Pornography Addiction

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The following article from Annals Australasia, October 2005:

PORNOGRAPHY ADDICTION
by Mary Anne Laydon

Pornography, by its very nature, is an equal opportunity toxin. It damages the viewer, the performer, and the spouses and the children of the viewers and the performers. It is toxic mis-education about sex and relationships. It is more toxic the more you consume, the ‘harder’ the variety you consume and the younger and more vulnerable the consumer.

The damage is both in the area of beliefs and behaviors. The belief damage may include Pornography Distortion, Permission-Giving Beliefs and the attitudes about what constitutes a healthy sexual and emotional relationship. The behavioral damage includes psychologically unhealthy behaviors, socially inappropriate behaviors and illegal behaviors.

Let me give some examples. Pornography Distortion is a set of beliefs based in pornographic imagery, sent to the viewer while they are aroused and reinforced by the orgasm. An example of Pornography Distortion would include beliefs such as ‘Sex is not about intimacy, procreation or marriage. Sex is about predatory self-gratification, casual recreation, body parts, violence, feces, strangers, children, animals and using women as entertainment.’ All of these are messages regularly sent by pornography.

Permission-Giving Beliefs are a set of beliefs that imply that my behavior is normal, acceptable, common and/or doesn’t hurt anyone so I have permission to continue to behave in the way that I am. In all types of violence and addiction, Permission-Giving Beliefs are involved. Examples would include ‘All men go to prostitutes’, ‘Women like sex mixed with violence’ and ‘Children enjoy sex with adults’. These particular Permission Giving Beliefs are also common in pornography.

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Full article at jloughnan.tripod.com/porn.htm
 
As chance would have it, right before I read this thread I had just finished watching Dateline’s show where they set up a decoy child (undercover cops), and waited for the predators to show up.

These guys have already been arrested time and time again, but they just don’t stop.

They had an expert on trying to make sense of this behavior.
He said it goes back to internet porn. These guys infect their brains with this garbage day and night - and then they feel compulsion to act out their sick fantasies.
They won’t ever stop.
 
In my opinion, pornography does not create a predator. There is faulty wiring from the beginning and pornography on exaserbates the problem.
 
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LeahInancsi:
In my opinion, pornography does not create a predator. There is faulty wiring from the beginning and pornography on exaserbates the problem.
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:hmmm: This is not always the case. While I will agree faulty wiring may be the case in some instances. But do you really believe that everyone of these people were born with this wiring? Its to say a murderer is a murderer because he has faulty wiring and not because of the desensitizing that goes on the world. It’s all about exposure and if it wasn’t effective than propaganda would have no effect. (We know thats not the case)
 
Very good article, very informative. I must say I agree with everything the article said.
 
I have a hard time believing that so many men were born with the “wiring” to desire sex with children.
Porn introduces the concept - and then takes them down a road where they need to continually seek out more vile forms of porn.
 
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I have a hard time believing that so many men were born with the “wiring” to desire sex with children.
Porn introduces the concept - and then takes them down a road where they need to continually seek out more vile forms of porn.
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Or they were molested and abused as children, grew up in an unloving environment, bad childhood, were exposed to porn, and everything fed into their eventual predatory tendency.
 
Or they were molested and abused as children, grew up in an unloving environment, bad childhood, were exposed to porn, and everything fed into their eventual predatory tendency
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Very true.
But there are guys out there who didn’t have these backgrounds, and still wound up in the same boat due to their porn addiction.

Look at the guy who killed Danielle VanDamme.
 
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Lorarose:
Very true.
But there are guys out there who didn’t have these backgrounds, and still wound up in the same boat due to their porn addiction.

Look at the guy who killed Danielle VanDamme.
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True too. This just goes to show you how evil porn really is. It really opens the door to even more evil. Very dangerous, and it’s sad how most people think it’s “normal”, and it’s not hurting anyone else.
 
Gal 5 makes it clear that sin is in our wiring.
Rom 12 tells us to rewire our minds.

The concept called lust of the eye tells me that there is also an external influnce too. So, the problem is both internal ( hearts ) and external ( eyes ). So, you both are right.

Numbers 15:39
You will have these tassels to look at and so you will remember all the commands of the LORD, that you may obey them and not prostitute yourselves by going after the lusts of your own hearts and eyes.

Job 31:1
"I made a covenant with my eyes not to look lustfully at a girl.

Proverbs 6:25
Do not lust in your heart after her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyes,

Ezekiel 6:9
Then in the nations where they have been carried captive, those who escape will remember me—how I have been grieved by their adulterous hearts, which have turned away from me, and by their eyes, which have lusted after their idols. They will loathe themselves for the evil they have done and for all their detestable practices.

1 John 2:16
For everything in the world—the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does—comes not from the Father but from the world.
 
Dead Porn Stars seem to have violent deaths, deaths related to AIDS, suicide and so on.
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Excellent point.
Viewers of porn are being sold a fantasy that the people they are viewing are living exciting fun filled lives.
But it’s all a big lie.
 
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