- Wednesday, September 1st, 2010
- Written By Luke Gilkerson
- Categories: Lust - Fighting the Battle, Pornography Addiction Back to Blog Home
Tal Prince Speaks on Breaking Free from Porn Addiction
One of my buddies, Tal Prince, tells his story about recovery from porn addiction in this video.
I love what Tal says about porn and sex addiction being classified as an “intimacy disorder.” To be sure, lust often drives our attraction to pornography, but it is a multi-layered sin. We often retreat to porn because we find a sort of acceptance in our fantasy world that we crave.
“Intimacy is not what our culture says it is. It’s got nothing to do with sex…Can you sit down with somebody and just be fully transparent, just open your rib cage and push everything out—’Here’s me: here’s my faults, my failures, my hopes, my dreams, what’s good about me, what’s bad about me’—and have another person see that and say, ‘I see that, and I love you anyway.’ That will change your world.”
For Tal, the turning point was when he confessed the extent of his sin to his wife. It was when he made his invisible war with porn visible. It was the beginning of massive change.
Learn more about Tal and his ministry, Route1520, through the following links:
- “Pastor and Recovering Porn Addict Tells His Story” – Here’s a post I wrote about Tal over two years ago.
- “Tal Prince’s Story: Boasting in My Weaknesses” – Here’s our podcast interview with him last December.
- Route1520.com – Learn more about the their support groups.
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When you don’t know God very well, it’s all too easy to fall into the ‘I need to find acceptance’ attitude, because you think that mankind is capable of filling that void. Too bad that’s not remotely the case, and why porn bears such a strong attraction. It creates the same general fantasy of acceptance that hanging around with the wrong crowd does.
It’s touching to hear from someone with a similar past in having been exposed at eight years old and being too afraid to make what is a crippling war a visible one. I’m right with Tal in that when I finally spoke up to my assistant pastor (close friend as well), my world changed. The Lord used that day to slowly bring me into learning what His love is all about.
Great story!