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Changes

Here are some suggestions which can help increase your feelings of control:

Changes to your environment

  • Moving your computer to a high traffic more public area of the home to make it less likely that you will access pornography.
  • Changing your employment if your current job brings you into contact with children.
  • Having a photo of your partner/children next to your computer so you think of them and what you are risking by accessing sexual images of children.

Changes to your computer

  • Having security software installed on your laptop so that you cannot access pornography.
  • Having a picture of a place you want to visit as your screen saver or wallpaper.
  • Entrusting PC password to another person to limit access.
  • Set your password to be a reminder of something you would lose if you offend online.

Changes to when you go online

  • Only use the computer when others are in the room or in public places where you would not access the material.
  • Only use the computer for specific purposes such as Internet banking, do not allow yourself to ‘browse.’
  • Unplug your wireless router at night so you have to make more effort to go online and therefore have more time to think about and stop what you are doing.
  • Get a mobile phone without Internet access.

Exercise: What I can do

Make a list of three things you can do to immediately reduce your risk of accessing sexual images of children, e.g.:

  1. Move computer
  2. Install security software
  3. Switch Wi-Fi off after 8 p.m.
  4. And so on..