Posted on 08/04/2012 2:53:15 PM PDT by Morgana
Well here's one: pray.
In Eastern spiritual traditions, one is taught to repeat a mantra to focus the mind on God when subject to temptation.
So why not use this self-control technique with a prayer? Pick a short one, or create one, and use it mentally when you are confronted by unwanted media sex.
Try it. You'll be suprised how powerful it is, and how well it works.
Laz if you said “no” to sex I’d ask “Okay who are you and what have you done with the real Lazamataz?”
I have one. We could always go live with the Amish.
I hear they have the best sex anyway. Not kidding and if one thinks about it there is truth to it. They don’t have porn to ruin their lives. They wear all those clothes so at the end of the day when they get out of them...well look at how many kids they have!
The Internet is like driving in a state with lots of billboards saying “turn here;” some routes have more than others, but you choose what to drive to.
“Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. “ (Jude 7)
“Jennifer Lopez’s sculpted bottom”
Well, heck yes, pop culture is pervasive when a middle aged guy like me who listens to classical music & almost no TV can tell you that ten years ago J-Lo’s butt was so huge it had its own zip code and she had to (almost) show her boobs in Maxim magazine just to change the subject!
I only know this because I got deployed at age 55 during the Iraq invasion (they were grabbing anybody in the reserves during the initial phase) and once I was in theater the only monthly event worth noting was the PX getting in the latest issue of Maxim or Stuff! Like someone my age needs a turbocharged muscle car (I’d take the twentysomething chick in the side seat but she would be terribly bored and besides my wife wouldn’t approve).
Seriously, pop culture nowadays is sex soaked even compared to the Sixties which I remember; as I got on the plane for Vietnam & wondered if being a draft dodger might be safer, my buddy said, “You know, a lot of guys joined `the revolution’ just to get laid.”
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