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When I’m talking with parents about the accessibility and impact of pornography on kids today, they often want to shut down, plug their ears or pretend that their kids are good enough to stay away from hardcore porn. Unfortunately, the largest viewers of online pornography are teenagers today, and the vast majority of kids will accidentally encounter pornography online. So what’s a parent...
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Earlier today, I was blogging for another organization that I work for and a parallel came to mind that I wanted to transition over to this site as well. I was talking about the power of influence and how we can learn things *much quicker* when we're around individuals that are *skilled* in what we'd like to perfect.
The example that I gave was going to a foreign language and being...
Pornography at its most fundamental level has no basis in reality. It is nothing more than a fantasy that, in one form or another, negatively affects the lives of men. Porn influences how men think about, value, and ultimately treat women. It should come as no surprise, then, that men experience difficulty in their relationships and ability to interact with real women due to pornography...
At times in my marriage, I felt like my husband wanted me to perform like a porn star. I felt pressured to act and be someone I was not. I believed if I could perform like a porn star then maybe he would want me more… maybe our sex life would finally have that missing link and finally feel complete. I knew something was missing, but what? I couldn’t quite figure out what it was we both...
Competing for Attention
You know the old (terrible) saying, “Nice guys finish last”? Well, when I was a teenager, I definitely played both sides of that phrase.
From a young age, what I had witnessed about gaining the attention of girls was that you either had to be extremely loud and uninhibited, willing to make a total donkey of yourself, or you had to play the best friend who listens to...
Editor’s Note: On Friday, we began hearing the story of Charlie, an 11-year-old struggling with pornography addiction (Read Part One of this article here). As his mother has shared, she, like so many parents, had no idea that the troubling transformation she observed in her son’s life was rooted in his access to pornography. Rather than continuing to turn a blind eye and just saying “boys...
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One of my favorite verses in the Bible is "I know that whatever God does, It shall be forever. Nothing can be added to it, and nothing taken from it. God does it, that men should fear before Him." (Ecclesiastes 3:14-NKJV) That said, when I read about *how sex was introduced in the Bible*, I always dig the fact that when the male and female bodies came together in...
Watching sports does not make you an All-Star at playing sports. I have played some form of hockey (Floor, roller and ice) since five. Watching hockey does not make you a great player, just like any sport. You can watch the New York Giants and still not be able to throw a football like Eli Manning. I once played a hockey game in a rec league. We had some people that never played organized...
As we approach the issue of having someone struggling with porn how do we deal with it. First of all I think this isn't a cut and dry answer that can really be perfectly addressed in this blog. I believe prayer,discernment, and grace need to be used well and with abundance as you walk into this situation. Every situation will be different but here are some Gauges on our dashboard we can keep...
“Boys will be boys”. That is a statement we’ve all heard many times. It’s usually said just after a story about something inappropriate a boy has done. I think that what people are really thinking when they make that statement is: “Boys are complete scum bags and that’s just the way it will always be”. To me the statement is a complete cop-out. It’s like the world thinks boys are a lost...
