This article addresses the problem of online pornography, ways to conquer your addiction and stop watching Internet porn, and a review of X3Watch, one of the best free accountability software programs to stop porn!
Sex on the Internet is easier to find than ever. Hardcore and soft-core pornography abounds online. Porn is everywhere: in pop-ups, online advertisement banners, online movie and video sites, and thousands of free photo galleries. With a simple Internet search on Google, any teenage boy can stumble upon gigabytes of adult movies and adult photos.
How do you protect yourself from online porn? It is clear that pornography is a problem for many young men and older men, and women, too. Many people who have accidentally stumbled upon porn on the Internet have become addicted to it. It can ruin relationships, break up marriages, and create sexual and psychological problems of all shapes and sizes.
Battling any addiction is difficult. Sexual addictions can be just as hard to break as drug or alcohol addictions. However, there is a whole flood of new computer software to help web surfers conquer their addiction to pornography. This new software is something that Internet users call “accountability software.
Accountability software works by tracking the websites that the computer user uses, and logging any websites that trigger its filters. This log is then sent to the computer user’s “accountability partner.” This partner could be anyone that the user trusts: A religious leader, a close friend or a family member.
Its use is mostly psychological: Before visiting a porn site, you might feel guilty because you know that your accountability partner will find out what types of adult web sites you are visiting. It can also help those who are counseling friends, family or acquaintances who are addicted to porn.
Some of these accountability software programs charge money. However, one of the best software programs for conquering online porn addictions is called X3Watch, and it is free!
X3Watch (http://x3watch.com) is from controversial Christian website XXXChurch. The X3Watch computer program does everything that many of the costly commercial computer programs use, but it is totally free.
X3Watch works on Windows, including Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98 and the new Windows Vista operating system. For Mac users, X3Watch works on the newest version of Mac OSX 10.5 (Leopard), as well as Mac OSX 10.4 (Tiger).
My friends and I are all university students and we have all downloaded the X3Watch program. As guys, accountability software programs like X3Watch is just useful to have installed to make you think twice when you are tempted to visit a porn site such as YouPorn or PornoTube.
My friends and I use a variety of computer operating systems, and we’ve all found that the program works seamlessly with our web browsing. The software runs in the background and doesn’t slow your computer down at all, nor does it impede your Internet browsing. It’s not a filter so it will not block objectionable adult content.
In our experience, it logs potentially objectionable web sites that you visit. You can tell it when to send emails, whether you want them sent to your accountability partner every week or up to four weeks apart. The emails that it generates are easy to read and list the flagged web sites that you visited in chronological order with the date, time and website URL.
Overall, X3Watch is the best online accountability software program that I could find to battle porn addictions. One of its best software features is that it is totally free. You can purchase a paid version which offers certain extra features, such as monitoring MySpace or adding more than one accountability partner (the free version of the software restricts you to just one), but I haven’t found it necessary.
I would highly recommend you download an accountability software program such as X3Watch from XXXChurch (x3watch.com) and install it on your computer as a safeguard against the dangers of online pornography.
