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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2005 12:03:03 GMT -7
It wasn't my dad's magazines that got me started, it was finding his book The Happy Hooker, when I was around 12 or so. That started me with a warped sense of sex that came into my marriage, expecting certain things.
I became a Christian at 35. I have spurts of porn activity and have gone for years without looking at it. The internet in the last 5 years has been a problem, also in spurts.
My wife has 0 libido, so that exacerbates the problem, one surface reason I look at it is because I consider myself to have no sex life, so it's my way of getting what I desire. Not once has she and I ever had the simultaneous stimulating thought of having sex (or to put it differently, not once have I ever observed her entertaining the thought of having sex). She wouldn't understand how pornography is a problem, to her it's like flipping through Playboy.
Around 1993 I got sick of the tapes and through them out, it was a nice catharthis. I can will myself to not look at it but I still have the lurking desire to look at it.
How do you re-route the desire?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 26, 2005 12:22:01 GMT -7
Well, thankfully I have celebrated 30 days of "sobriety".
I have found that it's easy for me to turn away - just stop thinking about it. Once it gets in your head, you're a goner. No wonder Jesus talked about lusting after a woman being the same as adultery.
So I guess that's it for me.
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Post by mike on Oct 27, 2005 2:39:56 GMT -7
>I became a Christian at 35. I have spurts of porn activity and have gone for years without looking at it. The internet in the last 5 years has been a problem, also in spurts.
That's the way it was for me at the end. I was more of the binger than an everyday addict, which I'd been in the beginning.
>Around 1993 I got sick of the tapes and through them out, it was a nice catharthis. I can will myself to not look at it but I still have the lurking desire to look at it. How do you re-route the desire?
The desire may be the emptiness and love hunger within calling out. When the desire hits, turn to God, and ask Him to fill your heart with what you're really looking for. Do this often, and ask Him to reveal any walls between you and accepting His grace.
Congrats on the 30 days... do you have an accountability partner there ?
thanks for posting.
Mike
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2005 4:42:39 GMT -7
Congratulations on your 30 days of sobriety!!! That is awesome! Keep up the good work.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2005 9:02:41 GMT -7
blondearchie, thanks for the encouragement. I think I've got it licked this time, as long as I don't think about it ...
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