What about fantasizing during a reboot?  Printer-friendly
version  Question: What's the difference between fantasizing
about porn and watching porn?  Answer: The mouse  Maybe I
exaggerate, but fantasizing about porn or reading "erotic"
stories makes porn recovery harder and maybe longer. Fantasizing
about porn you viewed activates sensitized addiction
pathways, causing spikes in dopamine, which seem to correlate
with cravings and increased restlessness. This increases the
chance of relapsing and keeps addiction neural pathways alive &
well. See this short video on fantasy & porn  Research on mental
imagery indicates that fantasizing or imagining an experience
activates many of the same neural circuits as performing it. In
other words, fantasizing about porn reinforces your addictive
pathways. From the study - Do imagined and executed actions
share the same neural substrate? - researchers concluded:   On
the other hand, from what guys on the forum say, using your
imagination about real potential partners is mo