Comments on: How to Stop Porn Addiction

By: man

man — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 18:40:24 +0000

I have dealt with porn problems for years. I was born again in Christ about 6 months ago and for about 5 months I didn’t even think about pornography. Then one day I was online and a picture of sexy girl in bikini showed up and from there temptation set in and it consumed my mind. I kept telling myself not to go there but then I kept seeing more girls and then I started searching for more pictures and that was it. I was back to looking at pornography. After that happened, I prayed and asked for repentance and I was free of pornography for a month and then the temptation hit me again and started in sin again. This goes on periodically because I can only use my self control for a short time. The urge and temptation to feel satisfied with pornography is so strong like the need to eat. When I’m done looking at pornography I feel empty and sick and full of shame and feel like I just hung out with the devil. Please help me and pray for me.

By: jack

jack — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 21:12:31 +0000

I have been struggling wit porn addiction for about seven years. Although it was worse a few years back I still have problems erradicating it from my life completely. I think the problem is that as I am being tempted I momentarily forget how bad I am going to feel later and become overwhelmed b the temptation. One thing I have tried the last few times when I get tempted is that instead of visiting a porn site I visit sites on how to stop porn addiction and I instead of feeling all the bad emotions after I close my computer I feel all the good ones. Instead of feeling guilt I feel responsible. Instead of being ashamed I feel like I held myself accountable. Instead of feeling less complete I feel more complete. Instead of feeling unsatisfied with m behavior I feel more satisfied. It really has helped and I can carry on with my day with much more happiness. I have come to believe in God like many of you and relying on His forgiveness as also been great.
Going to this site and others tat talk about tis issue has made me feel less alone and more empowered to gain control of my life again. I just want to end by saying thanks to everyone who posted! It really helped and I hope my post helps some people struggling out there too! I know we can heal within if we believe we can do it!

By: jojo

jojo — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 05:13:36 +0000

THIS PORN IS A CURSE, DISEASES or VIRUS it is backstabber, lier and its like a conqueror that when it attack it can not be defeated, a temporary patch in a hole that keep coming back. Worse commit you to adultery and all kinds of emotional and psychological problem, ..

please forgive my English. I’m asian lived in philippines and I’ve brought my parents in sunday school and church in christian life, my life is good, I have a wife and no children, without the love of my family I’m TOTALLY DONE probably dead already… but still very much affected by this deadly invincible virus, it affect my inner self, Unnoticeable I feel frustrated, depress, bored Isolated in many times and always, irritated, lots of complain in office or at home. When I was young I felt I’m inferior to other student I’m sad it became constant, I go to porn when I was very prostrated and rebellious in life but this porn for 20 years it keeps betraying me, I always look to girls EVERYDAY like I want to make love with them, young or old. This curse make me impotent in life very passive, and sometimes I feel I have done many good and great things if I never got on to this curse., Now I need help to eradicate this dirty habit and be able feel better EVERYDAY without this I so called curse or disease.

CAUSE of this VIRUS/CANCER/CURSE IN MY self and LIFE

1st degree. Slowly makes me ALWAYS depress, prostrated, bored, and anxiety. to patch it with this hole I go to porn and masturbate.
And always look to a girl with dirty/malicious mind

2nd degree. committing Adultery ALWAYS and always hungry for it!

3rd degree, Now Im ALWAYS jealous, bitter, hater, malicious, envious, passive, selfish, weak, inferior NO HOPE in life. name it!

ALARMING?

1st, 2nd and 3rd always deep inside of me everyday, its now alarming. Like a monster inside of you (vampire, warewolf), anytime can go out in you and there is nothing you can do.

The only weapon I have, is every time I’ve been defeated/ KO I will get up again and fight and start all over again because this is the only way I know I can do. Prayers everyday ask god to strengthen me. Like you I’m on VERY deep on this and need to climb up and overcome it completely.

Now this day I notice it all and right down all of this-THANK GOD ALMIGHTY HE IS GREAT AND AWESOME… JESUS IS PERFECT AND HE LOOK AT US TO HELP INSTEAD TO JUDGE US RIGHT AWAY. HE IS A DOCTOR FOR A SICK MAN LIKE you and me. keep fighting because I will as long I can breath because Im TOTALLY desperate on this.

IT IS NOW TIME TO EXAMINE YOURSELF because I KNOW SOME OF YOU INCLUDING MYSELF AFTER READING THIS WILL GO BACK ON SOME OTHER TIME/ DAY FINDING YOURSELF DOING THIS KIND OF EVIL THING! this is virus/curse/ deases or simply a strong evil thing!

By: JohnAcNj

JohnAcNj — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 18:52:24 +0000

I my self as a son of a pastor and a choir singer struggle with the same temptation. And it hard to believe that I been trying to quit for over 8 years.

The great apostle Paul said it best In Romans

Romans 7:15 NLT
I don’t really understand myself, for I want to do what is right, but I don’t do it. Instead, I do what I hate.

We need to under stand that as real as God is the devil and his Demond’s are just as real. The battle is not against flesh and blood but against spiritual darkness.

The bible tells us to pray against temptations, well do we.
We need to pray every morning that we might not fall into temptaion.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 22:41:39 +0000

This week I have made the initial strides to stop my addiction. Lately I have grown in many areas spiritually when I decided to rededicate myself to the Lord but this addiction to masturbation has been holding me back as of late. I’m very proud of going out and drinking way less, as I used to go out everyweekend. And there are other strides I’ve made as well such as consulting the Bible and the scriptures daily or at least weekly. I making many progresses and I have been blessed by the Lord Jesus in making these progresses but I decided yesterday that I need to stop my addiction to porn and masturbation.
I believe I realized why I have been tormenting myself and the main reasons for why I return to this habbit. First I believe a have a low self image of myself. I think I let guilt from my parent’s divorce and my dad’s decision to be a homosexual affect how I think about myself. Because I have a low self esteem, my social interactions with women are usually worse and in many cases I’m too shy and I have reverted to masturbation for too long.
I can see by the other posts that this is truly a tormenting sin. For me this has truly become tormentful because in the past year or so I have been watching worse kinds of porn. Also there was an experience I had with someone who I chose as a best friend for many years but he was a very bad influence. He often tempted me to try and score with girls and think bad lustful thoughts. Then one day he tried to seduce me in my room and that has forever left a scar on me. Lately I’ve been getting images of homo rotic thoughts and they scare me because I know i’m not a homo sexual but ever since I followed sinners and behaved in this way, I have been tormenting myself further and further. I have truly let the views of sinners and the harmful acts they have done to me break much of my will and torment my mind.
Thus I have decided to stop tormenting myself. That’s why I set up parenting controls on this computer. Blocked porn sites just in case. Go to this website for help. I want to be the best christian I can be, but I know that is dificult when I keep feeling guilty and trapped in the sins I do not want to commit. I will pray for you all my brothers and I believe that God can help us change our ways. If you have advice for I may let those certain past events torment, I would greatly apreciated in hearing them.

By: Parker

Parker — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 09:11:34 +0000

@Brendan
My name is Parker.
I had my first experience with pornography when I was seven years old. It had a hold on me for 11 years of my life until recently. Though I still find myself dabbling lightly in soft porn (Which I am having a hard time with and is why I am here), though I have kicked hardcore, videos, and masturbation.
I would like to share what I’ve learned so folks like the 12 year old above me do not have to endure what I did. I will be frank.
The hard facts:
– Society at large knows pornography and sexual exploitation is wrong. However, to justify its actions, pornography and gratuitous sexual innuendo has worked its way into popular media by scared and ashamed crouching masturbators just like you and I. And so, slowly, these norms of female disrespect and sexual looseness have invaded our values en masse due to the huge impact media has on our lives. It goes like this: in the medieval ages and before actions like rape, adultery, and in some cases even lusting after a married woman were punishable by death. But slowly as materials and ideas became more distributable and common, the sexual perversions of a few deviants were accessible by the people in their region, then nation, and now with the advent of the internet, available accidentally to a seven year old child on the other side of the world. As the accessibility grew, so did the acceptance, until now when you can’t go a day on mainstream TV without hearing or seeing something inappropriately sexual.
The media has dumbed down our values and is now capitalizing on it via pornography.
Remember this when you laugh at a sexual joke on TV, but then feel ashamed after you’ve looked at pornography.
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-Something that delays or personal improvement in people -trying to quit pornography is the thought that “I will be able change when I _____” i.e. “I will be able to quit when I am married and am sexually active with my wife” or “I will be able to quit when I have that job and have less idle time alone.”
The hard fact of the matter is if you want to change, you must change now. Right now. As a 9 year old I would have NEVER imagined that I would still be into it when I was 19. And yet 10 years later there I was. 10 years from now you will be the same person with the same desires regardless of marriage, children, the amazing job, or the hot girlfriend, unless you make a rock-solid DECISION TO CHANGE Right. Now.
That realization was the turning point for me. In the future I want nothing more to have an grade-A incredible relationship with my wife and a beautiful and trusting relationship with my children.
Pornography does not factor in there.
I need to have the utmost respect for my wife and her womanhood which is not possible when saturated with images of fakery and disrespect. And I need the confidence and rock-solid values needed to raise kids lovingly. Rather than creeping away into the den and not being able to look my wife or kids in the face.
Remember, just like many great things, pornography and sexual addiction can be likened unto a seed; if it is planted and you continue to water it (even slightly) it will grow.

Please, for your sake and the sake of your family or future family, starve the seed!
Good luck fellows and ladies. I will truly be praying for
you, please do the same for me.
– Parker

By: Brian

Brian — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 22:10:33 +0000

Just like many of you, I have given this problem over to God. This time, it is different. I no longer feel the fear that I have lived with. I have gone a week with relative ease and I feel like I have finally found the issue for me. It was the struggle, the pain and then the commiting of the act. It became a very serious cycle that I was addicted to. I believe that it is like a bear trap – the more I struggled, the more it hurt and the more pain I felt. Now, I have decided that giving it to God means the same as it means for anything else – as long as it is His, I will win. When it becomes mine again, I lose. Do not try, rather decide and do! Also, realize that you did not just pick this up in a day or two or three. This has been building in your life and progressing in a way that is self defeating and tears you down. You cannot put this out of your life in a day. You can and should commit to a journey – the journey of allowing God to rid you of it. God bless you all and never forget just how much Jesus loves each and every one of you! He did then, he does this very second and will for eternity. Ask Him!

By: Brendan

Brendan — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 04:47:39 +0000

hi every one i am 12 years old and i have a problem with porn it has got me in so much trouble that i might go to military school for it god will help me i know but i wish porn never exsited all types i wish never exsited it makes me feel bad i wish someone would reply

By: Ant

Ant — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 17:27:57 +0000

Today I Prayed asked GOD to Stop my addiction to Sex and Cyber Porn addiction. I came across this site Read EVERY post and accept the challenge of what I MUST do to overcome THESE addictions. I was looking for a Prositute TODAY but I will refrain, Will destroy my porn collection and began to work on changing my Trigger patterns emotions for the addictions. Reading All of you alls post has helped and inspired and I hope you all are inspired as well. We Can get through this with GODS Mercy and follow his will, words and ways as ALL time Hope GOD blesses you all the addicts, co addicts and recovery addicts GOD bless us ALL>

By: John

John — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 07:56:30 +0000

I am still a really young teenager and I can’t stop myself secretly going on the computer looking for porn. Ive tried to stop countless times but after a few days, I can’t stop myself. Once Ive done it, i feel so bad and wonder why I couldn’t have stopped in the first place. This is my guilty addiction which really makes me ashamed of myself and feel that i don’t deserve such good friends and family. Can someone please pray for me because I really want to stop. I want to let people know that this is actually harder than I thought it would have been. The only reason why i started was the devil. He is sooo sneaky. I hate him so much. Porn has totally wrecked my mental and emotional life. I am not brave enough to tell my family, friends or pastor. I am too ashamed. Please pray for me cos I am having trouble battling against porn addiction and masturbation. Thanks =D