Teens - Confessions

I'm 18 years old and have been struggling with porn for about 4-5 years now, and I was thinking all hope was lost. I was raised in a God-fearing, Christian home all my life. My dad gave the the "birds and the bees" talk, but none of it really mattered to me. One day I was shown some pictures of nude girls, and I kind of liked them. There was a voice in the back of my head saying, "This is wrong. Don't do this." But I just put it in the back of my mind. Soon enough, this escalated to watching porn on the internet and in movies 4-5 times a week. I knew that it was wrong, but I didn't care at this point. About a year ago I was introduced to a man that I am ever indebted to him for what he's done in my life. He showed me the affects of porn-usage on your brain and your future life (not from personal experience, but from books and such). And he introduced me to X3 Watch, and it has enormously helped me clean up my internet viewing. Yes I've still slipped up a couple of times since installing it, but I've made it right with God first and then with my parents and that man. Just a tip for teen struggling with this, don't be on the computer alone. You'll lose every time. Always have somebody in the house with you. (Best option is your mom. You wouldn't watch porn sitting next to your mom.) And secondly, don't be on the internet late at night either when everyone's in bed. When they go to bed, turn the computer off and leave it off until the morning. This road of recovery from porn addiction is a rough one, definitely not for the faint of heart, but it will be so worth it when you won't have to deal with all of that in your future marriage! Your brother in Christ, Jonathan Childress PS: Thanks X3 Watch!