Posted on 02/08/2014 8:20:57 AM PST by Morgana
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I’ve always thought that pornography was an addiction like smoking of alcoholism and have wondered if there is a PA (Pornographers Anonymous)through which they could get help.
I personally don't care to watch people screwing, simulated or otherwise, and am grateful for the fast forward button on the remote control.
Smoking and alcoholism have a component of chemical dependency that pornography doesn't have. They're using chemicals to help induce that "reward" mechanism we get from endorphines. People with psycological addictions are after the same thing, they just use some kind of non-chemical stimulus to get it. Porn/sex and gambling are easy ways to get that.
I have created a website to explain the root cause of the problem behind Christian’s problems with sex outside of marriage. While it is a long article it may clear up some questions.
http://leadershipinmarriage.wix.com/leadership
According to Dr. Judith Reisman it is. Do you know how long it takes to get de-toxed from porn? 14 months! That is quitting cold turkey. It affects the brain just like drugs do only worse. I have read/listened to all of Dr. Reisman’s reports. It is something else.
http://www.drjudithreisman.com/
I’m not anymore.
TV has gone down hill so bad I don’t bother to turn it on. I miss shows like “Little House” or even “Gilligan’s Island”.
In fact they tried to redo Gilligan’s Island and that was trash. They had Gilligan and Mary Ann sleeping together in the same bunk. I wanted to puke. Never would have happened in the old series.
A lot of people don’t think there’s anything wrong in the sexual consumption of other human beings. Sometimes one gets the impression that sexual consumption - or at least the possibility of it - is the only reason other people are justified in existing at all.
We just started watching “Hunter,” which I’d forgotten about. The writing is clever, and the lead characters are very likeable and securely in the roles even in the first few episodes. I don’t know how far down the queue the next DVD is, but I’m looking forward to it.
I think you almost have it right - the endorphine release becomes addictive in and of itself. I'm not saying that you'll get the DT shakes if you go off porn, but repeated use does (by my understanding from reading journals) rewire the brain, and it is WAY more than a habit.
It’s the breakdown in relationships between males and females.
I saw it as a teenager in the 90s where males were continuously demonized everywhere as pigs, idiots, and rubes. They turned a whole generation of girls into militant feminists, and then started promoting lesbianism as an alternative to being with “nasty” guys.
So what were guys to do? Deal with all of that crap or go look at pictures of women and movies that didnt judge them or see their sex drive as being a sickness? It didnt cost them anything, and was less mentally stressful.
This is going to be a hard habit to break.
It strikes me that we're already addicted to it. I suspect if you totally deprive a person of it, they'd probably become suicidal.
Porn is just the symptom and not the source of the problem. The sin lies in the heart. To address this purely as an external vice will always result in what the author is experiencing, frustration. No amount of external controls will fix the heart.
I am not saying that the external does not matter. I am saying that the internal matters more. When you put out a fire, you must aim the extinguishing substance at the base of the flame where the fuel is being oxidized rather than at the bright colors where the heat seems to be coming from.
We can lock our phones, our televisions, or computers and be accompanied everywhere so as to be accountable for what we buy and everything we do, but these steps will still be unable to fix a heart problem. It will still be possible to lust in the imagination where only the imaginer and God can see.
JFK and Clinton say no.
Never found the attraction. Watching other people have sex that aren’t me.
**Porn is just the symptom and not the source of the problem. The sin lies in the heart. To address this purely as an external vice will always result in what the author is experiencing, frustration. No amount of external controls will fix the heart.**
Even though there is a physical part to alcoholism; isn’t there also a “heart and mind” part to pornography.
I would think that the same principles would work with pornography as work with alcoholism.
Could be. A friend of mine (now deceased) who looked a porn daily would get seriously depressed whenever his computer would break down and he couldn't look at it. He felt like crap and lost interest in other things. But when he had his fix of porn every day, then he was back to being happy again. Porn truly is addictive...for some people. Others can indulge in it from time to time and that is as far as it goes...just like gambling, or drinking, or even smoking.
mental case
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