If you’ve read Covenant Eyes’ articles before, you’ve probably heard about the need for accountability relationships. A good accountability partner is essential in our fight against porn. But accountability is really a sub-category of the larger concept of mentoring. In broadest terms, a mentor is a role model. Mentors influence…
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10 Keys to Victory Over Porn
Be Honest with God and Yourself Victory over porn begins when you quit lying to yourself and God. You have more than a problem with porn. You can’t stop watching it no matter how many promises you have made to God and yourself. It is time to be honest with God and…
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Why Marital Sex Is Better Than Porn
The following is an excerpt from our free e-book, The Porn Circuit: Understand Your Brain and Break Porn Habits in 90 Days. The pornified brain sounds a lot like Mick Jagger; it can’t get no satisfaction. On the surface it sounds absurd. Pornography offers endless opportunities for arousal. If a…
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The Chemicals of Internet Addiction
As a Christian counselor working with addictions of various kinds my number one priority when working with clients is to point them to Jesus Christ as their deliverer. I will also say, by way of context, that I believe all addictions and obsessions ultimately result from our fallen nature, inherited…
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8 Tips to Run a Successful Internet Safety Workshop at Your School
Our children are growing up in a “pornified” culture. Not only have the faces of porn stars become recognizable in pop culture, but the faces of pop culture have begun to mimic pornography. From music videos to magazine covers, mass media continues to push the envelope, putting an erotic twist…
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50 Things to Do Instead of Watching Porn
So you’re bored. Porn seems like a good way to fill time, right? Wrong. When you find yourself with nothing to do, it’s easy to turn to porn. Unfortunately, this only leads to false satisfaction and can further addiction. To curb boredom before you’re even feeling it, I want to…
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10 Seconds: A Film About Sex Slavery from Trafficking to Addiction
A man sits nervously in his car outside a house in a quiet suburban neighborhood. Inside that house, he knows, is an underground prostitution operation: women waiting for him if he would only knock on the door. If his wife, friends, and fellow church members knew where he was at…
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Porn and Sexual Violence: 7 Important Facts
Does watching porn correlate with sexual violence? Yes, it does. Does it cause sexual violence? That depends. Decades of research testify to the close connection between pornography and sexual violence. And though the porn defenders adamantly insist there’s no causation, study after study points the finger at porn as a…
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Lamar Odom: Why More Won’t Satisfy
Most boys, at one time in their lives, have a dream of playing professional sports, competing and winning at the Olympics, making more than $100 million, being famous, and having the approval of countless women. You’d think the story of Solomon would be enough for all of us to realize…
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After 7 Years of Porn, I Experienced My First Month of Freedom
I was 12 or 13 when I first looked at porn, and I remember how it felt. The rush of adrenalin and dopamine, and then the feeling of immense guilt that followed. However, I’d poked the bear, and sure enough, I kept coming back to this new enticing world. I…