Wich path of recovery from porn addiction? By Dr. Peter Kleponis, clinical psychotherapist*. You want to recover from a porn addiction? Let’s look at what does and doesn’t work: What Doesn’t Work Trying to overcome pornography use on your own Believing that praying more and being more religious will take it away Minimizing the problem,
Trapped in a pornography addiction, Mary-Magdalene was suffering, until the day she opened her Bible and cried out to God to deliver her from it. Testimony. For my whole childhood I followed my parents to Mass, and their activities with the Church. It was at high school, with friends I’d known since primary school, that
Stop masturbating? If you are already in the habit of it, you’re probably finding it pretty hard to stop: addiction can take hold very quickly! You may even think that you can’t live without it anymore, which is absolutely false. So, here are a few words of advice to help you break out*: Avoid over-dramatizing
Possible to stop using porn? Marcelin*, 27yrs old, gave this testimony to us directly. He managed to break out of a ten-year pornography addiction thanks to the program Free to Love. « It’s possible to stop » I think what we’re all waiting for, us, the people marked by the red iron of addiction to
Porn and masturbation, are they the same battle? How can we wage this war? Here’s a little piece on the subject, submitted by Xavier. Pornography and masturbation both function on the same principle as drugs. You’re obliged, little by little, to increase the strength of the doses in order to obtain the same effect
How does porn effect society ? In May 1989, the Pontifical Council for Social Communication (Vatican) had already issued warnings to the media concerning the effect of porn – dangers which are today much better recognised and understood. Taken from a document which aims to “illustrate the most serious effects pornography and violence have on
What does pornography do to women? * Since it trains men to think of women as objects to be used instead of persons to be loved, guys speak of them as objects and treat them as objects. One longtime producer in the porn industry admitted “My whole reason for being in this industry is to
What’s wrong with looking at pornography? Question: “What’s wrong with looking at pornography? It’s not like you are getting a girl pregnant or spreading STDs”. Answer. “The problem with using porn is that it emasculates men, degrades women, destroys marriages, and offends the Lord”. You may be thinking: “That’s going a little overboard, don’t you
What does pornography do to marriages? * To be blunt, pornography is the perfect way to shoot your future marriage in the head. Imagine that a young man has a habit of using pornography, and he does not reveal this to his fiancée. He hopes that once he is married, the desires for illicit sexual
Porn: What’s the problem? Here’s Christopher West’s answer, taken from his book The Good News About Sex and Marriage. Pornography is attractive. Pornography attracts. Denying this reality, or not taking it into account, doesn’t change anything. On the contrary, we must ask why. Why is pornography so attractive? How is it that it reaches our