By: Allie Joy Hudson 4 min. read Who is Jason Castro? Jason Castro is a singer, songwriter, and American Idol finalist. He is passionate about his love for Jesus and his family. He’s married and is now a father of four. But he also has a difficult past. Castro struggled with a porn addiction…
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Emma Thompson: Mothering Through Pornography
By: Shane James O’Neill 3 min. read Emma Thompson Emma Thomson. Sounds like Emma Watson, but different Brit and different Harry Potter Character. Emma Thompson is regarded as one of the greatest British actresses in history, playing in films such as Harry Potter, Love Actually, Nanny McPhee, Stranger Than Fiction, and Saving Mr. Banks. Emma Thompson has…
Russell Brand: From Sex Addict to Anti-Porn Activist
By: Shane James O’Neill 4 min. read Who is Russell Brand? Russell Brand. What a weird dude. I say “weird” in the best possible way. Anyone who is truly themselves is going to be unique and thus weird. I think that’s a lot of the draw toward Russell — he is himself and folks…
Kirk Franklin: From Hypocrisy to Hope
By: Allie Joy Hudson 6 min. read Struggling in Silence For many of us, especially those of us who grew up in the Church, it can be easy to live a double life. We can act one way on Sunday mornings and then be a completely different person during the week. We can be outwardly…
Chris Rock: From Porn to Cheating
By: Shane James O’Neill Chris Rock and Cheating During a Netflix comedy special called Tambourine, Chris Rock shares how pornography destroyed his marriage with Malaak Compton-Rock. What began with porn led to sleeping with several other women. And then just like that, 18 years of marriage was shredded apart, with nothing to show for…
Candace Cameron Bure: Jesus, Marriage, and Sex
By: Allie Joy Hudson 4 min. read Who is Candace Cameron Bure? Candace Cameron Bure is an actress, producer, talk show panelist, author, wife, and mom of three. She is best known for her role as D.J. Tanner on Full House (and as D.J. Tanner-Fuller on Fuller House), for being a talk show host on…
Tiger Woods: Hard Lessons to Learn
By: Shane James O’Neill “There is a way that seems right to a person, but in the end it’s a road to death.” — Proverbs 16:25 The Tiger Woods Tiger Woods. The world’s greatest golfer, with more awards and fan adoration than most athletes in sports history. Truly, a remarkable record. The man is an icon…
Lamar Odom and His Journey to Freedom from Porn
By: Allie Joy Hudson 5 min. read Lamar Odom’s Radical CHANGE Lamar Odom is a former NBA player, Olympic athlete, reality TV star, and husband of a Kardashian. He’s also a former drug and porn addict with a radical past. Back in 2015, he had a near-death experience due to a drug overdose in a Las…
Kanye West, Jesus, and Porn
By: Shane James O’Neill Kanye West and Porn Two years ago during an interview, Jimmy Kimmel asked Kanye West if having daughters had changed the way he views women. This was a good question, considering Kayne had just released a song talking about his fear that his daughters will one day be objectified. After…
Rashida Jones and Pornography
By: Allie Joy Hudson 7 min. read Who is Rashida Jones? Rashida Jones is the child of two famous parents: Quincy Jones, a major record producer, and Peggy Lipton, an actress who was popular in the 1960s and 70s. Despite her background as a child of Hollywood, Rashida Jones has done a whole lot to…
Terry Crews and His Journey Through Pornography
By: Allie Joy Hudson 6 min. read Who Is Terry Crews? “[P]ornography will never tell you the whole story. . . It’s killing you softly and it’s watching you bleed out and letting you and then stepping over your body and it’s over to the next guy or girl.” Terry Crews made this powerful statement…
Orlando Bloom: How 6 Months of Celibacy Changed His View about Porn and Sex
By: Shane James O’Neill 4 min. read From Social Play-Boy to Social Celibate Since playing his role as Legolas in the cinematic version of Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, Orlando Bloom has been a social play-boy and the heart throb of girls and women, alike. And the romantic–fandom only grew after he co-stared in the Pirates of the Caribbean series. …
Suicide and Pornography
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,…
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,…
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…
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….
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…
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…
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…