You can dispense of all the hormonal talk, the nofap superpowers, the religion-tinted shame and guilt, the increasing intensity of pornographic content, the loneliness and anxiety, the subjugation of young women.

You only have to be convinced of three things to understand why porn is detrimental: i) children gaining their first exposure to sex through hyperstimulating content, sometimes before even starting puberty, is bad; ii) every hour spent watching porn is an hour spent not pursuing positive, transcendent experiences (or even just being outside and hanging out with friends); and iii) it’s not life-affirming to be conditioned to watching another man have sex with the women you want to have sex with.

That’s it - that’s the end of the debate. Nobody has to figure out whether it’s a clinical condition, an addiction in the formal sense, a ‘psyop’. People get caught up in the ‘addiction’ of porn and then addicted to the cycle of guilt and shame itself. The day you quit is the day you decide to move on to better things.