Snapshot · This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von
One of Valor Recovery's first clients was a 62-year-old man who had been abusing pornography for 40 years and had not had sex in 10 years when he entered the program.
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When Steven began Valor Recovery, he expected his primary clientele to be older professional men like himself — mid-career, dealing with the consequences of years of pornography abuse. Instead, because of Theo Von's audience, he has been treating a flood of men in their 20s. These are men who started watching pornography at ages 10 or 11 when the first iPhone launched, who have been in full-blown addiction for ten to fifteen years, and who largely do not recognize their daily pornography habit as an addiction — it is simply part of their routine, like taking a melatonin. They have significantly fewer friends than previous generations, everything in their lives happens online, and the loneliness is profound. Remote work means some of these men never leave their homes: they work online, order food online, watch pornography, and sleep. Theo observes that this existence might feel normal from the inside because the pseudo-social stimulation of social media masks the absence of real human contact. The challenge for Valor, Steven says, is keeping single men motivated to stay on the recovery path when there are no external consequences — no marriage at risk, no job in jeopardy — to drive urgency.
One of Valor Recovery's first clients was a 62-year-old man, six years sober in AA, but still drowning in porn and ten years out from any meaningful relationship. When asked what his dream outcome was, he couldn't name anything grand — he just wanted to go grocery shopping with a woman he was dating instead of going alone on Sundays and watching other families. Eight months later, he sent Steven a photo of exactly that. Steven wept telling his wife.
A generation of men grew up with the iPhone and had pornography in their hands at ages 10, 11, and 12. By the time they arrive at Valor Recovery in their 20s, many have been in full-blown addiction for over a decade without realizing it — it is simply part of their daily routine, indistinguishable from taking a melatonin. The trauma Steven sees in these clients isn't from a difficult childhood; it's from the porn they absorbed before their brains were finished developing.
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