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Myth: Porn Use Is Nothing More Than a Religiously Motivated Moral Issue
Christians and other religious individuals are widely known for opposing pornography for…
Christians and other religious individuals are widely known for opposing pornography for all kinds of moral reasons. I happen to be one of them, so when I tell people I’m getting ready to publish a…
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Is Courtship in Crisis? (Part 2 of 3)
Episode 161 [powerpress] Last week we began our conversation with Thomas Umstattd, Jr., author…
Episode 161 [powerpress] Last week we began our conversation with Thomas Umstattd, Jr., author of Courtship in Crisis: The Case for Traditional Dating. Seven years ago, Thomas would have been an unlikely person to write such a book—he…
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Is Courtship in Crisis? (Part 1 of 3)
Episode 160 [powerpress] For seven years, Thomas Umstattd, Jr. ran the website…
Episode 160 [powerpress] For seven years, Thomas Umstattd, Jr. ran the website PracticalCourtship.com to encourage a national conversation to help the so-called “courtship model” work for more singles. He eventually became convinced that courtship wasn’t…
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Will a Better Sex Life Keep Porn at Bay?
Whose side am I going to take? The defeated husband who feels…
Whose side am I going to take? The defeated husband who feels like his unresponsive wife is hanging him out to dry with his temptation or the betrayed wife who feels like she’s being blamed…
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My Kid Was Stuck Watching Porn on a Plane
Shocked. Horrified. Disgusted. Sickened. That’s only a handful of the emotions that…
Shocked. Horrified. Disgusted. Sickened. That’s only a handful of the emotions that overtook me when I found out that my 14-year-old son was a captive audience to a two-and-a-half-hour public display of hardcore heterosexual and…
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Why “Adult” Entertainment Makes You More Juvenile
Two hundred years ago in the U.K., if you said you were…
Two hundred years ago in the U.K., if you said you were going to a “gentleman’s club,” it was understood you were going to a private upper-class establishment where you could relax, read, play parlor…
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A Marriage Redeemed from Porn: Darren and April’s Story
Darren was in seminary, in training to be a minister, but his…
Darren was in seminary, in training to be a minister, but his secret addiction to porn was growing. His wife April tried many things to help Darren to stop, but finally after 11 years of…
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5 Things I Always Say to Porn-Shocked Wives
I answer a lot of letters from women dealing with the discovery…
I answer a lot of letters from women dealing with the discovery of porn in their marriages. Mostly, they are shocked and hurt and alone, wondering where to go from here. While I answer every…
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What It’s Like to Live Porn-Free
My friend Sam fell into a bad crowd during high school and…
My friend Sam fell into a bad crowd during high school and sadly I saw him transform from a bubbly, happy kid to a constantly doped-up, intellectually deadened player. I thought the Sam I knew…
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The Day She Left Him: How Porn Nearly Destroyed Their Marriage
Episode 158 [powerpress] Darren was in seminary, in training to be a…
Episode 158 [powerpress] Darren was in seminary, in training to be a minister, but his addiction to porn was growing. Four years into their marriage, his wife April found out about it and continued to…