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PORNOGRAPHY TRAP: MULTIPLE CHURCHES HOPE TO HELP ADDICTS BEAT THIS TOXIC SHAME

Many women see the signs but don't recognize them for what they can mean. Their husbands withdraw, become reclusive, spend money that's unaccounted for, and - most of all - they have secrets. Secrets about where they go, what they spend their time doing, why they stay so late or go so early to work.
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NOTE: This is covered more in depth in the MATURE Boards. ONLY the Religious aspect of helping the addict is covered here.

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Porn King vs. Porn Pastor

There's no question that pornography is a booming business in the United States. Despite a decline in the sales and rentals of porn videos, it's still a multibillion-dollar industry, and the rise of amateur videos, revenue-sharing Web sites such as XTube.com and technological advances bringing pornography to your cell phone and beyond means that porn is as prevalent as ever.
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The Great Porn Debate

Pornography is a $14 billion a year industry, employing more than 100,000 people around the country. This big business is not without its critics, however. "Nightline" co-anchor Martin Bashir recently brought the debate to New Haven, Conn. for "Sex Week at Yale." Defending pornography was industry giant Ron Jeremy and 25-year-old Vivid Entertainment porn star Monique Alexander. They were pit against two "porn pastors." Pastor Craig Gross helps reform pornography addicts and Donny Pauling, a former porn producer, now speaks out against it.
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I am glad more pastures are speaking out about this. I have been doing reading on the topic and it seems many get involved then have no idea how to get out. Not so different from many addictions. Many pastures and upstanding Christians are sucked into this. It is a marriage destroyer that many over look.

My pasture has openly admitted to me his issues in the past with it and he now does this counseling he was surprised at how many pastures come to him in confession seeking help once he made it known he was there to help. Like any addiction the person is trapped and might want out but fears the repercussions of his addiction being confessed. Wives and husbands if your spouse is involved try to recall they do not hate you but have a issue they need to resolve. Your support through it might help. Not to mention you likely have some relationship issues to work out if either one is using this on their own. To couple who share in it I think you might desire to read up on it and how in the long run it can effect your marital relationship. I am no better then any one else but just wanted to share this as I know it is a real issue that the body of Christ must stand up to and support each other against.

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Sometimes one who finds themselves in need of help will go to their pastor or other religious leader seeking help in relieving them of an addiction. I believe that those who can not stop themselves from looking at porn fit into this and getting help from their religious leader is a good way to get the help they need. I know many people feel that they should act differently around their or any other religious leader. I guess we put them up on a pedestal and expect them to be better than us. This way when you need help with this addiction you feel that they are there and that they will help you get over it.

Marriage is something that takes a lot of work to survive. IF you have a porn addiction then you have a parasite that is eating away at the foundation of your marriage. You need to get that parasite out and your religious leader might just be the one that has the pesticide that will assists you in killing this parasite.

Religious Help For Porn Addicts

Wife of religious leader recounts her family's private battle

You're horrified, you're feeling betrayed and you're terrified someone will find out - especially when he's a prominent religious leader. That's how Christina Anderson remembers feeling when she found images her husband had forgotten to erase on the family's computer a few years back. A nationally known leader in his denomination, Pastor Bernie Anderson now shepherds the Wasatch Hills Seventh-day Adventist Church, sans the double life and the constant fear he held tightly to back then. Ref. Source 2

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Well, as much as I approve of the help for p-rn addicts I must comment that, if money is being unaccounted for because of the husband/wife, if it's the husbands/wives money, how can you actually be mad about that. Get mad about it destroying a relationship yes, but you must also address if there are s-xual desires which weren't being full-filled which caused the excessive p-rn watching (or any p-rn watching depending on what is acceptable in the relationship). Unless of course you think the addict is intentionally trying to destroy a relationship.

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p-rn creates devastating emotions in most women

Research shows the majority of people grappling with Internet p-rn are married heterosexual men with an average age of 38, according to Jill Manning, a researcher and author who has examined the impact of p-rn-graphy on marital relationships. "The majority of spouses impacted by this problem are women," she said. While infidelity in some other societies is more widely accepted, "women in North America are raised to expect exclusivity in a (marriage) relationship." Ref. Source 5