I wouldn't equate hentai with porn and it is not equally damaging. This was before joining Nofap. The strategy was to never look at any nude/semi nude women, no pictures no Porn nothing. If the urges were strong I would allow myself to view hentai, only Vanilla stuff. How was this better? Firstly you weren't watching real women, so it was relatively less sinful from a religious perspective and not demeaning to any real person. It wasn't as disgusting as porn, usually had a plot and made you want to have a real relationship. And the biggest thing was that it didn't creep up in my brain and torment me. Meaning since it's all animations it doesn't stick in your head. Meanwhile Porn would always stay in your head. So that was a good step, then I joined Nofap and now I have adopted the Hard mode way. So if there's someone who keeps on relapsing by going to Porn, this is a good way to break the habit.
I tried this approach last year and found myself getting deeper into more depraved animated fantasies. Although I'm not keen on trying it again I'm just curious: how did/do you keep from escalating? And is that process different than how to abstain from MO in the first place?
I would disagree, the last Porn I watched would be 6-8 months ago but some of its still stuck in my head, hentai not at all. Porn I wanted to go back to again and again, not the same with animations
i have watched some of the most terrible shit on hentai .. and i stopped watching it bcoz it was that bad...
What I mean to say is that a viable strategy is to use something less exciting and more decent than your current thing. While not going back to your old thing. Use this regressively to get shit out of your head and then stop completely.
Well..do you know that hentai (the whole "cartoon porn "thing) is even more fucked up and twisted than actual porn..beacuse these are just cartoons there is no limits to the sexual acts that you could find!!
The most perverted ideas I had came from it. Now I pay the price by being alone. Yes it is not real, but the effect is the same. This is like thinking you can shoot yourself with blanks without getting hurt.
Wait, so like ok sure hentai won't degrade, take advantage of someone or something like that from what you're actually watching, great, maybe the creator who knows but then people like us have suffers from it if anyone. But you potentially want to create/grow another addiction to help with your current one that in my opinion is equaly if not worse(very likely) for the user. Distracting yourself to deal with your addiction, that I approve of but now down the road you have two addictions working at 50/50% and that's a win? Distract yourself with a healthy lifestyle instead to begin with, taking care of your body, work, educate yourself and socialize. I like that road better but hey everyone is different?
Please man..we all are here to help each other's. I respect you if your intention to help us. But REALLY this is the most weird idea I ever heard on nofap.. all you are saying basically is "switch from watching this kind of porn to that kind of porn..which is actually even worse!" . I hope you can see the proplem here. God bless ya!
I think I understand why you chose this analogy, but vaping is visible - a big puff of smoke comes out which can trigger cigarette addicts to crave a smoke. Vaping might help someone quit smoking but it makes them a dick to recovering cigarette addicts. If you were going around MOing in public to your vanilla hentai with a look of ecstasy on your face, I don't think we'd like you very much. What do you mean by "a last resort?" And "to each their own?"
Pros: It is not contributing to the sex-trade Cons: Because it is animated, it can get you hooked on things that porn cannot