Porn is just the symptom and not the source of the problem. The sin lies in the heart. To address this purely as an external vice will always result in what the author is experiencing, frustration. No amount of external controls will fix the heart.
I am not saying that the external does not matter. I am saying that the internal matters more. When you put out a fire, you must aim the extinguishing substance at the base of the flame where the fuel is being oxidized rather than at the bright colors where the heat seems to be coming from.
We can lock our phones, our televisions, or computers and be accompanied everywhere so as to be accountable for what we buy and everything we do, but these steps will still be unable to fix a heart problem. It will still be possible to lust in the imagination where only the imaginer and God can see.
**Porn is just the symptom and not the source of the problem. The sin lies in the heart. To address this purely as an external vice will always result in what the author is experiencing, frustration. No amount of external controls will fix the heart.**
Even though there is a physical part to alcoholism; isn’t there also a “heart and mind” part to pornography.
I would think that the same principles would work with pornography as work with alcoholism.