I'm co-Administrator at www.life4christ.com. I created the No Porn Zone here at MySpace to do my part in the war on pornography and reach out to my brothers and sisters who, like myself, have struggled with Internet porn addiction and or other sexual addictions which have detracted from our relationship with Christ. The Christian community is being savaged by pornography. Like a cancer, it is spreading at an alarming rate and it leads to (spiritual) death. We need to recognize the danger of pornography and do our part to help eradicate this scourge not only from the church, but from society as a whole. There is nothing cool about pornography. It demeans women and men. It enslaves lives. It destroys marriages.I was a slave to porn addiction for more than 20 years. Growing up, it was readily available in my home. I lived alone with my father, who was a living caricature of the gunny sergeant from the film Full Metal Jacket. The verbal abuse was intense. The expectation for me to "act like a man" even at 8-years old, was even more intense. Stealing my dad's porno magazines and hiding them away in my room provided an escape from the emotional abuse. But in it's own way, pornography was just as devastating to my psychological well being. The pornography made me see women as nothing more than sexual objects to be exploited. As almost sub-human. By the time I was in college, I was wasting hundreds of dollars each month on pornography. DVDs, magazines, adult novels, exotic dancers. I could barely make my rent and eat, but I thought nothing of using hard-earned cash for porn. I was insane.I'd always run to porn to feel good. If I got bad news, I ran to porn. If I had relationship problems, I ran to porn. If I were under any type of stress whatsoever, I ran to porn. But like a drug, the initial "high" I found with the porn I could access in magazines like Hustler and Playboy grew less intense, less satisfying. I needed something more intense, just to achieve the same high. So I had to gradually look for more and more hardcore forms of pornography. And as this happened, my porn consumption took on another new dimension, that of feelings of personal shame and self-loathing. So while I indulged in porn and received a brief period of serenity, it was followed by hours, sometimes days of shame and depression.
This was especially true once I discovered that I could not walk away from porn on my own.So I know what it's like. I've been there. And I know how hard an addiction it can be to overcome. But IT CAN BE OVERCOME! Christ Jesus is the answer. He has pulled me up out of the abyss, cleaned me off and made me a new man. On this profile page you will find links to resources which can help you break the vicious cycle of addicition. God bless you. Healing and help are a mouse click away."You have heard that it was said ‘You shall not commit adultery’ but I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart." ~ Matthew 5:27From Jesus' piercing words we know that to lust after other women or men is to commit emotional and spiritual adultery. Having self sex while looking at pictures of naked women is taking this sin of adultery to the next level; it's adding sexual experience to lust, pouring gas on the fire.One of the biggest lies Satan whispers is "a little lust won't hurt you; go ahead, its just you and pictures. No one will know."My friend, you may not be a sex addict, but if you're dabbling in porn you're committing adultery, whether you are married or not. You're also hollowing out your soul and wasting your character. "Casual porn use" is little different from sexual addiction, and it may be worse. Those who struggle with sex addiction often hit a hard bottom fast, which forces them to get help quicker. I've seen Casual Porn Users who've taken their sin well into middle age. It doesn't need to be this way.....
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