Porn has engulfed our culture like a tsunami. The statistics on pornography use, even among children, are staggering. Even worse, today’s hardcore porn is so extreme that it makes hardcore porn of the past look relatively innocent by comparison. But chances are, you already know about pornography’s harmful effects. There…
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Fighting Pornography. Promoting Abstinence.
Editor’s Note: Today’s post is a written by our friends at Abstinence Clearinghouse. As all those who work with young people know, this generation is growing up in a culture saturated with toxic ideas and images. Marketing and entertainment media, and even health education classes, are confronting children and teens…
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Girls Hooked on Porn: Battle Notes from a Weathered Fighter
Four months ago, when my pastor approached me to film my testimony, my thoughts went something like this: “Share my testimony? You mean, I would be telling the entire church that I have dealt with an addiction to pornography? No way they will take that well. I don’t want everyone to…
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Truckers' Pictures Taken When They Buy Porn
I couldn’t resist reporting on this. When a Lion’s Den (adult store) opened in Uniontown, Indiana, four years ago, I’m sure the owners were not prepared for the community reaction. Thirty-five residents have protested outside the Lion’s Den in shifts for four years—365 days a year, 24 hours a day.…
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Can Couples Therapy Fix Our Relationship?
I’ll never forget the day I walked out of therapy during early recovery. I left our therapist’s office crying, screaming, and slamming the door, vowing never to return. It’s safe to assume I was not pleased with how the session was going. At the time, I had not yet learned…
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Porn in a Pandemic: Leading Your Church During Coronavirus
We get it. It’s hard to shepherd your flock right now, with your church building most likely shut down. You’re probably scrambling to figure out how to livestream your sermon, or if you’re used to live-streaming, how to help your community groups meet online during this time. Part of shepherding…
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Does Porn Impact the Brain?
“…masturbation is the one great habit that is a ‘primary addiction,’ and that the other addictions, for example, alcohol, morphine, tobacco, excessive gambling, etc., only enter into life as a substitute and replacement for it.” – Sigmund Freud It probably doesn’t come as much of a shock to people that…
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Rebuilding Trust in a Relationship Wounded by Porn
Friedrich Nietzsche’s words represent the heart of every betrayed spouse: “I’m not upset that you lied to me. I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.” As painful as the discovery is, the fact is that this breach of trust is more often the harvest than the seed.…
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If Your Child is Looking at Porn: Give Them Grace
The darkness of the room was only broken by the glow of the screen. The darkness in his heart wasn’t—couldn’t—be broken by anything. The 12-year-old boy felt hopeless as he sat in front of the computer again—again enslaved by the porn that he couldn’t stop thinking about and yet hated…
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Finding the Willpower to Defeat Porn: Part 2
A friend told me recently that his recovery journey feels like riding a unicycle near the edge of a cliff, with the pressure of the world and the flesh always coming at him like a strong wind trying to blow him over the edge. He went on to say that…