Dazed and Confused

JaylBreak's picture

It's kind of disappointing the day after I proclaim my determination to get over my addiction, I hit one of my lowest of lows. I feel like crap right now, dazed and confused. I want to get this out of my system and written down but I really don't want to be judged so take it easy on me...

The evening started with a happy hour - a couple of drinks with friends. We decided to head back to our own places, grab some dinner and meet up at a different bar for a few more drinks later in the night. We go our separate ways. As I was walking back, I thought there was no point in heading back to my end of town and coming back so I decided I would grab some dinner and hang out at a strip club. A couple of drinks in, I get a dance. I blow off my friends and figure I would head home because I really didn't want to have a big night. Anyway, I hang out for a little while longer and get another dance. This time it wasn't much of a dance - she was just plain old dry humping me. She wanted to get more sensual so she convinced me to go to the VIP room. It's a lot more expensive back there and not much different. More dry humping and a lot more money down the drain. Anyway, I got the hell out of there. That experience left me so sexually aroused that I came back home and serviced my satisfaction for myself. How irresponsible is that??? I threw away $300 just to feel like crap at the end of the night. Who does this?!?

Anyway, so I'm back to day 1 and $300 worse for the wear. It's one thing to have this addiction but it's sucking money in substantial amounts out of me too now. I really can't tell if I've made progress or just regressed over the year. Time to pick up the pieces...

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I think the word "addiction"

I think the word "addiction" is being used too strongly here... I know you've been here longer but people get addicted to all sorts of things and while it's good to strive to be in charge of your life, you cannot afford one moment of self-shaming because that makes your desires even stronger.

In our culture the word addiction is a loaded word that means "bad person, person with no self-control, moral degenerate, defective person" and that gives you a burden you don't deserve to bear.

I've slipped a few times already, but I don't allow myself to say "I'm a bad person" anymore, you just have to be forgiving of yourself. I've spent my whole life beating myself up and I have had enough of it.

If I were you I would stop using the word addiction. For all you know the fact that you say "don't do this, I shouldn't be here, this is wrong" is what gave you the temptation to spend even MORE money.

Aside from that, men have been throwing money at women since time began. How do you think they can afford to make money at that strip club? Because you and 90% of men like the idea of seeing naked women. Me included.
I haven't been to a strip club in a while but when I went, I enjoyed it because I didn't think I was doing something wrong or failing myself. I really haven't had the opportunity or the thought to go to a strip club since I decided to take control of my sexuality, I don't know how I would feel about doing it. For some reason when I think of it it sounds perfectly acceptable.

What if you were in some trendy dance club? The girls there will be half-naked and probably all over you. What's the difference?

JaylBreak's picture

The Oracle

I just clicked on the Oracle and look what came up. That's truly amazing!

Quote:

What is holding me back or causing me pain? Or what do I need to be alert to in my situation?

FAILURE TO FORGIVE AN ERROR IN JUDGMENT

What insight will help me at this time?

CLING TO WHAT YOU KNOW IS RIGHT

Yeah those can be pretty

Yeah those can be pretty accurate, those synchronicities.

Next time I'm in a situation like this I am just going to say "well, I'm doing my best here. No one is perfect and neither am I". Makes it easier to move on with your day and your goals.

Good idea!

I had a relapse yesterday too, so I asked the oracle too. Here comes:

What is holding me back or causing me pain? Or what do I need to be alert to in my situation?
CLANNISHNESS

What insight will help me at this time?
A MISHAP INSPIRES RENEWED VIGOR IN A POSITIVE DIRECTION

I like the second one! Smiling

Aphrodites Chela's picture

Sometimes

you break your nose when you fall on your face. Your intention to pick up the pieces will carry you through. The work you have done to get to this place today, is with you and is working in you. The I-Ching speaks of the inferior man. Sounds like that old dude inside you is fighting for his life. Your declaration of freedom scared the shit out of him...and he got you. Put some ice on it. Your nose will heal.
What you did yesterday is in the past. What will you do now?
Thanks for writing. It's good for us all.

JaylBreak's picture

Very insightful. Perhaps

Very insightful. Perhaps it's a last ditch effort by the old dude inside before he disappears forever!! Smiling Thanks Chela - that really lifted my spirits!

Last ditch effort

Really, that's what I was thinking, too. I don't think it's a coincidence that you came back here to get some support, and then went to a strip club 24 hours later.

Also, sometimes big loss (like 300 dollars) is just what we need to get ourselves motivated to make a change. A small price to pay, in the long run.

JaylBreak's picture

Only time will tell

Only time will tell. That would be a small price to pay if all works out.

Marnia's picture

*pats head*

I'm sure the ladies very much appreciated your contribution. Eye-wink

JaylBreak's picture

I have a deeper reservoir of

I have a deeper reservoir of riches to give than money can ever buy. Eye-wink

Marnia's picture

That's the stuff!

You're so right.

Here's part of a PM I got, which was very insightful:

Maybe one of the reasons girls enjoy love and closeness over sex is that they have grown up with a more fairytaleish and romantic view on things, whereas every teenageboy with a bedtime past 10PM and a television has been more or less brainwashed by porno.

I remember a girly friend of mine once telling me that first time she was with a boy, he literally started pounding her insides with his fingers, without thinking about proper lubrication, thinking it was how it should be done. He simply did not know better, because he had only ever seen sexual encounters on random xxx channels. And if you watch it frequently enough, it becomes a part of your sexuality, because you start masturbating regulary watching it; you start getting turned on by closely viewing genitials, deepthroat, cumshots and likewise.

And as soon as teenagers start sleeping together, it gets worse for those not getting any, because they will start focusing enormously on what they are missing out. It’s pretty common for everyone to focus upon what you are not getting and you then start perceiving it as very important.

Then, as soon as they find an interesting girl, they can’t wait to get started and think of nothing else, than making up for long years of soloing. Whereas most girls have been looking forward to the first romantic love, like in the movies, fairytales and novels. Which is probably why most guys already are (mentally) ready - or think they are - for sexual encounters, whereas girls may not be ready. Most girls end up in disappointment though, having looked forward to the romantic first times, like in the teenage love-movies.

And as that was not bad enough, every time a guy in a porno-movie touches a girl even the slighest, she starts screaming in pleasure. No wonder teenage-sex becomes so goal- and performance-oriented, when you inherit the idea of orgasms - and the harder and faster you pound, the better the orgasm - as the only source of pleasure for a woman (possibly also because the orgasm is the highest genitial pleasure for guys, at least before you start karezza or emotional sex).

And when it doesn’t work in real life, you become frustrated. It took me a long time to get that mindset out of the head, sadly. And when my girlfriend told me that slow and caring lovemaking felt very good too, I thought she was being nice, because I didn’t know my way around. It just took a little bit of empathy for the opposite gender, to realize she was right.

That was around the time I thought something was wrong with me and that porn had done irreversible things to my sexuality. I was fed up with being nearly forced into thinking sexually, as soon as the possibility for sex was a reality. I would much rather lie down and feel closeness endlessly, but I was constantly overpowered and manipulated by genes, as I know now. That is why your material is so important to me.

Anyways, I am so fortunate that my parents purchased your first book for me, as a present. They must have seen me endlessly occupying myself in ’Peace’, because they asked for names of similar books!