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“Jesus specifically called out men to gouge their eyes if it causes you to sin.“
Point me to where that admonition was directed specifically at men, as opposed to everybody?

Few facts about Porn:
-2020 Stats show $97B world industry with $12B coming from the US
-Of domestic minor trafficking victims who had been forced into porn production, the average age they began being filmed was 12.8 years old
-In 2018, 45 million images of child sexual abuse material (sometimes referred to as “child porn”) were reported, according to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. In 2019, that number jumped to 69.1 million.

Additional stats and source: https://fightthenewdrug.org/10-porn-stats-that-will-blow-your-mind/

After much pain I caused my family, let me share that the Bible hit home and now is my rock.

We should be men of Christ must help steer those in sin and Porn being the #1 reason for devoice, our fellow men need help. I would ask any man to reflect how they would feel if their son or daughter were exploited in porn, how they would react and feel. Personally, I would want vengeance, well then we need to not be the consumer of that industry that makes that material.

Just a few obvious lines in the Bible that state why you should not turn to porn include:

MATTHEW 5:27-29 “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart. If your right eye causes you to stumble, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.”

EXODUS 20:14 “You shall not commit adultery”

ROMANS 8:5 “Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. “

JOB 31:1 “I made a covenant with my eyes not to look lustfully at a young woman.”

PROVERBS 6:25 “Do not lust in your heart after her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyes.”

ISAIAH 57:8 “Behind your doors and your doorposts you have put your pagan symbols. Forsaking me, you uncovered your bed, you climbed into it and opened it wide; you made a pact with those whose beds you love, and you looked with lust on their naked bodies.”

JEREMIAH 13: 26-27 I will pull up your skirts over your face that your shame may be seen your adulteries and lustful neighings, your shameless prostitution! I have seen your detestable acts on the hills and in the fields. Woe to you, Jerusalem! How long will you be unclean?”

COLOSSIANS 3:5 “Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry.”

1 THESSALONIANS 3-6 “It is God’s will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality; that each of you should learn to control your own body[a] in a way that is holy and honorable, not in passionate lust like the pagans, who do not know God; and that in this matter no one should wrong or take advantage of a brother or sister. The Lord will punish all those who commit such sins, as we told you and warned you before.”

1 JOHN 2:16 “For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world.”

I can go on, however we see the words of Christ, Paul and the other disciples that Lust is a sin and is Adultery. Please tell our brothers and sisters to not fund the Porn industry and get clean. Let me say, no 12 Step program, Dr. Patrick Carnes ‘Out of the Shadows’ CSAT $150 per session therapy, and Attachment Theory will work - Truly turn to Christ, read the Bible, Pray and Repent.

We MUST standup and be counted on the right side of this and attacking each other is not we should be.