Drifting Away from Porn

Let’s begin by meeting Jack. He is twenty-seven years old and manages a sporting goods store. Jack experimented with pornography when he was a teenager growing up in a small, rural community. Jack used porn pretty regularly for a year or two, but his relationship with it cooled when he went to college and became involved in sexual relationships with women. Jack is a good example of someone whose inhibitors in­creased as he got older, eventually overtaking his accelerators and ef­fectively ending his relationship with porn. As you read his story, see if you can identify parts of his history, lifestyle, attitudes, and experi­ences that might have contributed to his putting the brakes on his use of porn.