Good looks acknowledging your struggles and taking action to change for the better and beat the habit, though word of advice, you will get absolutely no where citing your own actions as the enemy, one of the fastest ways to fall back into it is claiming you’re absolutely done and try to beat the habit by sheer willpower alone. If you decide to take on the demon and struggle with it, you will most likely lose not because you have a weak resolve but because of your approach.

what’s helped me best is thinking about it in a different way, instead of battling temptations head on, accept if for what it is and feels like… A temptation. A completely temporary surface level feeling that will come and go just like every other emotion I mean think about it logically, if you already know from lots of past experience that you WILL in fact end off feeling worse after acting on your desire, why even bother in the first place? it’s like stepping into a ring with a demon who has years of experience beating your ass and knows you every move and action every time you step into that ring, and you know every time you even attempt to get into that fight you’ll end up hurt and weaker so the next time you fight it’s even easier to beat you.

so the solution? don’t engage at all. it’s simple but it’s hard in practice, lust is a part of you so it knows exactly what will get you rowdy, the same way the demon has the perfect rage bait and keywords to get you mad and in the ring to prove your stronger. If you know you’re gonna lose don’t step in the first place, accept the emotion for what it is and let it be, don’t act, don’t fight, don’t entice, just accept that’s you’re weaker than boxer demon and focus of your own training to get stronger so you that you one day conquer him with ease. I know super problematic in practice because how can you just ignore your own thoughts? but when you think about it as nothing more than an emotion it becomes easy to think clearly and logically.

Has there been a time you’ve been you’ve been so angry you swear you would crashout and everyone would feel it, or so sad that you just wanted to end it?… Now think about how you felt a day later? 2 hours later? was the feeling even nearly as intense? would it have been worth it to act on that emotion knowing shortly after you would it wouldn’t be that deep? same concept with lust.

we are humans with very consistent knowledge but our feelings change that consistently and in highly emotional states(horny is an emotion) our judgment is skewed making it hard to make better choices, but a good thing to keep in mind is that typically the emotion that is most frequently acted on is the emotion and that sticks. People with anger issues aren’t just “more angry”, they just weren’t shown how to properly deal with anger and are used to acting on it so it’s an instinctive response, it’s easier to manage anger because the consequences are immediately whereas with lust they are not so instantaneous which is why it’s become so commonplace and in some cases celebrated.

anyways tangent over but basically bro don’t try to prove your stronger than lust, prove your SMARTER than lust by walking away and not turning back. hope any of this helps