Having sexual integrity in a hyper-sexualized world can be difficult. But for unmarried Christian men, the incentive to remain pure is often not as high as we would like. With no godly sexual outlet and sexual media available at every turn, it is easy to make peace with porn. The…
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Are you over-spiritualizing your porn struggle?
Have you ever thought that you may be over-spiritualizing, or possibly under-spiritualizing, your struggle with pornography? The content you read here may include religious language from other denominations. Please don’t let this distract from the overall message. Covenant Eyes frequently writes from a Christian perspective (both Catholic and Protestant), but we work…
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The Age of the Fapstronauts: Interview with NoFap Founder, Alexander Rhodes
Episode 142 [powerpress] Back in June 2011, Alexander Rhodes founded a subreddit called NoFap, an online community of men and women supporting each other to cut out pornography and masturbation from their lives. That community has since grown to nearly 150,000 people and has spawned the creation of NoFap.com. Today,…
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How to Ruin Your Sex Life Before You’re Even Married!
Want a great sex life for 20–30–50 years of marriage? Here are some principles that will affect the end results! After many years working with youth and counseling families, my husband and I have seen the devastating results when one chooses to violate God’s principles; yet we have seen the wonderful…
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Tactics to Get Pure and Stay Pure (Part 3)
Wouldn’t it be great if there were cloaking devices for sin? In Star Trek, a cloaking device was used to hide or mask the presence of a spaceship. Using such a device, you could sneak up on the enemy and launch a surprise attack, or you could sneak away from…
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My Integrity Is Not for Sale: Living With Integrity in an Immoral World
There are some statements that stick better in my mind than others. One statement that caught my attention years ago from a pastoral mentor: “My integrity is not for sale.” When I first heard this statement, I was puzzled. Over time, I began to grasp the significance. My mentor was…
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How Pain Leads to Porn
Porn was Dan’s anesthetic, numbing his wounds and relieving the ache of unmet desires. As a skinny kid who felt unattractive, Dan Wobschall’s gaze would fall to the floor or maybe to his shoes when he tried to talk to a girl. He felt inadequate, and the bullies who used…
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Touch: Undervalued and Misused, but Designed by God
When is the last time somebody touched you on purpose? Maybe it was this morning, when you and your spouse kissed each other goodbye before work. Maybe it was two weeks ago when you went to the chiropractor. Maybe you can’t remember the last time someone touched you. Touch is…
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Why Do Men Binge on Porn?
Understanding the Neuroscience Behind Online Harems A wife who stumbles on the Internet tracks of her husband’s porn tour is often shocked at the number of images and videos in this cyber harem. Why so many? Why so varied? People, and even some scientific studies, have offered simplistic answers to…
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The Smutty Professors: What Parents Need to Know About “Sex Weeks”
Warning: The following article contains sexually graphic information. Reader discretion is advised. When parents of students at the University of Tennessee forked over $11,000 for the first year of college tuition, they probably weren’t thinking that their child would get a first-class education in how to masturbate. Just last week…