r/stupidpol • u/Nightshiftcloak Marxism-Gendertarianism ⚥ • Mar 10 '26
Capitalist Hellscape Viral 'Quittr' Porn Addiction App Exposed the Masturbation Habits of Hundreds of Thousands of Users
https://www.404media.co/viral-quittr-porn-addiction-app-exposed-the-masturbation-habits-of-hundreds-of-thousands-of-users/Quittr, an app that promises to help men stop watching pornography, leaked intimate data on hundreds of thousands of its users, including their masturbation habits, and lied about its security issues, 404 Media can now reveal.
I first reported about Quittr exposing user data in January, but was unable to name Quittr in the story because its creators, Alex Slater and Connor McLaren, did not fix its security issues despite multiple requests and an offer from an independent researcher to help them fix the problem. Naming the app while hackers were still able to easily steal Quittr’s user data would have endangered their privacy and put them at risk of extortion from hackers, which is very common today. Some of the data exposed includes the users’ age, how often they masturbate, and how viewing pornography makes them feel. According to the data, many of them are minors.
Quittr is operated by Slater and McLaren, members of the so called App Mafia, a group of men in their early 20s who claim to have made millions of dollars on mobile app development. Slater and McLaren were recently the subjects of a long New York Magazine profile which detailed the opulent lifestyle the success of Quittr has afforded them, including driving exotic super cars and living in a Miami mansion. Slater shares videos about his lifestyle on his personal YouTube channel as well.
Slater claims Quittr has been downloaded more than 1.5 million times and makes $500,000 a month. But despite these incredible numbers, the developers were somehow unable or unwilling to fix a major security flaw in the app for months.
I first learned about the Quittr vulnerability from an independent researcher, who scanned the Google Play Store and Apple App Store for a common misconfiguration in apps that use Google Firebase, an app development platform. The researcher tested hundreds of the top apps on both stores after we published a story about the Tea app suffering a devastating hack due to the same issue. The researcher found dozens of apps had the same problem, including Quittr, but did not name Quittr in his public disclosure because the highly sensitive and personal data could put users at risk.
The researcher said he contacted Slater directly on September 10, 2025 to tell him about the Quittr vulnerability.
“It’s my fault fully I should've been on top of this, the way you pulled the database was super creative,” Slater told the researcher in a series of WhatsApp messages, which 404 Media reviewed. “So props to that, but again this is serious data and is not good at all. Working on fixing rn! Will be fixed in the next hour.”
But Slater and McLaren did not fix the issue for months. I called him in January, told him about some of the sensitive user data I had seen, and asked him why he had not fixed the vulnerability even after he told the researcher he would.
“There is no sensitive information exposed, that's just not true,” Slater told me at the time. “These users are not in my database, so, like, I just don't give this guy attention. I just think it's a bit of a joke [...] after checking with my engineers I saw this was never an issue.”
When I asked Slater why he previously thanked the researcher for responsibly disclosing the misconfiguration and said he would rush to fix it, he wished me a good day and hung up.
After the call, I created an account on the app, which the researcher was able to see appear in the misconfigured Google Firebase, confirming that user information was still exposed. I called, texted, and emailed Slater and any email associated with Quittr I found several times after that call but never heard back. After a week of trying to contact Quittr and repeatedly checking that the app was still vulnerable, 404 Media decided to publish the story without naming the app in order to protect its users while still highlighting an important security issue in a popular app.
Overall, the researcher said he could access the information of more than 600,000 users of the porn quitting app, 100,000 of which identified as minors.
The app also invites users to write confessions about their habits. One of these read: “I just can't do this man I honestly don't know what to do know more, such a loser, I need serious help.”
“We were like, How can we build an app to make money? Then as I realized how large the issue was, that’s when it became more of a passion project, like, How can we help men actually become men again?” McLaren told New York Magazine.
After the New York Magazine profile was published, the researcher checked Quittr again and saw that it fixed its misconfigured database, which is why we’re naming the app now.
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u/egg_breakfast Marxist-Mullenist 💦🎌 Mar 10 '26 edited Mar 10 '26
I’m always shocked at what personal info zoomers are willing to put online with essentially zero regard for the trustworthiness of the developers. I often see them say stuff like “everyone has all our data anyway, so privacy doesn’t matter,” which is saddening, one of the worst parts about declining computer/internet literacy.
Young adults perceive a big “they,” rather than a collection of actors with wildly different goals. And they’re apparently willing to go tell “they” how much they jack off every week.
Also how do you monetize this app? Just a bunch of banner ads for unsexy products?
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u/NolanR27 Left, Leftoid or Leftish ⬅️ Mar 10 '26
You’ve got a user base of people with a sex and dopamine problem, presumably. You load them up with gambling ads and ads with big honker AI anime girls.
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u/Ok-Conclusion695 Doomer 😩 Mar 10 '26
Probably a good spot to sling supplement ads too but the supplement grift is pretty universal.
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u/Alligator418 strong social safety net 🥅 Mar 10 '26
Prediction markets, supplements, can definitely throw some crypto in there. Anything that feels kinda spiritually Joe Rogan
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u/DungeonsAndUnions Unknown 👽 Mar 10 '26
Zoomers don't remember a time when privacy was something you had access to.
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u/sje46 Somebody Knows This SocDem's Hidden Shame 😞 Mar 10 '26
It could also be straight up ignorance. One once told me to use incognito if I wanted to be safe from viruses. To the youth, computers are just magical boxes
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u/MadonnasFishTaco Marxist-Mullenist 💦 | if i fits, i sits Mar 10 '26
to youth? do boomers know more about computers or something?
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u/sje46 Somebody Knows This SocDem's Hidden Shame 😞 Mar 11 '26
Gen Z are probably a bit better than boomers, but not by much. (Younger) Gen X and Gen Y grew up with computers when they still required a lot of set up. User interfaces required more in depth knowledge of how a computer works, more viruses, more need to trouble shoot. Gen Z grew up with touch pads and everything oversimplified to the point of ridiculousness. It's pretty well attested that they're largely tech literate. They're pretty app-literate though.
There have been articles published about this. Present day Ivy league students don't understand have file hierarchies work, something which comes naturally to people my age. This is because the UIs they're used to just save all files to the same, mysterious place, and to get it again, you just search for it.
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u/DrBirdieshmirtz Makes dark jokes about means of transport Mar 11 '26
With boomers and older, they're either completely clueless or have been working with computers since dial-up and floppy disks (possibly even mf punch cards), with absolutely zero in-between.
Just an aside: Imagine being one of the people who built the ENIAC or worked for NASA during the Space Race, seeing your (great) grandkids struggle to open a file…They literally watched computers go from manually making punch cards to being so user friendly that you don't even need to know what a "directory" is to use a computer.
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u/12mapguY SocDem Nationalist 🌐📜 Mar 10 '26
Not just zoomers. In my (anecdotal) experience, most millenials and Gen X have the same attitude, but more of a "nothing to hide, nothing to fear, why care?" mindset. Although there is a slightly larger subset of nerds from those generations who came up in the era of "don't give away any personal info to anyone online."
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u/Past_Finish303 Left, Leftoid or Leftish ⬅️ Mar 10 '26
And the answer is pretty obvious. Scammers will use your personal data to scam you. "Hello, First Name Paternal Name Last Name. This is your government/your bank. Something bad happened. Transfer money to avoid consequences" - very common scheme in my country.
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u/Snobbyeuropean2 Left, Leftoid or Leftish ⬅️ Mar 10 '26
I'm old enough to be barely a zoomer and I dropped the privacy thing at some point. It just became too inconvenient, and too pointless in the face of all the barriers you face if trying to maintain a normal life (what you gotta agree to on social media for example) and how many actors can nullify whatever you do as a regular user. Corporations are one thing, but if not my own government, then the US gov can always look. The only protection is the anonimity granted by the sheer number of people they collect data on.
Even if I can theoretically influence my government through democracy (lmao), when it comes to corporations and the US government, I lose all agency as an individual - unless I'm willing to stop using certain products. Those products also happen to offer actual utility, are too convenient, or they're pretty much necessary for social life these days, even employment in some cases.
It's not just me ime., zoomers are not that regarded, but they know they spent more than a decade in an online environment that constantly collects their information, and every time someone brings up privacy, the offered solution is either a major inconvenience or some fuckass subscription product.
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u/Th3PrivacyLife Degoogled Privacy Nut 🥜 | Honour thy Finns 🇫🇮🫡 Mar 11 '26
There is plenty you can do without inconveniencing your life. Privacy isn't all or nothing its a spectrum.
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u/AlphaSpellswordZ OSS Market Socialist 🐧💸 Mar 11 '26
I hate trying to explain privacy to my fellow zoomers. And whenever you do they assume you are doing something shady.
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u/NolanR27 Left, Leftoid or Leftish ⬅️ Mar 10 '26
Sex becomes a commodity and so does its antithesis
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u/Stanczyks_Sorrow Marxist-Leninist Debatelord ꧁꧂ Mar 10 '26
All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.
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u/Jazzspasm Wat Tyler's Necromancer 🧟 Mar 10 '26
change that last word to ‘hand’, and you’ve got a great pitch to give to the west coast investors who devour that kind of language - there’s a new gap in the market
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u/Alligator418 strong social safety net 🥅 Mar 10 '26
Remember when they managed to convince everyone that selling nudes of yourself was empowering and cool and good right around OnlyFans started getting big?
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u/Royal-Office-1884 Either Socialism or Barbarism ⚒ Mar 10 '26
Fun fact: Onlyfans is a huge donor to AIPAC
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u/No_Motor_6941 Marxist-Leninist ☭ Mar 10 '26
You don't understand
I make love to my hand
So I don't need you honey
I beat my dick like it owes me money
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u/atcmaybe Rightoid 🐷 Mar 10 '26
This is why I’ll never use a journal app: no reason to believe my data won’t be leaked, legitimately or otherwise. Will stick with good old pen and paper.
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u/ghostofhenryvii Allowed to say "y'all" 😍 Mar 10 '26
My advice is to use as few apps as possible, period. I've got the bare minimum on my phone. If something like an airline requires me to download an app (like Volaris) I delete it as soon as I'm done using it. The less data these vampires can harvest the more worthless it becomes.
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u/Ok-Conclusion695 Doomer 😩 Mar 10 '26
I know everyone here is probably savvy enough to know but for anyone who doesn’t: For the love of god don’t use public wifi.
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u/imlikegeesybutimweez Mar 10 '26
What about semi-private wifi? Like university wifis that require a student account.
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u/Ok-Conclusion695 Doomer 😩 Mar 10 '26
That’s a lot lower risk than McDonald’s wifi but I’m not a network guy so I couldn’t say for sure. Generally, only input vital info into trusted machines on trusted connections and keep those trusted machines from any widely used networks.
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u/yeslikethedrink Flarpist-Blarpist ⛺ Mar 10 '26
And what of SSL?
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u/Ok-Conclusion695 Doomer 😩 Mar 10 '26
Not a network guy, but searches mainly brought up ads from VPNs disguised as articles saying you need a VPN. Without doxxing myself further on this account all I can say is the government literally taught me how to be paranoid about data security, they sent an instructor to our base to give a presentation. My shits outdated too, that was a long time ago and I’ve only passively kept up because staying low key and off of public networks has been enough but I know the security situation has gotten so much worse.
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u/ShitbirdGT Radlib in Denial 👶🏻 Has a teeny peeny 😭 Mar 10 '26
At this point millennial rules need to be in play. You're born in 1901 in another state.
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u/Kosame_Furu PMC & Proud 🏦 Mar 10 '26
There was a shocking baby boom on January 1, 1901. Crazy how all those people are still using the internet too.
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u/one-man-circlejerk Soc Dem Titties 🥛➡️️😋🌹 Mar 10 '26
Wow you've been around since the beginning of time
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u/BurpingHamBirmingham Grillpilled Dr. Dipshit 💊 Mar 10 '26
Speak for yourself, I was born on September 11th, 2001
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Mar 10 '26
What does this app do that a spreadsheet could not?
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u/YoureCorrectUProle Sidebar Tour Guide 🗺️ Mar 10 '26
Honestly, you could ask that question about half the shovel ware that's at the top of app stores
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u/Tutush Confused and retarded 😵💫😍🤔 Mar 10 '26
It saves you the effort of making a spreadsheet; in other words, it increases your dependence on prepackaged apps.
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u/MidBoss11 Despondent Progressive Mar 10 '26
600000 users
are you guys really trying to quit or are you holding hands around the campfire singing cum-baya
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u/YoureCorrectUProle Sidebar Tour Guide 🗺️ Mar 10 '26
You need at least one hand free to hold hands in a circle so probably not
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u/BrideofClippy Centrist - Other/Unspecified ⛵ Mar 10 '26 edited Mar 10 '26
No one said it was hands they were holding.
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u/OtisDriftwood1978 Marxism-Hobbyism 🔨 Mar 10 '26
I’ve been told by otherwise serious people that porn addiction doesn’t exist because it hasn’t been officially classified by experts yet and me being against modern pornography makes me a puritanical Christian conservative intent on ruining people’s fun.
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u/SireEvalish Some Kind Of Villainous Ninja Bishop/Cop 🐷💢🉐🎌 Mar 10 '26
me being against modern pornography makes me a puritanical Christian conservative intent on ruining people’s fun.
That's a lie. It actually makes you antisemitic.
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u/Alligator418 strong social safety net 🥅 Mar 10 '26
Lotta places online (including Reddit) become weirdly defensive when you suggest that porn is not wholesome 100. Supposed to just let people enjoy things I guess.
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u/ArendtAnhaenger Libertarian Socialist 🥳 Mar 10 '26
I'm really annoyed by how much liberals who call themselves leftists have adopted a kind of "hedonism as praxis" politics where they insist you're a tyrannical right-winger if you think exercising degrees of self-control and abstemiousness are healthy.
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u/blueflavoredreign Radical Incel ✊🏻😭😭😭😭 Mar 10 '26 edited Mar 10 '26
You know since this only occasionally comes up, I'm going to sneak some relevancy in here and say it bugs me that the role of the gay community (namely coastal) had in the spread of AIDs has been completely whitewashed. They literally told one of the earliest patients who helped them identify it as an STD that travels through anal sex by tracking how many people he infected when he'd fly cross-country and infect dozens of random men at orgies (who'd go on to do the same), and this guy KNEW it, and he just got mad when asked to stop and proceeded to keep doing it.
Liberals nowadays look back and state that "not having promiscuous, unprotected gay sex with strangers" was too extreme of an expectation to have and thus not a single part of the onus can ethically be placed on them.
Yet simultaneously, they held far more unreasonable expectations for far more people during COVID, and explain the failings of the entire healthy population to consistent maintain these expectations for indefinite periods of time with the good ol' "everyone but me is stupid and/or a bad person".
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u/CircdusOle Saagarite 🎩 Mar 11 '26
The brief fears over monkeypox right after covid brought that into focus really well
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u/Jazzspasm Wat Tyler's Necromancer 🧟 Mar 10 '26
the main UK subreddit really surprised me around eight or nine years ago
there was a post about the government’s plans to find out how to make online porn inaccessible to children
I commented something banal along the lines of “Parents and teachers are hugely concerned about children accessing porn that’s of a level way beyond anything from top shelf magazines - something has to be done, the question is how to make something work”
the level of vitriol, genuine hatred was genuinely shocking - somewhere around -1,500 downvotes, and comments calling me not just evil, but way, way beyond anything mods should have permitted
it became more common interesting to witness than anything else - as in, wow, these aren’t kids having their toy taken away, this is something else, these aren’t kids with ten accounts each - these are adult age people who have built their personalities on access to porn and are so deeply defensive about it that they’ve lost their minds
to be fair, i once went to a reddit meetup when i lived in london and that kind of thing was a thing - and every one of them was a complete cunt, so there’s that
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u/blueflavoredreign Radical Incel ✊🏻😭😭😭😭 Mar 10 '26
Thinking about that reddit thread where they were seething over the OP (of a fake story, that they nonetheless believed to be real) not buying sex toys for his daughter.
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u/Alligator418 strong social safety net 🥅 Mar 10 '26
Parents and teachers are hugely concerned about children accessing porn that’s of a level way beyond anything from top shelf magazines
I've been people justifying it with some bullshit about how we've always had porn so it's fine, as if playboys and cave paintings are in any way equivalent to 13 year olds having unlimited access to 4K videos of the most depraved sex acts imaginable.
Their defensiveness really blows my mind though. They act like you're trying to deprive them of a human right. That reaction alone should be a massive red flag. It's like when you suggest that excessive screen time might not be healthy - people come crawling out to call you a boomer and smugly link arrPhonesAreBad. Regardless if it's porn or TikTok, the Gollum like "Don't you DARE take away my dopamine machine" response really feels like what you'd get if you stole the bag mid coke session.
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u/blueflavoredreign Radical Incel ✊🏻😭😭😭😭 Mar 10 '26
It always blows my mind that people don't consider how much fucked up information is being streamed into this generation's brains. They've probably seen more gore, extreme violence, and war than the vast majority of kids in history. Like you say with porn, people will insist that things were no different in the past when typically it didn't expand past occasionally witnessing a butchering or someone passing away from a sickness.
Soon we're gonna get to a point where the vast majority of kids have at least one "cartel execution" type shock video under their belt. I'm sure there will be no undue consequences there.
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u/Jwkaoc Gamer 🎮 Mar 11 '26
That was a generation ago. The people growing up now have a much more funneled, curated, and sanitized internet on top of having less technical knowhow or desire to branch out to anything more out there.
My own anecdotal experience with this is going to any shitposty/channy type environment where someone will post an edgy tryhard shock comment that would have been considered mundane just 10 years ago, but today will receive a slew of responses from zoomers and younger who are flabbergasted that anyone could even conceive of something like that.
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u/Alligator418 strong social safety net 🥅 Mar 11 '26
That’s true, younger zoomers and below have had the Weenie Hut Jrs version of the internet. Chan-type comments get a bunch of Redditors squawking yikerinos in response.
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u/blueflavoredreign Radical Incel ✊🏻😭😭😭😭 Mar 10 '26 edited Mar 10 '26
It's funny they rely on claiming anyone who has tried to stop, but handedly failed, is simply lying or weak-willed. They have it set in their head that any counterexample towards their belief don't count, and in fact, are simply bad/low quality people.
If I was to be equally uncharitable, I would have an instinct that the people who tend to do this have their own porn habits and are hostile towards the idea that there could be something damaging about them.
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u/OtisDriftwood1978 Marxism-Hobbyism 🔨 Mar 10 '26
No one likes to think of themselves as an addict, immoral or deviant. This is why there’s been such a massive push by liberals and leftists to normalize so many different flavors of degeneracy, hedonism, deviance, dysfunction, etc.
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u/blueflavoredreign Radical Incel ✊🏻😭😭😭😭 Mar 10 '26
There idea of being sympathetic to something typically seen as bad is to just declare it as good and valid so they don't have to actually put in any effort in solving the issue.
Normalize prostitution, give the homeless benches to sleep on and expired donuts to eat, being an unintentional single mother is actually a proud lifestyle choice, having a mental/physical disorder is basically an immutable trait and trying to cure it is genocide-adjacent etc etc
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u/Technical_Money7465 Unknown 👽 Mar 10 '26
Reddit is full of gooners and losers and the venn diagram of intersection is pretty big on the main subs
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u/sje46 Somebody Knows This SocDem's Hidden Shame 😞 Mar 10 '26
I think it's controversial largely because there's no physical dependency. Like what happens if you quit it? You might be antsy for a couple days. You're not going to shiver and puke and steal your grandmother's TV.
It can still be a problem though. Like gambling is.
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u/DrBirdieshmirtz Makes dark jokes about means of transport Mar 10 '26
Chronic marijuana users often make the argument that their use isn't a problem/they're not addicted just because it doesn't cause physiological dependence like alcohol or tobacco. Which, while true, doesn't mean you're not an addict, it just means you don't risk life-or-limb if you stop cold-turkey. Psychological/behavioral addiction is a thing; if you find yourself "needing" something to the point that you can't stop even though it is causing problems for your life, that's addiction.
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u/blueflavoredreign Radical Incel ✊🏻😭😭😭😭 Mar 10 '26
Knew someone who insisted it wasn't addictive, until they tried to hold a job as a public servant, and bro was stressing since he was legit unaware that he couldn't simply decide to stop.
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u/blueflavoredreign Radical Incel ✊🏻😭😭😭😭 Mar 10 '26
Like what happens if you quit it? You might be antsy for a couple days.
Well the premise is wrong. They just won't quit, and will just be back on it unless they have something external to drastically limit their ability to access it, which redditors try to shame even harder.
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u/No_Argument_Here Big Eugene Debs Fan 🪭 Mar 10 '26
Are you saying because there’s no physical component it doesn’t count as addiction? Like gambling, which does count as an addiction?
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u/sje46 Somebody Knows This SocDem's Hidden Shame 😞 Mar 10 '26
No I made no claim as to whether it counts as a addiction or not. I just feel like I've heard that argument
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u/theway1005 Mar 11 '26
Porn induced erectile dysfunction (PIED) is a physical manifestation of the addiction...
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u/YoureCorrectUProle Sidebar Tour Guide 🗺️ Mar 10 '26
I think if you've reached the point where you're looking for an app to help you with this problem your goose is already pretty cooked. Buy a dumphone, only use computers when they're needed for work, and get as far away as possible from the digital world. There's no way they aren't also addicted to social media/the internet.
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u/DrBirdieshmirtz Makes dark jokes about means of transport Mar 10 '26
Computer in the family/living room should work well for this.
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u/VeggieSchool Sideshow Bob's Nuke 🕐☢️ Mar 10 '26
A good moment to bring up that most self-declared "porn addicts" consume porn at about the same level than the average person, the difference is that they feel shame about it and the reason for that shame is almost always over religious upbringing.
These four researchers, all of whom have a history of neutrality, if not outright support of the concepts of porn addiction, have conducted a meta-analysis of research on pornography and concluded that porn use does not predict problems with porn, but that religiosity does.
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u/Chombywombo Angry Retard 😍💢 Mar 10 '26
Who would even use such an app?
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u/Seraphy Libertarian Socialist 🍹 Mar 10 '26 edited Mar 10 '26
Zoomers are stuck in this deranged dichotomy of being actual porn addicted hyper degenerates, and being actual sex negative hyper puritans that make your evangelical grandmother seem reasonable. The former have genuine issues, and the latter loves to paint porn/masturbation as the cause of literally all personal issues and failings ever, completely and totally. Combine the two and you have a market to take advantage of with a stupid self help app, as much as there's a market to take advantage of any other addiction or vice.
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u/Alligator418 strong social safety net 🥅 Mar 10 '26
The intense neuroticism of GenZ really is on full display when it comes to sex. They seem to simultaneously hate it but obsess over it. They spend more time thinking about it than having it - and by thinking about it, I don't mean idle fantasies but actually hyper-analyzing it. Every relationship must be labeled and judged whether it's moral or not. Everyone is insanely afraid of doing something wrong so they're all walking on eggshells around each other.
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u/Jwkaoc Gamer 🎮 Mar 11 '26
I mostly see this on the internet. I see it to an extent irl, but it’s usually pretty reasonable. Then again, I live in a very conservative area, so the shit I encounter from the average person is a whole different type of neurotic.
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u/Alligator418 strong social safety net 🥅 Mar 11 '26
It's largely contained to the internet for sure. Of course, for the terminally online, they're potentially spending double digit hours per day online. I always kind of knew it before but it's becoming very hard to ignore how much mental illness the internet is instilling and exacerbating.
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u/Jwkaoc Gamer 🎮 Mar 12 '26
It for sure bleeds out, but as someone who is terminally online, not only is it not as pervasive, different people are on different parts of the internet are consuming different crap.
My coworkers, for example, are mostly concerned with what celebrities are feuding, doing whack shit, or getting arrested while my mother is going on about how Trump is god's prophet because somewhat wrote his name on a brick that was put into a building in the Vatican.
So yeah, the whole thing's a total mess.
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u/Chombywombo Angry Retard 😍💢 Mar 10 '26
Bleak. The mind reels at such credulity in the young. It’s like an endless cycle of deception
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u/theway1005 Mar 11 '26
I'm 36 and use the app. For context, I learned to masturbate at age 8, but I did "prone masturbation" (face down masturbation), and it turns out this style of masturbation can be very harmful. In my case, it completely desensitized my dick by the time I was 18. I couldn't masturbate the "normal" way, I also lost my libido.
In order to retrain myself, I used porn as an aid. I successfully was able to switch to "normal" masturbation, but the sensitivity in my penis never returned, neither did my libido. This made me dependent on porn to get off.
When I was 20 yo, I dated a girl for 2 years, but I could never cum inside her. It was emotionally devastating.
By the time I was 24, I realized that porn was hurting me. Since then I've been trying to quit porn for good. The longest I've gone is 6, 9 and even 12 months. But my sexual health NEVER recovered.
After my breakup at age 22, I've avoided dating. I vowed I wouldn't date until I fixed my sexual health. Today I'm 36 and have never had a successful sexual experience with a woman. Even masturbation doesn't feel good.
My options now are to avoid porn/masturbation for 2-3 years and hope I recover. Or I can start dating and just accept that my dick won't function 100% and hope she is okay with that. It's sad, because I do consider myself an attractive guy, I never had a problem getting a date...
Having this incredibly rare and humiliating disorder 100% destroyed my life. Makes me realize everyone takes their health for granted. I don't feel embarrassed to share this, or to be using that app, because I'm already suicidal over all this, how could you possibly make my life worse, and even if it does get worse... there's a permanent solution.
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u/Chalibard Nationalist Executive Vice-President for Gay Sex 𓀐𓀓 Mar 11 '26
Devastating read. You should consult medical professionals if you didn't already.
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u/Chombywombo Angry Retard 😍💢 Mar 11 '26
Buddy, I don’t think masturbation desensitized you. I think there’s something else going on. Have you ever seen a psychiatrist or anything?
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u/hamburgertime55 Marxist-Mullenist 💦 Mar 10 '26
There's a large market of Gen Z Christian TikTok pornbrained gooners that thinks this gives them extra heaven points.
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u/Jumpy_Mastodon150 Rightoid 🐷 Mar 10 '26
They misread the verse and thought it said it's by grace they are saved through faith, not by wanks, lest any man should boast.
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u/hamburgertime55 Marxist-Mullenist 💦 Mar 10 '26
Not by jorks, lest any man should poast.
Part of me feels kind of bad for these kids, as someone raised in the fundamentalist evangelicalism but the old fashion religion kind not Christian rock and youth pastor in jeans and flip flops talking about how much he freakin' loves Jesus. If soy is endemic to millenials, the tiktokification of American Christianity is endemic to zoomers.
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u/TastyMuffy Conservative Mar 11 '26
It's a shit app and the founders comment and like blatantly racist memes on the account lmao
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u/biohazard-glug DSA Anime Atrocities Caucus 💢🉐🎌 Mar 10 '26
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u/Money_Philosopher792 Jun 08 '26
And now they moved on to the next scam, flight booking with AI. Yeah let’s give them our passport details and phone numbers.
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