Pornography, this simply mean the picture, video, skit, reels, of pornographic content, meaning anything sexual or anything intended to derive sexual excitement out of the viewer. Pornographic content also includes sex video, naked video and picture which are often referred to as light porn. According to Britannica Encyclopedia, pornography refers to the representation of sexual behavior in books, pictures, statues, films, and other media that is intended to cause sexual excitement. The word pornography is derived from the Greek “porni” meaning “prostitute” and “graphein” meaning to write, earlier on pornography was only meant to depict as any work of art or literature depicting the life of prostitutes.
In current day view pornography doesn’t just only exist in pictorial form like in adult magazine is now exist in videographic form, and with the advancement of the internet and technology in general pornography can now be easily accessible through a simple click on a unwanted add or even click on a website. I remember when I was younger and I was always into anime, and like anyother young anime fan we watch our anime on pirated website, now pirated website are filled with bet add, but before now that many pirated websites were filled with so many pornographic content, such as pornographic video games, Ellaine is lonely come and video chatt with her, sexy girl is 10miles form you all those type of add, and often time if you click on them they will direct you into pornographic website. That was mean already been exposed to it at a young age, not to talk of now that many pornographic content has become easily accessible.
I was talking with my friend a few days back and he said something deep, that a man that is driven by lust and sexual temptation will always be distracted and will hinder their own success with their own hands. This statement hit me, the honest truth until my friend said this, I started reasoning my own journey in life and battle with lust and pornography, it has always been an off and on journey still early 2026. I can go months without any pornographic content but one relapse is always detrimental in the journey, because for me watching one video will make me watch another then another, that how the cycle goes. I will talk more on my battle with pornography and how I overcame it.
Now I titled this post, pornography the productivity Kryptonite, reason why I call it a kryptonite, that it is one weakness that every human being have, because generally is not a weakness caused by your lack of discipline or self-control, it a weakness caused my your inminate desire to reproduce and procreate to engage in sexual activity. Hence that is why it our kryptonite of the Human body and not a production of a weak mind or a weak sense of discipline. Like superman one kryptonite is been pointed at him he tends to fall, this same way pornographic content is being viewed by a person the person tends to fall. Read until the end to join my whatsapp group community where i will raise men that will overcome this disease.
How does pornography affect our productivity?
Dopamine Reduction: The viewing of pornographic content be it light porn can drastically affect your dopamine production level. Viewing pornographic content and addiction have this same effect on the brain the brain produces high level of dopamine during that period of viewing such content, and thus this frequent high release of dopamine hormones affects the pleasure and reward system of the brain. Same way person who uses drugs is looking for that next high, that how pornographic consumption affect the brain. As the brain gets used to the constant highs and lows associated with regular porn use, it starts to create new patterns that drive a person to continue watching porn.
This fluctuation of dopamine level in the brain especially when associated with the task of watching pornography can derail the brain toward accomplishing other task, and that can make a person have a feeling of demotivation toward accomplishing their goals or setout task. The secret of motivation is building momentum and we derive momentum on the basis of our dopamine level, if the brain see that such pleasure of accomplishment can be gotten through an easier stress freeway such as just watching pornographic content it rewires the brain to seek for such pleasure.
Guilt: Another way in which consumption of pornographic content can affect your productivity is simple the psychological effect of guilt. The feeling of guilt produces by watching pornographic content can derail one positive mindset. I was watching a tiktok video on this a few years back and some people refer to this term for males as post nut clarity, and I found this as a really funny way to term it. In reality despite the fluctuation of dopamine level dopamine level, the real enemy against your productivity is guilt, that feeling that one cannot shake off, and that feeling immobilizes you from doing anything productive.
My struggle against pornography
One thing that I can truly say is that what kill someone stuck in the addiction of pornographic content is silence, not reaching out to anybody to talk about it with, be it your male or female friends if you continue in silence it will eat you up for the inside. I remember doing my secondary school time my pornography consumption was high, it will then I started to seek help talking to my close friend about it (Awwal), made the weight much lighter. Eventually reading the scripture about lust, then knowing the implication of what Christ did for me, made the urge go away. Why this is very significant for me is that this revelation of Christ freed me not just from sin but from guilt associated with past act of pornographic consumption.
How I overcame it
The best way to overcome pornography is to set structure in places. I remember what one of my friends told me, great advice by the way, (This advice was given to him by a pastor). “The pastor said, he knows he can fall victim to temptation hence that is why when he is visited by any female in the congregation he leaves his door wide open. Especially when the such person is unaccompanied.” Funny actually but it the truth same thing my Christian religious studies teacher also said to me everyone can claim to have overcome temptation but what will happen if you are locked in a room with a gorgeous male or female and whatever happens in that room no body will ever know.” This statement shocked the class because the statement is true. Because like I said earlier the drive to watch pornographic content is a bodly urge and thus like the Apostle Paul in Corinthian “you must discipline your body under your control and not the other way around.” (Paraphrased)
Discipline/ Acceptance/Environment.
The environment influence one habit more than one discipline. There is a point that one must get to in life to know that no matter how discipline you are don’t be in the wrong environment. Same thing here in the situation of watching pornography you might say oh you are very discipline and you can’t fall to such, but if you don’t minimize watching erotic content or don’t control you’re the site you view or the movies and videos you watch you will always come back to square one. The acceptance that you can be tempted by all this allow you to navigate your environment with more preventative measure like porn blocker app/setting etc.
The man and the spirit man
This is one concept I hold dear to me, it called the man and the spirit man, it a battle between yourself and your ideal self. Let me break it down, you know how you want to something productive however you end up not doing it at the end of the day because of some certain force of resistances. Example the spirit man in you want to read for the upcoming test or for self-development but the man in you doesn’t want to do that it wants to just rest, often times the man end up winning. This same thing applies here when you watch pornography, the man in you want to watch it that the human flesh and nature while the spirit man in you doesn’t want to indulge in such. In the practical sense is easy to say always go with your spirit man, but they exist friction such decision, but at the end of the day I know you will overcome.
Conclusion
Me personally my battle with pornography continue what started as a battle has now turned into a war, and this is the hardest war to fight, because it between you and yourself, but my friends you are not alone. Im creating a community for men who want to overcome pornography and get their life back together and faced their vision and dreams in life. Kingdom men Join and let conquer this enemy together.
