Hentai Addiction: Why It's Worse Porn and How to Quit

The neurological effects porn addiction has on people are well-known and researched. Diminished motivation, erectile dysfunction, and willpower erosion are some of the many documented problems that arise with chronic use.

This doesn't include the fucked up societal problems that arise with high-speed internet porn, like how 1 in 10 visitors of porn sites are under 10 years old and how the porn industry is fueling sex trafficking.

What really isn't being touched on or researched about is how damaging hentai addiction is. How the problems of regular pornography are amplified with hentai.

People assume since hentai is cartoon porn, it's somehow less destructive than regular porn. This is far from the truth.

So today I am going to give you reasons hentai is worse porn and why you should quit watching hentai.

Reasons Hentai Is Worse Porn

Hentai legalizes extreme fetishes

Hentai animators can get away with making child porn, rape, bestiality, and other content that is illegal because it is made under the confines of fantasy and animation.

Since animations aren't real and open to 'interpretation', this ambiguity enables hentai animators to get away with making pretty much any sick shit they can imagine.

By exploiting this, Jim the hentai animator gets away with making loli videos, aka, child porn videos, under the notion that the girl is over 18.

You can't stop Jim, since it isn't real and you can't prove that the girl is over 18 years old. With the same principles, rape and other extreme fetishes are normalized and abundant on hentai videos.

You get desensitized to extreme fetishes

The problem with porn is that you get desensitized to whatever type of content you frequently watch.

This is because our brains crave novelty for reward. When you get used to the porn you see, you get less and less of a high from it.

This explains why you find yourself spending more and more time trying to find the perfect video to finish off to. Next thing you know, you had 10 tabs open and 2 hours of your life gone to compensate for this effect.

It also explains why most people start from getting off to vanilla porn and end up escalating into more taboo and extreme fetishes.

The dopamine released from vanilla porn doesn't do it for you anymore, you need to see cat princesses getting raped by demons in order to get the same high you once got from watching a hot person undress.

Since your brain gets desensitized to extreme fetishes, you build a tolerance to seeing the disgusting and savage content that your past self would have vomited seeing.

So if you got off to rape, gore, and even child porn, it would just be an average jerking session for you.

You've become blind-sided by the dopamine rush, allowing the primitive side of your brain to control and mold you into having perverted tasted. I don't think that's good for self-esteem either, especially after post nut clarity.

Drawings, cartoons, and anime can trigger strong urges to watch

Being attracted to cartoon porn can leave you susceptible to being turned on by drawings, cartoons, and anime characters even if sexual provocation isn't intended.

This is due to the sensitization process of addiction. Your brain wires itself to seek out triggers that remind you of getting your hentai fix.

Next thing you know, watching Mulan with the family becomes a bathroom break browsing rule 34.

Porn gives unrealistic expectations, hentai gives impossible expectations

While the step-mom fantasy, pornstar moans, and squirting are all some of the unrealistic expectations that arise from porn, they are still possible outcomes that are within the confines that make up our reality.

Even if it is unrealistic, it was still recorded in-person to make the porn. Some partners also really do act on the stuff they see in porn.

If vanilla stuff doesn't work in the bedroom, you can still have the possibility of changing your experiences to be like the ones brought on by regular porn. I don't recommend that, but it's still possible to do.

Hentai, on the other hand, can provide expectations that are downright impossible to fulfill by anyone, no matter how hard they try.

I'm sorry, but you can't get fucked by a tentacle succubus monster trying to take away your life force. This leads us to the next problem.

You can stop being attracted to real people

If regular porn can't even turn you on anymore, then how on earth will real people do that? If hentai is all you watch, there is a chance that even attractive people won't be on your arousal radar anymore.

By getting accustomed to expectations that hentai provides, you limit yourself to sexual pleasure that is derived from those expectations that aren't providable with real, attractive people.

Porn-induced erectile dysfunction is common in porn addicts who have unrealistic expectations that aren't met in the bed.

I'd imagine it would be much harder (or softer) for the hentai addict who can't even get off without seeing chicks with dicks fucking each other until one of them utters the words "YAMETE!!".

How to Quit Hentai Addiction

If you find yourself locked into the depths of hentai addiction, don't lose hope.

Whether you waited until the effects became too great to ignore or you found out you had a problem before it became too much, quitting never has an expiration date.

By addressing the neurological and psychological components that cause you to be addicted, you can successfully overcome hentai addiction. For this reason, recovery can be accomplished if you:

Rewire your brain

By continually abstaining from hentai, you eventually get to a point where you revert the adverse neurological side-effects caused by hentai addiction. This is because you are slowly rewiring your brain back to its default state.

Rewiring your brain makes urges to watch hentai become less frequent and intense. Seeing Lydia's boob physics in Skyrim doesn't resort to binging hentai and you don't need to see ogre orgies to get off.

Resolve your root cause

Your root cause is the problem hentai is used for coping with. By resolving your root cause, you address the source of your self-destructive behavior.

This is important because it stops you from going to another vice for the same reasons you used hentai for.

If the root cause is simple, the problem could be just due to having an unhealthy means of dealing with negative emotions, like stress and boredom.

If complex, your problem could also be due to issues like having unmet needs or trauma.

If you believe the problems are complex, help with a medical professional would be the best way to deal with your root cause.

Conclusion

Hentai is not a force to reckon with. With all the rape, pedophilia, and other extreme fetishes shown in videos, it's clear that hentai is worse than regular porn.

If you find yourself resonating with these problems that arise with hentai, you will definitely benefit from quitting.

When you stop watching hentai, addiction or not, it only improves your quality of life. I know that was the case for me.