So, I noticed the porn folder on my computer was getting rather engorged. I measured it, and it was a full 13 GB at attention. Now, I enjoy some good porn as much as the next person, but that seemed a little big even for me. It was getting to the point that it was more painful than pleasurable to have the entire thing stuck inside my computer. I decided to just chop it off entirely.
OK, I’m out of entendres. But seriously, it feels kind of refreshing. I’m not exactly swearing off porn, but I just don’t want it to be taking up so much of my life (or my hard drive, although I still had about 75 gigs free) that I’m spending significant chunks of my limited free time every day watching it when I could be doing something much more productive and rewarding in the long run (like going out and meeting a future real live mate). I’ve been taking all kinds of initiatives toward changing my life around lately so this seemed like a relatively easy but still important step. I’m kind of proud of myself.
Do you feel as though you might have an addiction to porn? Is that why you’re looking at the deleting as a positive action as opposed to just a cleaning of your hard drive?
Tonight, I am changing the name of my porn folder to this. I’m not sure how much is in it. I’ve got several hundred gigs of hard drive space, so it wouldn’t surprise me if it’s around 100 gigs, combined accumulation from puberty to now.
Not quite an addiction, I just feel like I spend more time watching it/masturbating than I really want to (usually 3-4 times a day) and will be happier spending that time on my other interests. I’m not saying I won’t still surf it on the web from time to time, but at least that will force me to go to a little effort to get it, and thus it will be something I only do when I really want to do it. When I have tons and tons of videos sitting on my hard drive, it’s so accessible that it’s too easy to blow off other things (no pun intended) in favor of it because it’s just right there, you know? I’ll watch it and whack off for no other reason than because I’m bored, even though I wasn’t feeling particularly horny to begin with, and I feel that is ultimately detrimental to my life.
From puberty to now?!? You kids have no idea how good you have it. :mad:
If I DID have any computer porn from when I was in puberty, it would be ASCII. How not titillating. And if I DID have any of my print material from that time period still in my possession, I imagine most of the pages would be useless by now.
