Alex,
First of all, I was boasting about nothing... I was speaking as a fool because I thought this discussion (the way you presented it) was pretty foolish. Whatever I do or don’t do in the shower is actually nobody’s business, nor would I care to share any personal habits (like booger eating or masturbating) with the members of this forum. To your question, though, most everyone has engaged in the latter; I suppose there are a few have ingested the contents of their nose, but why do we need to talk about those things? it’s just simply not edifying, nor is it relevant. Which was my point. I don’t think they’re sins, just part of our carnal, fleshy nature, as are other common bodily processes which people normally do in private. In the bathroom.
The subject of porn, on the other hand, is perhaps more defined as relevant. Because they’re not just thoughts in your own mind; they’re real images of real people doing real sinful acts. You say it’s not an addiction, and yet, stopping it “is the hardest thing to do”. Got news for you… it is. It’s probably on par with coming off of a heroin addiction. Here’s a Ted Talk that might help:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSF82AwSDiUWhen you see it for the truly awful thing it is, you will learn to hate it enough to be delivered from it. You don’t hate it yet.
You say, “but I do hate it”. But you have your secret files on your computer, no? You have your special websites memorized. You plan out the when and how you intend to indulge in it. You “make time” for it. You may even have a special web browser that you only use for porn (for security purposes, of course). These things belie your claimed feelings of contempt. You can justify all of this, because, 1) It’s legal and accepted in our society, 2.) Most everyone else does it too, 3.) You’re a sinner and can’t help yourself after all.
But, if you had a bestiality habit, or couldn’t stop molesting your little sister, I doubt you’d share that here (or with any of your friends or brethren). That’s because you couldn’t as easily excuse it with “well I’m just a sinner”. Ask yourself why that is and you’ll come closer to seeing what porn has done to cloud your reasoning and distort your moral sense.
It’s really, really bad stuff. I say all of this not to try and embarrass or accuse you, but so that you (and others) can understand how much damage it truly causes, and how it’s much more than ‘just another sin’. There are many different types of sins, with greatly
varying consequences. This is a bad one. If you think of it more along the lines of molesting your (or someone else’s) little sister, you may find it easier to stop partaking in it. Because in fact you are.
Hopefully this helps you more than a pointless discussion of my private thought-life and what I do or don't do in the privacy of my own bathroom.