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After helping people quit porn for more than 20 years, we know there’s a strong connection between porn and shame. Most research psychologists and sociologists recognize this connection. However, many still debate which comes first. Does feeling shame about porn cause people to consider it an addiction? Or does porn…
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High-profile legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin shocked the world this past week, as news emerged that he had been caught masturbating on a work-related Zoom call. According to the New York Times, Toobin had started a second Zoom call for a sexual encounter but neglected to turn off his other call,…
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Amy started watching porn with her boyfriend when she was 20 years old. Over time she started to notice her attraction to the women on screen, and this began to influence how she saw women around her. After that relationship ended, she put pornography behind her…for a time. Years later…
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In 2021, Barna found that 38% of pastors had thought about quitting the ministry. Certainly, the difficulty of leading a church in the COVID era was a major factor in these results. The overall trends of church attendance and secularization in our culture can be discouraging for leaders. However, there’s…
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Physiology teacher Gary Wilson has some keen insights about why men become addicted to Internet porn and some of its effects. The following 16-minute video gives viewers a brief tutorial of the neuroscience behind porn addiction. (The presentation is generally clean, but there are some images that viewers might find…
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by Laura Booz Part 2: Listening to Wise Friends “You’re acting like the man of the house,” Lois said gently as we sat together on our couch in the living room. This was the last thing I expected in such a time of crisis. Even though two weeks had passed…
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by Laura Booz Part 3: The Circles of Restoration I turned to face the married couples as I explained, “We no longer agree with the simplistic counselor-office triangle of one spouse on one side of the base, the other spouse on the opposite side of the base, and God at…
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by Laura Booz Part 1: Making a Crisis Out of a Crisis It couldn’t have happened at a worse time. After the trauma of preterm labor, a month of bed-rest, and a 3-day long delivery, I was a new mom who had to constantly hold, nurse, or pump milk for…
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It seems pornography is affecting every sector of the church, so much so that Christian musicians have begun to speak out (and write songs) about their own struggles. Music has a way of speaking the way words cannot, so I have compiled a list of 10 songs that give a…
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Many men who contact me for help in overcoming pornography use question whether or not they really have an addiction to porn. Some simply don’t want to believe they could actually be addicted to the stuff. Others inquire because they know they have a problem and want to assess the…