Dear Jay:

I support your statement: “This is to raise awareness that young teenagers can be manipulated by porn, as I am now fully against pornography”- I am against pornography too,  would make it gone, if it was within my power.

There were many posts by young people on these Forums struggling with the same issue as you are struggling with. What I learned over time is that a public forum is not the place to communicate about this, or to try to help a person such as yourself with this particular issue.

The reason is that if you feel better as a result of communication here, if you feel better about those incidents, it may encourage someone reading this to … do the very things you did. The logic would be something like this: if it didn’t hurt his sister, maybe I can do it to mine.

A terrible thought, isn’t it. This is why a confidential setting such as in psychotherapy is the right place to discuss this, I believe.

anita