Pornography, it's sinful nature.

Pornography is the strongest weapon the enemy's arsenal. It's tearing society to shreds and people don't even know it. It's attractive, and appeals to that insatiable hunger within us all. Sure, it seems a little harmless, but here is a few facts on pornography...


Pornography can start the cycle of Sexual Addiction, which goes as follows according to Patrick Carnes, a researcher in this sort of thing.

1. Recurrent failure to resist impulses to engage in specific sexual behavior
2. Frequent engaging in those behaviors to a greater extent or over a longer period of time.
3. Persistant desire or unsuccessful efforts to stop, reduce, or to control those behaviors.
4. Inordinate amount of time spent in obtaining sex, being sexual, or recovering from sexual experience.
5. Preoccupation with behavior or prepatory activities.
6. Frequent engaging in the behavior when expected to fulfill occupational, academic, domestic or social obligations.
7. Continuation of the behavior despite knowledge of having a persistent or recurrent social, financial, psychological, or physical problem that is caused or exacerbated by the behavior.
8. Need to increase the intensity, frequency, number, or risk of behaviors to achieve the desired effect, or diminished effect with continued behaviors at the same level of intensity, frequency, number, or risk.
9. Giving up or limiting social, occupational, or recreational activities because of the behavior.
10. Distress, anxiety, restlessness, or irritability if unable to engage in the behavior.

There are three other symptoms of sexual addiction, brought on by pornography.

• Compulsivity: This is the loss of the ability to choose freely whether to stop or continue a behavior
• Continuation despite consequences: When addicts take their addiction too far, it can cause negative effects in their lives. They may start withdrawing from family life to pursue sexual activity. This withdrawal may cause them to neglect their children or cause their partners to leave them. Addicts risk money, marriage, family and career in order to satisfy their sexual desires. Despite all of these consequences, they continue indulging in excessive sexual activity.
• Obsession: This is when people cannot help themselves from thinking a particular thought. Sex addicts spend whole days consumed by sexual thoughts. They develop elaborate fantasies, find new ways of obtaining sex and mentally revisit past experiences. Because their minds are so preoccupied by these thoughts, other areas of their lives that they should be thinking about are neglected.

Oh yes, Pornography is *really* harmless, isn't it? Not enough? Here's another thing: It *ruins* relationships. Why have your plain wife when you can watch supermodels go at it? Wake up call, boy-o, that supermodel is a tangled mess of silicone and duct-tape!

Coming from a religious perspective, pornography is outright forbidden because it is a form of adultery. There are three scriptures that I can name that mark pornography, of all types, as a sin.

"Thou shalt not commit adultery." -Exodus 20:14, one of the Ten Commandments!

If a man commits adultery with another man's wife—with the wife of his neighbor—both the adulterer and the adulteress must be put to death. -Leviticus 20:10

But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart. -Matthew 5:28

God saw this pornography thing coming a long, long time ago, so he prepared us for it. Dear reader, are you trapped in the nightmarish maze of Pornography? Jesus will free you, this is why he went to suffer on the cross. Say the sinner's prayer, it's easy. Just say "Lord Jesus, I admit I'm a sinner, I believe you died on the cross for my sins. I invite you into my heart, I accept you as my lord and savior." If you prayed that simple prayer, you were born again. Cast the pornography aside, get yourself an NKJV bible, and keep god first place in your life.