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DID I MISS
SOMETHING ON THIS CHECKLIST - Please
Tell Me!
- Here is a checklist to destroy most (and hopefully all) sources of
porn in your life.
- The effectiveness of this checklist depends on your
actions.
- Ready to begin?
[ ] Tell someone you intend to destroy all sources to your
pornography, and to take serious preventative measures. Ask them to
follow-up on your plan (share this plan with them). You can find
groups and people to share this with in the links area. Find a priest,
pastor or counselor. You don't have to be religious to visit a
priest. Yes, they may try to "convert" you. If
you are not ready, just tell
them you are immediately interested in being free from this addiction.
Alternatively, you can look in your local newspaper, or phone book and
find the local chapter of SLAA or SLA (SEE LINKS PAGE) and share it at
a group meeting, or with an individual who seems to have
recovery.
[ ] THE MOST IMPORTANT STEP IS AT THE END OF THIS LIST...
[ ] With complete reckless abandon, scour your house and
DESTROY all porn
(this means actual destruction as in
destroyed -
does not mean give to your buddies or friends or leave it so
someone else can find it - even
by accident at the city dump).
[ ] Choose a destruction method so the materials can no longer be used
for their intended purpose, and can NOT be repaired.
[ ] Take these same actions if you happen store porn in a
storage unit or somewhere else other than your home.
[ ] Take your computer and put it in FULL VIEW IN THE MOST
occupied place in your home!!!
= [ ] This addiction thrives in the dark - Get your
computer out of the shadows!
[ ] Destroy the following (and anything not listed here that
supports your habit*):
= [ ] Magazines*
= [ ] VCR tapes (or Beta tapes if you have them)*
= [ ] Stop renting the wrong types of movies.
= [ ] Floppy disks of any variety*
= [ ] Printed images of any kind*
= [ ] Compact Disks (break with a hammer, or scratch repeatedly with 25 grit
sandpaper)
= [ ] Books - tear up by the spine of the book.*
= [ ] Posters - shred into pieces.*
= [ ] Sex toys (if this applies)
= [ ] Software that supports your habit in any fashion whatsoever
(including archiving software, or scan-inventory software).
= [ ] Other items with printed pictures that support addiction.
= [ ] Computer Screensavers*
= [ ] "Backgrounds" (the picture your computer has at
the "desktop"*
= [ ] Calendars*
= [ ] Clothes that support or promote the addiction, that have
graphic pictures, words, etc or other features that do not
help you.*
= [ ] Remove those bumper stickers or license plate frames on your
cars that remind you of a lifestyle you wish to leave behind.
= [ ] Replace the car-scent thing that hangs in your car with one
without graphic pictures.
Remove all the images from your locker at the gym.*
= [ ] If you have a fireplace, burn it all. (Use caution if
you are burning VCR tapes, or anything toxic. You need
to breathe fresh air. Make sure you have good
ventilation and your FLUE IS OPEN to your fireplace so you
don't smoke up your home). Or shred it.
= [ ] Other items not listed here that supports your addiction.
[ ] After the destruction party, throw it all into the trash!
[ ] DELETE ANY WEBSITES YOU HAVE CREATED*
[ ] Burn, shred or destroy any written materials or written records
of websites or sources where you have found porn.
[ ] Go through your computer completely and destroy all images you
have saved.
[ ] DO NOT back up these files - erase them.
[ ] Format all external disks where you store the images -
floppy disks, zip disks, etc (not your hard
drive) using
"full format" feature.
[ ] Use "Defrag" feature - see your computer manual, or
go to http://www.intuit.com/support/turbotax/docs/w_defrag.html
.
[ ] Go through your "favorites" or "bookmarks"
("favorites" is for Microsoft Internet Explorer,
"bookmarks" is for Netscape Navigator) DELETE ALL
references to your addiction
[ ] Call your phone company and place a block on area code 900 phone
calls.
[ ] DELETE subscriptions to all materials that will fuel your
addiction:
[ ] Magazines (Yes, including Sports Illustrated Swimsuit - you
can ask that magazine company to alter your current
subscription so you do NOT receive that one issue, but still
receive all other true sports issues).
[ ] Movies or VCR tapes you receive.
[ ] Emails you receive regularly, or irregularly with
questionable material.
[ ] Delete email accounts you used to receive questionable
material.
[ ] Calendars
[ ] Online computer subscriptions
[ ] Book subscriptions
[ ] Cable TV subscriptions (you might be able to tell your cable
company to remove certain channels)
[ ] Catalogs that are improper for you (Yes, including
Victoria's Secret, and anything like that or worse).
[ ] Change your routine where you eat meals or
"entertainment".
[ ] Change your "entertainment" so you are not exposed to
temptation. This can mean different things for different
people.
[ ] IF YOUR ROOMMATE HAS ANY OF THE ABOVE AND DOESN'T WANT TO GET
RID OF THEM - YOU MAY HAVE TO MOVE OUT!
[ ] If your addiction is one with another person other than your
wife or committed partner, restore yourself with your wife or
partner and do whatever is necessary to end the wrong
relationship. Get guidance from a pastor, priest, counselor
or close friend who has a lot of integrity.
[ ] For travelers, tell the front desk to unauthorize the naughty
cable channels, or ask them to remove the television from the room.
- Don't rent the bad or questionable movies.
[ ] While traveling, If you go somewhere to use internet service
- take a person with integrity WITH you.
[ ] While traveling, make arrangements with someone at your home
(or in one of the support groups listed in the links page) - to call
them when you arrive at the hotel - let them know you're not going
to go to the wrong places. Be honest.
[ ] Do not go through this alone!
[ ] GO GET FILTERED INTERNET!
-[ ]- Make a commitment NOT TO RETURN to your past MAINTAIN
THIS BY FINDING someone you can trust and be accountable about
your plan so you don't go back.
-[ ]- Do not delude yourself by thinking you can view "safer
images" or "safer sites" there is no such thing as a "safer"
site.
-[ ]- You must admit that you are deluding yourself with these "safer sites," so you and you alone have the
responsibility to do something about this little sneaky/peeky game that leads
you to something worse.
-[ ]- This is like an alcoholic saying "I won't drink, I'll
just lick the outside of this glass of rum".
-[ ]- You wouldn't drink just a "safe" amount of strychnine, would you?
LASTLY, AND MOST IMPORTANT - Develop a spiritual hunger for God -
the closer you draw to God, the less and less you will want porn. A
roadmap to drawing closer to God in light of this is at a great website www.settingcaptivesfree.com
Enroll in their 60 day Bible Study and commit
yourself to finishing it!!!
* Destroy anything
that
supports your habit in any way - graphic pictures, words,
etc.
- The bottom line is: if it's bad for you, it needs to be
destroyed and eradicated from your life..
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