This may be something of "heresy" to say on GYE, but mast** for a woman is not that bad. ... But that's not the point... I strive to eradicate p**n and mast** altogether not because of how bad it is, but because I had become a slave to lust - and lust has destroyed everything that I am....
I have come to learn that I am an addict, and if I continue down this road where I worship lust and let lust control every part of who I am, I will certainly be destroyed... I will lose everything, and most importantly, I will lose myself...
I make this stand because I refuse to let that happen... And the fact that G-d may look down and smile, really, for me, that's a nice fringe benefit...
I know that to free myself from the chains of this addiction, I must utterly and completely not allow lust a place anywhere in my life... I do it so that I can live.
Alcohol isn't "bad" (unless you're Muslim), but an alcoholic has become a slave to alcohol... It has consumed him... So he must get rid of it... Same here... The only difference is that society has recognized the evils of over indulgence in alcohol, whereas with lust, we live - unfortunately - in a society that encourages each and everyone of us to become an addict...
So we are here... a small band of fighters against the army of destroyers... here to reverse this and save this world, one Jew at a time, one small step at a time...