Porn: A Four-Letter Word?

I originally wrote this post as a guest blogger on ForcedExile.com. Special thanks to Erin for asking me to write it.

Of course porn is literally a four-letter word. But the expression “four-letter word” has been used in the last century to refer to words that are vulgar, obscene, and sexually explicit. For many years “porn” [...]

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Oprah Winfrey and Prescription Porn

“237 Reasons to Have Sex” . . . This is the title of an episode that was aired on The Oprah Winfrey Show a couple weeks ago. This particular episode attempts to take an up-close and personal look at some of the attitudes about sex in our culture.
One of the highlights of the show is the prescription of “erotica” as sex-therapy for women.

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Top 10 Blog Posts on Breaking Free

“Breaking Free” has published its 200th post!
When we hit our 100th post about 3 months ago I did a “Top 10” list of most popular posts. Here’s another list of the top 10 most read posts since then. Thanks to all of our regular readers.

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No Such Thing as Free Porn

So, I recently found out that many people find our blog by typing in “free porn” to their web browser, and I thought it was a bit ironic.
There is no such thing as free porn. As a recovering porn addict, I should know.

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Breaking the Lure of Internet Porn - Accountability Software

(I originally wrote this post for Homiléō. Thanks for the invitation to write a bit about Covenant Eyes and the problems people are facing with pornography today.)
Pornography is a global corporate giant. The adult entertainment industry entered the mainstream of capitalism when Playboy magazine hit newsstands in 1953. Today, tens of billions of dollars [...]

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Six Reasons Why Guys Like Porn (and how to break free)

I’ve been doing quite a bit of meditating on Proverbs 7 recently. In the text, King Solomon is looking out his window, looking down on the streets of Jerusalem, giving his commentary about a naïve man he sees strolling by the door of a prostitute. She lures him in. He follows. Adultery ensues.
As a recovering [...]

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Bake Sales, Sex Trafficking, and Pornography

It was a typical Friday morning walking into the Covenant Eyes‘ world headquarters offices. I needed my usual caffeine fix, so I headed to the break room to grab a cup of coffee (the Christian’s drug of choice). Only this time, things were different: I was greeted by three bright-eyed teenage girls with brownies, peanut butter [...]

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Film Review - Traffic Control: The People’s War on Internet Porn

I just picked up a copy of the documentary Traffic Control: The People’s War on Internet Porn. In a word: it was excellent. I highly recommend picking up a copy.
(Watch the trailer at the bottom on this post to get a better feel of the film.)
From January to November 2006, Bryan Hall and his team traveled [...]

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Of Gods and Girls - Hiphop Star Speaks out Against Child Pornography

I just ran across this music video from hiphop star, Mr. J Medeiros. It’s a song called “Constance,” and it speaks a strong message against the pornography industry, and in particular, child pornography and sex trafficking. His lyrics are aggressive: “all you have to do is click on your web browser / its not illegal [...]

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Myths About Pornography

(I wrote this post last week as a guest blogger on A Good Husband.)
I spend the bulk of my working hours surfing the Web to listen to the chatter about porn. Addicts, wives of addicts, parents of addicts, porn stars and pastors and priests, the tempted and the tried: many people are talking about how [...]

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