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The Steps To Breaking Pornography Addiction

The Steps To Breaking Pornography Addiction

Step 6 – Join a Group

You need help.  In addition to help from a therapist, you need encouragement (and accountability) from other men.  Preferably from other men who understand your problem and have learned to deal with it themselves.

Step 4 – Purify Your Home

If you've become a slave to pornography, then you must understand that having anything tempting in your house is going to plunge you back into this sin.  Perhaps, at one time, you could watch an R rated movie that contained a nude scene and not been tempted.  But because of your addiction, you can't anymore.

Step 5 – Seek Counseling

Pornography and masturbation, if they've become a habit, have created psychological problems in your mind.  They've warped the way you see things and the way you do things.  You cannot simply flick a switch and change yourself back to how you were before they got to you.

Step 2 – Confess Your Problem

Viewing pornography and masturbation are both mortal sins.  Under normal circumstances, you cannot be forgiven unless you go to confession.  That's plain and simple Catholic Teaching.