I normally cut back to reasonable levels during the summertime, and when I can get outside in the nice weather. And after how many gigabytes I've downloaded in the past 3 months, even I have found it is getting repetitive. After 12 years, I've seen quite a bit, and I'm surprised my life isn't worse than it is.
I figure I spend between 250-350 hours each year downloading it, but I don't watch half of the stuff I download. Part of me likes to collect stuff and organize it, which I have done. Part of it is trying to find the best movie and new movies. It's also the ability to see thousands of girls at anytime without rejection. And, a few times a week you need to get off.
I've never spent any money on this, so it meets my desire to do free stuff. And it is exciting and fun, even if it is only in a fantasy world. Most of the stuff I watch is amateur and basic movies.
What tips would you give someone that wanted to cut back? And is there any amount that would be considered ok? I have been able to go a week or two without it, but it is too easy to access it when you are on-line. One thing that worked a little was to leave my laptop at work every other night. There is a big difference in the nights that I could access the Internet and the ones where I couldn't. Instead of going to bed around 1 or 2am, I would go to bed around 10-11pm for instance. I also found that I would clean my place a little more. Part of that is because I can't read all of the message boards and other stuff on-line. I know if I cut back in this area, that I will just spend more time at other sites or analyzing the stock market.
Do the guys watch less (or none) of it if they are in a relationship, or does the amount same about the same? I would much rather have the real thing, and would think that I would only watch it one or two times a month. I don't know what to do in real life, and even though I've read about dating and watched TV shows about it, I'm not sure if I can do it. But that is a whole different thread.
This is a great site about this topic:
http://www.pointlesswasteoftime.com/pornoff.html
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Recently some chick testified before the Senate about porn addiction. Now, there aren't many things that will get you shouted out of a chatroom quicker than talking about porn addiction, except maybe claiming that file-sharing is wrong or that Jon Stewart lost that Crossfire debate.
So the entire red-blooded male internet had a good chuckle at the odd, puritan fundamentalists poisoning our government, wondering when they were going to suggest that online porn was the work of a Pagan witchcraft conspiracy or even demons uploading from the second circle of Hell.
I would have laughed along with them, but I noticed that of the six Opera tabs I had open, five were tuned to porn.
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