You have spent six days with an honest framework for the porn-masturbation question. You learned that they are related but distinct. That fantasy is the hidden variable. That flatline is recalibration, not damage. That partnered recovery requires adaptation. That the reboot is a reset, not a cure.
Today the work is personal. The question is not what this course thinks you should do. It is what you actually want your sexual life to look like.
Reflect on this: what would a healthy, adult, embodied sexual life look like for you? Not the opposite of porn — the positive version. What is the role of solo sex in that life? What is the role of partnered sex? What is the role of fantasy? What are you okay with? What do you actively want?
There is no correct answer here, and different men will land in different places. Some will want full abstinence through a 90-day reboot and nothing after. Some will want moderation without fantasy. Some partnered men will want to stop solo habit entirely. Some will land somewhere else. What matters is that the answer is yours — considered, honest, and consistent with the life you want to build.
This is one of the places where “recovery” shifts from something done to you to something authored by you. That shift is the point.
The point isn’t to quit masturbation forever. The point is to author a sexual life that serves the person you want to be, instead of one authored by a habit you never chose.