Scripture Meditation:  Twice in Saint Matthew’s Gospel Jesus addresses in the same words how to overcome sins we recognize today as addictive sin.  First (Mt 5:27-30) in reference to adultery, in the second (Mt 18:5-9) in giving scandal. The advice is this:

“If your hand or foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away.
It is better for you to enter into life maimed or crippled than with two
hands or two feet to be thrown into eternal fire. And if your eye causes
you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter
into life with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into fiery Gehenna.”

The only way to be set free of internet pornography is to eliminate the temptation!!! This cannot be stressed enough!  It must be completely removed; eliminated, eradicated, abolished, done away with! “Oh, but I can’t be without the computer because……….(insert any excuse such as work, e-mail, etc.)”  First determine whether this is a truth or a lie of the Devil.  Most of us can in fact be separated from the internet, but if you determine it is necessary for work, then limit access.  What lengths are you willing go to be free of this?!?  When you eliminate the near occasion of sin, then you can begin the healing of thoughts and memories; and then work on virtue!