Aditya Dutta
Habit and Behavioural Science Researcher
Founder of Sherpa, the quit porn app and AI quit porn coach.
- Biomedical engineer by degree
- Studied neuroscience
Aditya is a biomedical engineer by degree and has studied neuroscience. Today he studies how habits form and how they change, and builds Sherpa on that research.
Sherpa is a quit porn coach and companion. It starts with something you want to get good at and turns it into one small step a day, tied to a time and place.
In October 2026 he led the Sherpa r/pornfree study, a read of 12,445 posts from a year of r/pornfree. The counts are published as an open CSV, with the method in the first post below.
His posts lean on published research: if-then planning, how habits form, self-perception and urge surfing. Every post lists its sources at the end.
Write to him at hello@sherpahabits.com.
Posts by Aditya Dutta
- What 12,445 posts about quitting porn taught us, and what we built because of itIn a year of r/pornfree posts, most relapses came in the first week and late at night. Here's what Sherpa does about each finding, and why.
- Why I'm building a quit porn app, and why we should talk about itA year of r/pornfree posts shows who struggles with porn and when. Here's why I'm building Sherpa, and why we should talk about it.