Fair limit for watching porn in a week, according to experts

The internet is a means that makes it easier for someone to access pornographic content quickly and without limits. Not to mention, now many online networking sites provide a variety of pornographic images or videos for free. The convenience offered by this makes many people indirectly addicted to pornography. In order not to develop bad things, how many times watching porn is still considered normal? Here it is the answer.

How many times watching porn is still normal?

Basically there are no definite numbers to determine how often you watch porn, which is still considered normal. The reason is, everyone is different in exploring their own sexual desires. One thing is for sure, if watching porn is done occasionally and according to the needs of your life, this is still fairly normal.

However, if it is done continuously until it has an impact on everyday life, such as neglecting work and affecting sexual life with a partner, this is certainly not normal. If you have this, this condition is called pornography addiction.

Quoted from the Psychcentral page, based on research, a person is classified as a porn addict when he can spend at least 11 or 12 hours per week watching pornographic films. Whether it's from physical sources (books and magazines) or digital (laptops, computers, tablets, and smartphone which they use everyday). However, the researchers believe that this amount of time spent could be two or even three times as often as the amount already mentioned. Moreover, if they also show signs such as:

• Continue to watch porn even though we promise to stop.
• The time intensity for watching porn is increasing day by day so that more time is spent watching pornographic videos.
• Seeing sexual content that is getting more passionate and even strange.
• Often lies and is secretive.
• Becomes more emotional, irritable when asked to stop.
• Reducing or even disinterest in sexual, physical, and emotional relationships with partners.
• Seeing objects as sexual objects.

Then what if you are already addicted to watching porn?

Porn films that are easily available via the internet are indeed very difficult to control. However, addiction to pornographic films can actually be abandoned. The trick, by learning to reduce the habit of watching slowly. At first glance it looks easy, but to do it is certainly not easy and requires a lot of struggle.

According to Douglas Weiss, Ph.D., a psychologist from the Heart to Heart Counseling Center in the United States, there are five steps that porn addicts need to take to break the habit. Here are the steps.

1. Make up your mind and determination

As with smoking, there is no panacea to stop the habit of watching porn except from self-awareness. That is why, a firm and unanimous intention can be the first step to starting it. Deep inside you must have the will to quit.

The trick, strengthen your resolve by saying, "I have to stop watching porn". After that, stop linking porn as a pleasure. If porn is food, don't call it a delicacy anymore. Think of him as junk food, the unhealthy food that should be avoided.

2. Ask for support from those closest to you

Besides intention, the most effective way to stop this bad habit is to ask the help of the closest person. That's why you have to be honest and open about your problems to those closest to you. Choose someone you can trust and always listen to their opinion. This person could be your parents, spouse, friend, or even your spiritual teacher.

In essence, there must be at least one person closest to you who knows about the porn addiction you are experiencing. This is so they can help and support you in the process of quitting this addiction.

3. "Clean" all collections

Start your new life by taking apart the collection storage area files porn. Whether it's in physical form, to digital ones. Collect everything in one container, then throw it away. Apart from your computer or laptop, don't forget to also clean your cellphone from pornographic photos or videos.

Don't selective, everyone files which contains pornographic content must be removed. In essence, get rid of anything that makes you feel like watching porn.

4. Block all access

You have to block all the "gates" that can allow you to watch pornographic movies. You can use pornographic material blocking software at browser Internet. Not only computers, you also have to protect them too smartphone, tablet, cable tv network, or office internet connection. So, if at any time you receive an electronic mail (e-mail) containing pornographic elements, you can immediately block them. In essence, anything pornographic, no matter how small, must be blocked or intercepted.

5. Find a useful activity

Watching porn is closely related to the production of the hormone dopamine. When watching pornographic films, dopamine production will experience an increase, which makes a person's mood happier and more relaxed. So, how can you stay happy and relaxed without having to watch porn movies?

The answer is to do activities that you enjoy and at the same time provide benefits when doing them, for example sports, hanging out with friends, doing art (painting, drawing, playing music), and so on. In essence, do everything that makes you love it so that it makes you slowly forget to get into the habit of watching porn movies.

Remember, watching porn is only fiction and an unrealistic imagination. It's better to focus on what's going on in real life, rather than just being a passive spectator of other people's fantasies.