- Friday, January 29th, 2010
- Written By Luke Gilkerson
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What Drives Porn Addiction? A Conversation in Biblical Counseling
Covenant Eyes Radio – Episode 49
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Today’s podcast is a part of my conversation with counselor Rick Thomas. Today Rick and I are talking about pornography addiction. Reflecting on my personal experience and past struggle with porn, Rick will help us unpack some of the reasons why many people find it easy to use pornography as an escape. He will use the Bible to shed light on the deeper, hidden sins that often drive people towards pornography.
Rick has an MA in Counseling from the Master’s Seminary. He is a fellow with the National Association of Nouthetic Counselors, a fellowship of Christian pastors and laymen who have banded together to promote excellence in biblical counseling. He is also the founder of Counseling Solutions Group. He is also a regular author on our blog.
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I’m hearing-impaired, so transcripts of all audio materials on here would be very much appreciated. I was disappointed to find out that this was an audio material after I got interested in the title “What Drives Porn Addiction.”
@Jeremy – I’ll work on putting together a transcript for you. We’ve not done that for any of our podcasts yet. Thanks for the suggestion.
Luke & Rick,
After listening to: WHAT DRIVES PORN ADDICTION? A CONVERSATION IN BIBLICAL COUNSELING.
I was wondering if you felt insecurity/fear is always or at least the majority of the time the root of pornography?
@tim – Not necessarily. I was merely trying to use my own story as a way of getting people to think about their own. I’ve certainly met many men who struggle with porn addiction who have a background of insecurity. Actually most of these guys are in full-time vocational ministry. Not sure if there’s a connection there, but my suspicion is this is true. Our podcast with Dr. Harry Schaumburg delves into this some.
@tim – I commend to you an excellent article by David Powlison, “Idols of the Heart and Vanity Fair.” He mentions “fear of man” as an underlying issue in many sins, but he also wisely states we should never say, “My root idol is ______.” He says,
“[T]he data on idolatry does not generally support such reductionistic understandings of the human heart. At best we can make the softer claim, ‘His most characteristic idol is…usually…but at other times…!’ For purely heuristic purposes it may be useful to notice that one person is particularly attuned to the intimacy idols, another to avoidance idols, another to power idols, another to comfort idols, another to pleasure idols, another to religiosity idols, and so forth. . . . But sin is creative as well as habitual! We should not forget that the reductionism the Bible consistently offers is not a typology that distinguishes people from each other but is a summary comment that highlights our commonalities: all have turned aside from God, “each to his own way,” “doing what was right in his own eyes.” Under this master categorization the temple teems with potential shapes for idols and false gods. The rampant and proliferating desires (plural) of the flesh contend with the Spirit and clamor for our faith and obedience.”
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Thanks for giving some perspective – this is thought provoking.