As a newly married couple, my husband and I were naturally active in the bedroom. So, you can imagine my surprise when four months later I found out he was struggling with masturbation. I was crushed. “We have sex like four times a week! How could you possibly need to…
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Beth Davis’s Story: Jesus Set Me Free
Like so many people, I was exposed to pornography at a young age—maybe eleven or twelve. I wasn’t looking for it and no one showed it to me. I stumbled on it accidentally. I knew instinctively that it was not meant for me, but my curiosity was inclined to pornography.…
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13 Ways Porn Will Ruin Your Life Before You Realize It
Pornography is a killer. Whether it is viewed sporadically or our indulgences are a daily (or hourly) occurrence, it will within time prove to be the death of all that is good. We are often blinded to this reality because we typically do not experience consequences over night. The repercussions…
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4 Ways Porn Kills Great Sex in Marriage
Porn makes promises it can’t keep, especially when it comes to hot sex in marriage. Porn won’t spice up your sex life, and it won’t make you a better lover. Science and psychology show that sharing porn with your spouse or having a secret affair with porn will mess up…
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I Was an Altar Boy Addicted to Porn
Since I was young, I’ve battled with a deeply personal struggle: pornography and masturbation. It’s hard to pinpoint exactly when this addiction took hold of me, but that first encounter remains etched in my memory. Instead of facing my emotions head-on, I sought refuge in the world of explicit content,…
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Why won’t God take my sexual desire away?
My name is Patricia Weerakoon, and I am a Christian sexologist. After 23 years in the University of Sydney, I retired from my academic position as director of a graduate program in sexual health to bring my twin passions together: God and Sex. What better place to start than with…
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Lust After Death: Advice to a Widower Who Fantasizes About His Wife
A week or so ago I received an e-mail from a man whose wife passed away recently. They had been married for nearly 40 years. In his loneliness, he says, he fantasizes about times of intimacy with his wife and masturbates. He knows it would be wrong to fantasize about anyone else,…
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Yes, Using Porn Is Cheating. Here’s Why.
I’ve heard it said that there are men who don’t look at porn, and then there are men who are breathing. If recent surveys are any indication, porn use has become the norm among men, not the exception. Still, I get a lot of questions from women who are feeling the…
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Why Marital Sex Is Better Than Porn
The following is an excerpt from our free e-book, The Porn Circuit: Understand Your Brain and Break Porn Habits in 90 Days. The pornified brain sounds a lot like Mick Jagger; it can’t get no satisfaction. On the surface it sounds absurd. Pornography offers endless opportunities for arousal. If a…
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8 Reasons Cosmo Is Totally Wrong About Porn
Cosmopolitan magazine recently put out an article called “8 Reasons Watching Porn Doesn’t Make Him a Cheater.” Let’s look at their so-called reasons. Your web browser does not support iframes, which means that the video 8 Reasons Cosmo Is Dead Wrong About Porn cannot play. Cosmo’s 8 Reasons 1. Cosmo…
