Anyone ever successful quit this hobby, and still visit massageplanet.net ?
Sleepy, definitely things to aspire to. I guess the bigger question, though, is whether you would actually get those things. From those who have answered this thread and similar ones, the response is usually "I replace hobbying with ..." And this is similar to any addicition - eating, boozing it up, etc. You find something else to take your mind off of your addiction. The only problem is that either you end up spending the money you would have spent on hobbying on your new passtime or else by the time you save up the money for those things something else comes along (new roof for house, new appliances, etc.) that you end up spending the money on instead.
I do agree, though, about the value of not being caught.
For me, the best thing about hobbying is massageplanet.net. It is the best for its obvious benefits, but it's also the best for curtailing my hobbying. I have windows of opportunity that arise fairly frequently. There are so many good looking women in a fair number of places across the GTA that I often end up going to toronto-exotic-massage.com and then checking out the web sites and seeing who is on schedule. I then create a "short list" for that day and then go onto massageplanet.net to check out the latest reviews on them. The problem (benefit) is that I usually spend so much time doing the research that by the time I finally get it together to head out, my window of opportunity is gone (or I won't have enough time to get out there, have the massage, and then go to whatever I have scheduled afterwards) so I end up just spinning my wheels. I'm like the kid at the mega-candy store who can't decide until I'm finally told "all right that's enough, if you can't decide then too bad, we're leaving." If I were more efficient, I'd keep a list but then with my luck the SO or boss would find it. The end result is that by having massageplanet.net and suffering from too many choices and "information overload", I end up curtailing my hobbying to once or twice a month and those times usually fall in the "I have to go to X for work and there's place Y nearby, so I've got to go there and there's limited choice." I guess, conceivably, if my boss sends me to places with no nearby MPA or doesn't send me anywhere, I'll end up effectively quitting (at least until my SO takes a trip without me) and still be looking at massageplanet.net. Like Scoob said, massageplanet.net is the gateway to this addiction, but for me it's a bit of a closed gateway.