Each week, I round up the best resources, articles, and videos I find that are relevant to finding freedom from porn addiction. Please note that by posting a link here it does not mean I agree with everything in the linked article. It just means I found it interesting enough to share.
CovenantEyes: How Pornography Drives the Demand for Sex Slavery
“According to Shared Hope International’s report on the demand for sex trafficking, pornography on the Internet is a gateway to the purchase of humans for commercial sex. This becomes clear when we think critically about what pornography is and how it affects its consumers.”
CCEF: Asking Forgiveness from a Prostitute
“It seems obvious, but I have never suggested it: if a man has been with a prostitute, it is right for him to ask her forgiveness. Consider this story.”
First Things: Pornography and Acedia—A Spiritual Analysis of and Remedy for Lust of The Eyes
“A uniquely toxic combination of the lust of the eyes and the lust of the flesh has become an almost normal component of everyday life: the perturbingly pervasive use of pornography in general and internet pornography in particular, with its dangerous addictiveness and its lethal effect on the Christian spiritual life. To comprehend the spiritual roots of this crisis, we need to recall an all-too-forgotten vice, acedia, usually called ‘sloth’ but better rendered as ‘spiritual apathy.'”
