Desexualization

Practical writing on moving from consumption to connection, integrity, and freedom from compulsion.

How to Stop Watching Porn: Why Quitting Is Only the Beginning

At that age, I had no idea what kind of influence it would have on the years that followed. I wasn't thinking about sexual conditioning, intimacy, objectification, or how pornography might affect the way I related to women. I was a teenage boy discovering sexuality, and pornography became part of...

Read essay

Desexualization

How to Desexualize Your Brain: A Practical Guide for Men

At the time, I didn't think much of it. Like many teenage boys, I was curious about sex, attracted to women, and suddenly had access to something that previous generations could never have imagined. I certainly wasn't thinking about what repeatedly watching pornography might be teaching me about...

Read essay

Desexualization

How to Stop Sexualizing Women: From Objectification to Connection

For years, I didn't fully realize how much of my attention around women was organized around sexuality. I had started watching pornography at 14, during some of the most formative years of my understanding of sex, women, and relationships. Over time, pornography, movies, cultural messages, fantasy,...

Read essay

Explore other topics

More categories

Self-Mastery

Articles on discipline, attention, emotional regulation, and becoming the man who leads himself.

Browse

Purpose

Essays on meaning, direction, career, and building a life rooted in something larger than yourself.

Browse

Men's Work

Foundational essays on what men's work is, why it matters, and how men grow together.

Browse