I remember my 21st birthday, I’d been to the city on the train to pick up some XXX material. What is it with me and XXX material, I hear you say? I’m always banging on about it, aren’t I, I can’t stop ranting on about it, does his rhetoric about it ever let up? The answer is, I haven’t watched it for over a year, so now consider myself ‘clean and serene’ from its dastardly fishhooks. So, despite the obvious embarrassment of discussing sexual affairs online, I’d say that it’s cause for celebration. Porn, after all, is the major negative pipeline into my life to make me a slave to sin. Without it, I can work on being a worthwhile Christian.
I remember watching it behind closed curtains. I had these red tatty second-hand ones which didn’t block out the light. I had to wait years until I could afford a decent set of blackout drapes. They came with their own curtain helpline phone number. Someone out there knows exactly how hard it can be to hang them.
I remember the illicit scene, rather regrettably, like a host of other ugly performances bunched up and knotted in my head. It was some chubby woman who I didn’t fancy all that much, apart from her thick brunette locks. I wondered what I was doing there, in that room, at that time, even though it was my living room, even though I was always there. It was a quaint state of consciousness. It was cannabis I was on, not the green bushy stuff but the resin. That’s what I resigned myself to after dropping out of college, a life of smoking pot and drinking beer on my own, addicted to nudity on the silver screen. I had no idea of how much of a desperate existence I was letting myself in for. There was nobody around to grab me by the lapels and shake some sense into me. I wouldn’t have listened if they had.
I take great heart in the fact that I have not precisely broken under the pressure of modern life, however…I have been targeted. There’s a HUGE difference. I’ve been a victim of multiple bad influences during my walk, I’d even say demonic at times, including the scandalous fiasco of ‘induced’ bonkers illness (mental health).
It was all downhill from that birthday. I felt something inside me wither and die. I think it was my fearlessness. Up until then I was scared of nothing, the concept of fear never even entered my consciousness. I would get drunk and high every weekend during my ‘going out’ phase, climb up something, fall off, bump and cut my head, trip over, get into bust ups, get myself arrested, pepper sprayed, all of that madness, and wake up bright n early the next day to do it all again. I was invincible, on the cusp of 21, a big bulletproof goofy kid.
On my B Day, sat there on the floor twirling my nob around to a big fat naked lady playing with a pair of older guys, something left the premises and died. It exited stage left and flew solo. Fortunately, I understand this to be a perfectly natural juncture of growing up, and not directly related to what I was doing. It would have left me anyway, in time, I maybe just wouldn’t have noticed it so sharply.
Drug-induced chemicals on the brain like endorphins, serotonin and dopamine, combined with the entrenched memory of a pulsating, electrifying orgasm, have a habit of ‘marking’ the subject forever. You never forget where you were or what you were doing when such an event takes place. This is why swarms of sinners on the wide path embrace this lifestyle and venture deeper along it, powerlessly, hopelessly, haplessly, and helplessly. Because that thrill, that life-marker, that unforgettable kick, is arguably the most satisfying reward in existence, the best fun us as humans can have. A cup of English tea doesn’t come close. A burger and chips doesn’t cut the mustard.
Only adrenalin-fuelled hobbies can compete, in my opinion.
But I don’t want a go kart, I want hard-action full-on balls-to-the-wall bareback sex high on drugs with steamy porn stars, and I want it now.
No quibbles, is that okay?
And not only now, I want it tomorrow, and the next day, the day after that, and the following day, and so on. For the rest of all time. Because I’m a red-blooded male with needs.
Except I don’t, not anymore, all of that is over, I find it miraculous that I got offline, that I walk past DVD shops, that I delete dealer’s numbers, that I resist that deep-rooted womanly calling. Because growing out of this salacious empire isn’t just so difficult it takes middle-aged nouse to do it, it simply ain’t meant to happen at all i.e it’s darned well impossible to escape for some.
I feel that way for myself. I feel like I have evaded some evil terrible menace by the skin of my teeth at the last hurdle. That evil terrible menace happens to be a woman. It used to be a naked man with a shaft long enough to roast a piglet on. The both of them had plans revolving around the ownership of my sacred sexual energy for all of eternity, knowing its potency, once entwined with The Shepherd of Desire and soaring like an eagle to insatiable pleasures, knows no bounds.
In the throes of ecstasy I needed no water or nicotine for many hours, which would be unthinkable in a bored, sober state. During a few kinkier games I didn’t even require oxygen (wink-wink).
So yep, I’ve jumped ship, away from those leather-clad fire-breathing harlots, who do not love you back, and into Christ’s loving arms.