The Casinos and Porn Addiction
This is an article written by Tyson Adams (link on evil facebook)
Casinos & Porn ain’t that different.
Lately, I’ve been diving into the work of B.F. Skinner (1930-1950) who put pigeons in a box with a button that gave them food.
He made the food come out at random times instead of every time they pecked.
When it was random, the pigeons couldn’t stop pecking, they pecked way more than the pigeons who got food every peck or every five pecks.
This is because their brains kept hoping the next peck would be the lucky one.
That “maybe this time” feeling releases a chemical in the brain called dopamine, and it’s the same chemical that makes people unable to stop pulling slot machine handles, doomscrolling or binging on porn.
I asked Claude Ai, to look at how casinos create systems to keep people from leaving.
Then I said, compare casinos to porn and make the logical connection of how they are similar.
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1. Variable Ratio Reinforcement
Casino: Slot machines pay out on an unpredictable schedule modeled after B.F. Skinner. You can’t predict the win, so you keep pulling. Porn: The infinite scroll of thumbnails. The next click might be the perfect one. You can’t predict which video will land, so you keep clicking.
2. The Near-Miss
Casino: Slots are programmed to show two jackpot symbols lined up far more often than chance would allow. Your brain registers a near-win almost as strongly as a win. Porn: The video that’s almost what you wanted. Close, but not quite. So you click the next one. And the next. The “almost it” effect runs the whole search.
3. Losses Disguised as Wins
Casino: You bet $3, “win” $1, and the machine plays celebration music. You lost $2, but your nervous system got a win.
Porn: Physical arousal feels like satisfaction in the moment. But arousal isn’t fulfillment. Your body registers a win while your life loses time, presence, and energy you’ll never get back.
4. Fast Event Frequency
Casino: A slot machine can be played every 3 to 6 seconds. Speed compresses the time between hits and prevents you from thinking. Porn: Thumbnails, previews, autoplay, tab-switching. A new stimulus every few seconds. Faster than any real sexual encounter could ever be — by design.
5. No Clocks, No Windows, No Exits
Casino: You won’t find a clock or a window on a casino floor. The maze layout makes the door hard to find. Time disappears.
Porn: No “you’ve been here 90 minutes” warning. Endless related videos, endless tags, endless rabbit holes. The architecture is built so you forget how long you’ve been there.
6. Free Drinks (Removing Friction)
Casino: Free alcohol lowers your judgment and keeps you in the chair. The cost is hidden in the losses you take while impaired.
Porn: Free at the point of use. No paywall, no friction. The cost is hidden in your attention, your data, your time, and what it does to your brain over years. They get paid when you click the ad.
7. Chips Instead of Cash Casino: You don’t bet money, you bet chips. Abstracting the money makes it hurt less to spend. You don’t feel what you’re losing until you cash out.
Porn: You’re not paying with money — you’re paying with attention, time, sleep, sexual response, and presence with the people in your life. The currency is invisible, so you don’t notice the bill until it’s enormous.
8. The Loyalty Card (Personalized Tracking)
Casino: Player cards track your behavior, identify the moment you’d normally quit, and trigger a comp or bonus right before that moment to keep you playing.
Porn: The algorithm learns your specific tastes and serves increasingly precise content. When you slow down, the recommendations get more aggressive. The loyalty card, made automatic and invisible.
9. Tolerance and Escalation
Casino: As the small wins stop thrilling you, the machine offers higher bet options. The penny slot becomes the dollar slot becomes the high-stakes table.
Porn: What used to work stops working. You drift toward more extreme, more novel, more taboo content to feel the same response. This isn’t “discovering your real tastes.” It’s tolerance. It’s the same mechanism, in a different language.
10. The Zone (The Real Product)
Casino: Researcher Natasha Dow Schüll spent years interviewing heavy slot players. Her finding: they don’t play to win. They play to enter a dissociative trance where time, money, and self disappear. That is the product the casino sells. The money is just the price of admission. Porn: Heavy users aren’t really chasing orgasm. They’re chasing the trance — the hour where they disappear from their stress, their loneliness, their marriage, their feelings, their life. The arousal is the bait. The dissociation is the product. That’s what creates the compulsive return.
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Do you know what true freedom from porn addiction feels like?
First, here’s what it doesn’t feel like.
It’s not white knuckling it every time you’re alone online. Nor is it repressing with a browser blocker on your devices.
It’s not getting flooded with arousal energy when your partner leaves home. Nor is it about being annoyed at your social media algorithm.
It’s not about praying to God to take away your sin. Nor is it about confessing them.
It’s not about taking on the identity of an addict. Nor is it about avoiding attractive humans in the world.
Freedom from porn addiction is not about the repression, (or the demonization,) of sexual energy. Its also not about giving it up to God.
Sorry, not sorry God.
As much as I would love it if willpower and prayer would work with unwanted sexual behavior, it just doesn’t.
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Being free from porn is the result of healing the parts of us who were wounded early on.
Its about turning towards the inner child within who was non-consensually groomed, abused, and/or neglected.
Its also about acknowledging how these events were witnessed by those who were supposed to protect us.
And, its un-shaming the ways in which we re-enacted this behavior along the way, unpacking the secrets we promised ourselves we would take to the grave.
Outgrowing porn is about opening to the understanding that seeing porn as a child was too much, too fast, and too soon, for our nervous systems – leaving a wound that is waiting for us to attend to.
Porn freedom is about reversing one’s arousal template from dopamine and adrenaline (sympathetic activation) to oxytocin, vasopressin and serotonin (parasympathetic activation).
Being truly objectification free allows you to see naked bodies or even pornographic material, while not losing the connection to the Soul beneath the performance – to view porn through a critical lens, not an erotic one.
This means that you have conscious control over how your body, (endocrine system,) responds when it gets activated.
Freedom from porn is the result of feeling safe, still, and spacious deep in your bones – it is the result of working with the shame and lack of true elder guidance that calcified early on.
Being free from porn means that when you make love, you can do so without needing to engage the mind, story, or emotions, at all.
The journey to outgrowing porn for good, is about saying “no” to that which is still grooming your inner child.
This radical act is actually saying “yes” to the love and intimacy that you so deeply long for.
The kind of sex that will set your Soul ablaze.
Good posts.
Here’s my links to Alternative Therapy. I hope you will pass this article to someone who is addicted to either porn or gambling. Both of those industries (like all others) were created by the evils to harm and ENSLAVE the slaves.
They don’t want you to love yourself or help others, because doing that means they CAN’T control YOU.
It means you won’t be helping them DESTROY HUMANITY and Mother Earth.
They need you to hate others and do what they want!
Primarily ALL zombies destroy Humanity, the evils just create and coordinate the plan.
All addictions are used to hide our feelings. We live on a prison PLANET, and the only way to get off of it, is to take out the EVILS.
That first step starts with YOU! You healing your emotional wounds.
Ignoring them WON’T make them disappear. It only makes things worse.
You are harming yourself and others when you do that. Addicted to porn or gambling are only two addictions, and two ways to keep you escaping from the Truth and REALITY of our situation. and our World.
Even if those addictions aren’t yours doesn’t mean they don’t control YOU with another addiction and their other weapons!
Obviously the evils DON’T want you fighting BACK and if you aren’t, then they control YOU!
If you don’t love yourself enough to fight back with me or another Warrior, then you don’t like yourself very much.
https://ourfreesociety.com/we-can-fight-them-together
The only way to win this war is with US TOGETHER NOT SEPARATELY!
People can shirk their responsibility in all of this which is just cowardice, but every day you can always choose to REALLY wake UP and fight with a Warrior like me or someone else to Help Save Yourself, Humanity, and our Mother Earth. ACTION!
Truth, Spirituality (nothing to do with the psyop known a religion), shedding your childhood trauma, becoming a mature adult, and then taking responsibility for yourself HAS to be done.
I know it’s hard because the evils control us, but it HAS to be done. If we all start to do it, this war WILL BE OVER. We have the POWER to stop them, but you have to play your part.
The key is learning who you are with everything else stripped away. Truly look in the mirror.
Learn how to love and respect yourself and then help others. If we all help one another, that’s sharing the workload.
Build alternative communities based on FREEDOM and Truth. Do it together outside of the evils’ mafia governments. It’s the ONLY way.
https://ourfreesociety.com/community
It’s our negative energy they feed off of. So long as we aren’t United and Strong, they can control us. We need to be United and Strong and FIGHT BACK by taking ACTION, NOT just accept what is going on. This is NOT a movie!!!
Both parts have to be done AND people have to STOP WORSHIPING MONEY.
The evils use money as a WEAPON. Money shouldn’t be used to judge others by their WORTH. Anyone who thinks this way is controlled by the evils and is harming Humanity. Yes we need it in THEIR system, so that’s why you need to break FREE from their evil MATRIX.
This war can ONLY BE WON BY US, not some deity or Human. That’s where the psyop religion comes in – SALVATIONISM.
They want you to NEVER grow up and fight them. They want you waiting for someone or something ELSE to save you so they have free reign to kill us while you wait, wait again, wait some more until YOU ARE DEAD.
Here’s my alternative therapy page. I hope you read and bookmark it. https://ourfreesociety.com/alternative-therapy-courses/
There’s NO SHAME in admitting you have issues. WE ALL DO.
It’s when you don’t care and don’t work to rid yourself of them (this doesn’t happen overnight, it’s a work in progress) that I have a problem with that because you refusing to not do the work affects ALL of us, not just YOU.
With tough Love
Michelle
The Our Free Society Warrior Alliance
I hope you learned something.
To work towards getting rid of the evils – https://ourfreesociety.com/worldwide-meditation-and-prayer-circle/
To build our own Supply Network – https://ourfreesociety.com/the-our-free-society-supply-network
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