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Each year, I find myself reflecting on a question I get asked often as a former sex addict and now sex addiction recovery mentor: “Can you really be free from porn?” It’s a valid question. After all, it seems that there are far more people these days who struggle with…
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Can a woman become addicted to porn? Marnie Ferree, founder of Bethesda Workshops and a specialist in the area of women with sexual addiction, talks about this growing and pressing issue. Here’s what the most recent surveys tell us… 1. According to a study published in the Journal of Adolescent…
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When my son was sixteen, he attended a youth group meeting during which the male leader spoke with the guys about pornography and enumerated the ramifications porn could have on marriages and families. He learned that porn could seep into all areas of life and that many couples aren’t able…
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The second book in Dr. Mark Laaser’s Men of Valor series, Taking Every Thought Captive, hovers around a big challenge for guys: developing a godly thought life. The author definitely deals with curbing immoral sexual thoughts in the book, but he’s quick to point out that our minds can be overrun…
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In today’s world we’ve got pornography down to a science . . . literally. Never before has there been so much research available about pornography’s affect on society. On this blog we look at a number of ways that pornography affects the teens that are watching it and the women…
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He was only 8 years old when he first saw pornography. Sadly, it took months for his parents to discover his growing curiosity. He had heard the Bible story dozens of times about how Adam and Eve were naked in the Garden of Eden, but for some reason, this time…
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by Melissa Haas I just wrapped up a conversation with a woman who recently discovered her husband’s secret relationship with pornography. Tragically, it is a conversation I have multiple times a week with women of various ages and walks of life. The problem of pornography use and addiction is pervasive.…
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Everyone needs a home base where he or she feels safe from the outside world. Ideally, our home with our family should be such a place. Unfortunately, when compulsive sexual behavior is present in the home, it ceases to feel like a safe place. The wounded spouse no longer feels…
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Most of us think about sexuality as a very private compartment of our lives. Even in the innocence of childhood, we were subtly taught to treat everything sexual differently. We learned special names for our “private parts.” We were told not to touch or talk about those parts of our…
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New Year’s is only days away and I am willing to bet you are making plans to try and stop looking at porn in the new year. I used to do this and failed every time. After January 1st, I would recommit on Valentine’s Day, my birthday in April, and…