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Is the Overton Window Shifting on Porn?

Those who produce porn for a living, and those who consume it, may have never heard the name Joseph P. Overton. That shouldn’t be a surprise. Overton studied electrical engineering and law and worked for a chemical company and a free market think tank. He died in a plane crash in…

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How Science Helped Me Understand My Porn Use

I pride myself on having a strong work ethic and for being a self-starter. I’ve always enjoyed accomplishing a list of to-do’s, even adding things that I’ve already accomplished to a list just so I can cross them off. I recently re-took Tom Rath’s Strengths Finder survey, which had “achiever”…

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4 Non-Biblical Reasons Porn Is Ruining Your Life

Let’s admit it. It seems we constantly hear how porn is ruining your life. We hear how unethical pornography is and how those who consume it are sinning and on their way to hell. We hear it’s bad to look at sex and nude people on the Internet, magazines, or even sexually…

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How We Talk About Porn Matters

We all know that statistics can be used to tell just about any story you want. One of the reasons we learn to be discerning about polls and surveys is that the answers people give depend on how the question is asked. A brand new national survey* of 2,518 people…

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HBO Makes the Dirty Dozen List

If you add a storyline to pornography, does it make it any less pornographic? The answer is “no,” but that’s the draw for many in HBO’s hit show Game of Thrones. “It’s absolutely brimming with pornographic sex scenes,” said Lisa Thompson, director of education and outreach for the National Center…

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Verizon, can you hear us now?

“Can you hear me now?”  That iconic 2002 catchphrase catapulted Verizon as one of the leading wireless service companies in the world. Now, that phrase is being used against the communications giant. Those who support human dignity are asking Verizon, “Can you hear us now?” “Verizon bills itself as America’s…

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The 4 Stages of Temptation

Recently I introduced this series of the porn addiction cycle and why it is so complicated and difficult to get out of this seemingly never-ending turmoil. I mentioned how James states in Chapter 1, “Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he…

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Is pain in porn wrong? Only half of adults think so.

A brand new national survey of 1188 adults* asked what type of images are always wrong in porn.  Among those who actually use porn, nearly half–46%–of adults said that images of “sexual acts that may be forced or painful” are not “wrong.” Among teens and young adults (ages 13 –…

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If you are watching “Game of Thrones,” you are watching porn.

The hit HBO series Game of Thrones has won 26 Primetime Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Drama Series in 2015, and has 18.6 million people watching each episode, an HBO record.  That’s roughly the same population as America’s third most populated state, New York.  That’s a lot of people.  That’s a lot…

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Is Naked Art a Form of Pornography?

I’m often asked, “What’s the difference between pornography and naked art?” Usually the person who asks this assumes there is no difference, and his question is intended to help me see that. This video offers the beginning of an answer to why there is a difference. Defining our terms is a…