Unhooked
Time spent on porn calculator
Put in the hours a week and this page does the multiplication: hours a year, and what those hours come to in full waking days. Add a monthly figure if money is part of it and you get the yearly cost as well. A waking day is counted as sixteen hours, which is the one assumption the sum makes and it says so under every line.
One estimate goes in, so one estimate comes out. That is said under every line of the answer rather than hidden in a footnote, because a yearly total printed to the hour looks far more certain than it is.
The sum
Put in an hours-a-week figure and the year appears here.
An estimate, not a measurement. Every figure above comes from the one number you typed.
How this is worked out
Three lines of arithmetic, and they are all on this page so you can check them. Hours a year is the hours a week you typed times 52. Full waking days is that yearly figure divided by 16, because a day you slept through was never a day you could have spent on something else — the page prints the 16 on the line itself so you can redo the division with your own sleep. If you add a monthly figure, the yearly cost is that times 12.
No unit is invented anywhere. Whatever currency you typed comes back out, unnamed, because this page does not know where you are. Hours are held between 0 and 168, which is a week, and the yearly total is shown to one decimal below ten hours and to none above it — a figure built from one estimate does not earn more precision than that.
Which is the whole method and also its whole limit: every line of the answer is your one typed number, multiplied. Nothing is measured, no average is assumed, and no figure here was fetched from anywhere. If your estimate is a third out, so is every line under it. That is why “an estimate, not a measurement” sits under the result rather than in a footnote — a yearly total printed to the hour looks far more certain than it is.
This tool keeps no state, so closing the tab clears the figures and the next visit starts from an empty box.
What the number is for
This is arithmetic, not a verdict. It is the same sum anyone would do for a commute or a game, applied to something people usually never add up. Some find the yearly figure smaller than they expected; some find it larger. Either way you now hold a quantity instead of a feeling, and a quantity is a much easier thing to decide about.
Unhooked runs the same arithmetic on your phone, forward from the day you stopped, and labels the result exactly the way this page does. The hours come back to you as hours, not as a score.
Questions people ask
How many hours a week do people spend on porn?
We are not going to invent an average, and you should distrust any page that hands you one. The closest honest figure we can point at is narrow: in the treatment-seeking group of 266 people behind the PPCS-6 screen, the reported use was six to seven sessions a week at about 48 minutes each, which is roughly five hours. That is one self-selected group of people who had gone looking for help, not a population average, and it is not you. Use your own number.
Why is a day sixteen hours here?
Because a day you slept through is not a day you could have spent on anything else. Sixteen waking hours is the plain convention for that, and the page says so on the line itself, so you can redo the division with your own figure if you sleep differently.
How accurate is this calculator?
It is exactly as accurate as the figure you typed, and no more. If your estimate is a third out, every line of the answer is a third out. An estimate, not a measurement.
Does the app work this out for me?
Yes. Unhooked asks once, during setup, roughly how many hours a week it was, and carries that forward from the day you stopped as hours reclaimed, labelled the same way. That answer is the only thing the question is used for, and there is no screen in the app that turns it into a total anyone else can see.
Further reading
- Benefits of quitting porn: measured vs reported Sorted honestly into three columns: what is measured, what is only self-reported, and the one benefit that is pure arithmetic — the hours you get back.
- How to stop watching porn The honest method map: what has measured evidence behind it, what blocking can and cannot do, what a log is for, and when to see a professional.