Pornography use and recovery / PPU-A07-1
Digital Friction by Consent — Concept brief
Understand the idea behind digital friction by consent and consider whether it fits your context.
8 minutes · Handout · Adults; supported use as appropriate
Fictional example: Noah chooses to charge a device outside the bedroom.
Use an ordinary or fictional example, with a clinician when appropriate. Device settings can support a chosen plan but do not replace care or consent.
The idea
Device settings can support a chosen plan but do not replace care or consent.
An ordinary example
Noah chooses to charge a device outside the bedroom.
What this can look like
Compare optional notification changes, device placement, or self-chosen access limits; exclude another person's coercive monitoring.
Check the fit
Which adjustment supports your choice without creating a surveillance arrangement? You may disagree with the framing, use fiction, or decide that this approach is not useful today.
A useful distinction
A chosen change goal and a clinical diagnosis are different questions. Address functioning, control, consent, values, and distress without assuming that sexual expression itself is pathological.
Prompts for this resource
- What part of this idea makes sense to me?
- Which adjustment supports your choice without creating a surveillance arrangement?
Conceptual background
AASECT Position on Sex Addiction — American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists
Background on the approach only. Original exercises and wording are by More Than Therapy with AI assistance; the source does not validate or endorse these materials.