• The General Mental Health Forum is now a Read Only Forum. As we had two large areas making it difficult for many to find, we decided to combine the Mental Health & the Recovery sections of the forum into Mental Health & Recovery as a whole. Physical Health still remains as it's own area within the entire Recovery area.

    If you are having struggles, need support in a particular area that you aren't finding a specific recovery area forum, you may find the General Struggles forum a great place to post. Any any that is related to emotions, self-esteem, insomnia, anger, relationship dynamics due to mental health and recovery and other issues that don't fit better in another forum would be examples of topics that might go there.

    If you have spiritual issues related to a mental health and recovery issue, please use the Recovery Related Spiritual Advice forum. This forum is designed to be like Christian Advice, only for recovery type of issues. Recovery being like a family in many ways, allows us to support one another together. May you be blessed today and each day.

    Kristen.NewCreation and FreeinChrist

  • Starting today August 7th, 2024, in order to post in the Married Couples, Courting Couples, or Singles forums, you will not be allowed to post if you have your Marital status designated as private. Announcements will be made in the respective forums as well but please note that if yours is currently listed as Private, you will need to submit a ticket in the Support Area to have yours changed.

  • CF has always been a site that welcomes people from different backgrounds and beliefs to participate in discussion and even debate. That is the nature of its ministry. In view of recent events emotions are running very high. We need to remind people of some basic principles in debating on this site. We need to be civil when we express differences in opinion. No personal attacks. Avoid you, your statements. Don't characterize an entire political party with comparisons to Fascism or Communism or other extreme movements that committed atrocities. CF is not the place for broad brush or blanket statements about groups and political parties. Put the broad brushes and blankets away when you come to CF, better yet, put them in the incinerator. Debate had no place for them. We need to remember that people that commit acts of violence represent themselves or a small extreme faction.
  • We hope the site problems here are now solved, however, if you still have any issues, please start a ticket in Contact Us

about molestation?

lostandlonely

Junior Member
Jul 6, 2006
22
2
✟30,152.00
Faith
Christian
Marital Status
Single
can i post this here too? i put it in the struggles with sexuality before i knew there was a forum for sexual assult. if someone has experienced similar situation cud you let me know so i know im not alone?


so i am pretty scared confessing this, but i need to know what this is. so since puberty i have been curious about guys bodies and stuff and like my school never taught it. so when i was 15 at summer school at a college i got into a bad situation. i went into a bathroom and used a stall next to an occupied one and there was a large hole in the wall, so i was curious as to what other guys' private parts looked like. i started masturbating and after a while the guy next to me stuck his finger in the hole and tried to get me to give myself to him. i was so scared i didnt kno what to do. i just froze for a while and somehow thought that he wasnt paying attention anymore. but he made comments and noises as i was stimulating myself until i finished. luckily there was no physical contact, but i did provide him with visual pleasure even though i didnt want to. i kno it was my fault i got into that i used the bathroom in the first place (i cant remember if i went in with the intention of seeing a body, or i realized i cud as i used the bathroom), i know its my fault i was too stupid and scared to leave. i remember i was so scared i didnt even feel anything physically when i was done. i left as soon as i could.

so like at this time i knew absolutely nothing about sexuality and i honestly didnt know that such places had those sinful uses. so im asking, is this event a molestation? or is it a punishment i deserved cause i was naive and curious? cause i didnt want that stranger to watch me, i didnt understand what was happening, and he was definitely an adult and he must have known i was a minor, as since like 80% of ppl on the campus at that time of year are like under age 16, and i wasnt very developed then either.

since then ive struggled so much with p&m i do it like 3-6 times everyday. and i struggle with homosexual thoughts while still being attracted to girls. i started cutting myself to help ease the pain of the memory and guilt and stuff so now im dealing with that too. in the next 5 years some how similar things happened to me several times in the same setting, although these times i was there for legit reasons.

i know already that i wont get married because no woman will want someone as disgusting as me, and like i know i am worth less than than the Godly brothers i live with now. i jsut dont understand why God let this happen to me, instead of like just making asexual or something since im not gonna be able to marry anyways. i dunno sometimes i wish that if God didnt like me that he wuldve just not let me be born in the first place, or just tell me straightup that im worthless. i dunno, can anyone answer my questions? and im really sorry if this was to graphic or something. im sorry if i cause someone to stumble, im probably going to hell as it is anyways.
 

Ruth~

Legend
Site Supporter
Jul 2, 2006
40,829
682
✟112,483.00
Faith
Christian
Marital Status
Politics
US-Democrat
I'm sorry you are struggling so badly with this. You are a worthwhile person. I think this sort of thing happens more often than realized. I did some experimental things as a teen to in terms of sexuality. You might feel better if you speak to a counselor about it, too. Best wishes to you. God loves you.
 
Upvote 0

Johnnz

Senior Veteran
Site Supporter
Aug 3, 2004
14,082
1,003
84
New Zealand
✟119,551.00
Gender
Male
Faith
Christian
Marital Status
Widowed
It would be really helpful to work all that through with a wise person.

You are not some sort of pervert or depraved person. Get rid of that. Quite a few teenagers end up with some same sex experience as they become aware of a whole new set of interests and urges. So realx on that account too.

Masturbation. Seems that only a minority of guys have never had an issue with this.

Complete sexual ignorance is no preparation for adolscence. You have been badly let down in that area.

John
NZ
 
Upvote 0