One guy tried to show me a porn picture today.

Some people, when they know it's wrong, want to involve others just to justify that they aren't the only one doing something wrong.

Other people just don't get how bad porn is for you and what it can lead to.

Either way, the fact that you saw what was coming and walked away is a big deal, great job! Having that awareness is what it takes to overcome this addiction.

 

Kinda reminds me of that one time a classmate showed me actual porn in school on his phone and pushed him away from me. Funny how I didn't care any less even though I did used to watch a lot of porn in my teens.

 

I had toxic friends who were just a bad influence to me. Like one time, this imbecile showed me a hentai pic and I screamed. Thankfully, I didn't relapse but I got away ditched them later on. I also had a toxic gf who told me that "there's nothing wrong with porn" even though there's many, many, things wrong with it. Later on, I hissed at her in front of her friends when she tried to cuddle my arm and we broke up, I didn't regret it.

Some people just don't understand anything. They don't know that they're addicted and they justify their addiction. Pathetic.

Thankfully, all this led up to me having real, genuine, supportive friends who are almost all female. I actually enjoy spending time with them as opposed to sitting at their table, hardly talking to them and thinking "wtf am I here" or "someone save me".

Sorry for long rant but it's true, real friends are much harder to find in a world full of addicts and it just sucks tbh. Peace out.

 

Some people are have nonsense at all... They don't have shame at all...

 

Same reason I had to discard a friend of mine who's a porn addict, he once had 100gb stash of porn, never gets tired of it.
Am still on the path of recovery though, I'll get better.

 

As addicts we are the " Some People ", only difference is for the moment we have some sobriety within it.
The some people " us " would surely get P if we were dying from it. P is allot like Gambling addiction in that it rewires the brain and damages relationships and can make you broke, P is more harmful in my opinion though because rewires
us to cause intimacy issues, ED, crushed confidence a whole host of things Gambling doesn't do.
I never interacted in person with P, but I was part of a massive hug group that part of what was done was sharing P and
where we got it etc. Even got paid hows that to feed the addiction get paid to watch P and M wow. And hence why it took me 45 years as the last twenty had internet. The group I was with operates still but I was with them 18 years.
Oddly I miss the friends I had made but not the free money and P. But those are what we calls user friends, they are people that are in your click in your addiction. I am so thankful to have this time I have now.

 

I hate when this happens. You try to stay clean, focussing on school or work, and out of the blue someone shoves their phone in your face. It happens way too often for my liking, and I swear one day I will start smashing phones.

 

I've had to distance myself from a few people; always looking up pics or talking about sex.

 

We will always be placed in situations that are potentially bad for our recovery. At my mechanic shop there is a playboy page taped to someone’s locker. In some tv shows I watch, there are nude sex scenes.

It is more about our intentions then running from the “drug.” If we are on the road to recovery, are practicing extreme self honesty, and doing our daily maintenance to gain peace of mind then we will be ok in those situations.

I’m a recovered alcoholic and I used to not be able to walk down the wine isle at the supermarket out of fear that I would one day but a bottle, even though this was the most direct route to the milk. After a few years of recovery and when the mental and physical obsession left me, I can freely walk down that isle.

I’m 30 days sober from PMO and if all goes well I hope to find that same type of relief from nudity that I have from alcohol.

As long as my intentions are pure there shouldn’t be a problem accidentally stumbling upon nakedness; art shows, tv, random posters etc.