"Jamie would meticulously schedule his days around finding time alone to watch porn and masturbate-often up to five times a day. The 32-year-old Michigan engineer, who did not want to use his real name due to privacy concerns, first watched porn at the impressionable age of 12, but never realized he had a problem until just after his father's funeral three years ago."
""I didn't shed a single tear," he says. "I didn't know how to react happily or sadly to anything." That's when his porn consumption spiraled-combined with stress, anxiety, and depression-and he locked himself in his room "all day." The only thing that seemed palpable, he recalls, "was that rush of dopamine" delivered by an intense session of hardcore porn viewing. But for Jamie, who is Christian, those fleeting moments of porn-fueled transcendance were followed by far deeper lows, including suicidal ideations."
Jamie, a 32-year-old engineer, developed compulsive pornography use after his father's funeral, watching porn up to five times daily, experiencing anxiety, depression, isolation, and suicidal ideation, and straining his relationship. Relay is an app built by two Mormon college students that offers a program to stop viewing porn, including therapist videos, daily journal prompts, live group sharing sessions, an urgent-help feature, and mutual streak tracking with a 'Live Milestone' ticker. The app emphasizes peer accountability and structured recovery routines. The app also positions itself against mainstream porn and emerging AI-generated erotica.
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