The Greek Method To Desexualize Your Brain
Ancient Greece was known for sex orgies and statues
of naked bodies on every corner, and somehow,
they produced the most sexually disciplined men in human history.
Yet they had the same three-pound blob of fat in their skull as you.
One man figured out a method so powerful that
he walked into the brothels of Athens every single day for
40 years and never once fell into lust.
I’m going to break down who he was, his exact method,
and how you can actually use it right now
to desexualize your brain forever and defeat lust.
Who He Was
It was 412 BC when a boy was born in the city of Sinope, Diogenes.
Like every young man in ancient Greece,
he grew up surrounded by it.
Sex was everywhere, and like every man around him,
it controlled him completely.
But when he was 30, his entire life collapsed overnight.
His father was caught counterfeiting coins, the family was exiled,
and everything he owned was stripped away in a single day.
He ended up alone in Athens.
He would spend all his day going to brothels
and was a slave to lust until he had nothing—no money, no comfort,
and no one.
He was forced to deal with his addiction before it killed him.
His Method for Defeating Lust
This is when he realized something else no one did before,
and this is where we get into his method for defeating lust.
Everyone who’s trying to quit lust is running from it.
Diogenes did the opposite.
- He would deliberately walk through the most tempting parts of Athens, the markets, the festivals, and then straight into the brothel.
- He said you cannot defeat an enemy you keep running from.
- Every time you white-knuckle with willpower and distract yourself from the urge, it gets stronger.
- Diogenes looked at the men around him, consumed by lust, and felt genuine pity. They were slaves, and he was free.
- The moment you stop seeing lust as something you’re giving up, and start seeing it as something that has been robbing you, it loses its appeal instantly.
What Lust is Doing to You
That’s exactly what lust is doing to you.
Every time the urge shows up when you’re studying or trying to focus,
and you negotiate with it or distract yourself from it,
you’re telling your brain this thing has power over you.
It learns that, and it comes back stronger every time.
- It is like a toddler screaming in the supermarket.
- If you give it what it wants, it screams louder next time.
- If you just wait it out without reacting, it gets quieter every single time until one day it stops screaming altogether.
- Just smile because you already know it’s gone in 3 minutes, and the next one will be quieter than this one.
