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WHO do you talk to?

By Why Porn on Wednesday, March 10 2010 at 09:44 AM | | Comments

Most remain hidden about their addictions. Most think no one has the same issues they do.

When you get honest and open about your addiction and seek help, you find out that there are so many people that struggle with the same thing and that they found hope that things could, and do, change. Have you ever thought it could just take you being open about YOUR struggle with a friend that helps THEM get honest. Is there someone you know is struggling and could benefit from you letting them know about the resources available to them? Like the resources HERE?

WHO do you need to talk to this week?

 

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Any Christian man or woman who is engaging in sexual immorality of any kind is a person in conflict. Often it starts by viewing pseudo-pornography-things like modeling sites, chat sites, personal homepages, and other sites that often contain seductive images, but may not be classified as pornography.

Very quickly this kind of online behavior can spiral down to a place where these images don't cut it anymore. At this point the viewer begins to "need" more intense images to be stimulated. Often you will hear someone who has gotten addicted say, "I have no idea how I got here; it started so innocently." Pornography is both very alluring and very addictive. Sexual addiction along with pornography addiction are issues that face many people these days. The websites that are distributing the material are designed to draw in the viewer, dangle free content and easy sign-ups-in an attempt to capture a new user.

There are great "sex addiction" tests all over the web that can help you determine if you are addicted to sex in some form. We are not going to attempt to reproduce those here, but will offer this simple definition and challenge:

If your life is being controlled by your sexual desires and activities, instead of YOU being in control of them, then you have a sexual addiction. Studies have shown that ninety-nine percent of all masturbation involves lust and mental fantasy, which disconnects you from real relationships with real people.

If you sent a bottle of vodka to every home in America every week for a year, you would no doubt have a whole wave of alcoholics. The Internet has created a wave of pornography addicts with its pervasive porn delivery mechanism.