sexy enough for him? Or worse, am I losing my ‘appetite’ too soon due to ageing?” What do you think is going to happen?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I often speak to the people that it happens to. They didn&amp;rsquo;t think it would happen to them either and the worst thing about it isn&amp;rsquo;t the disease itself but the knowledge they have brought it on themselves. For a very long time as PMOers and abusers we are saying, “I’ll stop tomorrow.” Try to imagine how those people feel who “hit the button.” For them the brainwashing is ended. They then see the &amp;lsquo;habit&amp;rsquo; as it really is and spend the remainder of their lives thinking, “Why did I kid myself I needed to masturbate to internet porn? If only I had the chance to go back!”&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Stop kidding yourself. You have the chance. It&amp;rsquo;s a chain reaction. If you engage in the next PMO session, it will lead you to the next one and the next. It&amp;rsquo;s already happening to you. At the beginning of the book I promised you no shock treatment. If you have already decided you are going to stop, this isn&amp;rsquo;t shock treatment for you. If you are still in doubt, skip the remainder of this chapter and come back to it when you have read the rest of the book.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Volumes of researches and studies have already been written about the damage that internet porn causes to our sex lives and to our mental well-being. The trouble is that until the PMOer decides to stop he doesn&amp;rsquo;t want to know. Even the forums and mentor groups are a waste of time because the PMOer puts the blinkers on. If he inadvertently reads it, the first thing he does is to open an incognito tab and visit his favourite tube site. PMOers tend to think of the happiness, stress and sex hazards as a hit-and-miss affair, like stepping on a land mine.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Get it into your head: it is already happening. Every single time you browse to your tube site you are triggering dopamine flooding and the opioids get to work - the neural pathway water slides get greased and the ride takes you smoothly through the next steps that you have already given to the script. The nervous system is now flooded by dopamine and since it is its umpteenth time, it is going to let some of your dopamine receptors to close up. The ‘little monster’ in you is using this slight dip in the pleasure compared to the last time to encourage you to “cross the red line” towards more shocking porn or behaviour in order to release more dopamine. In the process just hit on the ‘novelty’ button that triggers dopamine again. “Let’s keep going,” says the little monster, because you deserve it and you are entitled to this. Now the streaming of so many pictures and videos on a single tab&amp;hellip; that triggers another button called ‘supernormal’ stimulus, injecting more amines.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;All this time your receptors are receiving infomation to shut down inversely proportional to the flooding. Then you get to the orgasm stage. More dopamine, more shutting down of receptors. After this comes the withdrawal, Oh and since you are an ex-PMOer go get one. And why not pour a glass from the fridge of that leftover whiskey? Internet porn kills your sex life and thus it kills your private and public lives as well. If you are not aware of the addiction process or even if you are, you are in denial since the “little monster” craves for its fix because there was no real pain and you could handle the discomfort.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I confess that the thought of having ED terrified me, which is probably why I just blocked it from my mind. It&amp;rsquo;s amazing how the fear of the horrendous health risks attached to PMOing are overshadowed by the fear of stopping. It&amp;rsquo;s not so much that the latter is a greater fear, but that if we quit today the fear is immediate, whereas the fear of getting ED, PE and OCD related mental illnesses are a fear of the future. Why look on the black side? Perhaps it won&amp;rsquo;t happen. I&amp;rsquo;m bound to have quit by then anyway.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;We tend to think of PMOing as a tug-of-war. On one side is fear: it&amp;rsquo;s unhealthy, filthy and enslaving. On the other side the pluses: it&amp;rsquo;s my pleasure, my friend, my crutch. It never seems to occur to us that this side is also fear. It&amp;rsquo;s not so much that we enjoy them but that we tend to be miserable without them.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Think of heroin addicts deprived of their heroin: the abject misery they go through. Now picture their utter joy when they are allowed to plunge a needle into their veins and end that terrible craving. Try to imagine how anyone could actually believe they get pleasure from sticking a hypodermic syringe into a vein. Non-heroin addicts don&amp;rsquo;t suffer that panic feeling. Heroin doesn&amp;rsquo;t relieve the feeling, on the contrary, it causes it.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Non-PMOers (those who don’t ‘need’ or have access to internet porn) don&amp;rsquo;t feel miserable if they are not allowed to PMO. It&amp;rsquo;s only PMOers that suffer that feeling. Internet porn doesn&amp;rsquo;t relieve it, on the contrary it causes it. The fear of ED or PE didn&amp;rsquo;t make me quit because I believed it was rather like walking through a minefield. If you got away with it - fine. If you were unlucky you stepped on a mine.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;You knew the risks you were taking and if you were prepared to take the risk, what had it to do with anyone else? So if a non-PMOer ever tried to make me aware of those risks, I would use the typical evasive tactics that all addicts invariably adopt. They are&amp;hellip;.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;ul&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;“You will eventually get old and lose your sexual prowess anyway&amp;hellip;”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Of course you do but sexual prowess is not even the point, we are talking slavery here. Even if that is the case, is that a logical reason for deliberately cutting yourself short?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;ul&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;“Quality of life is more important than just living.”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Exactly but you are surely not suggesting that the quality of life of an addict is greater than that of someone that isn&amp;rsquo;t addicted? Do you really believe that the quality of a PMOer’s life is better than a non-PMOer? Surely the PMOer loses on both counts his life is spent in trying to cover his head in the sand and being miserable.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;ul&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;“I am single and am not planning to ‘settle down’ in the near future so why not?”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Even if that were true, is that a logical reason for playing with the brain structure dealing with impulse control that is needed in other areas of life? Can you possibly conceive of anyone being stupid enough to strip naked wherever one is going to be alone? No matter how sure you are that you are not expecting anyone in your life? THAT&amp;rsquo;S WHAT PMOers EFFECTIVELY DO!&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I can understand why the ED and the risks of ruining one’s mental health didn&amp;rsquo;t help me to quit. I could cope with the former and block my mind to the latter. As you are already aware, my method is not to frighten you into quitting but the complete opposite - to make you realize just how more enjoyable your life will be when you have escaped.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;However, I do believe that if I could have seen what was happening inside my brain, this would have helped me to quit. Now I&amp;rsquo;m not referring to the shock technique of showing a PMOer the effect of the hidden attribute of internet porn on the reward circuit of the brain. It was obvious to me from my unreliable arousals, fading penetrations, lack of energy, unemotional sex (as in just a muscle twitch), hit-seek escalations of porn search for novelty and shock that something is not going right. None of these are catastrophic for me as I have trained myself in cognitive behavioural techniques as discussed before but I did experience them quite often enough. Practising CBT/REBT gave me enough grounding and stability to look at my addiction in a different and better way than I’d have if I were not aware of the cognitive biases. Provided I kept functioning, even at a mediocre level, they were less of an embarrassment than a lost tooth - at least nobody could see my mind.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;What I am referring to is the progressive gunging-up of our reward circuits with excessive stimulation, making them incapable of handling the normal stresses of life. Closing up of dopamine and opioids receptors does not help me in enjoying my life with enough vigour. Porn and masturbation has replaced the natural sexual appetite, like a candy bar replacing real food. The brain has no idea to differentiate one from the other. I don&amp;rsquo;t like the thought of a virus in my smart phone or my laptop. Could you imagine buying the latest one of these gadgets and letting a virus to run every line of the software code but repeat it thrice ? That&amp;rsquo;s what we effectively do to our bodies when we become PMOers.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Many researchers and doctors are now relating various mental health problems in addition to the physiological ones caused by internet porn and PMO in general. This is no surprise to me. The mainstream medical world has laboured that PMO has never been scientifically proven to be the direct cause of the issues reported by self-confessing individuals. Admitting one’s sexual inability in public is such a shame triggering event, why would anyone do that unless they are really concerned? And probably many have found the cause and have eliminated it. This book is going to help you to get rid of it and also become a happy ex PMOer. No porn whatsoever, no porn aided masturbation. And of course no unnecessary orgasms. The only aid will be the touch, smell and voice of your partner. Like whole wheat bread after a well developed appetite, you will produce enough juices to break down the hard bread and it comes as a beautiful refreshment. No high fructose corn syrup injected fake food. The evidence is so overwhelming as not to need proof. No one ever scientifically proved to me exactly why, when I bang my thumb with a hammer, it hurts. I soon got the message.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I must emphasize that I am not a doctor but just like the hammer and the thumb, it soon became obvious to me that the periods of my life outside of sex that were marked by low levels of irritation tolerance, lack of energy, temper, moody thoughts, zoning out of social scenes etc. were directly related to my masturbation and especially the supernormal stimulus of IP&lt;sup id=&#34;fnref:1&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#fn:1&#34; class=&#34;footnote-ref&#34; role=&#34;doc-noteref&#34;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;. However, I truly believe that the greatest hazard that IP causes to our health is the gradual and progressive deterioration of our sex life caused by super-substitutes. The novelty, shock, variety in size and nature of internet porn can slowly take away the magic of the real sex. Worse, the RC&lt;sup id=&#34;fnref:2&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#fn:2&#34; class=&#34;footnote-ref&#34; role=&#34;doc-noteref&#34;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; reward circuits are flooding unnaturally and at high abnormal levels so that they close up  the receptors and also diminish any potency and effectiveness of normal de-stressors that work in the RC. This predisposes one to be depressed and become needy to lot more other ‘crutches’ of life such as cigarettes and alcohol or even causing the host to think of committing suicide. Even the real vagina will not be a match for the death grip of masturbation - and the little monster is kept alive.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Our lives are ‘blessed’ with challenges – yes, ‘blessed’- they are needed to keep us strong and make us better. If our nervous systems is pre-disposed to making a molehill out of a mountain it will seek a ‘fix. When it seeks a hit or a mountain out of a molehill when it interfaces with reality then is it worth it? Our body and our brain is designed to make use of optimal levels of these brain chemicals. I don’t think a man who fails in satisfying a woman should consider himself worthless.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;You will do well accepting yourself unconditionally and as an extension others and of life in general as well. It needs practice - but you won&amp;rsquo;t practice unless your brain rewards you. External rewards are iffy and most of the time are not forthcoming. If your internal brain chemicals and the reward circuits are humming even a little external reward will go a long way and the lack of external approvals won&amp;rsquo;t even matter at all. If you want to you can be the king of your life. Think about this as one of your greatest benefits.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Several of the adverse effects that PMO had on my health, some of which I had been suffering from for years, did not become apparent to me until many years after I had stopped. The good news I have for you is this - all of this is reversible. You are the jailer and you are also going to set yourself - the prisoner - free!&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;It didn&amp;rsquo;t even occur to me that I was already suffering from ED and PE&lt;sup id=&#34;fnref:3&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#fn:3&#34; class=&#34;footnote-ref&#34; role=&#34;doc-noteref&#34;&gt;3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; myself. Upon my first observation of the damage I quickly attributed it, with the help of my little monster, to (a) the occasional opposition to foreplay by my partner, (b) to the ‘less-than-ideal’ partner (my brain ‘tolerance’ is so high that even if I were with the most sexy one imaginable it’d still be not enough), (c) some silly grudge about my past stopping me to ‘prepare’ us to mood setting or (d) my boss, customer etc. etc.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;When it happened again my little monster brain gave me a BS mix of the above combo which I don’t even want to waste your time with. It never occurred to me that none of these would have stopped me before? So, I decided that I need ‘stamina practice’ since I figured that a toy which comes close to real vagina will ‘train’ me in getting hard and to avoid PE. I later came to read about PE being the result of poor training of the reward circuits. If one’s goal is orgasm then getting hard is not a requirement with masturbation. That being avoided enough times sets up waterslides in your brain and you grease it real nice every time to ride the slide. You can dispute this but I am going to take the Pascal’s Wager and quit - I lose very little, gain big and avoid losing big.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;When you don’t get hard or have unreliable erections, it’s a signal that your mind wants it more than your body - most times. Also of note is my peevishness and melancholy (anger/irritability and moodiness/depression). I told myself that I am a negatively oriented Virgo. While many Virgos are predisposed to think and act ‘negatively’ I failed to notice that actually I am a pretty optimistic guy.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;In fact, the many times I had not gone along for the porn water slide ride, due to external events, even though I had wanted to, I noticed that I did not get affected big time - remember again Pascal’s Wager. But looking back at my life, I have to say that I have been an achiever, in spite of the self-sabotage of PMO and its constant drag. That must be due to the training of tempering my pre-disposition and keeping the negatives to toned down healthy negatives of disappointment, sorrow, concern, annoyance, sadness, regret, frustration, caution, vigilance, irritation etc. I am sure that I am an optimistic and positive guy, how else could I explain that I kept going in spite of my tripping myself with PMO?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I have been in the stock market and have advised my friends and colleagues. I would show my hands - in real investments and trades. Most of the macho guys would not bring themselves to pull the trigger at those times when I did with no fears but of course with due vigilance and caution.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I know a person close to me who would masturbate every day at least once. He had no access to porn and was using static magazines and his own imagination. Now, looking back I wonder if this person lost his life’s joy to PMO. He would always be quick to anger and his irritation trigger levels are always very low. Any day-to-day stress will tick him off. He had a secure government job that demanded little from him and so he was lucky to survive until his retirement. Lucky? Maybe not. Anyway, I am sure his RC* had long sent shutdown signals to his receptors and his dopamine and opioids have much diminished effectiveness.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;You might conclude that I am something of a hypochondriac. I believe that I was when I was a PMOer. One of the great evils about addictions such as these is that it fools us into believing that the cigarettes, alcohol, PMO etc. give us courage, when in fact it gradually and imperceptibly dissipates it. I was shocked when I read about a confessor who felt suicidal at 19 due to PMO. Little did I realize that twenty years later I would have exactly the same lack of joie de vivre. You might conclude that this chapter has been one of necessary, or unnecessary, doom and gloom. I promise you it is the complete opposite. I used to fear death when I was a child. A bit later I used to believe that smoking, drinking and porn removed that fear. Perhaps it did. If so, it replaced it with something infinitely worse: &lt;strong&gt;A FEAR OF LIVING!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Now my fear of dying has returned. Yet it does not bother me. I realize that it only exists because I now enjoy life so much. I don&amp;rsquo;t brood over my fear of dying any more than I did when I was a child. I&amp;rsquo;m far too busy living my life to the full. The odds are against my living to a hundred, but I&amp;rsquo;ll try to. I&amp;rsquo;ll also try to enjoy every precious moment!&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;There were two other advantages on the health side that never occurred to me until I had stopped PMOing. One was that I now wake up refreshed in the morning. The subtle well-rested feeling is something sort of what you’d experience after a fever had left you. I get that almost every day but of course some nights are not going to be perfect. I had accepted that there is nothing outside of us that we need to enjoy or cope in our lives.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The other was the acceptance of the Void in our lives. Those insecure feelings. The emptiness. From what I learned - that is after removing PMO from my life, I could see that these three are present in everyone’s lives. Yes, that includes the playboys and the PUA macs as well. I think they are like the nights that serve to enhance our days. Yes, it is a well known ‘insight’. But then I know of many insights which have never translated to any value to my life. After I quit, it all fell into place. Look, I am not a saint or a guru. But I am not panicking and seeking substitutes when I feel the void, or insecurity or emptiness. There are no outside things that will be a pleasure or crutch.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Here is a thought experiment for you&amp;hellip; let’s say a woman comes to you and says she doesn’t necessarily want an orgasm but however, she very much wants to make love. Even penetrative. And she wants to do it for as long and as far as you can go without an orgasm but if it happens then its fine. I assure you of a great new experience, far better than anything in your life if you even get that offer. Try it.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;PMOers also suffer the illusion that the ill-effects of internet porn and PMO are overstated. The reverse is the case. There is no doubt that internet porn is the major cause of PIED and other problems. The trouble is that in many cases where PMO causes the ED or is a contributory factor, it is not blamed on PMO in the statistics. It has been estimated that more than 25 per cent of men experience ED or PE and yet I wonder how many divorces have been caused by PMO? There are no reliable ways to know the number of Internet Porn users within the study group. The studies usually mix up traditional and internet porn users and has no way to account for the starting age of the participants, years of use, duration and frequency of usage. There is no way to conduct blind or double blind methods either.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I was a ‘safe’ user of internet porn - if there is anything ‘safe’ about it. However I noticed that I invariably projected porn fantasies on real life women. Like the episode in Friends where the guys, who were receiving continuous free porn on TV, started to wonder to each other why the pizza delivery girl didn’t ask to check out their ‘big bedroom’. Imagine what ‘careless’ or even ‘accidental’ porn exposure on the darker sides the internet would do to someone who is already at a tipping point in his or her life? Fighting against these ‘porn induce thoughts’, PIT&lt;sup id=&#34;fnref:4&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#fn:4&#34; class=&#34;footnote-ref&#34; role=&#34;doc-noteref&#34;&gt;4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;, is going to be a major drain on his or her mental health.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The effect of the brainwashing is that we tend to think like the man who, having fallen off a 100-storey building, is heard to say, as he passes the fiftieth floor, “So far, so good!” We think that as we have got away with it so far, one more PMO session won&amp;rsquo;t make the difference. Try to see it another way, the &amp;lsquo;habit&amp;rsquo; is a continuous chain for life, each session creating the need for the next. When you start the habit you light a fuse. The trouble is, YOU DON&amp;rsquo;T KNOW HOW LONG THE FUSE IS. Every time that you give up to a PMO session you are one step nearer to the bomb exploding. HOW WILL YOU KNOW IF IT&amp;rsquo;S THE NEXT ONE?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;div class=&#34;footnotes&#34; role=&#34;doc-endnotes&#34;&gt;
+&lt;hr&gt;
+&lt;ol&gt;
+&lt;li id=&#34;fn:1&#34;&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;IP&lt;/strong&gt; - internet porn&amp;#160;&lt;a href=&#34;#fnref:1&#34; class=&#34;footnote-backref&#34; role=&#34;doc-backlink&#34;&gt;&amp;#x21a9;&amp;#xfe0e;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li id=&#34;fn:2&#34;&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;RC&lt;/strong&gt; - reward circuits in the brain that involves dopamine/ opioids, receptors, proteins etc.&amp;#160;&lt;a href=&#34;#fnref:2&#34; class=&#34;footnote-backref&#34; role=&#34;doc-backlink&#34;&gt;&amp;#x21a9;&amp;#xfe0e;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li id=&#34;fn:3&#34;&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PE&lt;/strong&gt; - premature ejaculation&amp;#160;&lt;a href=&#34;#fnref:3&#34; class=&#34;footnote-backref&#34; role=&#34;doc-backlink&#34;&gt;&amp;#x21a9;&amp;#xfe0e;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li id=&#34;fn:4&#34;&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PIT&lt;/strong&gt; - porn induced thoughts, porn themes crossing over to normal interactions&amp;#160;&lt;a href=&#34;#fnref:4&#34; class=&#34;footnote-backref&#34; role=&#34;doc-backlink&#34;&gt;&amp;#x21a9;&amp;#xfe0e;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ol&gt;
+&lt;/div&gt;
+</description>
+	</item>
+	
+	<item>
+		<title>03-16 I Will Save X Hours a Week</title>
+		<link>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-16-i-will-save-x-hours-a-week/</link>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2022 12:08:55 +0200</pubDate>
+		
+		<guid>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-16-i-will-save-x-hours-a-week/</guid>
+		<description>&lt;p&gt;I cannot repeat too often that it is brainwashing that makes it difficult to stop PMOing. So, the
+more brainwashing we can dispel before we start, the easier you will find it to achieve your goal.
+Occasionally I get into arguments with people whom I call “confirmed PMOers.” By my definition
+a confirmed PMOer is somebody who doesn&amp;rsquo;t believe PMO has any negative effect on his health
+(PME, PIED and hypofrontality etc.) and is not having a mental tug of war. Most times he’d be a
+younger guy or a single but with an occasional sex partner. Thus the internal feedback is lost due to
+the nature of their youth and or it is too infrequent to be observed and registered.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;If he is a young man, I’d rather say to him, “I cannot believe you are not worried about the
+time you are spending.” Usually his eyes light up. If I had attacked him instead on health grounds or
+on the social stigma, he would feel at a disadvantage which will trigger resistance from him. But on
+time&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;“Oh, I can afford it. It is only x hours per week and I think it is worth it. It is my only vice or
+pleasure.”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;“I still cannot believe you are not worried about the time spent. Say at a minimum half an hour a day on an average including the physical ‘drain’ time of dopamine withdrawals, you are spending approximately one full working day of 8 hours every fortnight. Half an hour a day is a very conservative estimate you would agree. And in a year that will add up to a working month. Have you thought about how much time you are going to spend in your lifetime? What are you doing with that time? You are not even developing real relationships? No, your favourite porn star does not have sympathy for you just because you spent that much time on her site - you are throwing it away! Not only that, you are actually using that time to ruin your physical health, to destroy your nerves and confidence, to suffer a lifetime of slavery, pain, stress, melancholy and peevishness. Surely that must worry you?”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;It is apparent at this point, particularly with younger PMOers, that they have never considered it a lifetime habit. Occasionally they work out the time they waste in a week and that is alarming. Very occasionally (and only when they think about stopping) they estimate what they spend in a year and that is frightening but over a lifetime it is unthinkable. However, because now we are in an argument, the confirmed PMOer will impulsively say, “I can afford it. It is only so much a week.” He pulls an “encyclopedia salesman” routine on himself.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Will you refuse a job offer which pays you your current annual salary and also gives you a month off every year? Any PMOer would sign up for this job offer in a heartbeat and would get busy finding vacation deals to exotic places. Figuring out how to spend one full month with no work would be the biggest problem that he now has to solve.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;In every discussion with a confirmed PMOer - and please bear in mind I am not now talking to someone like yourself who plans to stop, I am talking to someone who has no intention of stopping - nobody has ever taken me up on that offer. Why not?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Often at this point in my consultation, a confirmed PMOer will say, “look, I am not really worried about the money aspect.” If you are thinking along these lines, ask yourself why you are not worried. Why in other aspects of your life will you go to a great deal of trouble to save a few dollars here and there but yet spend thousands of dollars killing your happiness and hang the expense?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The answer to these questions is this: every other decision that you make in your life will be the result of an analytical process of weighing up the pros and cons and arriving at a rational answer. It may be the wrong answer but at least it will be the result of rational deduction. Whenever any PMOer weighs up the pros and cons of using internet porn, the answer is a dozen times over: “STOP PMOing! YOU ARE A MUG!” Therefore all PMOers are using not because they want to or because they decided to but because they think they cannot stop. They have to and need to brainwash themselves. They have to and need to keep their heads in the sand.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The strange thing is many men would pay good money for gym and personal trainers to build their muscles and look sculpted. Other treatments such as boosting testosterone with dubious and sometimes dangerous effects are tried out by many men in their real (and imaginary) desperation. Yet, there are many men in that group who would save money and risks by stopping a practice that systematically not only destroys their manhood but also affects their brain’s natural relaxation system.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;This is because they are still thinking with the brainwashed mind of the PMOer. Just take the sand out of your eyes for a moment. Internet porn is a chain reaction and a chain for life. If you do not break that chain, you will remain a user for the rest of your life. Now estimate how much time you think you will spend on PMOing for the rest of your life. The amount will obviously vary with each individual but for the purpose of this exercise let us assume it is a year and half of work hours. You will shortly be making the decision to use your final session (not yet, please - remember the initial instructions). All you have to do to remain a non-PMOer is NOT to fall for the trap again. That is, do not PMO and consciously avoid having “just a peek.” If you do, that one peek will cost you a year and half of your work life. If you think this is a trick way of looking at it, you are still kidding yourself. Just work out how much time you would have saved if you had not taken your very first ‘peek’ right at the start.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;If you see the argument as factual, ask yourself how you would feel if there were a cheque from your state’s lotto for a year and half worth of your current salary lying on your carpet tomorrow? You&amp;rsquo;d be dancing with delight! So start dancing! You are about to start receiving that bonus and that&amp;rsquo;s just one of the several fantastic gains you are about to receive.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;During the withdrawal period you may be tempted to have just one final ‘look’. It will help you to resist the temptation if you remind yourself it will cost you one year’s worth of your peak annual salary (or whatever your estimate is)! I could be making that offer on television and radio programmes yet I bet no-one will take it.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;If you are mentoring someone online for his PMO addiction tell him that he knows someone who has refused a job offer that pays his current annual salary and also gives him a full month’s of PTO. When he ask who that idiot is, tell him, “you!” I know it&amp;rsquo;s rude but you may sometimes need to get your point across in a less-than-polite way.&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
+	</item>
+	
+	<item>
+		<title>03-15 Self-Imposed Slavery</title>
+		<link>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-15-self-imposed-slavery/</link>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2022 12:06:39 +0200</pubDate>
+		
+		<guid>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-15-self-imposed-slavery/</guid>
+		<description>&lt;p&gt;Usually when PMOers try to stop the main reasons given are health, religion and partner stigma. Part of the brainwashing of this awful drug is the sheer slavery. Man fought hard in the last century to abolish slavery and yet the PMOer spends his life suffering self-imposed slavery. He seems to be oblivious to the fact that when he is allowed to PMO he wishes that he were a non-PMOer. With most of the masturbation we do in our lives, not only do we not enjoy them but we aren&amp;rsquo;t even aware that we are masturbating. It is only after a period of abstinence that we actually suffer the delusion of enjoying PMO (e.g. the first day after a 4 day abstinence with the intent of rebooting etc.). The only time that the porn becomes precious is when we are &amp;rsquo;trying&amp;rsquo; to cut down or abstain or when abstinence is forced on us (e.g. when on a business trips, holiday trips to locations where the Internet is not available and so on).&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The confirmed PMOer should bear in mind that more studies and even more people are coming out and talking about the ill effects of internet porn. This trend will get “worse and worse.” Today, it is non-medical people talking. Tomorrow, it will be in your doctor’s list of diagnostic tests to perform. Gone are the days when the PMOer can hide behind “just a bit of downtime due to work stress” in his or her sex life. Your partner is going to ask you why you are on your laptop at this time too late into the night. The poor PMOer, who was already feeling wretched, wants the ground to open up and swallow him.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I remember every time my partner stayed up late it was an ordeal waiting to open up my laptop. When on business trips the dinner with the clients and colleagues dragged on or was I just going through the natural ups and downs in human interactions? What was I doing? I was thinking, “let&amp;rsquo;s get on with it, so that I can get over with this and go to my room for some porn.” I have thought many times, “am I not lucky? I have got my little reward. The poor non-PMOer with no internet access somewhere in an Amish village hasn&amp;rsquo;t got a reward.” The &amp;lsquo;poor&amp;rsquo; non-PMOer doesn&amp;rsquo;t need a reward. We were not designed to go through life systematically flooding our brains with dopamine and opioids. The pathetic thing is that even when masturbating with internet porn the PMOer doesn&amp;rsquo;t achieve those feelings of peace, confidence and tranquillity that the non-PMOer has experienced for the whole of his non-PMO life. The non-PMOer isn&amp;rsquo;t sitting in the family room, feeling agitated and wishing his life away. He can enjoy the whole of his life.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;No, this wasn&amp;rsquo;t a fourteen-year-old schoolboy but a forty-year-old professional. How pathetic. I wouldn&amp;rsquo;t admit to myself that I wasn&amp;rsquo;t enjoying it. I was looking for the right clip and/or pictures to reach orgasm or better, edge forever. I don&amp;rsquo;t know what I am supposed to be &amp;lsquo;watching&amp;rsquo; sometimes. That is the confusing part. The &amp;rsquo;edging&amp;rsquo; and then the orgasm floods my brain. Yet this was supposed to be my way of relaxing and enjoying my “favourite hobby.”&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;To me, one of the tremendous joys of being a non-PMOer is to be freed from that slavery. To be able to enjoy the whole of my life and not spend half of it craving for more and more internet porn and then, when I get to fire up my browser, wishing I didn&amp;rsquo;t have to do it. PMOers should bear in mind that when they see or meet non-PMOers, it is not the self-righteous non-PMOer who is depriving them but their very own “little monster.”&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
+	</item>
+	
+	<item>
+		<title>03-14 What Am I Giving Up?</title>
+		<link>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-14-what-am-i-giving-up/</link>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2022 11:49:35 +0200</pubDate>
+		
+		<guid>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-14-what-am-i-giving-up/</guid>
+		<description>&lt;p&gt;ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! The thing that makes it difficult for us to give up is fear. The fear that we are being deprived of our pleasure or prop. The fear that certain pleasant situations will never be quite the same again. The fear of being unable to cope with stressful situations. In other words, the effect of brainwashing is to delude us into believing that sex and by extension orgasm, is a must for all human beings. Or that there is something inherent in Internet porn that we need and that when we stop PMOing we will be self-denying ourselves and there will be a void.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Get it clear in your mind:&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Internet porn&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;DOES NOT FILL A VOID.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;IT CREATES ONE!&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;These bodies of ours are the most sophisticated objects on this planet. Whether you believe in a creator, a process of natural selection or a combination of both, whatever being or system devised these bodies of ours, it is a thousand times more effective than man! Man cannot create the smallest living cell, let alone the miracle of eyesight, reproduction, our circulatory system or our brains. We don’t have our systems upgraded yet to properly assess the supranormal stimulus such as rich high density food or high speed internet novelty porn with multiple active windows.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;If the creator or process had intended us to handle novelty triggering stimuli, we would have been provided with some other brain reward circuits. Our bodies are, in fact, provided with fail-safe warning devices and we ignore these at our peril. Excessive edging results in body pain, irritation, and inflammation. In women, excessive flooding of dopamine and stress enzymes such as prostaglandin-E2 can cause difficulty to orgasm and PME.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;there-is-nothing-to-give-up&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;There Is Nothing To Give Up&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
+&lt;/div&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The beautiful truth is - there is nothing to give up. Once you purge that little monster from your body and the brainwashing (the big monster) from your mind, you will neither want to masturbate often nor need internet porn for it. PMO destroys your sense of self-control. I don’t think PMOers are self-destructive to continue even after knowing the ill-effects of internet porn. They clearly don’t have suicidal tendencies. They don’t enjoy this slavery themselves. Many of them do it in spite of the fact that they know it causes self-sabotage. You see there must be many unknowns and the medical community has no idea of even questioning and determining someone as an internet porn addict yet. So a lot of reported symptoms are wrongly tagged under other causes. It is not that PMOers are generally stupid people; it is just that they are miserable without the PMO. They are caught between the devil and the deep blue sea. They either have to abstain and be miserable because they cannot PMO or be miserable because they are destroying themselves through PMO and feel guilty and despise themselves for it. When they feel that lower back pain or get PIED, their minds are torn between accepting responsibility and looking the other way.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The problem I have is to make a convincing point as I’d have done for, let us say&amp;hellip; smokers? All of us have seen smokers who develop excuses to sneak off for a crafty puff. It is easy to see the true addiction in action. Addicts do not do it because they enjoy it. They do it because they are miserable without it.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Because many of us started out our first sexual experience that ended in an orgasm and we acquired the belief that we cannot enjoy sex without an orgasm. And for men, porn is sold as an aid towards sex, sometimes even as an education to be confident during the act of sex. It used to be static, but now we have supranormal internet porn. But this is nonsense. Internet porn takes away your confidence.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;women-and-porn&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Women And Porn&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
+&lt;/div&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The greatest evidence of the fear that porn instils is in its effect on women. Practically all women are fastidious about their personal appearance. They wouldn&amp;rsquo;t dream of appearing at a social function not immaculately turned out and smelling beautiful. So why would they fall for internet porn ? The traps were set as either a control trap (I can give up when I want) or an educational trap, or a freedom trap (I am entitled). Feminism has freed women from all the bad patriarchal rules of the past but they still need to be aware of supranormal stimulus such as internet porn.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Porn and internet porn does not help your sex life; it destroys it totally. Having to hide your internet footprints, trying to delete your history, fearing accidental exposure to your boyfriend or kids, body pains, doubtful symptoms, fighting self doubts, arguing with yourself about your responsibilities in the ill effects of your addiction&amp;hellip; well, why do you want to put yourself in such a bad situation?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Not only is there nothing to give up but there are marvellous positive gains to be had. When PMOers contemplate quitting they tend to concentrate on health and virility. These are obviously valid and important issues but I personally believe the greatest gains from stopping are psychological:&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;ol&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;The return of your confidence and courage.&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;Freedom from the slavery.&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;Not to have to go through life suffering the awful black shadows at the back of your mind, knowing you are being despised by half of the population and, worst of all, despising yourself.&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ol&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Not only is life better as a non-PMOer but it is infinitely more enjoyable. I do not only mean you will be healthier. I mean you will be happier and enjoy life far more. The marvellous gains from being a non-PMOer are discussed in the next few chapters. Some PMOers find it difficult to appreciate the concept of the &amp;lsquo;void&amp;rsquo; and the following analogy may assist you.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;void-the-void-the-beautiful-void&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Void, the Void, the Beautiful Void!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
+&lt;/div&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Imagine having a cold sore on your face. I&amp;rsquo;ve got this marvellous ointment. I say to you, “try this stuff.” You rub the ointment on and the sore disappears immediately. A week later it reappears. You ask, “do you have any more of that ointment?” I say, “sure, keep the tube. You might need it again.” You apply the ointment once again. Hey presto, the sore disappears again. But every time the sore returns, it gets larger and more painful and the interval gets shorter and shorter. Eventually the sore covers your whole face and is excruciatingly painful. It is now returning every half hour. You know that the ointment will remove it temporarily, but you are very worried. Will the sore eventually spread over your whole body? Will the interval disappear completely? You go to your doctor. He can&amp;rsquo;t cure it. You try other things but nothing helps except this magical ointment.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;By now you are completely dependent on the ointment. You never go out without ensuring that you have a tube of the ointment with you. If you go abroad, you make sure that you take several tubes with you. Now, in addition to your worries about your health, I&amp;rsquo;m charging you $100 per tube. You have no choice but to pay.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;You then read in the medical column of your newspaper that this isn&amp;rsquo;t happening just to you; many other people have been suffering from the same problem. In fact, pharmacists have discovered that the ointment doesn&amp;rsquo;t actually cure the sore. All that it does is to take the sore beneath the surface of the skin. It is the ointment that has caused the sore to grow. All you have to do to get rid of the sore is to stop using the ointment. The sore will eventually disappear in due course.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Would you continue to use the ointment? Would it take willpower not to use the ointment? If you didn&amp;rsquo;t believe the medical article, there might be a few days of apprehension, but once you realized that the sore was beginning to get better, the need or desire to use the ointment would go, Would you be miserable? Of course you wouldn&amp;rsquo;t. You had an awful problem which you thought was insoluble. Now you&amp;rsquo;ve found the solution. Even if it took a year for that sore to disappear completely, each day, as it improved, you&amp;rsquo;d think. “isn&amp;rsquo;t it marvellous? I&amp;rsquo;m not going to die!” This was the magic that happened to me on my final PMO day. Let me make one point quite clear in the analogy of the sore and the ointment.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The sore isn&amp;rsquo;t lung cancer, or arterial sclerosis, or emphysema, or angina, or chronic asthma, or bronchitis, or coronary heart disease. They are all in addition to the sore. It isn&amp;rsquo;t the body pains, lack of normal lust, flagging arousal, fading penetration, the wasted time spent on lifeless two dimensional images, the times when we felt infringed of our entitlement because we are not allowed to PMO. It isn&amp;rsquo;t the lifetime of being despised by other people who caught you or, worst of all, despising yourself. These are all in addition to the sore.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The sore is what makes us close our minds to all these things. It&amp;rsquo;s that panic feeling of, “I want a fix.” Non-PMOers don&amp;rsquo;t suffer from that feeling. The worst thing we ever suffer from is fear, and the greatest gain you will receive is to be rid of that fear. It was as if a great mist had suddenly lifted from my mind. I could see so clearly that that panic feeling of wanting a porn fix wasn&amp;rsquo;t some sort of weakness in me or some magic quality of internet porn. It was caused by the first PMO session; and each subsequent one - far from relieving the feeling, it was actually causing it.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;At the same time I could see all these other “happy” PMOers - the ones who are blinded by their cunning little porn monsters - were going through the same nightmare that I was. Not as bad as mine yet all putting up phony arguments to try to justify their stupidity.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;IT&amp;rsquo;S SO NICE TO BE FREE!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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+		<title>03-13 Social Night PMOing</title>
+		<link>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-13-social-night-pmoing/</link>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2022 11:47:03 +0200</pubDate>
+		
+		<guid>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-13-social-night-pmoing/</guid>
+		<description>&lt;p&gt;This is a misinformation that seems to make sense but then it does not. In order to have control of eating, will you eat at home before leaving to go to a restaurant or a party? This is what you are doing when you PMO before your social night. You will look tired and will not be up to your best. If you have dating jitters then work on it beforehand and then go with the flow even with some butterflies in your stomach. I like a bit of the anxiety in me to keep me going. Tiring yourself mentally and physically with an orgasm is not going to help you, unless of course you are going to see a prostitute. The goal is entirely different in that angle.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The widespread adoption of pick-up techniques has put pressure on guys to perform, to attract and to ‘score’. You can get knowledge but you should know how to use it. I can guarantee that 100% of the other guys hanging at that bar know exactly what you know. It comes down to the ‘how’ of how you use it when you get the chance. Even before that, there is one very critical thing about any knowledge pertaining to human interactions, that ‘knowledge’ should never force your actions. This is important.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I once masturbated and then poured wine to quiet the butterflies in my stomach before a date. I looked tired after just one hour into the date, the loud noise of the bar, dehydration, excessive self-consciousness (PUA teachings) etc. made my time unenjoyable. Somehow the girl and her friend liked it all. However, I do think it would have been better if I had gone without any props. I ended up being successful by claiming my &amp;lsquo;goal(s)&amp;rsquo; - which I consider unfortunate and as random luck.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The PMO session I had before the date triggered a dopamine flooding and its withdrawal hit around the time I was with the date. I had to over-do my conversation to compensate the ineffective dopamine effects after that earlier orgasm. I am also sure that I was suffering from hypofrontality - where my impulses were failing my controls. That gushing moment, an extra decibel in the tone etc. would easily have given my nervousness to the girls - only if I was not protected by the loud noise in the bar. Why do you want to take chances?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;PMO ceases to relieve the withdrawal pangs that it causes in the first place. That is also why heavy PMOers turn to alcohol or other drugs. But I digress. Social night PMOing is occasioned by two or more of our usual reasons for pleasure/prop seeking, e.g. social functions, parties, weddings, school exams, game night, even business meetings. These are examples of occasions that are both stressful and relaxing. This might at first appear to be a contradiction but it isn&amp;rsquo;t. Any form of socializing can be stressful, even with friends, and at the same time you want to be enjoying yourself and be completely relaxed.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;There are situations where multiple reasons are present at one and the same time. To illustrate I will quote driving as one of these. But driving always involves an element of stress. Your life is at stake. You are also having to concentrate. You may not be aware of the last two factors but the fact that they are subconscious doesn&amp;rsquo;t mean they aren&amp;rsquo;t there. And if you are stuck in a traffic jam or have a long motorway drive, you may also be bored and may have ‘promised’ yourself to a PMO after you reach home.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Another classic example is going on a first date. Especially when you know something about the date before hand like their profile from an online dating site. Your mind is throwing questions back and forth. If she is a 10 and in that vicinity or if the date is from another race which is socially ‘perceived’ as a couple of levels above your race then it gets even noisier in your head. Then the surprise to meet the person in flesh, first the looks, then the voice, then the mannerisms. Expectations determine the level of interest you have for her from there on. If your enthusiasm starts to flag you will start to feel too relaxed but then you feel guilty for feeling too relaxed. The tug of war has started. I want sex or get me out of here ASAP - I know where to get it. That will lead you to the next stage of post-date PMOing.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Even if the date went fine and hours later you are at her door and which ever way it goes, you will not be satisfied if your goal is fully on the orgasm-seek. At other times, you drive home alone and all you want to do is to go to your online harem instead of patting yourself on the back for your efforts and enjoying yourself.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;You can bet that this unfortunate guy is going to PMO after he reaches home. It is often after nights like these, when we wake to feel the uneasy emptiness, are often the special ones, the ones that we think we&amp;rsquo;ll miss the most when we are contemplating stopping PMOing. We think that life will never be quite as enjoyable again. In fact, it is the same principle at work: these PMO sessions simply provide relief from withdrawal pangs and at certain times we have greater need to relieve them than at others. You had ended up ‘greasing’ the neural ‘waterslides’ in your brain and made it ready to slide again on the next cue.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Let us make it quite clear. It is not the internet porn and the harem dwellers that are special; it is the occasion. Once we have removed the need for the PMO, such occasions will become more enjoyable and the stressful situations less stressful. This will be explained in greater detail in the next chapter.&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
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+		<title>03-12 Relaxation</title>
+		<link>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-12-relaxation/</link>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2022 11:44:10 +0200</pubDate>
+		
+		<guid>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-12-relaxation/</guid>
+		<description>&lt;p&gt;Most PMOers think that PMO helps to relax them. The truth is that internet porn used in PMO acts like a chemical stimulant. The frantic search to get the fix in those “dark alleys of the internet” and the internal struggle to reign in the dog straining at its leash for more shocking clips does not sound much like an activity of relaxation to me.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;One of the favourite PMO sessions for most is the one after a trip to a new place or after along day. As the night rolls in we stop working; we sit down and relax, relieve our hunger and thirst and are then completely satisfied. However, the poor PMOer cannot relax, as he has another hunger to satisfy. He thinks of the PMO as the icing on the cake but it is the &amp;rsquo;little monster&amp;rsquo; that needs feeding.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The truth is that the addict can never be completely relaxed and as you go through life it gets worse. The most stressed people on this planet aren&amp;rsquo;t non-PMOers but those young men and women who have a need to hunt (with the misunderstood goal of orgasm) and their ignorance of and/or low opinion of amative sex. Women who have subscribed to “I must orgasm” teachings are not even aware of the victim they have made of themselves. At this point any sex that leads to climax and orgasm cease to relieve even partially the symptoms that they have created.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I can remember when I was bringing up a family. If my child would do something wrong I would quickly lose my temper to an extent that was out of all proportion to what he had done.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;My partner was “always frigid and not interested in sex.” Now I realize that if I had only tried the amative side of things then maybe I could have relieved myself of a great measure of stress at least - if not at me, I am sure she would have. One online comment&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;“I really believed that I had an evil demon in my make-up. I now know that I had, however it wasn&amp;rsquo;t some inherent flaw in my character but the little internet porn monster that was creating the problem. During those times I thought I had all the problems in the world but when I look back on my life I wonder where all the great stress was. In everything else in my life I was in control. The one thing that controlled me was this porn slavery. The sad thing is that even today I can&amp;rsquo;t convince my children that it was the slavery that caused me to be so irritable.”&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Every time I hear a porn addict trying to justify his addiction the message is, “Oh, it calms me. It helps me to relax.”&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;On the Internet I read about a single dad whose 6 year old son would want to share his bed sometimes in the night after a scary movie yet the dad would refuse under some pretence so he can have his PMO session and edge for hours.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Let me try a smoking analogy here&amp;hellip; a couple of years ago, the adoption authorities threatened to prevent smokers from adopting children. A man rang up, irate. He said, “you are completely wrong. I can remember when I was a child, if I had a contentious matter to raise with my mother, I would wait until she lit a cigarette because she was more relaxed then.” Why couldn&amp;rsquo;t he talk to his mother when she wasn&amp;rsquo;t smoking a cigarette?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Why are PMOers so stressd when they are not getting their fix, even after a real sex with a real woman? I read about a guy who has 9&amp;rsquo;s and 10&amp;rsquo;s open for dating with him as he was in the advertising field. I am talking about dinner and stuff only - but he lost interest in those dinners as his Internet porn is far more ‘easy’ for him - no restaurant spending and no hearing a ‘no’ from his date at the end of an evening. Why would he bother when his little monster tells him about the low-risk high-reward scheme called PMO that is at his fingertips when he reaches home? Those real girls sure have competition.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Why are non-PMOers completely relaxed then? Why are PMOers not able to relax without a fix for a day or two? If you read about the experience of a PMOer taking the abstinence oath and quitting and you notice his struggle with the temptations. You can clearly see that they are not relaxed at all when they are not allowed to have the ‘only pleasure’ they are “entitled to enjoy.” They&amp;rsquo;ve forgotten what it feels like to be completely relaxed. That&amp;rsquo;s one of the many joys you have to come. The whole business of PMOing can be likened to a fly being caught in a pitcher plant. To begin with, the fly is eating the nectar. At some imperceptible stage the plant begins to eat the fly.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Isn&amp;rsquo;t it time you climbed out of that plant?&lt;/p&gt;
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+		<title>03-11 Concentration</title>
+		<link>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-11-concentration/</link>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2022 11:42:13 +0200</pubDate>
+		
+		<guid>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-11-concentration/</guid>
+		<description>&lt;p&gt;Sex and masturbation do not help concentration. That is just another illusion. When you are trying to concentrate, you automatically try to avoid distractions. So when a PMOer wants to concentrate he doesn&amp;rsquo;t even have to think about it. He automatically PMOs, partially ending the craving, gets on with the matter in hand and has already forgotten that he just PMOed. Sex in general do not help concentration. After years of masturbation your brain changes affect abilities such as assessing, planning and impulse control. The PMOer is already suffering: that little monster wants his fix.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;You are also stressed to provide novelty for the next PMO session as the same stuff will not generate enough dopamine and opioids. You have to “roam the internet streets” for novelty - all the while fighting the pull to cross the line towards shock. This creates more stress. After you orgasm, you feel unfulfilled as well.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Concentration is also affected adversely for another reason. Your dopamine receptors have already started to get reduced by building up natural tolerance to these large surges, reducing the benefit of the smaller dopamine boosts from natural de-stressors.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;In fact, your concentration and inspiration will be greatly improved as this process is reversed. For some it will be the concentration aspect that prevents them from succeeding when using the willpower method. They could put up with the irritability and bad temper but when they really needed to concentrate on something difficult they have to have that porn fix. I can well remember the panic I felt when I discovered that the hotel has no internet connection and I had this huge presentation the day after.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The loss of concentration that PMOers suffer when they try to escape is not, in fact, due to your abstinence from sex, let alone PMO. When you are addicted to something, you have mental blocks. When you have such a block, what do you do? You fire up the browser. That doesn&amp;rsquo;t cure the mental block, so then what do you do? You do what you have to do: you get on with it, just as non-PMOers do.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;When you are a PMOer nothing gets blamed on the cause. PMOers never have EDs; they just have an occasional down time. The moment you stop using, everything that goes wrong in your life is blamed on the fact that you&amp;rsquo;ve stopped. Now when you have a mental block, instead of just getting on with it, you start to say, “if only I could check out my favourites now, it would solve my problem.” You then start to question your decision to quit and escape from this slavery.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;If you believe that PMOing is a genuine aid to concentration, worrying about it will guarantee that you won&amp;rsquo;t be able to concentrate. It&amp;rsquo;s the doubting, not the physical withdrawal pangs, that causes the problem. Always remember: it is PMOer who suffers pangs and not non-PMOers. When I quit I went overnight from using everyday to zero without any apparent loss of concentration.&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
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+		<title>03-10 Boredom</title>
+		<link>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-10-boredom/</link>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2022 11:40:46 +0200</pubDate>
+		
+		<guid>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-10-boredom/</guid>
+		<description>&lt;p&gt;As soon as you get into your bed - and if you are like many people you are already on your favorite tube site - you will probably have already forgotten about it until I reminded you. It has become second nature. Another fallacy about PMOing is that it relieves boredom. Boredom is a frame of mind. The only time that happens is when you have been deprived for a long time or are trying to cut down, or during those first few PMO sessions after a failed attempt to stop.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The true situation is this: when you are addicted to internet porn’s supranormal novelty and then you decide to abstain from internet porn, there is something missing. If you have something to occupy your mind that isn&amp;rsquo;t stressful, you can go for long periods without being bothered by the absence of the drug. However, when you are bored there&amp;rsquo;s nothing to take your mind off it, so you feed the monster. When you are indulging yourself (i.e. not trying to stop or cut down), even firing up your incognito browser becomes subconscious. The PMOer can perform this ritual automatically. If any PMOer tries to remember the session during the last week, he can only remember a small proportion of them - e.g. the very last one or after a long abstinence.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The truth is that PMOing tend to increase boredom indirectly because orgasms make you feel lethargic and instead of undertaking some energetic activity, PMOers tend to prefer lounge around, bored, relieving their withdrawal pangs. This is why countering the brainwashing is so important. Because it&amp;rsquo;s a fact that PMOers tend to masturbate when they are bored and that we&amp;rsquo;re wired to interpret PMO as interesting. It doesn&amp;rsquo;t occur to us to question the fact how a two dimensional supranormal stimulus relieves boredom.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;We&amp;rsquo;ve also been brainwashed into believing that sex - even a bad sex - aids relaxation. It is a fact that when under stress or sad, couples want to have sex. In the absence of discrimination between amative and propagative sex, the goal is set to achieve orgasms by hook or by crook. Next time you do this watch how you both want to get away from each other as soon as it’s over. It is obvious that if they had just decided to cuddle, speak, hug and touch each other and go to sleep without the mandatory orgasms, the couple would have felt relieved. Well, if in the process, they wanted to have the propagative part then by all means they can but that is a topic not meant to be discussed in this book.&lt;/p&gt;
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+		<title>03-09 Stress</title>
+		<link>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-09-stress/</link>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2022 11:38:59 +0200</pubDate>
+		
+		<guid>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-09-stress/</guid>
+		<description>&lt;p&gt;I am referring not only to the great tragedies of life but also to the minor stresses, the socializing, the telephone call, the anxieties of the housewife with noisy young children and so on. Let us use the telephone conversation as an example. For most people the telephone is slightly stressful, particularly for the businessman. Most calls aren&amp;rsquo;t from satisfied customers or your boss congratulating you. There&amp;rsquo;s usually some sort of aggravation - something going wrong or somebody making demands. Then he or she comes home to the mundane family life of kids screaming and wife&amp;rsquo;s emotional demands on you. His already PMO weakened de-stressors are in no way ready to take the aggravation. At that time the PMOer, if he isn&amp;rsquo;t already doing so, will fantasize the relief of internet porn that he promised himself that night. He will even allow himself to “take one step more” into the ‘forbidden’ area that he had previously self-excluded. He doesn&amp;rsquo;t know why he does this but he does know that for some reason it appears to help.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;What has actually happened is this: without being conscious of it, he has already been suffering aggravation (i.e. the withdrawal pangs). By partially relieving that aggravation at the same time as normal stress, the total stress is reduced and the PMOer gets a boost. At this point the boost is not, in fact, an illusion. The Internet porn user will feel better than before. However, even when using porn to masturbate he or she is more tense than if he were a non-PMOer because the more you go into the drug, the more it knocks you down and the less it restores you when you masturbate. I promised no shock treatment. In the example I am about to give, I am not trying to shock you, I am merely emphasizing that PMO destroy your nerves rather than relax them.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Try to imagine getting to the stage where you cannot get aroused even with a very sexy and attractive partner. Just for a moment pause and try to visualize life where one very lovely and charming woman has to compete and fail with all the virtual porn stars who are in your &amp;lsquo;harem&amp;rsquo; to get your attention! Try to imagine the frame of mind of a man who, issued with that warning, actually continues PMOing and then dies without ever having had real sex with this charming and willing real woman. I had read real life stories like that from men and dismissed them as weirdos. In fact, I used to wish a doctor would tell me that this weird condition would happen if I continue PMO; then I would have stopped. Yet I was already fully expecting that PIED and hypofrontality where I am guaranteed to lose in a brain war. I didn&amp;rsquo;t think of myself as an impotent, just a heavy PMOer. Now, let’s talk about the stress that this is putting on me.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Such weird stories as the above are not fakes. That is what this awful ‘novelty’ porn drug does to you. As you go through life, it systematically takes away your nerve and courage. The more it takes your courage away, the more you are deluded into believing the porn is doing the opposite.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Have you ever been overtaken by panic when you are out on business travel and the hotel WiFi is down or too slow? Non-PMOers do not suffer from it. The internet porn drug causes that feeling. At the same time, as you go through life, PMO not only destroys your nerves but keeps building a powerful neural ‘water slide’, DeltaFosB, progressively destroying your ability to say no.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;By the time the PMOer reaches the stage at which it has killed his virility, he believes the PMO is his new girlfriend and cannot face life without it. Get it clear in your head that Internet porn is not relieving your nerves; it is slowly but steadily destroying them. One of the great gains of breaking the ‘habit’ is the return of your natural confidence and self-assurance.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;There is no need to self-rate based on your ability to get hard or to satisfy a woman. However, you do ‘know’ deep inside that this is slavery. It is not freedom. And that freedom cannot be achieved by continuing to ‘grease’ - repeating the same behaviour and energizing the ‘water slide’ neural pathways of your brain in ways that undercut your happiness in general and not to mention your libido.&lt;/p&gt;
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+		<title>03-08 Relieving Withdrawal Pangs</title>
+		<link>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-08-relieving-withdrawal-pangs/</link>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2022 11:36:16 +0200</pubDate>
+		
+		<guid>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-08-relieving-withdrawal-pangs/</guid>
+		<description>&lt;p&gt;As I explained earlier, PMOers think they do it for enjoyment, relaxation or some sort of education. In fact, this an illusion. The actual reason is the relief of withdrawal pangs. In the early days we use the porn as a curious and novel thing or even educational or as a rebel. We can take it or leave it. However, the subtle chain has started. Our subconscious mind begins to learn that internet porn and masturbation taken at certain times tends to be pleasurable. The more we become hooked on the drug, the greater the need to relieve the withdrawal pangs and the further the PMO drags you down and the more you are fooled into believing it is doing the opposite. It all happens so slowly, so gradually, you are not even aware of it. Each day you feel no different from the day before. Most young PMOers don&amp;rsquo;t even realize they are hooked until they actually try to stop and even then many won&amp;rsquo;t admit to it. A few stalwarts just keep their heads in the sand all their lives,trying to convince themselves and other people that they enjoy it.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Listen to this conversation a therapist had with hundreds of teenagers.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;TH: “You realize that internet porn is a drug and that the only reason why you are using is that you cannot stop.”&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;PA: “Nonsense! I enjoy it. If I didn&amp;rsquo;t, I would stop.”&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;TH: “Just stop for a week to prove to me you can if you want to.”&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;PA: “No need. I enjoy it. If I wanted to stop, I would.”&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;TH: “Just stop for a week to prove to yourself you are not hooked.”&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;PA: “What&amp;rsquo;s the point? I enjoy it.”&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;As already stated, PMOers tend to relieve their withdrawal pangs at times of stress, boredom, concentration, relaxation or a combination of these. This point is explained in greater detail in the next few chapters.&lt;/p&gt;
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+		<title>03-07 Brainwashing and the Primitive Mechanism</title>
+		<link>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-07-brainwashing-and-the-primitive-mechanism/</link>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2022 08:39:02 +0200</pubDate>
+		
+		<guid>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-07-brainwashing-and-the-primitive-mechanism/</guid>
+		<description>&lt;p&gt;How or why do we start PMOing in the first place? To understand this fully you need to examine the powerful effect of the supernormal stimulus. We all tend to think we are intelligent, dominant human beings determining our paths through life. We act and act frequently when our brain reward circuit are rewarded. Nobel laureate Nikolaas Tinbergen coined the term “supranormal stimulus.” He said mammals could be tricked into preferring fake eggs and mates. Female birds, for example, struggled to sit on larger-than life, vividly spotted plaster eggs while their own pale, dappled eggs perished untended.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The stimulation here in internet porn is not it brings stimulating actors and themes to your home - it is a genie at your bidding to create a harem in your mind. You can switch between genres and theme, home-made and viewer rated, commented and discussed, so rapid and so easy. We absolutely are not ready for the high speed internet porn and our brains are not designed to handle this supranormal stimuli.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;We can have an ‘information overload’ from the same internet but our reward circuits are not going to squirt dopamine at the levels when ‘porn overload’ is involved. We are evolutionarily programmed to seek and access sex related stuff. And we wrongly appraise the stimulus mostly based on this reward circuit action. If all you wanted is to masturbate why can’t you just use one clip and get the business done?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Here is another question - next time after a long day or some stressful incident can you consciously embellish your self-talk with “Do you know what I would really enjoy today? The marvellous warm glow of dopamine rush going to my online harem.” You will find that even people who dislike PMO will join you.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;past-misguided-advice&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Past Misguided Advice&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
+&lt;/div&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;There was much misguided advice given in the past and one is that masturbating will lead to blindness. And there are some other scare tactics that clearly over-did it. It is right that those notions were overthrown by science. But now the mainstream threw the baby out with the bath water. TV programs, pop music, literature and movies all subtly show shambolic characters using porn or masturbation. They knowingly or unknowingly mix porn, sex, internet porn, masturbation and orgasm.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;From our earliest years our subconscious minds are bombarded daily with information telling us that sex is good and that the most precious thing on this earth is to ‘achieve’ orgasm. Girls are taught to achieve it and claim it&amp;rsquo;s because they were wrongly suppressed of their sexual side for a very long time and still are. You think I exaggerate? Watch any TV or movie plot and you will see the mix-up of the amative (touch, smell, voice etc.) and the propagative (orgasmic) sides of sex. The impact of this does not register on our conscious minds but the sleeping partner, the subconscious mind, has time to absorb it. What the message is really saying is, “The most precious thing on this earth, my last thought and action, will be the goal of orgasm.” If you don’t have an orgasm then you are an old man with zero libido.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Our children are being bombarded by sex and porn clips and many don’t even know how to protect them from it all. Large hoardings and magazine adverts are loaded with sexual innuendo. Some of the pop videos are extremely suggestive - again they hide behind free speech. Don’t be vexed and feel powerless about it. Make it a game and find you which of the components they are using - is it novelty, shock value, color, size, taboo etc. If the kids are pre-teen some of these can be disclosed to them and it would make an excellent show-and-tell game.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;A while back there was a wave of ‘leaked’ private videos of celebrities on the internet. If the youngster is too smitten by their favourite star, even if the conscious mind blames the ‘leak’ on the blood thirsty internet paparazzi, the &amp;lsquo;sleeping partner&amp;rsquo; is patiently digesting the notion that, “yes, even my shambolic hero does it and if I don’t, I won’t look the part.”&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;the-scientific-reasoning&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Scientific Reasoning&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
+&lt;/div&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;True, there is publicity the other way - the PIED scares, the loss of motivation, preferring virtual porn to real girls, YBOP&lt;sup id=&#34;fnref:1&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#fn:1&#34; class=&#34;footnote-ref&#34; role=&#34;doc-noteref&#34;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;, Reboot&lt;sup id=&#34;fnref:2&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#fn:2&#34; class=&#34;footnote-ref&#34; role=&#34;doc-noteref&#34;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; forums, underground PUA&lt;sup id=&#34;fnref:3&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#fn:3&#34; class=&#34;footnote-ref&#34; role=&#34;doc-noteref&#34;&gt;3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;, the no FAP movement - but these do not actually stop people PMOing. Logically they should, but the fact is they do not. They would not even prevent youngsters from starting no matter how much the YBOP guys try. All the years that I remained a PMOer, I can honestly say, even if I had read all of them before, I would never have become a quitter. The truth is that it doesn&amp;rsquo;t make the slightest bit of difference. The trap is the same today as when you fell into it.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Ironically, the most powerful force in this melee of confusion is the PMOer himself. It is a fallacy that they are weak-willed or are physically weak specimens. You have to be physically strong in order to cope with an addiction after you know it is. This is one of the reasons why PMOers refuse to accept the overwhelming statistics that prove that internet porn with its ‘novelty’ cripples your brain. Add to that the sexologists who are doing half-baked studies and declare PMO is not an issue - they just help to add to the confusion.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Everyone knows a friend who PMOed every day - he started with the ‘static’ to internet porn, always horny in real life, chasing girls and you never doubted him to have sex problems of course. You want to believe him. He never complained about any ED right? Guys and girls like them refuse even to consider the hundreds of ex-addicts and non-PMOers who painfully recount their difficulties. It is the “little monster” brain chemical addiction and the “big monster” - illusions and delusions. In this hackbook, I&amp;rsquo;ve put together almost all the sorts of brainwashing a PMOer can suffer from. There will always be a few out there that I haven&amp;rsquo;t touched upon.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Even more painful is they think of themselves as unsuccessful losers and insufferable introverts. A possible fact is that a PMO friend could have been more interesting in person if he hadn’t put himself down for seeking self-pleasure.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;If you do a small survey among your online forum members, friends and colleagues, you will find that most PMOers are, in fact, strong-willed people. They tend to be self-employed, business executives or in certain specialized professions, such as doctors&lt;sup id=&#34;fnref:4&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#fn:4&#34; class=&#34;footnote-ref&#34; role=&#34;doc-noteref&#34;&gt;4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;, lawyers, policemen, teachers, salesmen, nurses, secretaries, housewives with children, etc. In other words, anybody leading a stressful existence. Yes, I did include women and mothers. It’s the brain and it’s the same for them too. The main delusion of the PMOer is that porn helps to masturbate to orgasm and that relieves stress. This tends to be associated with the dominant type, the type that takes on responsibility and stress and, of course, that is the type that we admire and therefore tend to copy. Another group that tends to get hooked are people in monotonous jobs because the other main reason for PMOing is boredom. However, the idea that internet porn relieves boredom is also an illusion, I am afraid.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;As a society we get all uptight about glue-sniffing, heroin addiction, etc. Actual deaths from glue-sniffing do not amount to ten per annum, and deaths from heroin are less than a hundred a year in this country. There is another drug, internet porn, on which over 45 per cent of us become hooked at some time in our lives and the majority spend the rest of their lives regretting it. Some even don’t know that their ED is due to this.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;the-willpower-method&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Willpower Method&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
+&lt;/div&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;PMOers who quit using the Willpower method blame their own lack of willpower and ruin their peace and happiness. It is one thing to fail in self-discipline and another to self-loathe. There is no law that requires you to get fully hard all the time before sex, and to be properly aroused, and that you must be able to satisfy a woman. We are working on an addiction and not a habit. Habit is something you like to do- for example, golf - at no point you are arguing with yourself to stop golfing? But you do so with your porn addiction. The real question is: why?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Constant exposure to internet porn re-wires your brain. You need to start building resistance to this brainwashing, just as if you were buying a car from a second-hand car dealer. You would be nodding politely but you would not believe a word the man was saying. So don’t believe everything they say either - that you must have sex as much as you can and you must have it exceptional good. And that in the absence of real sex you claim it by the substitute called internet porn - which is only a component of the good old porn.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;And don’t play ‘safe’ porn game either - because your “little porn monster” invented that scheme to lure you. Even the content - ‘amateur’? Really? Is there a certification authority that certifies it? Tube sites and porn producers gather site visitor profiles and cater to their needs. If they see a trend in crowd sourced collection of a particular genre they will focus on that and get content out ASAP. The statistics of what genre users like is collected to the level of how long and which portion the users were preferring. Do not be fooled by their educational intent or the safe female oriented clips (for you ladies). Start asking yourself:&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;ul&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;Why am I doing it?&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;Do I really need to?&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NO, OF COURSE YOU DON&amp;rsquo;T.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I find this brainwashing aspect the most difficult of all to explain. Why is it that an otherwise rational, intelligent human being becomes a complete imbecile about his own addiction? It pains me to confess that out of the thousands of people that I have assisted in kicking the habit, I (not Allen Carr) was the biggest idiot of all.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;At the age of thirteen, although I was doing well at school and games, I was still an insufferable introvert. I read books from the library that were not within my main study list. However, I can see that I was attracted to erotica. I started masturbating to TV programs, song and dance sequences etc. I must have to have it every day. The tired feeling I felt was misappropriated by my ‘little porn monster’ as work stress. I didn’t know my “I-must-masturbate-as-I-am-entitled” attitude was the one that created the ‘stress’ in the first place. Then I got pictures and GIFs via email on my laptop - the first step towards electronic porn. The colour and texture of the images were amazing for me at that time - won’t be now for sure. Then came dial-up but still they were predominantly static pictures. Then came downloadable videos. It’s a pain to download and watch now - but it was heaven sent then as we were coming out of the static porn era! Oh, the streaming tube sites haven’t arrived yet.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;when-real-sex-is-not-enough-anymore&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;When Real Sex Is Not Enough Anymore&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
+&lt;/div&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I even remember opening up my laptop after having real sex (an activity I did due to stress induced by my own irrational rigid self demands to make her orgasm) and I was wanting more. Obviously the prospect of orgasm providing fulfilment rarely happens after prolonged porn use. So, my mind was reaching out to porn.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;At the age of forty, I was visiting my online harem daily, drinking ‘socially’ (whatever that means) and smoking ‘sometimes’ but not so often. I had wrongly subscribed to misguided ideas of ‘moderation’ and ‘entitlement’. I had reached the stage where I couldn&amp;rsquo;t get through a single day without reaching out to porn in the night. With most PMOers, the triggers are the normal stresses of life, like answering the telephone or socializing.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;When I experienced PIED - I knew it was killing my virility. There was no way I could kid myself otherwise. I am smart enough not to ‘project’ the porn fantasies on to real life. But it was like pacifying a dog straining at its leash. But why I couldn&amp;rsquo;t see what it was doing to me mentally, I could not understand. It was almost jumping up and biting me on the nose. The ridiculous thing is that most PMOers suffer the delusion at some time in their life that they enjoy internet porn because it is ‘normal’ and ‘healthy’. I never suffered that delusion, I PMOed because I thought enjoying sex is a ‘birthright’ and I am only doing a normal thing.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Since it was easier at most times for me to get internet porn than a partner I thought I am doing the normal thing. Now I am a non-PMOer, the most difficult part is trying to believe that those days actually happened. It&amp;rsquo;s like awakening from a nightmare and that is about the size of it. Internet porn is a supranormal drug. It is weakening your de-stressing mechanisms, your virility and your energy. The worst aspect of PMO isn&amp;rsquo;t the injury to your health or manliness, it is the warping of the mind. You search for any plausible excuse to go on.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I remember at one stage switching to static images, a failed attempt to cut down on internet porn, in the belief that it was less harmful and I could reign in my ‘habit’. I failed to see the ‘novelty’ and the ‘shock’ demands from my ‘little monster’ to just get more dopamine. Did I ‘stay’ within my boundaries? I ‘favorited’ 2 dimensional photos and my harem collection saw pictures and videos of ‘mild’ type porn rotating in and out like musical chair. When their ‘music’ stopped they ‘exited’. I didn’t understand the novelty-seeking, shock-seeking nature of my brain.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;pied-and-my-excuses&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PIED And My Excuses&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
+&lt;/div&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Once I figured I had PIED, as it had occurred multiple times with two different partners, I switched to more and more sophisticated masturbation. I practised with different artificial vaginas. They are sold as strength training. However, the combo of internet porn and toys needs deft hands, which is off-putting. Besides, by this time I was at the stage of orgasming with a limp member. All I wanted is an orgasm so I did not care about arousal, getting hard and all that. I had a long distance married girlfriend - who likes to share and talk about her sex life in very explicit manner. It turned me on so much that I’d masturbate to orgasm when I am on the phone with her. She knew it and would play with me by cutting off abruptly - to keep me hanging there - making me wanting more when she calls the next time. She had no trouble because I was fully willing to be the subject of playing such games, as long as it led to orgasm. A girl knows when a guy is seeking orgasm and it is his only goal. The only redeeming factor about me was my intelligence and empathy which kept her and my other partners coming back to me.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Most PMOers swear that they only watch static and soft porn and so they are OK. They are actually straining at the leash and thus fighting with their willpower to resist temptations. If they do this too often and for too long they will debit their willpower considerably and fail in other life projects where willpower is of much great value, like in daily exercise, dieting etc. Continuous failure in those areas will make them feel miserable and guilty and very soon they will find themselves back to their entitled relief. If not, they will vent their anger and depression onto their loved ones.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The answer is that once you have become addicted to internet porn, the brainwashing is increased. Your subconscious mind knows that the little monster has to be fed and you block everything else from your mind. As I have already stated, it is fear that keeps people quitting, the fear of that empty, insecure feeling that you get when you stop supplying the brain with dopamine flooding. Just because you are not aware of it doesn&amp;rsquo;t mean it isn&amp;rsquo;t there. You don&amp;rsquo;t have to understand it any more than a cat needs to understand where the under-floor hot-water pipes are. It just knows that if it sits in a certain place it gets the feeling of warmth.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;the-passivity-of-our-mind&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Passivity Of Our Mind&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
+&lt;/div&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;It is the passivity of our minds and dependency on authority leading to brainwashing that is the main difficulty in giving up PMO. The brainwashing of our upbringing in society reinforced with the brainwashing from our own addiction and, most powerful of all, the brainwashing of our friends, relatives and colleagues. Did you notice that up to now I&amp;rsquo;ve frequently referred to &amp;lsquo;giving up&amp;rsquo; PMO, I used the expression at the beginning of the previous paragraph. This is a classic example of the brainwashing. The expression implies a genuine sacrifice. The beautiful truth is that there is absolutely nothing to give up. On the contrary, you will be freeing yourself from a terrible disease and achieving marvellous positive gains. We are going to start removing this brainwashing now. From this point on, no longer will we refer to &amp;lsquo;giving up&amp;rsquo;, but to stopping, quitting or the true position: &lt;strong&gt;ESCAPING!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The only thing that persuades us to PMO in the first place is all the other people doing it. We feel we are missing out. We work so hard to become hooked, yet nobody ever finds out what they have been missing. But every time we see another new video clip it reassures us that there must be something in it, otherwise people wouldn&amp;rsquo;t be doing it - and it wouldn&amp;rsquo;t be such big business all over the world. Even when he has kicked the habit, the ex-PMOer feels he is being deprived when a discussion on a sexy entertainer, singer or even a porn star comes up at a party or other social function. She or he must be good to have all my friends talk about them, no? Do they have ‘hot’ pictures of her in my tube site? He feels safe. He can have just one ‘peek’ that night. And, before he knows it, he is hooked again.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;This brainwashing is extremely powerful and you need to be aware of its effects. I have heard scare stories about wicked men giving heroin mixed candies to kids at schoolyards. The concept of addiction and being compelled to go on taking the drug, filled me with horror. Even to this day, in spite of the fact that I am fairly convinced that &amp;lsquo;pot&amp;rsquo; is not addictive, I would not dare take one puff of marijuana. How ironic that I should have ended up a porn junky. Technology will continue to grow and we will have even faster tube sites and more faster access methods. The industry is investing millions in Virtual Reality so it will become the next best thing. The point is, do we know where we are going? Are we equipped with an under armour of defence so we can enjoy the benefits of technology yet at the same time protect ourselves from its bad effects?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;We are about to remove the brainwashing. It is not the non-PMOer who is being deprived but the poor user who is forfeiting a lifetime of:&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;ul&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HEALTH&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ENERGY&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WEALTH&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PEACE OF MIND&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CONFIDENCE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;COURAGE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SELF-RESPECT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HAPPINESS&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;FREEDOM&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;And what does he gain from these considerable sacrifices? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! Except the illusion of trying to get back to the state of peace, tranquillity and confidence that the non-PMOer enjoys all the time.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;div class=&#34;footnotes&#34; role=&#34;doc-endnotes&#34;&gt;
+&lt;hr&gt;
+&lt;ol&gt;
+&lt;li id=&#34;fn:1&#34;&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;YBOP&lt;/strong&gt; - yourbrainonporn.com, the leading internet porn addiction awareness site.&amp;#160;&lt;a href=&#34;#fnref:1&#34; class=&#34;footnote-backref&#34; role=&#34;doc-backlink&#34;&gt;&amp;#x21a9;&amp;#xfe0e;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li id=&#34;fn:2&#34;&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PUA&lt;/strong&gt; - pickup artist. Someone who teaches men to pick up mates.&amp;#160;&lt;a href=&#34;#fnref:2&#34; class=&#34;footnote-backref&#34; role=&#34;doc-backlink&#34;&gt;&amp;#x21a9;&amp;#xfe0e;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li id=&#34;fn:3&#34;&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reboot forum&lt;/strong&gt; - online resource for those who try temporary abstinence.&amp;#160;&lt;a href=&#34;#fnref:3&#34; class=&#34;footnote-backref&#34; role=&#34;doc-backlink&#34;&gt;&amp;#x21a9;&amp;#xfe0e;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li id=&#34;fn:4&#34;&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Doctors&lt;/strong&gt; - there is a reddit online forum for medical doctors who are quitting.&amp;#160;&lt;a href=&#34;#fnref:4&#34; class=&#34;footnote-backref&#34; role=&#34;doc-backlink&#34;&gt;&amp;#x21a9;&amp;#xfe0e;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ol&gt;
+&lt;/div&gt;
+</description>
+	</item>
+	
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 		<title>03-06 Internet Porn</title>
 		<link>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-06-internet-porn/</link>
@@ -21,7 +449,7 @@ action more happy feelings.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;So the first time you see porn - dopamine injects itself - you act - you orgasm. All of which will now be stored as a script in your brain for easy access next time. I call this a ‘water slide’. Next time at the cue - a sexy commercial or alone time or stress or feeling a little down - you are ready to take a ride on the ‘water slide’. One more thing is that every time to repeat this you are ‘greasing’ it as well - so it is active, alive and more easier to slide the next time.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;As time passes you are most probably not excited as before of the same clip - the reason will be explained shortly - but of similar type, genre, shock-level, our dopamine seeps into the brain but this time lesser than before. Now you feel less arousal, lesser motivation. This low motivation feeling in itself will trigger a feeling of lower satisfaction as our minds engage in constant rating. Then you seek more motivation. Then you ask for more novelty. Then you click on that amateurish, ugly looking, low quality, but high shock valued clip thumbnail which you had confidently said you won’t on your first time.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My Own Online Harem!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;my-own-online-harem&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My Own Online Harem!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;This cycle of novelty, escalation, satiation, desensitization etc. is not the same as the old porn magazine? Neither can you do that in real life with your partner. Maybe if you own a harem? One of the pros of owning a harem is novelty and the cons are desensitization, escalation and of course the cost.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;Going back to the earlier discussion - in this cycle as you crossed the ‘red line’ you also trigger emotions such as guilt, disgust, embarrassment, anxiety and fear - which in turn raise dopamine levels as well. Now the brain may mistakenly associate feelings of anxiety and fear as sexual arousal. This perpetual cycle is only broken by natural causes - fortunately sooner or later. With its free access and privacy it provides boundless harem-like novelty. The dopamine can be theoretically kept very high for a very very long time. I can be satisfied with one lobster once in awhile. But Internet porn is different. It is even worse than drugs. Don’t let me make you nervous. I will shortly show you how to be free from this slavery.&lt;/p&gt;
@@ -36,13 +464,13 @@ action more happy feelings.&lt;/p&gt;
 use?&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;This dopamine flooding, like a quick-acting drug, falls quickly to induce withdrawal pangs. I must at this point dispel a common illusion that PMOers have about withdrawal pangs. They think that withdrawal pangs are the terrible trauma they suffer when they try or are forced to stop PMOing. These are, in fact, mainly mental; the user is feeling deprived of his pleasure or prop. I will explain more about this later.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Little Monster&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;the-little-monster&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Little Monster&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;The actual pangs of withdrawal from PMO are so subtle that most users have lived and died without even realizing they are like drug addicts. When we use the term ‘porn addict&amp;rsquo; we think we just &amp;lsquo;got into the habit&amp;rsquo;. Most PMOers have a horror of drugs, yet that&amp;rsquo;s exactly what they are - drug addicts. Fortunately it is an easy drug to kick, but you need first to accept that you are addicted. There is no physical pain in the withdrawal from PMO. It is merely an empty, restless feeling, the feeling of something missing, which is why many think it is something to do with their hands. If it is prolonged, the user becomes nervous, insecure, agitated, lacking in confidence and irritable. It is like hunger - for a poison, INTERNET PORN.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;Within seconds of engaging in PMO the dopamine is supplied and the craving ends, resulting in the feeling of fulfilment and pleasure that the action gives to the PMOer. In the early days, when we first start PMOing, the withdrawal pangs and their relief are so slight that we are not even aware that they exist. When we begin to masturbate regularly to internet porn we think it is because we&amp;rsquo;ve either come to enjoy them or got into the &amp;lsquo;habit&amp;rsquo;. The truth is we&amp;rsquo;re already hooked; we do not realize it, but that little monster is already inside our stomach and every now and again we have to feed it.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;All PMOers start seeking porn for stupid reasons. Nobody has to. The only reason why anybody continues PMOing, whether they be a casual or a heavy user, is to feed that little monster. The whole business of porn and PMO is a series of confusing conundrums. All sufferers of PMO know at heart that they are fools and have been trapped by something evil. However, I think the most pathetic aspect about this is that the enjoyment that the PMOer gets from a session is the pleasure of trying to get back to the state of peace, tranquillity and confidence that his body had before he became hooked in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Annoying Burglar Alarm&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;the-annoying-burglar-alarm&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Annoying Burglar Alarm&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;You know that feeling when a neighbour’s burglar alarm has been ringing all day, or there has been some other minor, persistent aggravation. Then the noise suddenly stops - that marvellous feeling of peace and tranquillity is experienced. It is not really peace but the ending of the aggravation. Before we start the next PMO session, our bodies are complete. We then force our brains to pump dopamine into the body using PMO, and when we are done orgasming and the dopamine starts to leave, we suffer withdrawal pangs - not physical pain, just an empty feeling. We are not even aware that it exists, but it is like a dripping tap inside our bodies. Our rational minds do not understand it. They do not need to. All we know is that we want porn and when we masturbate the craving goes, and for the moment we are content and confident again just as we were before we
 became addicted. However, the satisfaction is only temporary because in order to relieve the craving you have to get more porn. As soon as you orgasm the craving starts again and so the chain goes on. It is a chain for life - &lt;strong&gt;UNLESS YOU BREAK IT&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
@@ -56,7 +484,7 @@ became addicted. However, the satisfaction is only temporary because in order to
 &lt;p&gt;The heroin doesn&amp;rsquo;t relieve it. On the contrary, it causes it. Non-PMOers - say a 14 year old in 2008 - didn&amp;rsquo;t suffer the empty feeling of needing internet porn or start to panic when they are off- line. Non-PMOers cannot understand how PMOers can possibly obtain pleasure from two dimensional videos with muted sounds and abnormal body proportions. And do you know something? PMOers themselves cannot understand why they do it after some time either.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;We talk about internet porn being relaxing or giving satisfaction. But how can you be satisfied unless you were dissatisfied in the first place? Why don&amp;rsquo;t non-PMOer suffer from this dissatisfied state and why, after a no-sex date, when the non-PMOers are completely relaxed, are PMOers completely unrelaxed until they have satisfied their &amp;rsquo;little monster&amp;rsquo;?&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Pleasure or Crutch?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;a-pleasure-or-crutch&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Pleasure or Crutch?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;Forgive me if I dwell on this subject for a moment. The main reason that PMOers find it difficult to quit is that they believe that they are giving up a genuine pleasure or crutch. It is absolutely essential to understand that you are giving up nothing whatsoever. The best way to understand the subtleties of the PMO trap is to compare it with eating. If we are in the habit of eating regular meals, we are not aware of being hungry between meals. Only if the meal is delayed are we aware of being hungry, and even then, there is no physical pain, just an empty, insecure feeling which we know as: &amp;lsquo;I need to eat.&amp;rsquo; And the process of satisfying our hunger is a very pleasantpastime.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;PMOing appears to be almost identical. The empty, insecure feeling which we know as: &amp;lsquo;wanting or needing an PMO orgasm’ is identical to a hunger for food, although one will not satisfy the other. Like hunger, there is no physical pain and the feeling is so imperceptible that we are not even aware of it between PMO sessions. It&amp;rsquo;s only if we want to masturbate and aren&amp;rsquo;t able to reach internet for porn that we become aware of any discomfort. But when we do PMO we feel satisfied.&lt;/p&gt;
@@ -68,12 +496,12 @@ became addicted. However, the satisfaction is only temporary because in order to
 &lt;li&gt;Eating doesn&amp;rsquo;t create hunger and genuinely relieves it, whereas the first PMO starts the craving for dopamine and each subsequent one, far from relieving it, ensures that you suffer it for the rest of life.&lt;/li&gt;
 &lt;/ol&gt;
 &lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PMO is a Habit?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;pmo-is-a-habit&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PMO is a Habit?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;This is an opportune moment to dispel another common myth about PMO - that it is a habit. Is eating a habit? If you think so, try breaking it completely. No, to describe eating as a habit would be the same as describing breathing as a habit. Both are essential for survival. It is true that different people are in the habit of satisfying their hunger at different times and with varying types of food. But eating itself is not a habit. Neither is PMO. The only reason any PMOer fires up the browser is to try to end the empty, insecure feeling that the previous orgasm and the PMO session created. It is true that different PMOers are in the habit of trying to relieve their withdrawal pangs at different times, but PMO itself is not a habit.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;On the internet they frequently refer to PMO as a habit and in this hackbook, for convenience, I also refer to the &amp;lsquo;habit&amp;rsquo;. However, be constantly aware that it is not habit, on the contrary it is no more nor less than DRUG ADDICTION! When we start to PMO we have to force ourselves to learn to cope with it. Before we know it, we are ‘escalating’&lt;sup id=&#34;fnref:1&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#fn:1&#34; class=&#34;footnote-ref&#34; role=&#34;doc-noteref&#34;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; - we have to then have more bizarre and more shocking porn. The thrill is in the hunting&amp;hellip; not in the killing. If we don&amp;rsquo;t then panic sets in and as we go through life we tend to novelty-seek more and more. Worse is when this seeking of higher shock level get into our real life. Have you heard about people suffering from PIED, that too in solo? How about wet dreams and fantasies where you are not even there but only involving others? There is no performance stress but I am not even getting hard. Great!&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Crossing The Red Line&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;crossing-the-red-line&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Crossing The Red Line&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;This is because, as with any other drug, the body tends to develop immunity to the effects of the same old porn clips and our brain wants more or something else. After quite a short period of watching the same clip it ceases to relieve completely the withdrawal pangs that the previous PMO session had created. You want to stay on the safe side of your own ‘red line’ but your brain is asking you to click on that ‘forbidden fruit’ clip. There is a tug of war occurring in this supposed porn paradise.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;You feel better than you did before starting this PMO session but you are in fact more nervous and less relaxed than you would be as a non-PMOer, like someone who is living in Loma Linda or in an Amish village, even though you are actually PMOing and living in your supposed “porn paradise.” This position is even more ridiculous than wearing tight shoes because as you go through life an increasing amount of the discomfort remains even when the shoes are removed.&lt;/p&gt;
@@ -86,19 +514,19 @@ became addicted. However, the satisfaction is only temporary because in order to
 &lt;p&gt;What magic drug can suddenly reverse the very effect it had minutes before? If you think about it, what other types of occasion are there in our lives; apart from sleep? The truth is that PMO neither relieves boredom and stress nor promotes concentration and relaxation. It is all just illusion. Apart from being a drug, PMO is also a destroyer of happiness and virility.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;In case you have ideas of toning down to other more ‘realistic’ or ‘soft’ genres of porn and such, I should make it quite clear that the content of this book applies to all porn, yes, that includes, print, webcams, pay-per-views, chat, live shows etc. that is on high speed internet where ‘novelty’ and ‘shock’ is the nature of the game. Imagination goes farther than reality. The human body is the most sophisticated object on our planet. No species, even the lowest amoeba or worm, can survive without knowing the difference between food and poison.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Brain Reward Circuit Mechanics&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;brain-reward-circuit-mechanics&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Brain Reward Circuit Mechanics&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;Through a process of natural selection over thousand of years, our minds and bodies have developed techniques for rewarding actions that multiply and sustain humanity. Yet our minds and bodies are not ready for the supernormal stimulus that is bigger, brighter, colourful, edgier and more shocking than the one we have now. We are attracted proportional to the degree of how far the outlier is from our individual normal. It can be two dimensional clip - and a muted one at that - we will get aroused. Look at the same clip again and again and you won’t be. You just moved your red line close to the outlier and in no time you will enclose it in your normal consciousness. It is natural and it is so that you can multiply and grow this human race. In real life there are checks and balances in place so you take a break and go away do something else. With internet porn you there are no such checks and balances and you are living in a virtual harem!&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;When we took a ‘peep’ at internet porn the first time, a few images were titillating but most were disgusting, causing you to avert your eyes away. Like you would if had accidentally glanced a feeding mother’s breast. And some of us are even revolted with what they saw when the star reminded them of someone dear to their heart or a scene which recalled their own instance of being the victim. Some don’t feel like it to browse and masturbate at the same time. It may be hard to believe for you but the non-PMOs, who don’t PMO after their first time, are the lucky ones. They actually decided that it was not their cup of tea. It must be hard for you to believe but stay with me.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;How many of us don’t visit brothels - even when you are far from home? Why not? It’s not the social stigma? How many of us did not bring home a bottle on your way back from work - even after a hard day? Why not ? You ‘deserve’ it after that big deal you made? You just decided, after your first instance, that it’s not your cup of tea. That&amp;rsquo;s all.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Are PMOers Mentally Weak?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;are-pmoers-mentally-weak&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Are PMOers Mentally Weak?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;It is a fallacy that physically weak and mentally weak-willed people become PMOers. The lucky ones are those who find that first instance repulsive and they are cured for life. Or, alternatively, they are not mentally prepared to go through the severe learning process of fighting the obstructions of self-talking themselves to get hooked, fear of ‘getting caught’, not technical enough to create an online cache, operate privacy settings in the browser etc.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;To me this is the most tragic part of this whole business. How hard we worked to become hooked, and this is why it is difficult to stop teenagers. Because they are skilled in seeking and finding material, they know online privacy options and can clean their tracks - if they still feel some stigma and they (wrongfully) believe they can stop whenever they want to. Why do they not learn from us? Then again, why did we not learn from our PMOers and addicts?&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;Many PMOers believe they enjoy online internet porn. It is an illusion. What we are actually doing when we jump from genre to genre is to keep our ‘novelty’ monkey within the ‘red line’ of ‘safe’ porn genres to get our dopamine fix, like heroin addicts who think that they enjoy injecting themselves. The withdrawal pangs from heroin are relatively severe and all they are really enjoying is the ritual of relieving those pangs.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The High From The Dance Around The Red Line&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;the-high-from-the-dance-around-the-red-line&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The High From The Dance Around The Red Line&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;Even with that one clip on which he lingers longer - the PMOer constantly teaches himself to filter out the bad and ugly portions of a porn clip. Even if it is solo, you still do the ‘filtering’ on the body parts that appeal to you the most. In fact some even take pleasure in this game to find an excuse to declare that they like ‘soft’ stuff and are not addicted to supranormal stimuli. Sometimes even this constant dance around the red line in itself produces a sort of high as well.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;Ask a user who believes that he sticks to a certain actor or genre - only because he likes something about the star or the theme (if any) of the clip: “If you cannot get your normal brand of porn and can only obtain a poor or unsafe brand, do you stop masturbating?” No way. A PMOer will masturbate to anything rather than abstain and it doesn&amp;rsquo;t matter if he has to switch to escalating themes, different sex-orientation-themes, look-alike actresses, dangerous settings shocking relationships etc. To begin with they taste awful but if you persevere you will learn to like them. Most PMOers will also try to seek masturbation even after having real sex (unfulfilment, porn-induced unrealistic expectations etc.), or after a long, stressful work day, fever, colds, flu, sore throats and even when admitted in hospitals.&lt;/p&gt;
@@ -109,13 +537,13 @@ became addicted. However, the satisfaction is only temporary because in order to
 &lt;/ol&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;You will quite rightly ask why it is that many PMOers find it so difficult to stop, go through months of torture and spend the rest of their lives pining for it at odd times. The answer is the second reason why we use Internet porn - the brainwashing. The brain-chemical addiction is easy to cope with. Most PMOers go days without online porn - when they are on business trips or travel etc. The withdrawal pangs don’t affect them. Their little porn monster knows that you will open your laptop as soon as you return to hotel room or your den. Ah, you can even survive this obnoxious client and your megalomaniac manager - just ‘knowing’ that the fix is there for your take. It doesn&amp;rsquo;t bother the PMOers.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Smokers Analogy&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;the-smokers-analogy&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Smokers Analogy&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;A good analogy is the situation of smokers - if they went ten hours during the day without a cigarette they&amp;rsquo;d be tearing their hair out. Many smokers will buy a new car nowadays and refrain from smoking in it. Many will visit theatres, supermarkets, churches, etc. and not being able to smoke doesn&amp;rsquo;t bother them. Even on the trains there have been no riots. Smokers are almost pleased for someone or something to force them to stop smoking.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;PMOers will automatically refrain from using internet porn in the home of their parents while visiting for family get togethers etc. with little discomfort to themselves. In fact, most PMOers have extended periods during which they abstain without effort. Even in my case I would quite happily go a week or so without a PMO incident. In the later years as a PMOer I actually used to look forward to these days when I could stop choking my penis (what a ridiculous &amp;lsquo;habit&amp;rsquo;).&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;The brain chemical addiction (little monster) is easy to cope with, even when you are still addicted, and there are thousands of PMOers who remain casual users all their lives. They are just as heavily addicted as the heavy PMOer. There are even heavy PMOers who have kicked the &amp;lsquo;habit&amp;rsquo; but will have an occasional ‘peek’, and that keeps them addicted. You are ‘greasing’ the ‘water slide’ of the brain only to see you slide down at the next dip in your mood.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Big Monster - The Brainwashing&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;the-big-monster---the-brainwashing&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Big Monster - The Brainwashing&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;You are smart enough to know (aside, I will explain shortly why PMOers are in fact a strong willed and hard working bunch) that not all porn workers get a W-2 with 401k and stock options. Only a very rare actor and that too for a very short period of time of their career may be.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;Not all the amateurs are ‘amateurs’ on these tube sites, oversized body parts and overcharged scenarios are the norm, aided by a bit of the ‘viagran’ help.&lt;/p&gt;
@@ -346,7 +774,7 @@ Do not take anything for granted. Question not only what I tell you but also you
 		
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-&lt;p&gt;&amp;lsquo;I&amp;rsquo;M GOING TO CURE THE WORLD OF PMO&amp;rsquo;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;im-going-to-cure-the-world-of-pmo&#34;&gt;&amp;lsquo;I&amp;rsquo;M GOING TO CURE THE WORLD OF PMO&amp;rsquo;&lt;/h2&gt;
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 &lt;p&gt;I was talking to my mentor. He thought that I had flipped. Understandable if you consider that he had watched me fail on numerous attempts to quit. The most recent had been two years previously. I&amp;rsquo;d actually survived six months of sheer purgatory before I finally succumbed and found myself clicking on stacked up tabs of porn sites. I&amp;rsquo;m not ashamed to admit that I cried like a baby. I was crying because I knew that I was condemned to be an addict for life. I&amp;rsquo;d put so much effort into that attempt and suffered so much misery that I knew I would never have the strength to go through that ordeal again. I&amp;rsquo;m not a violent man, but if some patronizing non-PMO’er had been stupid enough at that moment to suggest to me that all users can find it easy to quit, immediately and permanently, I would not have been responsible for my actions. However, I&amp;rsquo;m convinced that any jury in the world, comprised of PMOers only, would have pardoned me on the grounds of justifiable homicide.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;Perhaps you too find it impossible to believe that any PMOer can find it easy to quit. If so, I beg you not to cast this book into the rubbish bin. Please trust me. I assure you that you can find it

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+		<title>03-17 Health</title>
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+		<description>&lt;p&gt;This is the area where the brainwashing is the greatest. PMOers, especially the young and single, think they are aware of the health risks. They are not. Even in my case, when I was expecting my head to explode any moment and honestly believed I was prepared to accept the consequences, I was still kidding myself. I didn&amp;rsquo;t in those days have an app that started a red beeper to flash and sound every time my internet router hits a porn site, followed by a warning voice saying, “OK, this is the one!” Fortunately you do get a warning, and this is it. That warning would say, “Up to now you have got away with it but if you stay another minute your head will explode,” do you think I would have PMOed?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;If you are in doubt about the answer just try walking up to a cliff, stand on the edge with your eyes closed and imagine you then have the choice of either quitting PMO or walking up blindfolded before your next PMO.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;There is no doubt what your choice would be. I had been doing what every internet porn PMOer does all his life: closing my mind and keeping my head in the sand, hoping that I would wake up one morning and just not want to PMO any more. PMOers cannot allow themselves to think of the health risks. If they do, even the illusion of enjoying the &amp;lsquo;habit&amp;rsquo; goes.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;This explains why a shock treatment is so ineffective in the first stages of quitting. It is only non-users who can bring themselves to read the destructive brain changes. It also explains why PMOers, influenced by their little monster, wrongly recall that filthy room mate who PMOed everyday and was still remaining ‘horny’ 24 hours a day – they will ignore the thousands of people who are brought “down” in their prime because of this poisonous ‘habit’.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;About six times a week I have the following conversation with PMOers (usually the younger ones):&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;ME: Why do you want to stop?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;PMOer: I read in a PUA guru’s blog that it is good to stop for 4 days to amp myself up.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;ME: Aren&amp;rsquo;t you worried about the health risks?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;PMOer:No, I could step under a bus tomorrow.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;ME: But would you deliberately step under a bus?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;PMOer:Of course not.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;ME: Do you not bother to look left and right when you cross the road?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;PMOer: Of course I do.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Exactly. He/she goes through a lot of trouble not to step under a bus and the odds are hundreds of thousands to one against it happening. Yet the PMOer risks the near certainty of being crippled by this ‘habit’ and appears to be completely oblivious to the risks. Such is the power of the brainwashing. The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn&amp;rsquo;t exist. Especially when you are younger or single. So is internet porn - it is the wolf in sheep’s clothing.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I remember a friend of mine who would not drink or smoke. Yet he would argue with me that internet porn is not different than older safe porn and that it is fun. Isn&amp;rsquo;t it strange that if, for example, we felt there was the slightest fault in an airplane, we wouldn&amp;rsquo;t go up in it, even though the risks are millions to one against death. Yet we take more than a one-in-four certainty with internet porn with its PMO addiction and are apparently oblivious to it. And what does the PMOer get out of it? &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Another common myth about PMO is the depression or peevishness. Many of the younger people are not worried about their health because they do not suffer any of the depression or melancholy. The depression or stress itself is not a disease; it is just a symptom. Younger people in general don’t feel the irritability or depression created because of their body’s natural capability to produce more dopamine and also the vigour and cheerfulness of their youthful activities masks those depleting reservoirs. As they age or if their lives experience serious setbacks the depleted resources are overworked and then they will experience full blown symptoms.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;When non-younger PMOers feel stressed, depressed or irritated it is because of the normal dopamine levels are not being effective and or due to excessive ‘flooding’ and its reactionary cutting down of the receptors. It is a reactionary step brain takes to protect its nervous systems from excessive dopamine ‘flooding’ as the dopamine receptors close up. It is one of nature&amp;rsquo;s fail-safe methods. They also develop other neural changes that will keep them in the rut.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Just think of it this way. If you had a nice car and allowed it to rust without doing anything about it that would be pretty stupid, as it would soon become a heap of rust and not be able to carry you anywhere. However, that would not be the end of the world; it is only a question of money and you could always buy a new car. But your body is the vehicle that carries you through life. We all say that our health is our most valued asset. How true that is, as sick millionaires will tell you. Most of us can look back at some illness or accident in our lives when we prayed to get better. (HOW SOON WE FORGET). By being a PMOer, you are not only letting the rust get in and doing nothing about it; you are systematically destroying the vehicle you need to go through life and you only get one.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Wise up. You don&amp;rsquo;t have to do it and remember: it is doing ABSOLUTELY NOTHING FOR YOU. Just for a moment take your head out of the sand and ask yourself; if you knew for certain that the next PMO session would be the one to trigger off a process in your body that will make your penis fall away like a hair strand, would you then actually go ahead and do it? Forget the ‘disease’ idea (it is difficult to imagine it) but just imagine you are on your bed, with your partner and your penis is not responding. Or if you are a woman, you are not feeling in any way responsive with someone you deeply love? Now you are not in the beginning of a happy endeavour but instead a tug of war in your mind and in your partner&amp;rsquo;s mind too. “Is it my PMO or is it just stress? Can I spot who the culprit is 100%? Or for her, is it me? Am I not sexy enough for him? Or worse, am I losing my ‘appetite’ too soon due to ageing?” What do you think is going to happen?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I often speak to the people that it happens to. They didn&amp;rsquo;t think it would happen to them either and the worst thing about it isn&amp;rsquo;t the disease itself but the knowledge they have brought it on themselves. For a very long time as PMOers and abusers we are saying, “I’ll stop tomorrow.” Try to imagine how those people feel who “hit the button.” For them the brainwashing is ended. They then see the &amp;lsquo;habit&amp;rsquo; as it really is and spend the remainder of their lives thinking, “Why did I kid myself I needed to masturbate to internet porn? If only I had the chance to go back!”&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Stop kidding yourself. You have the chance. It&amp;rsquo;s a chain reaction. If you engage in the next PMO session, it will lead you to the next one and the next. It&amp;rsquo;s already happening to you. At the beginning of the book I promised you no shock treatment. If you have already decided you are going to stop, this isn&amp;rsquo;t shock treatment for you. If you are still in doubt, skip the remainder of this chapter and come back to it when you have read the rest of the book.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Volumes of researches and studies have already been written about the damage that internet porn causes to our sex lives and to our mental well-being. The trouble is that until the PMOer decides to stop he doesn&amp;rsquo;t want to know. Even the forums and mentor groups are a waste of time because the PMOer puts the blinkers on. If he inadvertently reads it, the first thing he does is to open an incognito tab and visit his favourite tube site. PMOers tend to think of the happiness, stress and sex hazards as a hit-and-miss affair, like stepping on a land mine.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Get it into your head: it is already happening. Every single time you browse to your tube site you are triggering dopamine flooding and the opioids get to work - the neural pathway water slides get greased and the ride takes you smoothly through the next steps that you have already given to the script. The nervous system is now flooded by dopamine and since it is its umpteenth time, it is going to let some of your dopamine receptors to close up. The ‘little monster’ in you is using this slight dip in the pleasure compared to the last time to encourage you to “cross the red line” towards more shocking porn or behaviour in order to release more dopamine. In the process just hit on the ‘novelty’ button that triggers dopamine again. “Let’s keep going,” says the little monster, because you deserve it and you are entitled to this. Now the streaming of so many pictures and videos on a single tab&amp;hellip; that triggers another button called ‘supernormal’ stimulus, injecting more amines.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;All this time your receptors are receiving infomation to shut down inversely proportional to the flooding. Then you get to the orgasm stage. More dopamine, more shutting down of receptors. After this comes the withdrawal, Oh and since you are an ex-PMOer go get one. And why not pour a glass from the fridge of that leftover whiskey? Internet porn kills your sex life and thus it kills your private and public lives as well. If you are not aware of the addiction process or even if you are, you are in denial since the “little monster” craves for its fix because there was no real pain and you could handle the discomfort.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I confess that the thought of having ED terrified me, which is probably why I just blocked it from my mind. It&amp;rsquo;s amazing how the fear of the horrendous health risks attached to PMOing are overshadowed by the fear of stopping. It&amp;rsquo;s not so much that the latter is a greater fear, but that if we quit today the fear is immediate, whereas the fear of getting ED, PE and OCD related mental illnesses are a fear of the future. Why look on the black side? Perhaps it won&amp;rsquo;t happen. I&amp;rsquo;m bound to have quit by then anyway.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;We tend to think of PMOing as a tug-of-war. On one side is fear: it&amp;rsquo;s unhealthy, filthy and enslaving. On the other side the pluses: it&amp;rsquo;s my pleasure, my friend, my crutch. It never seems to occur to us that this side is also fear. It&amp;rsquo;s not so much that we enjoy them but that we tend to be miserable without them.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Think of heroin addicts deprived of their heroin: the abject misery they go through. Now picture their utter joy when they are allowed to plunge a needle into their veins and end that terrible craving. Try to imagine how anyone could actually believe they get pleasure from sticking a hypodermic syringe into a vein. Non-heroin addicts don&amp;rsquo;t suffer that panic feeling. Heroin doesn&amp;rsquo;t relieve the feeling, on the contrary, it causes it.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Non-PMOers (those who don’t ‘need’ or have access to internet porn) don&amp;rsquo;t feel miserable if they are not allowed to PMO. It&amp;rsquo;s only PMOers that suffer that feeling. Internet porn doesn&amp;rsquo;t relieve it, on the contrary it causes it. The fear of ED or PE didn&amp;rsquo;t make me quit because I believed it was rather like walking through a minefield. If you got away with it - fine. If you were unlucky you stepped on a mine.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;You knew the risks you were taking and if you were prepared to take the risk, what had it to do with anyone else? So if a non-PMOer ever tried to make me aware of those risks, I would use the typical evasive tactics that all addicts invariably adopt. They are&amp;hellip;.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;ul&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;“You will eventually get old and lose your sexual prowess anyway&amp;hellip;”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Of course you do but sexual prowess is not even the point, we are talking slavery here. Even if that is the case, is that a logical reason for deliberately cutting yourself short?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;ul&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;“Quality of life is more important than just living.”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Exactly but you are surely not suggesting that the quality of life of an addict is greater than that of someone that isn&amp;rsquo;t addicted? Do you really believe that the quality of a PMOer’s life is better than a non-PMOer? Surely the PMOer loses on both counts his life is spent in trying to cover his head in the sand and being miserable.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;ul&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;“I am single and am not planning to ‘settle down’ in the near future so why not?”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Even if that were true, is that a logical reason for playing with the brain structure dealing with impulse control that is needed in other areas of life? Can you possibly conceive of anyone being stupid enough to strip naked wherever one is going to be alone? No matter how sure you are that you are not expecting anyone in your life? THAT&amp;rsquo;S WHAT PMOers EFFECTIVELY DO!&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I can understand why the ED and the risks of ruining one’s mental health didn&amp;rsquo;t help me to quit. I could cope with the former and block my mind to the latter. As you are already aware, my method is not to frighten you into quitting but the complete opposite - to make you realize just how more enjoyable your life will be when you have escaped.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;However, I do believe that if I could have seen what was happening inside my brain, this would have helped me to quit. Now I&amp;rsquo;m not referring to the shock technique of showing a PMOer the effect of the hidden attribute of internet porn on the reward circuit of the brain. It was obvious to me from my unreliable arousals, fading penetrations, lack of energy, unemotional sex (as in just a muscle twitch), hit-seek escalations of porn search for novelty and shock that something is not going right. None of these are catastrophic for me as I have trained myself in cognitive behavioural techniques as discussed before but I did experience them quite often enough. Practising CBT/REBT gave me enough grounding and stability to look at my addiction in a different and better way than I’d have if I were not aware of the cognitive biases. Provided I kept functioning, even at a mediocre level, they were less of an embarrassment than a lost tooth - at least nobody could see my mind.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;What I am referring to is the progressive gunging-up of our reward circuits with excessive stimulation, making them incapable of handling the normal stresses of life. Closing up of dopamine and opioids receptors does not help me in enjoying my life with enough vigour. Porn and masturbation has replaced the natural sexual appetite, like a candy bar replacing real food. The brain has no idea to differentiate one from the other. I don&amp;rsquo;t like the thought of a virus in my smart phone or my laptop. Could you imagine buying the latest one of these gadgets and letting a virus to run every line of the software code but repeat it thrice ? That&amp;rsquo;s what we effectively do to our bodies when we become PMOers.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Many researchers and doctors are now relating various mental health problems in addition to the physiological ones caused by internet porn and PMO in general. This is no surprise to me. The mainstream medical world has laboured that PMO has never been scientifically proven to be the direct cause of the issues reported by self-confessing individuals. Admitting one’s sexual inability in public is such a shame triggering event, why would anyone do that unless they are really concerned? And probably many have found the cause and have eliminated it. This book is going to help you to get rid of it and also become a happy ex PMOer. No porn whatsoever, no porn aided masturbation. And of course no unnecessary orgasms. The only aid will be the touch, smell and voice of your partner. Like whole wheat bread after a well developed appetite, you will produce enough juices to break down the hard bread and it comes as a beautiful refreshment. No high fructose corn syrup injected fake food. The evidence is so overwhelming as not to need proof. No one ever scientifically proved to me exactly why, when I bang my thumb with a hammer, it hurts. I soon got the message.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I must emphasize that I am not a doctor but just like the hammer and the thumb, it soon became obvious to me that the periods of my life outside of sex that were marked by low levels of irritation tolerance, lack of energy, temper, moody thoughts, zoning out of social scenes etc. were directly related to my masturbation and especially the supernormal stimulus of IP&lt;sup id=&#34;fnref:1&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#fn:1&#34; class=&#34;footnote-ref&#34; role=&#34;doc-noteref&#34;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;. However, I truly believe that the greatest hazard that IP causes to our health is the gradual and progressive deterioration of our sex life caused by super-substitutes. The novelty, shock, variety in size and nature of internet porn can slowly take away the magic of the real sex. Worse, the RC&lt;sup id=&#34;fnref:2&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#fn:2&#34; class=&#34;footnote-ref&#34; role=&#34;doc-noteref&#34;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; reward circuits are flooding unnaturally and at high abnormal levels so that they close up  the receptors and also diminish any potency and effectiveness of normal de-stressors that work in the RC. This predisposes one to be depressed and become needy to lot more other ‘crutches’ of life such as cigarettes and alcohol or even causing the host to think of committing suicide. Even the real vagina will not be a match for the death grip of masturbation - and the little monster is kept alive.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Our lives are ‘blessed’ with challenges – yes, ‘blessed’- they are needed to keep us strong and make us better. If our nervous systems is pre-disposed to making a molehill out of a mountain it will seek a ‘fix. When it seeks a hit or a mountain out of a molehill when it interfaces with reality then is it worth it? Our body and our brain is designed to make use of optimal levels of these brain chemicals. I don’t think a man who fails in satisfying a woman should consider himself worthless.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;You will do well accepting yourself unconditionally and as an extension others and of life in general as well. It needs practice - but you won&amp;rsquo;t practice unless your brain rewards you. External rewards are iffy and most of the time are not forthcoming. If your internal brain chemicals and the reward circuits are humming even a little external reward will go a long way and the lack of external approvals won&amp;rsquo;t even matter at all. If you want to you can be the king of your life. Think about this as one of your greatest benefits.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Several of the adverse effects that PMO had on my health, some of which I had been suffering from for years, did not become apparent to me until many years after I had stopped. The good news I have for you is this - all of this is reversible. You are the jailer and you are also going to set yourself - the prisoner - free!&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;It didn&amp;rsquo;t even occur to me that I was already suffering from ED and PE&lt;sup id=&#34;fnref:3&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#fn:3&#34; class=&#34;footnote-ref&#34; role=&#34;doc-noteref&#34;&gt;3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; myself. Upon my first observation of the damage I quickly attributed it, with the help of my little monster, to (a) the occasional opposition to foreplay by my partner, (b) to the ‘less-than-ideal’ partner (my brain ‘tolerance’ is so high that even if I were with the most sexy one imaginable it’d still be not enough), (c) some silly grudge about my past stopping me to ‘prepare’ us to mood setting or (d) my boss, customer etc. etc.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;When it happened again my little monster brain gave me a BS mix of the above combo which I don’t even want to waste your time with. It never occurred to me that none of these would have stopped me before? So, I decided that I need ‘stamina practice’ since I figured that a toy which comes close to real vagina will ‘train’ me in getting hard and to avoid PE. I later came to read about PE being the result of poor training of the reward circuits. If one’s goal is orgasm then getting hard is not a requirement with masturbation. That being avoided enough times sets up waterslides in your brain and you grease it real nice every time to ride the slide. You can dispute this but I am going to take the Pascal’s Wager and quit - I lose very little, gain big and avoid losing big.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;When you don’t get hard or have unreliable erections, it’s a signal that your mind wants it more than your body - most times. Also of note is my peevishness and melancholy (anger/irritability and moodiness/depression). I told myself that I am a negatively oriented Virgo. While many Virgos are predisposed to think and act ‘negatively’ I failed to notice that actually I am a pretty optimistic guy.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;In fact, the many times I had not gone along for the porn water slide ride, due to external events, even though I had wanted to, I noticed that I did not get affected big time - remember again Pascal’s Wager. But looking back at my life, I have to say that I have been an achiever, in spite of the self-sabotage of PMO and its constant drag. That must be due to the training of tempering my pre-disposition and keeping the negatives to toned down healthy negatives of disappointment, sorrow, concern, annoyance, sadness, regret, frustration, caution, vigilance, irritation etc. I am sure that I am an optimistic and positive guy, how else could I explain that I kept going in spite of my tripping myself with PMO?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I have been in the stock market and have advised my friends and colleagues. I would show my hands - in real investments and trades. Most of the macho guys would not bring themselves to pull the trigger at those times when I did with no fears but of course with due vigilance and caution.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I know a person close to me who would masturbate every day at least once. He had no access to porn and was using static magazines and his own imagination. Now, looking back I wonder if this person lost his life’s joy to PMO. He would always be quick to anger and his irritation trigger levels are always very low. Any day-to-day stress will tick him off. He had a secure government job that demanded little from him and so he was lucky to survive until his retirement. Lucky? Maybe not. Anyway, I am sure his RC* had long sent shutdown signals to his receptors and his dopamine and opioids have much diminished effectiveness.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;You might conclude that I am something of a hypochondriac. I believe that I was when I was a PMOer. One of the great evils about addictions such as these is that it fools us into believing that the cigarettes, alcohol, PMO etc. give us courage, when in fact it gradually and imperceptibly dissipates it. I was shocked when I read about a confessor who felt suicidal at 19 due to PMO. Little did I realize that twenty years later I would have exactly the same lack of joie de vivre. You might conclude that this chapter has been one of necessary, or unnecessary, doom and gloom. I promise you it is the complete opposite. I used to fear death when I was a child. A bit later I used to believe that smoking, drinking and porn removed that fear. Perhaps it did. If so, it replaced it with something infinitely worse: &lt;strong&gt;A FEAR OF LIVING!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Now my fear of dying has returned. Yet it does not bother me. I realize that it only exists because I now enjoy life so much. I don&amp;rsquo;t brood over my fear of dying any more than I did when I was a child. I&amp;rsquo;m far too busy living my life to the full. The odds are against my living to a hundred, but I&amp;rsquo;ll try to. I&amp;rsquo;ll also try to enjoy every precious moment!&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;There were two other advantages on the health side that never occurred to me until I had stopped PMOing. One was that I now wake up refreshed in the morning. The subtle well-rested feeling is something sort of what you’d experience after a fever had left you. I get that almost every day but of course some nights are not going to be perfect. I had accepted that there is nothing outside of us that we need to enjoy or cope in our lives.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The other was the acceptance of the Void in our lives. Those insecure feelings. The emptiness. From what I learned - that is after removing PMO from my life, I could see that these three are present in everyone’s lives. Yes, that includes the playboys and the PUA macs as well. I think they are like the nights that serve to enhance our days. Yes, it is a well known ‘insight’. But then I know of many insights which have never translated to any value to my life. After I quit, it all fell into place. Look, I am not a saint or a guru. But I am not panicking and seeking substitutes when I feel the void, or insecurity or emptiness. There are no outside things that will be a pleasure or crutch.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Here is a thought experiment for you&amp;hellip; let’s say a woman comes to you and says she doesn’t necessarily want an orgasm but however, she very much wants to make love. Even penetrative. And she wants to do it for as long and as far as you can go without an orgasm but if it happens then its fine. I assure you of a great new experience, far better than anything in your life if you even get that offer. Try it.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;PMOers also suffer the illusion that the ill-effects of internet porn and PMO are overstated. The reverse is the case. There is no doubt that internet porn is the major cause of PIED and other problems. The trouble is that in many cases where PMO causes the ED or is a contributory factor, it is not blamed on PMO in the statistics. It has been estimated that more than 25 per cent of men experience ED or PE and yet I wonder how many divorces have been caused by PMO? There are no reliable ways to know the number of Internet Porn users within the study group. The studies usually mix up traditional and internet porn users and has no way to account for the starting age of the participants, years of use, duration and frequency of usage. There is no way to conduct blind or double blind methods either.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I was a ‘safe’ user of internet porn - if there is anything ‘safe’ about it. However I noticed that I invariably projected porn fantasies on real life women. Like the episode in Friends where the guys, who were receiving continuous free porn on TV, started to wonder to each other why the pizza delivery girl didn’t ask to check out their ‘big bedroom’. Imagine what ‘careless’ or even ‘accidental’ porn exposure on the darker sides the internet would do to someone who is already at a tipping point in his or her life? Fighting against these ‘porn induce thoughts’, PIT&lt;sup id=&#34;fnref:4&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#fn:4&#34; class=&#34;footnote-ref&#34; role=&#34;doc-noteref&#34;&gt;4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;, is going to be a major drain on his or her mental health.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The effect of the brainwashing is that we tend to think like the man who, having fallen off a 100-storey building, is heard to say, as he passes the fiftieth floor, “So far, so good!” We think that as we have got away with it so far, one more PMO session won&amp;rsquo;t make the difference. Try to see it another way, the &amp;lsquo;habit&amp;rsquo; is a continuous chain for life, each session creating the need for the next. When you start the habit you light a fuse. The trouble is, YOU DON&amp;rsquo;T KNOW HOW LONG THE FUSE IS. Every time that you give up to a PMO session you are one step nearer to the bomb exploding. HOW WILL YOU KNOW IF IT&amp;rsquo;S THE NEXT ONE?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;div class=&#34;footnotes&#34; role=&#34;doc-endnotes&#34;&gt;
+&lt;hr&gt;
+&lt;ol&gt;
+&lt;li id=&#34;fn:1&#34;&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;IP&lt;/strong&gt; - internet porn&amp;#160;&lt;a href=&#34;#fnref:1&#34; class=&#34;footnote-backref&#34; role=&#34;doc-backlink&#34;&gt;&amp;#x21a9;&amp;#xfe0e;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li id=&#34;fn:2&#34;&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;RC&lt;/strong&gt; - reward circuits in the brain that involves dopamine/ opioids, receptors, proteins etc.&amp;#160;&lt;a href=&#34;#fnref:2&#34; class=&#34;footnote-backref&#34; role=&#34;doc-backlink&#34;&gt;&amp;#x21a9;&amp;#xfe0e;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li id=&#34;fn:3&#34;&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PE&lt;/strong&gt; - premature ejaculation&amp;#160;&lt;a href=&#34;#fnref:3&#34; class=&#34;footnote-backref&#34; role=&#34;doc-backlink&#34;&gt;&amp;#x21a9;&amp;#xfe0e;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li id=&#34;fn:4&#34;&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PIT&lt;/strong&gt; - porn induced thoughts, porn themes crossing over to normal interactions&amp;#160;&lt;a href=&#34;#fnref:4&#34; class=&#34;footnote-backref&#34; role=&#34;doc-backlink&#34;&gt;&amp;#x21a9;&amp;#xfe0e;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ol&gt;
+&lt;/div&gt;
+</description>
+	</item>
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+	<item>
+		<title>03-16 I Will Save X Hours a Week</title>
+		<link>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-16-i-will-save-x-hours-a-week/</link>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2022 12:08:55 +0200</pubDate>
+		
+		<guid>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-16-i-will-save-x-hours-a-week/</guid>
+		<description>&lt;p&gt;I cannot repeat too often that it is brainwashing that makes it difficult to stop PMOing. So, the
+more brainwashing we can dispel before we start, the easier you will find it to achieve your goal.
+Occasionally I get into arguments with people whom I call “confirmed PMOers.” By my definition
+a confirmed PMOer is somebody who doesn&amp;rsquo;t believe PMO has any negative effect on his health
+(PME, PIED and hypofrontality etc.) and is not having a mental tug of war. Most times he’d be a
+younger guy or a single but with an occasional sex partner. Thus the internal feedback is lost due to
+the nature of their youth and or it is too infrequent to be observed and registered.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;If he is a young man, I’d rather say to him, “I cannot believe you are not worried about the
+time you are spending.” Usually his eyes light up. If I had attacked him instead on health grounds or
+on the social stigma, he would feel at a disadvantage which will trigger resistance from him. But on
+time&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;“Oh, I can afford it. It is only x hours per week and I think it is worth it. It is my only vice or
+pleasure.”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;“I still cannot believe you are not worried about the time spent. Say at a minimum half an hour a day on an average including the physical ‘drain’ time of dopamine withdrawals, you are spending approximately one full working day of 8 hours every fortnight. Half an hour a day is a very conservative estimate you would agree. And in a year that will add up to a working month. Have you thought about how much time you are going to spend in your lifetime? What are you doing with that time? You are not even developing real relationships? No, your favourite porn star does not have sympathy for you just because you spent that much time on her site - you are throwing it away! Not only that, you are actually using that time to ruin your physical health, to destroy your nerves and confidence, to suffer a lifetime of slavery, pain, stress, melancholy and peevishness. Surely that must worry you?”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;It is apparent at this point, particularly with younger PMOers, that they have never considered it a lifetime habit. Occasionally they work out the time they waste in a week and that is alarming. Very occasionally (and only when they think about stopping) they estimate what they spend in a year and that is frightening but over a lifetime it is unthinkable. However, because now we are in an argument, the confirmed PMOer will impulsively say, “I can afford it. It is only so much a week.” He pulls an “encyclopedia salesman” routine on himself.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Will you refuse a job offer which pays you your current annual salary and also gives you a month off every year? Any PMOer would sign up for this job offer in a heartbeat and would get busy finding vacation deals to exotic places. Figuring out how to spend one full month with no work would be the biggest problem that he now has to solve.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;In every discussion with a confirmed PMOer - and please bear in mind I am not now talking to someone like yourself who plans to stop, I am talking to someone who has no intention of stopping - nobody has ever taken me up on that offer. Why not?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Often at this point in my consultation, a confirmed PMOer will say, “look, I am not really worried about the money aspect.” If you are thinking along these lines, ask yourself why you are not worried. Why in other aspects of your life will you go to a great deal of trouble to save a few dollars here and there but yet spend thousands of dollars killing your happiness and hang the expense?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The answer to these questions is this: every other decision that you make in your life will be the result of an analytical process of weighing up the pros and cons and arriving at a rational answer. It may be the wrong answer but at least it will be the result of rational deduction. Whenever any PMOer weighs up the pros and cons of using internet porn, the answer is a dozen times over: “STOP PMOing! YOU ARE A MUG!” Therefore all PMOers are using not because they want to or because they decided to but because they think they cannot stop. They have to and need to brainwash themselves. They have to and need to keep their heads in the sand.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The strange thing is many men would pay good money for gym and personal trainers to build their muscles and look sculpted. Other treatments such as boosting testosterone with dubious and sometimes dangerous effects are tried out by many men in their real (and imaginary) desperation. Yet, there are many men in that group who would save money and risks by stopping a practice that systematically not only destroys their manhood but also affects their brain’s natural relaxation system.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;This is because they are still thinking with the brainwashed mind of the PMOer. Just take the sand out of your eyes for a moment. Internet porn is a chain reaction and a chain for life. If you do not break that chain, you will remain a user for the rest of your life. Now estimate how much time you think you will spend on PMOing for the rest of your life. The amount will obviously vary with each individual but for the purpose of this exercise let us assume it is a year and half of work hours. You will shortly be making the decision to use your final session (not yet, please - remember the initial instructions). All you have to do to remain a non-PMOer is NOT to fall for the trap again. That is, do not PMO and consciously avoid having “just a peek.” If you do, that one peek will cost you a year and half of your work life. If you think this is a trick way of looking at it, you are still kidding yourself. Just work out how much time you would have saved if you had not taken your very first ‘peek’ right at the start.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;If you see the argument as factual, ask yourself how you would feel if there were a cheque from your state’s lotto for a year and half worth of your current salary lying on your carpet tomorrow? You&amp;rsquo;d be dancing with delight! So start dancing! You are about to start receiving that bonus and that&amp;rsquo;s just one of the several fantastic gains you are about to receive.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;During the withdrawal period you may be tempted to have just one final ‘look’. It will help you to resist the temptation if you remind yourself it will cost you one year’s worth of your peak annual salary (or whatever your estimate is)! I could be making that offer on television and radio programmes yet I bet no-one will take it.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;If you are mentoring someone online for his PMO addiction tell him that he knows someone who has refused a job offer that pays his current annual salary and also gives him a full month’s of PTO. When he ask who that idiot is, tell him, “you!” I know it&amp;rsquo;s rude but you may sometimes need to get your point across in a less-than-polite way.&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
+	</item>
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+	<item>
+		<title>03-15 Self-Imposed Slavery</title>
+		<link>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-15-self-imposed-slavery/</link>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2022 12:06:39 +0200</pubDate>
+		
+		<guid>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-15-self-imposed-slavery/</guid>
+		<description>&lt;p&gt;Usually when PMOers try to stop the main reasons given are health, religion and partner stigma. Part of the brainwashing of this awful drug is the sheer slavery. Man fought hard in the last century to abolish slavery and yet the PMOer spends his life suffering self-imposed slavery. He seems to be oblivious to the fact that when he is allowed to PMO he wishes that he were a non-PMOer. With most of the masturbation we do in our lives, not only do we not enjoy them but we aren&amp;rsquo;t even aware that we are masturbating. It is only after a period of abstinence that we actually suffer the delusion of enjoying PMO (e.g. the first day after a 4 day abstinence with the intent of rebooting etc.). The only time that the porn becomes precious is when we are &amp;rsquo;trying&amp;rsquo; to cut down or abstain or when abstinence is forced on us (e.g. when on a business trips, holiday trips to locations where the Internet is not available and so on).&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The confirmed PMOer should bear in mind that more studies and even more people are coming out and talking about the ill effects of internet porn. This trend will get “worse and worse.” Today, it is non-medical people talking. Tomorrow, it will be in your doctor’s list of diagnostic tests to perform. Gone are the days when the PMOer can hide behind “just a bit of downtime due to work stress” in his or her sex life. Your partner is going to ask you why you are on your laptop at this time too late into the night. The poor PMOer, who was already feeling wretched, wants the ground to open up and swallow him.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I remember every time my partner stayed up late it was an ordeal waiting to open up my laptop. When on business trips the dinner with the clients and colleagues dragged on or was I just going through the natural ups and downs in human interactions? What was I doing? I was thinking, “let&amp;rsquo;s get on with it, so that I can get over with this and go to my room for some porn.” I have thought many times, “am I not lucky? I have got my little reward. The poor non-PMOer with no internet access somewhere in an Amish village hasn&amp;rsquo;t got a reward.” The &amp;lsquo;poor&amp;rsquo; non-PMOer doesn&amp;rsquo;t need a reward. We were not designed to go through life systematically flooding our brains with dopamine and opioids. The pathetic thing is that even when masturbating with internet porn the PMOer doesn&amp;rsquo;t achieve those feelings of peace, confidence and tranquillity that the non-PMOer has experienced for the whole of his non-PMO life. The non-PMOer isn&amp;rsquo;t sitting in the family room, feeling agitated and wishing his life away. He can enjoy the whole of his life.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;No, this wasn&amp;rsquo;t a fourteen-year-old schoolboy but a forty-year-old professional. How pathetic. I wouldn&amp;rsquo;t admit to myself that I wasn&amp;rsquo;t enjoying it. I was looking for the right clip and/or pictures to reach orgasm or better, edge forever. I don&amp;rsquo;t know what I am supposed to be &amp;lsquo;watching&amp;rsquo; sometimes. That is the confusing part. The &amp;rsquo;edging&amp;rsquo; and then the orgasm floods my brain. Yet this was supposed to be my way of relaxing and enjoying my “favourite hobby.”&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;To me, one of the tremendous joys of being a non-PMOer is to be freed from that slavery. To be able to enjoy the whole of my life and not spend half of it craving for more and more internet porn and then, when I get to fire up my browser, wishing I didn&amp;rsquo;t have to do it. PMOers should bear in mind that when they see or meet non-PMOers, it is not the self-righteous non-PMOer who is depriving them but their very own “little monster.”&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
+	</item>
+	
+	<item>
+		<title>03-14 What Am I Giving Up?</title>
+		<link>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-14-what-am-i-giving-up/</link>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2022 11:49:35 +0200</pubDate>
+		
+		<guid>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-14-what-am-i-giving-up/</guid>
+		<description>&lt;p&gt;ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! The thing that makes it difficult for us to give up is fear. The fear that we are being deprived of our pleasure or prop. The fear that certain pleasant situations will never be quite the same again. The fear of being unable to cope with stressful situations. In other words, the effect of brainwashing is to delude us into believing that sex and by extension orgasm, is a must for all human beings. Or that there is something inherent in Internet porn that we need and that when we stop PMOing we will be self-denying ourselves and there will be a void.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Get it clear in your mind:&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Internet porn&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;DOES NOT FILL A VOID.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;IT CREATES ONE!&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;These bodies of ours are the most sophisticated objects on this planet. Whether you believe in a creator, a process of natural selection or a combination of both, whatever being or system devised these bodies of ours, it is a thousand times more effective than man! Man cannot create the smallest living cell, let alone the miracle of eyesight, reproduction, our circulatory system or our brains. We don’t have our systems upgraded yet to properly assess the supranormal stimulus such as rich high density food or high speed internet novelty porn with multiple active windows.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;If the creator or process had intended us to handle novelty triggering stimuli, we would have been provided with some other brain reward circuits. Our bodies are, in fact, provided with fail-safe warning devices and we ignore these at our peril. Excessive edging results in body pain, irritation, and inflammation. In women, excessive flooding of dopamine and stress enzymes such as prostaglandin-E2 can cause difficulty to orgasm and PME.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;there-is-nothing-to-give-up&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;There Is Nothing To Give Up&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
+&lt;/div&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The beautiful truth is - there is nothing to give up. Once you purge that little monster from your body and the brainwashing (the big monster) from your mind, you will neither want to masturbate often nor need internet porn for it. PMO destroys your sense of self-control. I don’t think PMOers are self-destructive to continue even after knowing the ill-effects of internet porn. They clearly don’t have suicidal tendencies. They don’t enjoy this slavery themselves. Many of them do it in spite of the fact that they know it causes self-sabotage. You see there must be many unknowns and the medical community has no idea of even questioning and determining someone as an internet porn addict yet. So a lot of reported symptoms are wrongly tagged under other causes. It is not that PMOers are generally stupid people; it is just that they are miserable without the PMO. They are caught between the devil and the deep blue sea. They either have to abstain and be miserable because they cannot PMO or be miserable because they are destroying themselves through PMO and feel guilty and despise themselves for it. When they feel that lower back pain or get PIED, their minds are torn between accepting responsibility and looking the other way.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The problem I have is to make a convincing point as I’d have done for, let us say&amp;hellip; smokers? All of us have seen smokers who develop excuses to sneak off for a crafty puff. It is easy to see the true addiction in action. Addicts do not do it because they enjoy it. They do it because they are miserable without it.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Because many of us started out our first sexual experience that ended in an orgasm and we acquired the belief that we cannot enjoy sex without an orgasm. And for men, porn is sold as an aid towards sex, sometimes even as an education to be confident during the act of sex. It used to be static, but now we have supranormal internet porn. But this is nonsense. Internet porn takes away your confidence.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;women-and-porn&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Women And Porn&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
+&lt;/div&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The greatest evidence of the fear that porn instils is in its effect on women. Practically all women are fastidious about their personal appearance. They wouldn&amp;rsquo;t dream of appearing at a social function not immaculately turned out and smelling beautiful. So why would they fall for internet porn ? The traps were set as either a control trap (I can give up when I want) or an educational trap, or a freedom trap (I am entitled). Feminism has freed women from all the bad patriarchal rules of the past but they still need to be aware of supranormal stimulus such as internet porn.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Porn and internet porn does not help your sex life; it destroys it totally. Having to hide your internet footprints, trying to delete your history, fearing accidental exposure to your boyfriend or kids, body pains, doubtful symptoms, fighting self doubts, arguing with yourself about your responsibilities in the ill effects of your addiction&amp;hellip; well, why do you want to put yourself in such a bad situation?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Not only is there nothing to give up but there are marvellous positive gains to be had. When PMOers contemplate quitting they tend to concentrate on health and virility. These are obviously valid and important issues but I personally believe the greatest gains from stopping are psychological:&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;ol&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;The return of your confidence and courage.&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;Freedom from the slavery.&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;Not to have to go through life suffering the awful black shadows at the back of your mind, knowing you are being despised by half of the population and, worst of all, despising yourself.&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ol&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Not only is life better as a non-PMOer but it is infinitely more enjoyable. I do not only mean you will be healthier. I mean you will be happier and enjoy life far more. The marvellous gains from being a non-PMOer are discussed in the next few chapters. Some PMOers find it difficult to appreciate the concept of the &amp;lsquo;void&amp;rsquo; and the following analogy may assist you.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;void-the-void-the-beautiful-void&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Void, the Void, the Beautiful Void!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
+&lt;/div&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Imagine having a cold sore on your face. I&amp;rsquo;ve got this marvellous ointment. I say to you, “try this stuff.” You rub the ointment on and the sore disappears immediately. A week later it reappears. You ask, “do you have any more of that ointment?” I say, “sure, keep the tube. You might need it again.” You apply the ointment once again. Hey presto, the sore disappears again. But every time the sore returns, it gets larger and more painful and the interval gets shorter and shorter. Eventually the sore covers your whole face and is excruciatingly painful. It is now returning every half hour. You know that the ointment will remove it temporarily, but you are very worried. Will the sore eventually spread over your whole body? Will the interval disappear completely? You go to your doctor. He can&amp;rsquo;t cure it. You try other things but nothing helps except this magical ointment.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;By now you are completely dependent on the ointment. You never go out without ensuring that you have a tube of the ointment with you. If you go abroad, you make sure that you take several tubes with you. Now, in addition to your worries about your health, I&amp;rsquo;m charging you $100 per tube. You have no choice but to pay.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;You then read in the medical column of your newspaper that this isn&amp;rsquo;t happening just to you; many other people have been suffering from the same problem. In fact, pharmacists have discovered that the ointment doesn&amp;rsquo;t actually cure the sore. All that it does is to take the sore beneath the surface of the skin. It is the ointment that has caused the sore to grow. All you have to do to get rid of the sore is to stop using the ointment. The sore will eventually disappear in due course.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Would you continue to use the ointment? Would it take willpower not to use the ointment? If you didn&amp;rsquo;t believe the medical article, there might be a few days of apprehension, but once you realized that the sore was beginning to get better, the need or desire to use the ointment would go, Would you be miserable? Of course you wouldn&amp;rsquo;t. You had an awful problem which you thought was insoluble. Now you&amp;rsquo;ve found the solution. Even if it took a year for that sore to disappear completely, each day, as it improved, you&amp;rsquo;d think. “isn&amp;rsquo;t it marvellous? I&amp;rsquo;m not going to die!” This was the magic that happened to me on my final PMO day. Let me make one point quite clear in the analogy of the sore and the ointment.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The sore isn&amp;rsquo;t lung cancer, or arterial sclerosis, or emphysema, or angina, or chronic asthma, or bronchitis, or coronary heart disease. They are all in addition to the sore. It isn&amp;rsquo;t the body pains, lack of normal lust, flagging arousal, fading penetration, the wasted time spent on lifeless two dimensional images, the times when we felt infringed of our entitlement because we are not allowed to PMO. It isn&amp;rsquo;t the lifetime of being despised by other people who caught you or, worst of all, despising yourself. These are all in addition to the sore.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The sore is what makes us close our minds to all these things. It&amp;rsquo;s that panic feeling of, “I want a fix.” Non-PMOers don&amp;rsquo;t suffer from that feeling. The worst thing we ever suffer from is fear, and the greatest gain you will receive is to be rid of that fear. It was as if a great mist had suddenly lifted from my mind. I could see so clearly that that panic feeling of wanting a porn fix wasn&amp;rsquo;t some sort of weakness in me or some magic quality of internet porn. It was caused by the first PMO session; and each subsequent one - far from relieving the feeling, it was actually causing it.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;At the same time I could see all these other “happy” PMOers - the ones who are blinded by their cunning little porn monsters - were going through the same nightmare that I was. Not as bad as mine yet all putting up phony arguments to try to justify their stupidity.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;IT&amp;rsquo;S SO NICE TO BE FREE!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
+	</item>
+	
+	<item>
+		<title>03-13 Social Night PMOing</title>
+		<link>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-13-social-night-pmoing/</link>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2022 11:47:03 +0200</pubDate>
+		
+		<guid>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-13-social-night-pmoing/</guid>
+		<description>&lt;p&gt;This is a misinformation that seems to make sense but then it does not. In order to have control of eating, will you eat at home before leaving to go to a restaurant or a party? This is what you are doing when you PMO before your social night. You will look tired and will not be up to your best. If you have dating jitters then work on it beforehand and then go with the flow even with some butterflies in your stomach. I like a bit of the anxiety in me to keep me going. Tiring yourself mentally and physically with an orgasm is not going to help you, unless of course you are going to see a prostitute. The goal is entirely different in that angle.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The widespread adoption of pick-up techniques has put pressure on guys to perform, to attract and to ‘score’. You can get knowledge but you should know how to use it. I can guarantee that 100% of the other guys hanging at that bar know exactly what you know. It comes down to the ‘how’ of how you use it when you get the chance. Even before that, there is one very critical thing about any knowledge pertaining to human interactions, that ‘knowledge’ should never force your actions. This is important.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I once masturbated and then poured wine to quiet the butterflies in my stomach before a date. I looked tired after just one hour into the date, the loud noise of the bar, dehydration, excessive self-consciousness (PUA teachings) etc. made my time unenjoyable. Somehow the girl and her friend liked it all. However, I do think it would have been better if I had gone without any props. I ended up being successful by claiming my &amp;lsquo;goal(s)&amp;rsquo; - which I consider unfortunate and as random luck.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The PMO session I had before the date triggered a dopamine flooding and its withdrawal hit around the time I was with the date. I had to over-do my conversation to compensate the ineffective dopamine effects after that earlier orgasm. I am also sure that I was suffering from hypofrontality - where my impulses were failing my controls. That gushing moment, an extra decibel in the tone etc. would easily have given my nervousness to the girls - only if I was not protected by the loud noise in the bar. Why do you want to take chances?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;PMO ceases to relieve the withdrawal pangs that it causes in the first place. That is also why heavy PMOers turn to alcohol or other drugs. But I digress. Social night PMOing is occasioned by two or more of our usual reasons for pleasure/prop seeking, e.g. social functions, parties, weddings, school exams, game night, even business meetings. These are examples of occasions that are both stressful and relaxing. This might at first appear to be a contradiction but it isn&amp;rsquo;t. Any form of socializing can be stressful, even with friends, and at the same time you want to be enjoying yourself and be completely relaxed.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;There are situations where multiple reasons are present at one and the same time. To illustrate I will quote driving as one of these. But driving always involves an element of stress. Your life is at stake. You are also having to concentrate. You may not be aware of the last two factors but the fact that they are subconscious doesn&amp;rsquo;t mean they aren&amp;rsquo;t there. And if you are stuck in a traffic jam or have a long motorway drive, you may also be bored and may have ‘promised’ yourself to a PMO after you reach home.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Another classic example is going on a first date. Especially when you know something about the date before hand like their profile from an online dating site. Your mind is throwing questions back and forth. If she is a 10 and in that vicinity or if the date is from another race which is socially ‘perceived’ as a couple of levels above your race then it gets even noisier in your head. Then the surprise to meet the person in flesh, first the looks, then the voice, then the mannerisms. Expectations determine the level of interest you have for her from there on. If your enthusiasm starts to flag you will start to feel too relaxed but then you feel guilty for feeling too relaxed. The tug of war has started. I want sex or get me out of here ASAP - I know where to get it. That will lead you to the next stage of post-date PMOing.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Even if the date went fine and hours later you are at her door and which ever way it goes, you will not be satisfied if your goal is fully on the orgasm-seek. At other times, you drive home alone and all you want to do is to go to your online harem instead of patting yourself on the back for your efforts and enjoying yourself.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;You can bet that this unfortunate guy is going to PMO after he reaches home. It is often after nights like these, when we wake to feel the uneasy emptiness, are often the special ones, the ones that we think we&amp;rsquo;ll miss the most when we are contemplating stopping PMOing. We think that life will never be quite as enjoyable again. In fact, it is the same principle at work: these PMO sessions simply provide relief from withdrawal pangs and at certain times we have greater need to relieve them than at others. You had ended up ‘greasing’ the neural ‘waterslides’ in your brain and made it ready to slide again on the next cue.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Let us make it quite clear. It is not the internet porn and the harem dwellers that are special; it is the occasion. Once we have removed the need for the PMO, such occasions will become more enjoyable and the stressful situations less stressful. This will be explained in greater detail in the next chapter.&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
+	</item>
+	
+	<item>
+		<title>03-12 Relaxation</title>
+		<link>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-12-relaxation/</link>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2022 11:44:10 +0200</pubDate>
+		
+		<guid>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-12-relaxation/</guid>
+		<description>&lt;p&gt;Most PMOers think that PMO helps to relax them. The truth is that internet porn used in PMO acts like a chemical stimulant. The frantic search to get the fix in those “dark alleys of the internet” and the internal struggle to reign in the dog straining at its leash for more shocking clips does not sound much like an activity of relaxation to me.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;One of the favourite PMO sessions for most is the one after a trip to a new place or after along day. As the night rolls in we stop working; we sit down and relax, relieve our hunger and thirst and are then completely satisfied. However, the poor PMOer cannot relax, as he has another hunger to satisfy. He thinks of the PMO as the icing on the cake but it is the &amp;rsquo;little monster&amp;rsquo; that needs feeding.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The truth is that the addict can never be completely relaxed and as you go through life it gets worse. The most stressed people on this planet aren&amp;rsquo;t non-PMOers but those young men and women who have a need to hunt (with the misunderstood goal of orgasm) and their ignorance of and/or low opinion of amative sex. Women who have subscribed to “I must orgasm” teachings are not even aware of the victim they have made of themselves. At this point any sex that leads to climax and orgasm cease to relieve even partially the symptoms that they have created.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I can remember when I was bringing up a family. If my child would do something wrong I would quickly lose my temper to an extent that was out of all proportion to what he had done.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;My partner was “always frigid and not interested in sex.” Now I realize that if I had only tried the amative side of things then maybe I could have relieved myself of a great measure of stress at least - if not at me, I am sure she would have. One online comment&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;“I really believed that I had an evil demon in my make-up. I now know that I had, however it wasn&amp;rsquo;t some inherent flaw in my character but the little internet porn monster that was creating the problem. During those times I thought I had all the problems in the world but when I look back on my life I wonder where all the great stress was. In everything else in my life I was in control. The one thing that controlled me was this porn slavery. The sad thing is that even today I can&amp;rsquo;t convince my children that it was the slavery that caused me to be so irritable.”&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Every time I hear a porn addict trying to justify his addiction the message is, “Oh, it calms me. It helps me to relax.”&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;On the Internet I read about a single dad whose 6 year old son would want to share his bed sometimes in the night after a scary movie yet the dad would refuse under some pretence so he can have his PMO session and edge for hours.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Let me try a smoking analogy here&amp;hellip; a couple of years ago, the adoption authorities threatened to prevent smokers from adopting children. A man rang up, irate. He said, “you are completely wrong. I can remember when I was a child, if I had a contentious matter to raise with my mother, I would wait until she lit a cigarette because she was more relaxed then.” Why couldn&amp;rsquo;t he talk to his mother when she wasn&amp;rsquo;t smoking a cigarette?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Why are PMOers so stressd when they are not getting their fix, even after a real sex with a real woman? I read about a guy who has 9&amp;rsquo;s and 10&amp;rsquo;s open for dating with him as he was in the advertising field. I am talking about dinner and stuff only - but he lost interest in those dinners as his Internet porn is far more ‘easy’ for him - no restaurant spending and no hearing a ‘no’ from his date at the end of an evening. Why would he bother when his little monster tells him about the low-risk high-reward scheme called PMO that is at his fingertips when he reaches home? Those real girls sure have competition.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Why are non-PMOers completely relaxed then? Why are PMOers not able to relax without a fix for a day or two? If you read about the experience of a PMOer taking the abstinence oath and quitting and you notice his struggle with the temptations. You can clearly see that they are not relaxed at all when they are not allowed to have the ‘only pleasure’ they are “entitled to enjoy.” They&amp;rsquo;ve forgotten what it feels like to be completely relaxed. That&amp;rsquo;s one of the many joys you have to come. The whole business of PMOing can be likened to a fly being caught in a pitcher plant. To begin with, the fly is eating the nectar. At some imperceptible stage the plant begins to eat the fly.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Isn&amp;rsquo;t it time you climbed out of that plant?&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
+	</item>
+	
+	<item>
+		<title>03-11 Concentration</title>
+		<link>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-11-concentration/</link>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2022 11:42:13 +0200</pubDate>
+		
+		<guid>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-11-concentration/</guid>
+		<description>&lt;p&gt;Sex and masturbation do not help concentration. That is just another illusion. When you are trying to concentrate, you automatically try to avoid distractions. So when a PMOer wants to concentrate he doesn&amp;rsquo;t even have to think about it. He automatically PMOs, partially ending the craving, gets on with the matter in hand and has already forgotten that he just PMOed. Sex in general do not help concentration. After years of masturbation your brain changes affect abilities such as assessing, planning and impulse control. The PMOer is already suffering: that little monster wants his fix.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;You are also stressed to provide novelty for the next PMO session as the same stuff will not generate enough dopamine and opioids. You have to “roam the internet streets” for novelty - all the while fighting the pull to cross the line towards shock. This creates more stress. After you orgasm, you feel unfulfilled as well.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Concentration is also affected adversely for another reason. Your dopamine receptors have already started to get reduced by building up natural tolerance to these large surges, reducing the benefit of the smaller dopamine boosts from natural de-stressors.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;In fact, your concentration and inspiration will be greatly improved as this process is reversed. For some it will be the concentration aspect that prevents them from succeeding when using the willpower method. They could put up with the irritability and bad temper but when they really needed to concentrate on something difficult they have to have that porn fix. I can well remember the panic I felt when I discovered that the hotel has no internet connection and I had this huge presentation the day after.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The loss of concentration that PMOers suffer when they try to escape is not, in fact, due to your abstinence from sex, let alone PMO. When you are addicted to something, you have mental blocks. When you have such a block, what do you do? You fire up the browser. That doesn&amp;rsquo;t cure the mental block, so then what do you do? You do what you have to do: you get on with it, just as non-PMOers do.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;When you are a PMOer nothing gets blamed on the cause. PMOers never have EDs; they just have an occasional down time. The moment you stop using, everything that goes wrong in your life is blamed on the fact that you&amp;rsquo;ve stopped. Now when you have a mental block, instead of just getting on with it, you start to say, “if only I could check out my favourites now, it would solve my problem.” You then start to question your decision to quit and escape from this slavery.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;If you believe that PMOing is a genuine aid to concentration, worrying about it will guarantee that you won&amp;rsquo;t be able to concentrate. It&amp;rsquo;s the doubting, not the physical withdrawal pangs, that causes the problem. Always remember: it is PMOer who suffers pangs and not non-PMOers. When I quit I went overnight from using everyday to zero without any apparent loss of concentration.&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
+	</item>
+	
+	<item>
+		<title>03-10 Boredom</title>
+		<link>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-10-boredom/</link>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2022 11:40:46 +0200</pubDate>
+		
+		<guid>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-10-boredom/</guid>
+		<description>&lt;p&gt;As soon as you get into your bed - and if you are like many people you are already on your favorite tube site - you will probably have already forgotten about it until I reminded you. It has become second nature. Another fallacy about PMOing is that it relieves boredom. Boredom is a frame of mind. The only time that happens is when you have been deprived for a long time or are trying to cut down, or during those first few PMO sessions after a failed attempt to stop.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The true situation is this: when you are addicted to internet porn’s supranormal novelty and then you decide to abstain from internet porn, there is something missing. If you have something to occupy your mind that isn&amp;rsquo;t stressful, you can go for long periods without being bothered by the absence of the drug. However, when you are bored there&amp;rsquo;s nothing to take your mind off it, so you feed the monster. When you are indulging yourself (i.e. not trying to stop or cut down), even firing up your incognito browser becomes subconscious. The PMOer can perform this ritual automatically. If any PMOer tries to remember the session during the last week, he can only remember a small proportion of them - e.g. the very last one or after a long abstinence.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The truth is that PMOing tend to increase boredom indirectly because orgasms make you feel lethargic and instead of undertaking some energetic activity, PMOers tend to prefer lounge around, bored, relieving their withdrawal pangs. This is why countering the brainwashing is so important. Because it&amp;rsquo;s a fact that PMOers tend to masturbate when they are bored and that we&amp;rsquo;re wired to interpret PMO as interesting. It doesn&amp;rsquo;t occur to us to question the fact how a two dimensional supranormal stimulus relieves boredom.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;We&amp;rsquo;ve also been brainwashed into believing that sex - even a bad sex - aids relaxation. It is a fact that when under stress or sad, couples want to have sex. In the absence of discrimination between amative and propagative sex, the goal is set to achieve orgasms by hook or by crook. Next time you do this watch how you both want to get away from each other as soon as it’s over. It is obvious that if they had just decided to cuddle, speak, hug and touch each other and go to sleep without the mandatory orgasms, the couple would have felt relieved. Well, if in the process, they wanted to have the propagative part then by all means they can but that is a topic not meant to be discussed in this book.&lt;/p&gt;
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+		<title>03-09 Stress</title>
+		<link>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-09-stress/</link>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2022 11:38:59 +0200</pubDate>
+		
+		<guid>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-09-stress/</guid>
+		<description>&lt;p&gt;I am referring not only to the great tragedies of life but also to the minor stresses, the socializing, the telephone call, the anxieties of the housewife with noisy young children and so on. Let us use the telephone conversation as an example. For most people the telephone is slightly stressful, particularly for the businessman. Most calls aren&amp;rsquo;t from satisfied customers or your boss congratulating you. There&amp;rsquo;s usually some sort of aggravation - something going wrong or somebody making demands. Then he or she comes home to the mundane family life of kids screaming and wife&amp;rsquo;s emotional demands on you. His already PMO weakened de-stressors are in no way ready to take the aggravation. At that time the PMOer, if he isn&amp;rsquo;t already doing so, will fantasize the relief of internet porn that he promised himself that night. He will even allow himself to “take one step more” into the ‘forbidden’ area that he had previously self-excluded. He doesn&amp;rsquo;t know why he does this but he does know that for some reason it appears to help.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;What has actually happened is this: without being conscious of it, he has already been suffering aggravation (i.e. the withdrawal pangs). By partially relieving that aggravation at the same time as normal stress, the total stress is reduced and the PMOer gets a boost. At this point the boost is not, in fact, an illusion. The Internet porn user will feel better than before. However, even when using porn to masturbate he or she is more tense than if he were a non-PMOer because the more you go into the drug, the more it knocks you down and the less it restores you when you masturbate. I promised no shock treatment. In the example I am about to give, I am not trying to shock you, I am merely emphasizing that PMO destroy your nerves rather than relax them.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Try to imagine getting to the stage where you cannot get aroused even with a very sexy and attractive partner. Just for a moment pause and try to visualize life where one very lovely and charming woman has to compete and fail with all the virtual porn stars who are in your &amp;lsquo;harem&amp;rsquo; to get your attention! Try to imagine the frame of mind of a man who, issued with that warning, actually continues PMOing and then dies without ever having had real sex with this charming and willing real woman. I had read real life stories like that from men and dismissed them as weirdos. In fact, I used to wish a doctor would tell me that this weird condition would happen if I continue PMO; then I would have stopped. Yet I was already fully expecting that PIED and hypofrontality where I am guaranteed to lose in a brain war. I didn&amp;rsquo;t think of myself as an impotent, just a heavy PMOer. Now, let’s talk about the stress that this is putting on me.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Such weird stories as the above are not fakes. That is what this awful ‘novelty’ porn drug does to you. As you go through life, it systematically takes away your nerve and courage. The more it takes your courage away, the more you are deluded into believing the porn is doing the opposite.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Have you ever been overtaken by panic when you are out on business travel and the hotel WiFi is down or too slow? Non-PMOers do not suffer from it. The internet porn drug causes that feeling. At the same time, as you go through life, PMO not only destroys your nerves but keeps building a powerful neural ‘water slide’, DeltaFosB, progressively destroying your ability to say no.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;By the time the PMOer reaches the stage at which it has killed his virility, he believes the PMO is his new girlfriend and cannot face life without it. Get it clear in your head that Internet porn is not relieving your nerves; it is slowly but steadily destroying them. One of the great gains of breaking the ‘habit’ is the return of your natural confidence and self-assurance.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;There is no need to self-rate based on your ability to get hard or to satisfy a woman. However, you do ‘know’ deep inside that this is slavery. It is not freedom. And that freedom cannot be achieved by continuing to ‘grease’ - repeating the same behaviour and energizing the ‘water slide’ neural pathways of your brain in ways that undercut your happiness in general and not to mention your libido.&lt;/p&gt;
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+		<title>03-08 Relieving Withdrawal Pangs</title>
+		<link>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-08-relieving-withdrawal-pangs/</link>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2022 11:36:16 +0200</pubDate>
+		
+		<guid>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-08-relieving-withdrawal-pangs/</guid>
+		<description>&lt;p&gt;As I explained earlier, PMOers think they do it for enjoyment, relaxation or some sort of education. In fact, this an illusion. The actual reason is the relief of withdrawal pangs. In the early days we use the porn as a curious and novel thing or even educational or as a rebel. We can take it or leave it. However, the subtle chain has started. Our subconscious mind begins to learn that internet porn and masturbation taken at certain times tends to be pleasurable. The more we become hooked on the drug, the greater the need to relieve the withdrawal pangs and the further the PMO drags you down and the more you are fooled into believing it is doing the opposite. It all happens so slowly, so gradually, you are not even aware of it. Each day you feel no different from the day before. Most young PMOers don&amp;rsquo;t even realize they are hooked until they actually try to stop and even then many won&amp;rsquo;t admit to it. A few stalwarts just keep their heads in the sand all their lives,trying to convince themselves and other people that they enjoy it.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Listen to this conversation a therapist had with hundreds of teenagers.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;TH: “You realize that internet porn is a drug and that the only reason why you are using is that you cannot stop.”&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;PA: “Nonsense! I enjoy it. If I didn&amp;rsquo;t, I would stop.”&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;TH: “Just stop for a week to prove to me you can if you want to.”&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;PA: “No need. I enjoy it. If I wanted to stop, I would.”&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;TH: “Just stop for a week to prove to yourself you are not hooked.”&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;PA: “What&amp;rsquo;s the point? I enjoy it.”&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;As already stated, PMOers tend to relieve their withdrawal pangs at times of stress, boredom, concentration, relaxation or a combination of these. This point is explained in greater detail in the next few chapters.&lt;/p&gt;
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+		<title>03-07 Brainwashing and the Primitive Mechanism</title>
+		<link>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-07-brainwashing-and-the-primitive-mechanism/</link>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2022 08:39:02 +0200</pubDate>
+		
+		<guid>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-07-brainwashing-and-the-primitive-mechanism/</guid>
+		<description>&lt;p&gt;How or why do we start PMOing in the first place? To understand this fully you need to examine the powerful effect of the supernormal stimulus. We all tend to think we are intelligent, dominant human beings determining our paths through life. We act and act frequently when our brain reward circuit are rewarded. Nobel laureate Nikolaas Tinbergen coined the term “supranormal stimulus.” He said mammals could be tricked into preferring fake eggs and mates. Female birds, for example, struggled to sit on larger-than life, vividly spotted plaster eggs while their own pale, dappled eggs perished untended.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The stimulation here in internet porn is not it brings stimulating actors and themes to your home - it is a genie at your bidding to create a harem in your mind. You can switch between genres and theme, home-made and viewer rated, commented and discussed, so rapid and so easy. We absolutely are not ready for the high speed internet porn and our brains are not designed to handle this supranormal stimuli.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;We can have an ‘information overload’ from the same internet but our reward circuits are not going to squirt dopamine at the levels when ‘porn overload’ is involved. We are evolutionarily programmed to seek and access sex related stuff. And we wrongly appraise the stimulus mostly based on this reward circuit action. If all you wanted is to masturbate why can’t you just use one clip and get the business done?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Here is another question - next time after a long day or some stressful incident can you consciously embellish your self-talk with “Do you know what I would really enjoy today? The marvellous warm glow of dopamine rush going to my online harem.” You will find that even people who dislike PMO will join you.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;past-misguided-advice&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Past Misguided Advice&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
+&lt;/div&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;There was much misguided advice given in the past and one is that masturbating will lead to blindness. And there are some other scare tactics that clearly over-did it. It is right that those notions were overthrown by science. But now the mainstream threw the baby out with the bath water. TV programs, pop music, literature and movies all subtly show shambolic characters using porn or masturbation. They knowingly or unknowingly mix porn, sex, internet porn, masturbation and orgasm.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;From our earliest years our subconscious minds are bombarded daily with information telling us that sex is good and that the most precious thing on this earth is to ‘achieve’ orgasm. Girls are taught to achieve it and claim it&amp;rsquo;s because they were wrongly suppressed of their sexual side for a very long time and still are. You think I exaggerate? Watch any TV or movie plot and you will see the mix-up of the amative (touch, smell, voice etc.) and the propagative (orgasmic) sides of sex. The impact of this does not register on our conscious minds but the sleeping partner, the subconscious mind, has time to absorb it. What the message is really saying is, “The most precious thing on this earth, my last thought and action, will be the goal of orgasm.” If you don’t have an orgasm then you are an old man with zero libido.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Our children are being bombarded by sex and porn clips and many don’t even know how to protect them from it all. Large hoardings and magazine adverts are loaded with sexual innuendo. Some of the pop videos are extremely suggestive - again they hide behind free speech. Don’t be vexed and feel powerless about it. Make it a game and find you which of the components they are using - is it novelty, shock value, color, size, taboo etc. If the kids are pre-teen some of these can be disclosed to them and it would make an excellent show-and-tell game.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;A while back there was a wave of ‘leaked’ private videos of celebrities on the internet. If the youngster is too smitten by their favourite star, even if the conscious mind blames the ‘leak’ on the blood thirsty internet paparazzi, the &amp;lsquo;sleeping partner&amp;rsquo; is patiently digesting the notion that, “yes, even my shambolic hero does it and if I don’t, I won’t look the part.”&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;the-scientific-reasoning&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Scientific Reasoning&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
+&lt;/div&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;True, there is publicity the other way - the PIED scares, the loss of motivation, preferring virtual porn to real girls, YBOP&lt;sup id=&#34;fnref:1&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#fn:1&#34; class=&#34;footnote-ref&#34; role=&#34;doc-noteref&#34;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;, Reboot&lt;sup id=&#34;fnref:2&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#fn:2&#34; class=&#34;footnote-ref&#34; role=&#34;doc-noteref&#34;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; forums, underground PUA&lt;sup id=&#34;fnref:3&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#fn:3&#34; class=&#34;footnote-ref&#34; role=&#34;doc-noteref&#34;&gt;3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;, the no FAP movement - but these do not actually stop people PMOing. Logically they should, but the fact is they do not. They would not even prevent youngsters from starting no matter how much the YBOP guys try. All the years that I remained a PMOer, I can honestly say, even if I had read all of them before, I would never have become a quitter. The truth is that it doesn&amp;rsquo;t make the slightest bit of difference. The trap is the same today as when you fell into it.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Ironically, the most powerful force in this melee of confusion is the PMOer himself. It is a fallacy that they are weak-willed or are physically weak specimens. You have to be physically strong in order to cope with an addiction after you know it is. This is one of the reasons why PMOers refuse to accept the overwhelming statistics that prove that internet porn with its ‘novelty’ cripples your brain. Add to that the sexologists who are doing half-baked studies and declare PMO is not an issue - they just help to add to the confusion.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Everyone knows a friend who PMOed every day - he started with the ‘static’ to internet porn, always horny in real life, chasing girls and you never doubted him to have sex problems of course. You want to believe him. He never complained about any ED right? Guys and girls like them refuse even to consider the hundreds of ex-addicts and non-PMOers who painfully recount their difficulties. It is the “little monster” brain chemical addiction and the “big monster” - illusions and delusions. In this hackbook, I&amp;rsquo;ve put together almost all the sorts of brainwashing a PMOer can suffer from. There will always be a few out there that I haven&amp;rsquo;t touched upon.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Even more painful is they think of themselves as unsuccessful losers and insufferable introverts. A possible fact is that a PMO friend could have been more interesting in person if he hadn’t put himself down for seeking self-pleasure.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;If you do a small survey among your online forum members, friends and colleagues, you will find that most PMOers are, in fact, strong-willed people. They tend to be self-employed, business executives or in certain specialized professions, such as doctors&lt;sup id=&#34;fnref:4&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#fn:4&#34; class=&#34;footnote-ref&#34; role=&#34;doc-noteref&#34;&gt;4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;, lawyers, policemen, teachers, salesmen, nurses, secretaries, housewives with children, etc. In other words, anybody leading a stressful existence. Yes, I did include women and mothers. It’s the brain and it’s the same for them too. The main delusion of the PMOer is that porn helps to masturbate to orgasm and that relieves stress. This tends to be associated with the dominant type, the type that takes on responsibility and stress and, of course, that is the type that we admire and therefore tend to copy. Another group that tends to get hooked are people in monotonous jobs because the other main reason for PMOing is boredom. However, the idea that internet porn relieves boredom is also an illusion, I am afraid.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;As a society we get all uptight about glue-sniffing, heroin addiction, etc. Actual deaths from glue-sniffing do not amount to ten per annum, and deaths from heroin are less than a hundred a year in this country. There is another drug, internet porn, on which over 45 per cent of us become hooked at some time in our lives and the majority spend the rest of their lives regretting it. Some even don’t know that their ED is due to this.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;the-willpower-method&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Willpower Method&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
+&lt;/div&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;PMOers who quit using the Willpower method blame their own lack of willpower and ruin their peace and happiness. It is one thing to fail in self-discipline and another to self-loathe. There is no law that requires you to get fully hard all the time before sex, and to be properly aroused, and that you must be able to satisfy a woman. We are working on an addiction and not a habit. Habit is something you like to do- for example, golf - at no point you are arguing with yourself to stop golfing? But you do so with your porn addiction. The real question is: why?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Constant exposure to internet porn re-wires your brain. You need to start building resistance to this brainwashing, just as if you were buying a car from a second-hand car dealer. You would be nodding politely but you would not believe a word the man was saying. So don’t believe everything they say either - that you must have sex as much as you can and you must have it exceptional good. And that in the absence of real sex you claim it by the substitute called internet porn - which is only a component of the good old porn.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;And don’t play ‘safe’ porn game either - because your “little porn monster” invented that scheme to lure you. Even the content - ‘amateur’? Really? Is there a certification authority that certifies it? Tube sites and porn producers gather site visitor profiles and cater to their needs. If they see a trend in crowd sourced collection of a particular genre they will focus on that and get content out ASAP. The statistics of what genre users like is collected to the level of how long and which portion the users were preferring. Do not be fooled by their educational intent or the safe female oriented clips (for you ladies). Start asking yourself:&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;ul&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;Why am I doing it?&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;Do I really need to?&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NO, OF COURSE YOU DON&amp;rsquo;T.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I find this brainwashing aspect the most difficult of all to explain. Why is it that an otherwise rational, intelligent human being becomes a complete imbecile about his own addiction? It pains me to confess that out of the thousands of people that I have assisted in kicking the habit, I (not Allen Carr) was the biggest idiot of all.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;At the age of thirteen, although I was doing well at school and games, I was still an insufferable introvert. I read books from the library that were not within my main study list. However, I can see that I was attracted to erotica. I started masturbating to TV programs, song and dance sequences etc. I must have to have it every day. The tired feeling I felt was misappropriated by my ‘little porn monster’ as work stress. I didn’t know my “I-must-masturbate-as-I-am-entitled” attitude was the one that created the ‘stress’ in the first place. Then I got pictures and GIFs via email on my laptop - the first step towards electronic porn. The colour and texture of the images were amazing for me at that time - won’t be now for sure. Then came dial-up but still they were predominantly static pictures. Then came downloadable videos. It’s a pain to download and watch now - but it was heaven sent then as we were coming out of the static porn era! Oh, the streaming tube sites haven’t arrived yet.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;when-real-sex-is-not-enough-anymore&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;When Real Sex Is Not Enough Anymore&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
+&lt;/div&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I even remember opening up my laptop after having real sex (an activity I did due to stress induced by my own irrational rigid self demands to make her orgasm) and I was wanting more. Obviously the prospect of orgasm providing fulfilment rarely happens after prolonged porn use. So, my mind was reaching out to porn.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;At the age of forty, I was visiting my online harem daily, drinking ‘socially’ (whatever that means) and smoking ‘sometimes’ but not so often. I had wrongly subscribed to misguided ideas of ‘moderation’ and ‘entitlement’. I had reached the stage where I couldn&amp;rsquo;t get through a single day without reaching out to porn in the night. With most PMOers, the triggers are the normal stresses of life, like answering the telephone or socializing.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;When I experienced PIED - I knew it was killing my virility. There was no way I could kid myself otherwise. I am smart enough not to ‘project’ the porn fantasies on to real life. But it was like pacifying a dog straining at its leash. But why I couldn&amp;rsquo;t see what it was doing to me mentally, I could not understand. It was almost jumping up and biting me on the nose. The ridiculous thing is that most PMOers suffer the delusion at some time in their life that they enjoy internet porn because it is ‘normal’ and ‘healthy’. I never suffered that delusion, I PMOed because I thought enjoying sex is a ‘birthright’ and I am only doing a normal thing.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Since it was easier at most times for me to get internet porn than a partner I thought I am doing the normal thing. Now I am a non-PMOer, the most difficult part is trying to believe that those days actually happened. It&amp;rsquo;s like awakening from a nightmare and that is about the size of it. Internet porn is a supranormal drug. It is weakening your de-stressing mechanisms, your virility and your energy. The worst aspect of PMO isn&amp;rsquo;t the injury to your health or manliness, it is the warping of the mind. You search for any plausible excuse to go on.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I remember at one stage switching to static images, a failed attempt to cut down on internet porn, in the belief that it was less harmful and I could reign in my ‘habit’. I failed to see the ‘novelty’ and the ‘shock’ demands from my ‘little monster’ to just get more dopamine. Did I ‘stay’ within my boundaries? I ‘favorited’ 2 dimensional photos and my harem collection saw pictures and videos of ‘mild’ type porn rotating in and out like musical chair. When their ‘music’ stopped they ‘exited’. I didn’t understand the novelty-seeking, shock-seeking nature of my brain.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;pied-and-my-excuses&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PIED And My Excuses&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
+&lt;/div&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Once I figured I had PIED, as it had occurred multiple times with two different partners, I switched to more and more sophisticated masturbation. I practised with different artificial vaginas. They are sold as strength training. However, the combo of internet porn and toys needs deft hands, which is off-putting. Besides, by this time I was at the stage of orgasming with a limp member. All I wanted is an orgasm so I did not care about arousal, getting hard and all that. I had a long distance married girlfriend - who likes to share and talk about her sex life in very explicit manner. It turned me on so much that I’d masturbate to orgasm when I am on the phone with her. She knew it and would play with me by cutting off abruptly - to keep me hanging there - making me wanting more when she calls the next time. She had no trouble because I was fully willing to be the subject of playing such games, as long as it led to orgasm. A girl knows when a guy is seeking orgasm and it is his only goal. The only redeeming factor about me was my intelligence and empathy which kept her and my other partners coming back to me.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Most PMOers swear that they only watch static and soft porn and so they are OK. They are actually straining at the leash and thus fighting with their willpower to resist temptations. If they do this too often and for too long they will debit their willpower considerably and fail in other life projects where willpower is of much great value, like in daily exercise, dieting etc. Continuous failure in those areas will make them feel miserable and guilty and very soon they will find themselves back to their entitled relief. If not, they will vent their anger and depression onto their loved ones.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The answer is that once you have become addicted to internet porn, the brainwashing is increased. Your subconscious mind knows that the little monster has to be fed and you block everything else from your mind. As I have already stated, it is fear that keeps people quitting, the fear of that empty, insecure feeling that you get when you stop supplying the brain with dopamine flooding. Just because you are not aware of it doesn&amp;rsquo;t mean it isn&amp;rsquo;t there. You don&amp;rsquo;t have to understand it any more than a cat needs to understand where the under-floor hot-water pipes are. It just knows that if it sits in a certain place it gets the feeling of warmth.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;the-passivity-of-our-mind&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Passivity Of Our Mind&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
+&lt;/div&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;It is the passivity of our minds and dependency on authority leading to brainwashing that is the main difficulty in giving up PMO. The brainwashing of our upbringing in society reinforced with the brainwashing from our own addiction and, most powerful of all, the brainwashing of our friends, relatives and colleagues. Did you notice that up to now I&amp;rsquo;ve frequently referred to &amp;lsquo;giving up&amp;rsquo; PMO, I used the expression at the beginning of the previous paragraph. This is a classic example of the brainwashing. The expression implies a genuine sacrifice. The beautiful truth is that there is absolutely nothing to give up. On the contrary, you will be freeing yourself from a terrible disease and achieving marvellous positive gains. We are going to start removing this brainwashing now. From this point on, no longer will we refer to &amp;lsquo;giving up&amp;rsquo;, but to stopping, quitting or the true position: &lt;strong&gt;ESCAPING!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The only thing that persuades us to PMO in the first place is all the other people doing it. We feel we are missing out. We work so hard to become hooked, yet nobody ever finds out what they have been missing. But every time we see another new video clip it reassures us that there must be something in it, otherwise people wouldn&amp;rsquo;t be doing it - and it wouldn&amp;rsquo;t be such big business all over the world. Even when he has kicked the habit, the ex-PMOer feels he is being deprived when a discussion on a sexy entertainer, singer or even a porn star comes up at a party or other social function. She or he must be good to have all my friends talk about them, no? Do they have ‘hot’ pictures of her in my tube site? He feels safe. He can have just one ‘peek’ that night. And, before he knows it, he is hooked again.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;This brainwashing is extremely powerful and you need to be aware of its effects. I have heard scare stories about wicked men giving heroin mixed candies to kids at schoolyards. The concept of addiction and being compelled to go on taking the drug, filled me with horror. Even to this day, in spite of the fact that I am fairly convinced that &amp;lsquo;pot&amp;rsquo; is not addictive, I would not dare take one puff of marijuana. How ironic that I should have ended up a porn junky. Technology will continue to grow and we will have even faster tube sites and more faster access methods. The industry is investing millions in Virtual Reality so it will become the next best thing. The point is, do we know where we are going? Are we equipped with an under armour of defence so we can enjoy the benefits of technology yet at the same time protect ourselves from its bad effects?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;We are about to remove the brainwashing. It is not the non-PMOer who is being deprived but the poor user who is forfeiting a lifetime of:&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;ul&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HEALTH&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ENERGY&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WEALTH&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PEACE OF MIND&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CONFIDENCE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;COURAGE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SELF-RESPECT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HAPPINESS&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;FREEDOM&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;And what does he gain from these considerable sacrifices? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! Except the illusion of trying to get back to the state of peace, tranquillity and confidence that the non-PMOer enjoys all the time.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;div class=&#34;footnotes&#34; role=&#34;doc-endnotes&#34;&gt;
+&lt;hr&gt;
+&lt;ol&gt;
+&lt;li id=&#34;fn:1&#34;&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;YBOP&lt;/strong&gt; - yourbrainonporn.com, the leading internet porn addiction awareness site.&amp;#160;&lt;a href=&#34;#fnref:1&#34; class=&#34;footnote-backref&#34; role=&#34;doc-backlink&#34;&gt;&amp;#x21a9;&amp;#xfe0e;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li id=&#34;fn:2&#34;&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PUA&lt;/strong&gt; - pickup artist. Someone who teaches men to pick up mates.&amp;#160;&lt;a href=&#34;#fnref:2&#34; class=&#34;footnote-backref&#34; role=&#34;doc-backlink&#34;&gt;&amp;#x21a9;&amp;#xfe0e;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li id=&#34;fn:3&#34;&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reboot forum&lt;/strong&gt; - online resource for those who try temporary abstinence.&amp;#160;&lt;a href=&#34;#fnref:3&#34; class=&#34;footnote-backref&#34; role=&#34;doc-backlink&#34;&gt;&amp;#x21a9;&amp;#xfe0e;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li id=&#34;fn:4&#34;&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Doctors&lt;/strong&gt; - there is a reddit online forum for medical doctors who are quitting.&amp;#160;&lt;a href=&#34;#fnref:4&#34; class=&#34;footnote-backref&#34; role=&#34;doc-backlink&#34;&gt;&amp;#x21a9;&amp;#xfe0e;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ol&gt;
+&lt;/div&gt;
+</description>
+	</item>
+	
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 		<title>03-06 Internet Porn</title>
 		<link>https://vodoraslo.xyz/hackbook/03-06-internet-porn/</link>
@@ -21,7 +449,7 @@ action more happy feelings.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;So the first time you see porn - dopamine injects itself - you act - you orgasm. All of which will now be stored as a script in your brain for easy access next time. I call this a ‘water slide’. Next time at the cue - a sexy commercial or alone time or stress or feeling a little down - you are ready to take a ride on the ‘water slide’. One more thing is that every time to repeat this you are ‘greasing’ it as well - so it is active, alive and more easier to slide the next time.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;As time passes you are most probably not excited as before of the same clip - the reason will be explained shortly - but of similar type, genre, shock-level, our dopamine seeps into the brain but this time lesser than before. Now you feel less arousal, lesser motivation. This low motivation feeling in itself will trigger a feeling of lower satisfaction as our minds engage in constant rating. Then you seek more motivation. Then you ask for more novelty. Then you click on that amateurish, ugly looking, low quality, but high shock valued clip thumbnail which you had confidently said you won’t on your first time.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My Own Online Harem!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;my-own-online-harem&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My Own Online Harem!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;This cycle of novelty, escalation, satiation, desensitization etc. is not the same as the old porn magazine? Neither can you do that in real life with your partner. Maybe if you own a harem? One of the pros of owning a harem is novelty and the cons are desensitization, escalation and of course the cost.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;Going back to the earlier discussion - in this cycle as you crossed the ‘red line’ you also trigger emotions such as guilt, disgust, embarrassment, anxiety and fear - which in turn raise dopamine levels as well. Now the brain may mistakenly associate feelings of anxiety and fear as sexual arousal. This perpetual cycle is only broken by natural causes - fortunately sooner or later. With its free access and privacy it provides boundless harem-like novelty. The dopamine can be theoretically kept very high for a very very long time. I can be satisfied with one lobster once in awhile. But Internet porn is different. It is even worse than drugs. Don’t let me make you nervous. I will shortly show you how to be free from this slavery.&lt;/p&gt;
@@ -36,13 +464,13 @@ action more happy feelings.&lt;/p&gt;
 use?&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;This dopamine flooding, like a quick-acting drug, falls quickly to induce withdrawal pangs. I must at this point dispel a common illusion that PMOers have about withdrawal pangs. They think that withdrawal pangs are the terrible trauma they suffer when they try or are forced to stop PMOing. These are, in fact, mainly mental; the user is feeling deprived of his pleasure or prop. I will explain more about this later.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Little Monster&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;the-little-monster&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Little Monster&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;The actual pangs of withdrawal from PMO are so subtle that most users have lived and died without even realizing they are like drug addicts. When we use the term ‘porn addict&amp;rsquo; we think we just &amp;lsquo;got into the habit&amp;rsquo;. Most PMOers have a horror of drugs, yet that&amp;rsquo;s exactly what they are - drug addicts. Fortunately it is an easy drug to kick, but you need first to accept that you are addicted. There is no physical pain in the withdrawal from PMO. It is merely an empty, restless feeling, the feeling of something missing, which is why many think it is something to do with their hands. If it is prolonged, the user becomes nervous, insecure, agitated, lacking in confidence and irritable. It is like hunger - for a poison, INTERNET PORN.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;Within seconds of engaging in PMO the dopamine is supplied and the craving ends, resulting in the feeling of fulfilment and pleasure that the action gives to the PMOer. In the early days, when we first start PMOing, the withdrawal pangs and their relief are so slight that we are not even aware that they exist. When we begin to masturbate regularly to internet porn we think it is because we&amp;rsquo;ve either come to enjoy them or got into the &amp;lsquo;habit&amp;rsquo;. The truth is we&amp;rsquo;re already hooked; we do not realize it, but that little monster is already inside our stomach and every now and again we have to feed it.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;All PMOers start seeking porn for stupid reasons. Nobody has to. The only reason why anybody continues PMOing, whether they be a casual or a heavy user, is to feed that little monster. The whole business of porn and PMO is a series of confusing conundrums. All sufferers of PMO know at heart that they are fools and have been trapped by something evil. However, I think the most pathetic aspect about this is that the enjoyment that the PMOer gets from a session is the pleasure of trying to get back to the state of peace, tranquillity and confidence that his body had before he became hooked in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Annoying Burglar Alarm&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;the-annoying-burglar-alarm&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Annoying Burglar Alarm&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;You know that feeling when a neighbour’s burglar alarm has been ringing all day, or there has been some other minor, persistent aggravation. Then the noise suddenly stops - that marvellous feeling of peace and tranquillity is experienced. It is not really peace but the ending of the aggravation. Before we start the next PMO session, our bodies are complete. We then force our brains to pump dopamine into the body using PMO, and when we are done orgasming and the dopamine starts to leave, we suffer withdrawal pangs - not physical pain, just an empty feeling. We are not even aware that it exists, but it is like a dripping tap inside our bodies. Our rational minds do not understand it. They do not need to. All we know is that we want porn and when we masturbate the craving goes, and for the moment we are content and confident again just as we were before we
 became addicted. However, the satisfaction is only temporary because in order to relieve the craving you have to get more porn. As soon as you orgasm the craving starts again and so the chain goes on. It is a chain for life - &lt;strong&gt;UNLESS YOU BREAK IT&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
@@ -56,7 +484,7 @@ became addicted. However, the satisfaction is only temporary because in order to
 &lt;p&gt;The heroin doesn&amp;rsquo;t relieve it. On the contrary, it causes it. Non-PMOers - say a 14 year old in 2008 - didn&amp;rsquo;t suffer the empty feeling of needing internet porn or start to panic when they are off- line. Non-PMOers cannot understand how PMOers can possibly obtain pleasure from two dimensional videos with muted sounds and abnormal body proportions. And do you know something? PMOers themselves cannot understand why they do it after some time either.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;We talk about internet porn being relaxing or giving satisfaction. But how can you be satisfied unless you were dissatisfied in the first place? Why don&amp;rsquo;t non-PMOer suffer from this dissatisfied state and why, after a no-sex date, when the non-PMOers are completely relaxed, are PMOers completely unrelaxed until they have satisfied their &amp;rsquo;little monster&amp;rsquo;?&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Pleasure or Crutch?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;a-pleasure-or-crutch&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Pleasure or Crutch?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;Forgive me if I dwell on this subject for a moment. The main reason that PMOers find it difficult to quit is that they believe that they are giving up a genuine pleasure or crutch. It is absolutely essential to understand that you are giving up nothing whatsoever. The best way to understand the subtleties of the PMO trap is to compare it with eating. If we are in the habit of eating regular meals, we are not aware of being hungry between meals. Only if the meal is delayed are we aware of being hungry, and even then, there is no physical pain, just an empty, insecure feeling which we know as: &amp;lsquo;I need to eat.&amp;rsquo; And the process of satisfying our hunger is a very pleasantpastime.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;PMOing appears to be almost identical. The empty, insecure feeling which we know as: &amp;lsquo;wanting or needing an PMO orgasm’ is identical to a hunger for food, although one will not satisfy the other. Like hunger, there is no physical pain and the feeling is so imperceptible that we are not even aware of it between PMO sessions. It&amp;rsquo;s only if we want to masturbate and aren&amp;rsquo;t able to reach internet for porn that we become aware of any discomfort. But when we do PMO we feel satisfied.&lt;/p&gt;
@@ -68,12 +496,12 @@ became addicted. However, the satisfaction is only temporary because in order to
 &lt;li&gt;Eating doesn&amp;rsquo;t create hunger and genuinely relieves it, whereas the first PMO starts the craving for dopamine and each subsequent one, far from relieving it, ensures that you suffer it for the rest of life.&lt;/li&gt;
 &lt;/ol&gt;
 &lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PMO is a Habit?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;pmo-is-a-habit&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PMO is a Habit?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;This is an opportune moment to dispel another common myth about PMO - that it is a habit. Is eating a habit? If you think so, try breaking it completely. No, to describe eating as a habit would be the same as describing breathing as a habit. Both are essential for survival. It is true that different people are in the habit of satisfying their hunger at different times and with varying types of food. But eating itself is not a habit. Neither is PMO. The only reason any PMOer fires up the browser is to try to end the empty, insecure feeling that the previous orgasm and the PMO session created. It is true that different PMOers are in the habit of trying to relieve their withdrawal pangs at different times, but PMO itself is not a habit.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;On the internet they frequently refer to PMO as a habit and in this hackbook, for convenience, I also refer to the &amp;lsquo;habit&amp;rsquo;. However, be constantly aware that it is not habit, on the contrary it is no more nor less than DRUG ADDICTION! When we start to PMO we have to force ourselves to learn to cope with it. Before we know it, we are ‘escalating’&lt;sup id=&#34;fnref:1&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#fn:1&#34; class=&#34;footnote-ref&#34; role=&#34;doc-noteref&#34;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; - we have to then have more bizarre and more shocking porn. The thrill is in the hunting&amp;hellip; not in the killing. If we don&amp;rsquo;t then panic sets in and as we go through life we tend to novelty-seek more and more. Worse is when this seeking of higher shock level get into our real life. Have you heard about people suffering from PIED, that too in solo? How about wet dreams and fantasies where you are not even there but only involving others? There is no performance stress but I am not even getting hard. Great!&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Crossing The Red Line&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;crossing-the-red-line&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Crossing The Red Line&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;This is because, as with any other drug, the body tends to develop immunity to the effects of the same old porn clips and our brain wants more or something else. After quite a short period of watching the same clip it ceases to relieve completely the withdrawal pangs that the previous PMO session had created. You want to stay on the safe side of your own ‘red line’ but your brain is asking you to click on that ‘forbidden fruit’ clip. There is a tug of war occurring in this supposed porn paradise.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;You feel better than you did before starting this PMO session but you are in fact more nervous and less relaxed than you would be as a non-PMOer, like someone who is living in Loma Linda or in an Amish village, even though you are actually PMOing and living in your supposed “porn paradise.” This position is even more ridiculous than wearing tight shoes because as you go through life an increasing amount of the discomfort remains even when the shoes are removed.&lt;/p&gt;
@@ -86,19 +514,19 @@ became addicted. However, the satisfaction is only temporary because in order to
 &lt;p&gt;What magic drug can suddenly reverse the very effect it had minutes before? If you think about it, what other types of occasion are there in our lives; apart from sleep? The truth is that PMO neither relieves boredom and stress nor promotes concentration and relaxation. It is all just illusion. Apart from being a drug, PMO is also a destroyer of happiness and virility.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;In case you have ideas of toning down to other more ‘realistic’ or ‘soft’ genres of porn and such, I should make it quite clear that the content of this book applies to all porn, yes, that includes, print, webcams, pay-per-views, chat, live shows etc. that is on high speed internet where ‘novelty’ and ‘shock’ is the nature of the game. Imagination goes farther than reality. The human body is the most sophisticated object on our planet. No species, even the lowest amoeba or worm, can survive without knowing the difference between food and poison.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Brain Reward Circuit Mechanics&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;brain-reward-circuit-mechanics&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Brain Reward Circuit Mechanics&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;Through a process of natural selection over thousand of years, our minds and bodies have developed techniques for rewarding actions that multiply and sustain humanity. Yet our minds and bodies are not ready for the supernormal stimulus that is bigger, brighter, colourful, edgier and more shocking than the one we have now. We are attracted proportional to the degree of how far the outlier is from our individual normal. It can be two dimensional clip - and a muted one at that - we will get aroused. Look at the same clip again and again and you won’t be. You just moved your red line close to the outlier and in no time you will enclose it in your normal consciousness. It is natural and it is so that you can multiply and grow this human race. In real life there are checks and balances in place so you take a break and go away do something else. With internet porn you there are no such checks and balances and you are living in a virtual harem!&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;When we took a ‘peep’ at internet porn the first time, a few images were titillating but most were disgusting, causing you to avert your eyes away. Like you would if had accidentally glanced a feeding mother’s breast. And some of us are even revolted with what they saw when the star reminded them of someone dear to their heart or a scene which recalled their own instance of being the victim. Some don’t feel like it to browse and masturbate at the same time. It may be hard to believe for you but the non-PMOs, who don’t PMO after their first time, are the lucky ones. They actually decided that it was not their cup of tea. It must be hard for you to believe but stay with me.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;How many of us don’t visit brothels - even when you are far from home? Why not? It’s not the social stigma? How many of us did not bring home a bottle on your way back from work - even after a hard day? Why not ? You ‘deserve’ it after that big deal you made? You just decided, after your first instance, that it’s not your cup of tea. That&amp;rsquo;s all.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Are PMOers Mentally Weak?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;are-pmoers-mentally-weak&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Are PMOers Mentally Weak?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;It is a fallacy that physically weak and mentally weak-willed people become PMOers. The lucky ones are those who find that first instance repulsive and they are cured for life. Or, alternatively, they are not mentally prepared to go through the severe learning process of fighting the obstructions of self-talking themselves to get hooked, fear of ‘getting caught’, not technical enough to create an online cache, operate privacy settings in the browser etc.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;To me this is the most tragic part of this whole business. How hard we worked to become hooked, and this is why it is difficult to stop teenagers. Because they are skilled in seeking and finding material, they know online privacy options and can clean their tracks - if they still feel some stigma and they (wrongfully) believe they can stop whenever they want to. Why do they not learn from us? Then again, why did we not learn from our PMOers and addicts?&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;Many PMOers believe they enjoy online internet porn. It is an illusion. What we are actually doing when we jump from genre to genre is to keep our ‘novelty’ monkey within the ‘red line’ of ‘safe’ porn genres to get our dopamine fix, like heroin addicts who think that they enjoy injecting themselves. The withdrawal pangs from heroin are relatively severe and all they are really enjoying is the ritual of relieving those pangs.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The High From The Dance Around The Red Line&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;the-high-from-the-dance-around-the-red-line&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The High From The Dance Around The Red Line&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;Even with that one clip on which he lingers longer - the PMOer constantly teaches himself to filter out the bad and ugly portions of a porn clip. Even if it is solo, you still do the ‘filtering’ on the body parts that appeal to you the most. In fact some even take pleasure in this game to find an excuse to declare that they like ‘soft’ stuff and are not addicted to supranormal stimuli. Sometimes even this constant dance around the red line in itself produces a sort of high as well.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;Ask a user who believes that he sticks to a certain actor or genre - only because he likes something about the star or the theme (if any) of the clip: “If you cannot get your normal brand of porn and can only obtain a poor or unsafe brand, do you stop masturbating?” No way. A PMOer will masturbate to anything rather than abstain and it doesn&amp;rsquo;t matter if he has to switch to escalating themes, different sex-orientation-themes, look-alike actresses, dangerous settings shocking relationships etc. To begin with they taste awful but if you persevere you will learn to like them. Most PMOers will also try to seek masturbation even after having real sex (unfulfilment, porn-induced unrealistic expectations etc.), or after a long, stressful work day, fever, colds, flu, sore throats and even when admitted in hospitals.&lt;/p&gt;
@@ -109,13 +537,13 @@ became addicted. However, the satisfaction is only temporary because in order to
 &lt;/ol&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;You will quite rightly ask why it is that many PMOers find it so difficult to stop, go through months of torture and spend the rest of their lives pining for it at odd times. The answer is the second reason why we use Internet porn - the brainwashing. The brain-chemical addiction is easy to cope with. Most PMOers go days without online porn - when they are on business trips or travel etc. The withdrawal pangs don’t affect them. Their little porn monster knows that you will open your laptop as soon as you return to hotel room or your den. Ah, you can even survive this obnoxious client and your megalomaniac manager - just ‘knowing’ that the fix is there for your take. It doesn&amp;rsquo;t bother the PMOers.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Smokers Analogy&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;the-smokers-analogy&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Smokers Analogy&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;A good analogy is the situation of smokers - if they went ten hours during the day without a cigarette they&amp;rsquo;d be tearing their hair out. Many smokers will buy a new car nowadays and refrain from smoking in it. Many will visit theatres, supermarkets, churches, etc. and not being able to smoke doesn&amp;rsquo;t bother them. Even on the trains there have been no riots. Smokers are almost pleased for someone or something to force them to stop smoking.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;PMOers will automatically refrain from using internet porn in the home of their parents while visiting for family get togethers etc. with little discomfort to themselves. In fact, most PMOers have extended periods during which they abstain without effort. Even in my case I would quite happily go a week or so without a PMO incident. In the later years as a PMOer I actually used to look forward to these days when I could stop choking my penis (what a ridiculous &amp;lsquo;habit&amp;rsquo;).&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;The brain chemical addiction (little monster) is easy to cope with, even when you are still addicted, and there are thousands of PMOers who remain casual users all their lives. They are just as heavily addicted as the heavy PMOer. There are even heavy PMOers who have kicked the &amp;lsquo;habit&amp;rsquo; but will have an occasional ‘peek’, and that keeps them addicted. You are ‘greasing’ the ‘water slide’ of the brain only to see you slide down at the next dip in your mood.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;div style=&#34;text-align: center;&#34;&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Big Monster - The Brainwashing&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;the-big-monster---the-brainwashing&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Big Monster - The Brainwashing&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
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 &lt;p&gt;You are smart enough to know (aside, I will explain shortly why PMOers are in fact a strong willed and hard working bunch) that not all porn workers get a W-2 with 401k and stock options. Only a very rare actor and that too for a very short period of time of their career may be.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;Not all the amateurs are ‘amateurs’ on these tube sites, oversized body parts and overcharged scenarios are the norm, aided by a bit of the ‘viagran’ help.&lt;/p&gt;
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+&lt;h2 id=&#34;im-going-to-cure-the-world-of-pmo&#34;&gt;&amp;lsquo;I&amp;rsquo;M GOING TO CURE THE WORLD OF PMO&amp;rsquo;&lt;/h2&gt;
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 &lt;p&gt;I was talking to my mentor. He thought that I had flipped. Understandable if you consider that he had watched me fail on numerous attempts to quit. The most recent had been two years previously. I&amp;rsquo;d actually survived six months of sheer purgatory before I finally succumbed and found myself clicking on stacked up tabs of porn sites. I&amp;rsquo;m not ashamed to admit that I cried like a baby. I was crying because I knew that I was condemned to be an addict for life. I&amp;rsquo;d put so much effort into that attempt and suffered so much misery that I knew I would never have the strength to go through that ordeal again. I&amp;rsquo;m not a violent man, but if some patronizing non-PMO’er had been stupid enough at that moment to suggest to me that all users can find it easy to quit, immediately and permanently, I would not have been responsible for my actions. However, I&amp;rsquo;m convinced that any jury in the world, comprised of PMOers only, would have pardoned me on the grounds of justifiable homicide.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;Perhaps you too find it impossible to believe that any PMOer can find it easy to quit. If so, I beg you not to cast this book into the rubbish bin. Please trust me. I assure you that you can find it