By: Shane James O’Neill Suicide: Exposed but Alone Amanda Todd. When she was in 7th grade, she moved in with her dad. In the midst of the move, she was lonely and didn’t have many friends. Amanda was a 12-year-old who loved to sing, and she found affirmation through online chat rooms. A guy,…
What’s a Healthy Perspective of Porn?
By: Allie Joy Hudson 3 min. read Children Exposed According to a 2016 British study, 94% of 14-year-olds have been exposed to explicit pornographic material online. The average age of children first being exposed to porn is getting younger and younger. (I have seen reports ranging from age eleven to age eight.) Many describe…
COVID 19 and Porn
By: Shane James O’Neill 3 min. read COVID and Porn COVID-19, a global health crisis, meets pornography, a public health crisis. The coronavirus has been devastating, to say the least. It has touched our lives in every conceivable way — our health, our finances, our travel, our relationships. And now, it is impacting our…
Depression, COVID-19, and Pornography
By: Allie Joy Hudson 6 min. read Quarantine and Depression I can’t tell you how many times I pick up my phone when I’m feeling depressed. I hate it, but it’s almost become a reflex to open up Facebook or Instagram and scroll when I feel myself shutting down. Especially with so many of us…
Sexual Abuse and Pornography
By: Shane James O’Neill Sexual Abuse I’ve experienced sexual abuse and I’ve sat with too many friends after their own abuse. I hate that stuff man. One in particular stands out. The sexual abuse incident happened to a childhood best friend and it went to court. Well, it was reported the day it happened,…
Pornography and Anxiety
By: Allie Joy Hudson 4 min read Lust, Satan, Anxiety A struggle with anxiety has brought many of us to our knees. Anxiety isolates you. It chokes out the real world. It steals your motivation, your joy, your energy, your sense of identity. It lies to you. It eats at you. It robs you…
Loneliness and Pornography
Lonely By: Cale Baker 4 min read Lonely: A Public Health Crisis Some have declared loneliness a public health crisis, and not only does it trigger engagement with pornography, but it’s also not good for our physical health. An article in The Guardian highlights that chronic loneliness is worse than being obese and as…
Mental Health, Loneliness, and Porn
Loneliness By: Shane O’Neill 4 min read Mental Health, Porn Stars, and Teenagers Sex is assumed in most relationships these days. And when it comes to porn, it’s nearly as difficult to avoid porn, as it is easy to find it. And that shapes our relationships, as well as our intimacy. But before it…
Is Porn Bad?
By: Shane James O’Neill 3 min read Celebrity First Sex Scene Celebrity Jennifer Lawrence describes her first on-set sex scene: “I got really, really drunk. But then that lead to more anxiety when I got home because I was like, “What have I done? I don’t know.” And he [Chris Pratt] was married. And…
Three Ways for a Marriage to Heal After Porn
Rebuilding Trust By: Allie Joy Hudson Porn in My Life I remember the night my boyfriend told me about his porn addiction. I knew that he had struggled with porn in the past, but what he hadn’t told me was that he dragged it into our relationship. He watched porn for the first few months…
Can a Marriage Heal after Porn?
By: Shane James O’Neill 4 min read “Can we Heal from This??” Recently, I was at a family’s home with several friends for lunch. People were eating all over the house, so I went to the living room, finding myself seated beside the mother of that family. She asked about my work, so I told…
Can I Watch Porn with my Spouse?
By: Allie Joy Hudson 4 min read Porn with my Spouse I recently read a story on Fight the New Drug’s website about a woman whose spouse had struggled with porn for years. Feeling the isolation and lack of trust between herself and her husband, she decided to try to watch porn with him….
Sex in Marriage Won’t Fix You
By: Shane James O’Neill 4 min read Once I Get Married… An article titled A Laptop Never Say No begins by stating the fear of competition a woman feels in relationships. In the opening paragraph the author says: “Once upon a time, a woman’s greatest fear was a good-looking … blonde. These days, her…
Why We Go to Porn Over our Wives
By: Allie Joy Hudson 4 min read “I Just Like Sex More Than Her” According to sex-addiction therapist Dr. Linda Hatch, many men justify seeking out porn or an affair because they claim to “want more sex than my wife.” This perspective makes it easy for men to take the blame off of themselves…
Three Ways to Know Purity in 2020
By: Shane James O’Neill 4 min read Overnight Change And just like that, it’s a new year! But purity doesn’t happen overnight: years of messing around and feasting on raw lust takes time to rework. The practices of lust we’ve allowed to shape us are only transformed by practices of purity. Looking at people…
Does Porn Affect Our Real Lives?
By: Allie Joy Hudson 5 min read Porn Is Fantasy Porn is fantasy. It’s scripted. It’s staged. And it’s not real. However, once we open our eyes up to the fact that porn is fantasy, this creates a whole new set of difficulties for us. When we realize that pornography is not real, this…
Thanksgiving in The Midst of Lust
By: Allie Joy Hudson 4 min read Thankful in Lust?? When you think about fighting through lust, your natural response probably isn’t to be thankful. Fighting for purity is a hard path, often full of setbacks, frustration, numbness, and discouragement. But there’s an interesting passage in 1 Thessalonians 5 that made me think twice…
Is Porn Addictive?
By: Shane James O’Neill 4 min read Is Porn Addiction Real? Being informed is a massive part of finding freedom. After all, a person can’t pursue truth if they don’t know what is true. Sensible, right? But being ignorant of something dangerous can damage a lot of people, including ourselves. Most people view porn…
Do Women Struggle with Porn?
By: Allie Joy Hudson (Reader Discretion Advised) Yes, Women Struggle Too It worries me when people refer to pornography, or even lust, as purely a man’s issue. I can assure you that these temptations cross both genders. In my own life, I’ve had to fight lust for years. I’ve had multiple female friends confide…
Porn and Sex Trafficking
By: Shane James O’Neill 4 min read (Explicit Content!) Strip Club The first time I came face-to-face with sex trafficking I was 16 and working in Philadelphia. A guy named Matt would often come into my work, flaunting money and confidence. As an impressionable 16-year-old, I thought he was pretty cool. His uncle owned…
Is Porn Only a Religious Issue?
By: Shane James O’Neill Porn Is a Religious Issue Due to our sexualized culture, it’s easy to think that arguments for healthy intimacy and arguments against pornography are only made by religious organizations. For instance, when talking about the sex addiction movement, psychologist Dr. David Ley says: “Most of the leaders of the sex…
What’s the Difference Between Porn and Nude Art?
By: Shane James O’Neill 4 min read Nude Art or Porn? A film came out a few years ago, the name of which I’ll refrain from sharing least it lead you in a dangerous direction. Regardless, this film followed the life of a self-diagnosed female sex addict. She loved sex, specifically sex with men,…
Purity in The Face of Defeat
Battle By: Allie Joy Hudson 4 min read If you’re struggling to overcome a porn habit, and you head home just hoping to not watch it that night, you are almost always going to fail. The Proven curriculum talks about how important it is to have a plan of action in overcoming your entrapment…
Longing for Lust: Three Psalms to Pray
Three Psalms to Pray By: Shane James O’Neill Sex: More Than Biology No matter what kind of beautiful community I have around me, there are times when I just want sexual intimacy. The more distance I get from pornography, the more it becomes less a biological thing and more of a soul thing. …
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