Sex and Politics: Australia’s New Political Party takes on the Mandatory Internet Filter

On November 20, adult industry spokespersons launched a new political party: The Australian Sex Party.
Here’s one of the party’s promotional videos:

Tired of “hypocrites” and “wowsers” (an Australian slang term for an obtrusively puritanical person)? The Sex Party hopes to save their nation from such people. The woman you see in this video is the party’s [...]

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Breaking the Cycle of Porn Addiction

I recently heard a talk by Phil Monroe, a Christian Psychologist and biblical counselor who directs the Master’s counseling program at Biblical Seminary in suburban Philadelphia.
He describes the cycle of addiction that any addict goes through. As someone who has really struggled with porn addiction in the past, I completely resonate with what he says.
The Cycle
Here’s [...]

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Teen Pregnancy Linked to Sex on TV

(This was a post I submitted on the blog Forced Exile.)
Does watching sex on TV predict teen pregnancy? This was the question the nonpartisan, nonprofit research organization, the RAND Corporation, asked back in 2001. Their findings were released about a month ago. What were they?
Teens who were exposed to high levels of television sexual content [...]

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FAQ Friday: “Does Covenant Eyes Monitor and Record Private Information?”

Covenant Eyes accountability software is often mistaken for keystroke logging (often called “keylogging”) software. This sort of program intercepts all the keystrokes you’ve made on your computer, including sensitive information such as login names, passwords, and credit card numbers.
Covenant Eyes does not do any sort of keylogging. Covenant Eyes only monitors the URL in the [...]

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Book Review: Death by Love

(The following is a guest post from a friend and book-lover who chooses to remain anonymous.)
Pastor Mark Driscoll’s book, Death by Love, is an exposition of the work of Christ on the cross and its relevancy to the often complex and painful situations of life. Death by Love is composed of 12 letters from Pastor [...]

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Wall Street Turns to Sex to Cope

A recent article from Telegraph.co.uk reported about the high number of Wall Street bankers who are coping with economic stresses by turning to sex addiction.
For example, Jonathan Alpert, a Manhattan psychotherapist reports that he has seen a threefold increase in the number of Wall Street workers seeking help for their sex addiction in the last six [...]

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When Pastors Look at Porn . . .

People are watching more porn now than ever before . . . even pastors and ministers. How are denominations and church organizations dealing with this issue?
The Assemblies of God actually has a formal list of guidelines in place for helping ministers who have a “moral failure involving pornography.” I commend AOG for putting careful thought [...]

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Pastors and Porn: A Letter to Assemblies of God Ministers

The following is a letter written by Tom Trask, former superintendent of the Assemblies of God. After graduating from North Central Bible College, Minneapolis, MN, Trask served 25 years as a pastor and was superintendent of the Michigan district and general treasurer of the Assemblies of God before being elected in 1993 as the superintendent. [...]

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Our 300th Post

Today we are publishing our 300th post on Breaking Free. This blog has been around for about a year now, and its been a wonderful learning experience for us. We’ve been able to interact with hundreds of people and learn about an array of topics. We hope you’ve enjoyed our articles.
Below is a list of [...]

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FAQ Friday: “Why is this Score for a MySpace Page on My Report so high?”

Quick Answer: Our rating of MySpace pages vary widely. Our software’s scoring system examines each and every Web page from MySpace, Facebook, and other social networking sites. Each page is rated by keywords. This means some pages will be flagged with a higher score than others.

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