Solitary secrets and staying hooked

Deception, secrecy, covering tracks, lies… all key factors in my second tip for making sure you remain utterly hooked on pornography.

Permanent Addiction Tip 2: Don’t stop keeping secrets

Here’s a question for you – ever developed the ‘alt+tab’ reflex? How about the ‘ctrl+F4′ finger movement?

Let’s say you’re catching a sneaky porn session whilst your family watch TV downstairs, or whilst your partner sleeps unknowingly in the bedroom. Suddenly, you hear a footstep outside and the door pushes open… PANIC! Get it off the screen!! This is no time for fiddling with the mouse and suddenly switching off the screen will give the game away, so the ‘alt+tab’ shuffle comes into it’s own. Flick – you deftly switch applications to another browser window, or that boring spreadsheet for work. Your partner, son, daughter or flatmate enters the room and doesn’t notice a thing. Saved by the reactions of two fingers.

Committed porn addicts master this reflex as part of a cunning variety of secrecy tricks: clean-up programs, hidden folders, secret hard drives, password protected logins and plain old locked drawers for ‘personal filing’. It’s their own special, private places for treasuring those images, movie files, website addresses and more.

If you’re serious about achieving long-lasting addiction to porn, you’ll continue to kid yourself that you’re winning some kind of game here. You’ll spend more and more time mastering the art of covering your internet tracks. You certainly don’t want to question why it’s so important to keep doing this thing that those close to you must never know about. Just keep telling yourself that it’s your special pleasure or relaxation, and they just wouldn’t understand.

Overcoming a porn habit means considering the long-term consequences of a secretive, online sex life that is at odds with your closest relationships, and evaluating which you value most. So to remain completely addicted, make sure this doesn’t even cross your mind…

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