On Porn: How To Quit Relapsing
ManTalks Podcast
Connor Beaton
4.8 • 591 Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2025
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Talking points: mindset, addiction, porn
It's a serious challenge. You're doing well, you think you've broken free—and suddenly you're back. This week, I dig into practical ways you can reinforce and reenergize your commitment. For more helpful info, check out my free guide here: https://training.mantalks.com/Quit
(00:00:00) - Intro, and the first step
(00:04:13) - Get to the bottom of what’s driving the urge
(00:08:56) - Purpose beats porn
(00:11:15) - Redirect AND replace
(00:14:05) - Understand porn as a “pseudo-attachment”
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| 0:00.0 | All right, team, welcome back to The Man Talk Show. |
| 0:09.2 | Connor Beaton here. |
| 0:10.1 | Today we're going to be talking about quitting porn, what to do when you relapse. |
| 0:13.7 | One of the things that I see with so many men, and this is my challenge as well, is that |
| 0:19.2 | when you want to stop watching porn, it can take a long time. |
| 0:22.1 | You can continue to relapse. |
| 0:23.5 | It can bring up a whole bunch of shame and frustration. |
| 0:26.2 | It can just be, can really be a big pain in the ass. |
| 0:29.4 | And so today I'm going to talk about specific things that you can do when you feel the |
| 0:34.5 | urge to relapse and when you do relapse and you fall back into the behavior |
| 0:38.5 | pattern. If you're interested, I've created a free guide for you on how to quit porn that is |
| 0:42.9 | very robust. It's in the description below. So you can just click the link below and you can check |
| 0:49.4 | that out. It's free and it will guide you through how to quit porn. Okay, let's dive straight in. |
| 0:55.5 | So the first thing that you want to do in all of this is reinforce the decision that you're making |
| 1:02.8 | around why you want to quit porn. For me, it was about developing more self-respect, |
| 1:09.8 | building myself into someone that I admired because |
| 1:13.1 | I felt completely out of control with porn. |
| 1:16.7 | And maybe that's not the case for you. |
| 1:18.4 | Maybe porn is just something that you're like, it's not that big of a deal. |
| 1:21.4 | I use it once in a while. |
| 1:22.6 | It's not that big of a problem. |
| 1:24.0 | But I would like to stop using it because I want to have more energy or I want to |
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