Start where you are.
A guide, five short self-reflections, a plan you print, eighteen honest articles, and a shelf of books — Christ-centered, and grounded in the clinical work that actually maps this. All of it free. None of it needs the app, and none of it asks who you are.
Take a look at where you are.
Five ways in, depending on how long you have and how close you want to look, and a plan for the moment it pulls. Everything you type stays in your browser.
The whole of it, in one sitting
About twenty minutes, and it prints if you’d rather have it on paper.
Is porn taking more than you meant to give?
Six honest questions, two minutes. No score, no one watching — a clearer answer than another year of wondering.
Does it have more hold than you’d want?
None of them ask how often, and there’s no label at the end.
Where does a slip actually start?
The recovery world’s three circles. Map yours, print it.
What do I do when the pull comes?
Your ritual, your first move, your people and a letter from the ones this costs, written now and printed as a toolkit.
A sexual addiction test, and what it can and can’t tell you.
The screen researchers built to match the World Health Organization’s definition. It is not a diagnosis, and it will not call you anything.
A porn addiction test, and what it can and can’t tell you.
The five questions researchers use to screen for problematic porn use. It is not a diagnosis, and it will not call you anything.
I picked this up at ten years old. I put it down at thirty-eight.
Everything on this page is what I went looking for and couldn’t find — the questions somebody should have asked me, and the books that finally explained what was actually happening. None of it needs the app. None of it asks who you are.
Read the whole storyThe longer answers.
Written by Luke, who picked this up at ten years old and put it down at thirty-eight. His story is here.
What’s actually happening
Do all men watch porn?
No — most do, and roughly three in ten men under forty did not look once last year.
Why can’t I stop watching porn?
Because it works — it is a fast, reliable way to not feel something, and nothing has been given that job yet.
Why do I watch porn when I’m bored?
Bored is usually a label for something underneath — and a one-minute private tool to find what it was.
Is porn as addictive as cocaine?
No, and the chart people use to prove it has a bar on it nobody ever measured.
What is sexual addiction?
The word is argued over. The pattern is not. The WHO’s definition and four others, side by side.
Is AI roleplay porn?
Words, not pictures, doing the job porn did — and what the research has and has not shown.
What to do about it
How to stop watching porn
The five things that actually helped, roughly in the order they mattered.
Why you need an accountability partner to quit porn
A stump would not budge for an hour of everything I had. A neighbor with the right tool got it out in fifteen minutes.
NoFap isn’t working
The counting proved you could go without — it cannot see the three questions that decide whether this actually leaves.
How long does it take to rewire your brain from porn?
Ninety days is the steep start, not a reboot — and one bad night does not send you back to day one.
Do porn blockers work?
Yes, at buying time. What the research has actually tested, and why the off switch matters more than the lock.
The best porn blockers and recovery apps, honestly
Covenant Eyes, QUITTR, Fortify, Canopy and the rest — what each does well, and where each is the wrong choice.
The best free porn blockers, and the catch with each
Only the ones that are really free — no trial clock, no card — and what each one cannot do.
Is there a porn blocker that can’t be bypassed?
Not on a phone you own. What holds is whether taking it off has to go through another person.
Bramble next to the four apps men ask about
Price, who sees your activity, and whether the clinical claims are sourced. Every figure checked against the product’s own site.
Where God is in it
Does watching porn mean I don’t love God?
No — the grief afterward is the evidence, not the verdict.
What the Bible says about sexual immorality — and about hiding it
The standard is higher than most men think, and the cleansing happens in the light, not after it.
Is sexual desire a sin?
No — and the fact that you’re asking means someone already taught you otherwise.
Is following OnlyFans creators cheating?
You’re right that it isn’t pornography. That’s exactly why it works better.
The books that did the work.
The Bible first, then sixteen books on five shelves, and the first shelf is the four that mattered most. Luke read every one of them on the way through, and none of them are optional reading dressed up as a list. Direct links to the author or publisher, and to the audiobook where one exists. No affiliate links.
- Start here
- The foundation
- Sorting yourself out
- Working recovery
- After betrayal
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