The End of Porn? (Nick Stumphauzer) | Ep. 556

Pints With Aquinas

Matt Fradd

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 6.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2025

⏱️ 198 minutes

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Summary

In this interview, Matt sits down with filmmaker and porn-blocker developer Nick Stumphauzer for a conversation about quitting porn addiction. The conversation focuses the defeat of porn via Nick's new software, and how to navigate modernity and technology as modern Catholics.

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Timestamps:

00:00:00 – Intro and Matt's new book
00:01:45 – Nick's background and starting SHIFT
00:16:57 – Does accountability actually work for porn?
00:31:25 – Removing access to porn
00:35:35 – Matt loves SHIFT
00:57:00 – How Nick created SHIFT
01:11:53 – Jordan Peterson and drugs
01:23:06 – How many relationships can we sustain?
01:28:40 – The fear of giving up technology
01:40:56 – Screentime and anxiety
01:49:54 – Is SHIFT legal?
01:58:34 – Positive feedback from users
02:12:06 – Compensatory action
02:40:59 – Matt's life without a phone
02:55:37 – How to get in touch with Nick
03:03:05 – The definition of porn

Transcript

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0:00.0	Pines with Aquinas is brought to you by Truthly, which is a groundbreaking Catholic AI app built to help you know, live and defend the Catholic faith.
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0:15.3	You know St. Anthony Desert Hermit? I don't know if we've heard the story that he was in the desert where hermits go and the queen of Shiva appeared to him naked to tempt him. Okay, I don't know about this. Yeah. And it's like that's that sounds tough, but imagine being eight and having
0:36.5	whoa, yes.
0:38.3	4K sex acts.
0:41.3	500 women, 5 million women, way hotter than the Queen of Sheba.
0:45.3	Probably, she was probably ugly.
0:47.3	Maybe she was beautiful.
0:48.3	And I also think that the most violent political act that I can perform
0:55.0	is to give away the solution to pornography.
1:00.0	I think that is the most vicious thing that I can do,
1:02.0	the people who hate me and who I hate in this world
1:05.0	and want to see all of us in hell forever.
1:10.0	They're drug's free,. They're drugs free.
1:11.9	Okay, solution's free.
1:13.2	See who wins.
1:19.4	Hey, everybody.
1:20.5	Before we get into today's interview,
1:22.2	I want to tell you about my brand new book.
1:24.8	It's called Jesus, Our Refuge.
1:31.0	If you, like many people, unlike all of us, to one degree or another, have been seeking refuge in things other than Jesus Christ and have just found
1:36.7	yourself increasingly weary, then this book is for you. This book is about taking Jesus seriously
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