A private porn blocker for Jewish men and women
Many observant Jews describe this work as guarding the eyes, shmiras einayim. It is an old idea, and a phone makes it harder than ever, because the thing you are trying to look away from is always within reach. If you are trying to stop watching porn, often quietly and alone, here is a private setup that holds.
Guarding your eyes, privately
For an adult quietly trying to stop, the idea of anyone seeing the attempts can be enough to keep them from starting at all. Escape keeps the whole thing between you and your phone.
How Escape works for you
Escape is a private porn blocker for iPhone, iPad and Mac. The Safari blocker is free and blocks 40,000+ adult sites. On iPhone and iPad, Deep Block covers every browser and private tab, and Strict Mode makes you wait before anything can be switched off. There is no account, no name and no email, and the blocking happens on your own device. Its App Store privacy label reads Data Not Collected.
Not alone
The secrecy is often the heaviest part. When you are ready, talking to someone you trust, a rabbi, a counselor or a friend, can lighten it. Support groups are another option. On the shame that follows porn.
A simple start
- Turn on the Safari blocker. Free, about two minutes.
- Cover the other browsers and private tabs with Deep Block.
- Add the wait with Strict Mode.
- Know your hard moments. Spotting your triggers.
Escape blocks porn in Safari for free, extends to every browser with Deep Block, and adds a 90-second urge ritual, practice games that retrain how you meet an urge, and 28 short courses on identity and the long arc of recovery. No account, no personal tracking.
More on this topic in Quitting in real life, or go deeper with the Stress without a valve course.