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"After a 30 day fast from porn, etc,
you will be amazed at how attractive your wife will be to you."
~ Steve Arterburn
"My temptations have been my masters
in divinity." ~ Martin Luther |
- Lie # 1: Women
are less than human. The women in Playboy magazine
are called bunnies, making them cute little animals or playmates,
making them a toy. Porn often refers to women as animals, playthings,
or body parts. Some pornography shows only the body and
doesnt show the face at all. The idea that women are real human
beings with thoughts and emotions is played down.
- Lie #2: Women are a sport. Some sports magazines have a swimsuit issue. This
suggests that women are just some kind of sport. Porn views sex
as a game and in a game, you have to win, conquer
or score.
- Lie #3: Women are property. Its common to see pictures of the slick car with the
sexy girl draped over it. The unspoken message is, Buy one, and
you get them both. Hard-core porn carries this even further.
It displays women like merchandise in a catalogue, exposing them
as openly as possible for the customer to look at. Its not surprising
that many young men think that if they have spent some money
taking a girl out, they have a right to have sex with her. Porn
tells us that women can be bought.
- Lie #4: A womans value depends on the
attractiveness of her body. Overweight
or less attractive women are ridiculed in porn. They are called
dogs, whales, pigs or worse, simply because they dont fit into
porns criteria of the perfect woman. In fact, if someone is attracted
to a heavyset woman, porn labels that a fetish, which
means sexual obsession or hang-up that isnt natural. Porn doesnt
care about a womans mind or personality, only her body.
- Lie #5: Women like rape. When she says no, she means yes is a typical porn
scenario. Women are shown being raped, fighting and kicking at
first, and then starting to like it. Porn eroticizes rape and
makes it arousing. Women are shown being tied up, beaten, and
humiliated in hundreds of sick ways and finally begging for more.
Even while being tortured, the porn actors and actresses have
a smile on their face a look of intense enjoyment. Porn teaches
men to enjoy hurting and abusing women for entertainment.
Pornography also whispers that it will satisfy
your needs and desires. But can it really? Read the article "I
Still Haven't Found What I'm Lookin' For" to find out what
would meet your needs.
Adapted from the "Dare to Dig Deeper" booklet Toxic
Porn, by Gene McConnell and Keith Campbell. Copyright ©1996
Focus on the Family. |
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The Real Price of Porn
by David Sanford from Focus
on the Family
One of the most common Internet search terms
is "porn free."
If it’s free, it can’t be all that
bad, right?
Don't be deceived. The true price of pornography
includes:
- Developing a distorted view of sexuality
- Decreased capacity for intellectual reasoning
- Sharply increased risk of ruining your marriage
- Increased risk of engaging in dangerous promiscuous
behaviors
- Increased risk of committing a violent crime
against a woman or child
- Increased risk of engaging in pedophilia
- Increased risk of supporting the commercial
sexual exploitation of children and youth
Increased risk of destroying everything that’s
of lasting value in your life
Thankfully, you can triumph over temptation. |
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 Why
Porn is a Problem
The
Harmful Effects of Pornography
If
pornography made us healthy, we would be healthy by now
How
is pornography addiction maintained? |
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It's
The Great Lie...With Which No Woman Can Compete!
Pornography
and the End of Masculinity
Pornography
robs us of child-like joy
Exposing
Porn: Science, Religion, and the New Addiction
Men
as Victims and Viewing Porn Causes Brain Damage
A cruel
edge: The painful truth about today's pornography -- and what
men can do about it
Effects
of Pornography Use Prior to Marriage
Virtual
Unfaithfulness: Pornography Use in a Marriage
The
Secret Sin: Sex Addiction
Porn
use and Sex Crimes
Pornography:
Our Society's Cancer
Pornography
Addiction: The progression
What
constitutes sexual addiction, and ways to conquer it
(secular)
The
Culture of Pornography
To
Porn or not to Porn
Bringing
sexual addiction out of the shadows
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Effects of Viewing Pornography
by David Sanford from Focus
on the Family
When it comes to pornography, one look isn’t enough.
Pornography’s appeal may seem innocent at first. ("What’s
wrong with looking at the beauty of the human body?") Like
cocaine, however, pornography is quickly addictive.
Pornography creates a strong physiological response in men
and women. The immediate "rush" of a first exposure
to pornography is often followed by intensely negative feelings. |
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In subsequent viewings, the same types of pornographic stimuli
produce increasingly weaker physiological responses.
This law of diminishing returns often prompts individuals
to seek edgier and darker forms of pornography, which may include
depictions of sexual foreplay, sexual intercourse, violence,
murder, child sexual abuse, homosexuality, orgies, or bestiality.
The intense pull of pornography can eventually drag viewers
into a shocking underworld of "adult entertainment,"
which includes visits to "adult" stores, strip joints,
topless bars, massage parlors, and other areas frequented by
male and female prostitutes.
Even if one doesn’t act out sexually, the costs
of pornography are staggering.
David Sanford is president of Sanford Communications,
Inc., and author of the Living
Faith Bible. |
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