It is very much abusive. These groups effectively treat watching porn as the one of the worst things you can do other than murder. Even disregarding how something like this would be treated as a compulsion and not an addiction, this is NOT how you would treat any mental health condition. Alcoholics Anonymous is Anonymous partly so that you can manage that with people outside of your normal peer group. But having shit like this set up to go to someone in your peer group is just for social blackmail: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accountability_software -- this isn't for "helping combat addictions", it's for social control and for making queer people afraid to come out.
I did write another comment elsewhere not too long ago (though in a different context) that covers some of how things like this are used as part of far-right radicalization and historically how shaming over sexuality is used as a sort of self-sustaining feedback loop for social control: https://hexbear.net/comment/4178468
![[Not the Onion] Speaker of the House Mike Johnson admitted that he and his son monitor each other's porn intake.](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/82c65f14-6c5e-4a9c-b701-f0432ae955b5.png){kind=link}
Honestly, the concept isn't that much different than going to AA meetings, but having your minor son be your accountability partner is pretty weird.
It is very much abusive. These groups effectively treat watching porn as the one of the worst things you can do other than murder. Even disregarding how something like this would be treated as a compulsion and not an addiction, this is NOT how you would treat any mental health condition. Alcoholics Anonymous is Anonymous partly so that you can manage that with people outside of your normal peer group. But having shit like this set up to go to someone in your peer group is just for social blackmail: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accountability_software -- this isn't for "helping combat addictions", it's for social control and for making queer people afraid to come out.
I did write another comment elsewhere not too long ago (though in a different context) that covers some of how things like this are used as part of far-right radicalization and historically how shaming over sexuality is used as a sort of self-sustaining feedback loop for social control: https://hexbear.net/comment/4178468