At the age of four, I was exposed to pornography. I remember it like it was yesterday. I was at my friend’s house because my mom and his mom were having a Bible study together.…
My life looked perfect. I was admired at Church, respected at work, and loved at home. I was known as dependable, responsible, and faithful. But behind closed doors, I was hiding a secret that had…
For as long as I could remember, I struggled with relationships. I remember in my 20’s reading about people who were addicted to serial relationships, but I disregarded this notion thinking my struggle was one…
I was thirteen the first time I saw pornography. It happened behind the snack bar at our neighborhood pool, where I worked my first summer job. A few older guy–friends I looked up to were…
“Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birthto death.” James 1:15 Among young men, pornography is perhaps the most widespread and damaging addiction in the…
I was a 14-year-old Catholic. I sang with the church choir, attended Mass every weekend, and participated in youth group as often as I could. My friends and family had always warned me about the…
Ten years old. That’s when it started. I had begun to feel strange urges to look at women without their clothes on, but couldn’t bring myself to talk about these feelings with my parents. Instead,…
To explain my struggle against this sin is to, in essence, describe my faith journey as a whole. So, let’s start there. I was raised in a Christian home, albeit one that didn’t actively have…
I crouched nervously behind the glow of our home office computer. Just hours before, my sister and her friends had called me into that very room to see “something funny.” I was trying to remember…
