Category: Pornography

I was chatting with a friend from my psychology graduate school recently who exasperatedly declared, “I can’t believe I didn’t have one full lecture on infidelity and affairs in graduate school! Almost all of my couple clients are dealing with infidelity.”

Certainly, there is a self-selecting bias at play with couples who have decided to make the big investment of time and money to see a therapist (who may not be covered by insurance). Many couples only make this type of investment when they’re facing a major crisis, and infidelity is, unfortunately, the big kick in the pants that sends many couples to therapy.

August 7, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — I’ve spilled gallons of ink over the past several years urging people to kick their porn habits for a host of reasons: It kills marriages, mainstreams sexual violence, causes erectile dysfunction, and tears at our social fabric. But for those of you with a more environmentalist bent, it turns out that there’s another good reason to turn off the filth faucet: to save the planet.

August 7, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – Jonathon Van Maren and Kristen Jenson dive into one of the most serious issues our culture is facing today: pornography. We all know pornography is an issue, even within Christian communities, but what can we do to protect our families? Jenson answers that question during this week’s episode of The Van Maren Show.

New research discovers employees who view pornography aren’t just costing companies millions of dollars in wasted time, they’re causing harm to the company.

A study from professors in the Brigham Young University Marriott School published in the Journal of Business Ethics finds that viewing pornography at work increases unethical behavior. Given unethical employee behavior is linked to a number of negative organizational outcomes — like fraud and collusion — organizations should act quickly to reduce porn consumption, authors say.

The point is that watching pornography not only destroys your relationships, harms children and demeans women, it also wrecks the environment. So an international agreement to ban online pornography would kill two birds with one stone. It would fight the erosion of family-friendly values and it would fight climate change.

There is a lie in American culture which has seeped into how men view women and how women view themselves. That lie is the idea– thanks to factors like pornography, women’s and men’s magazines, and James Bond-type movies– that women’s bodies, and specifically breasts, are primarily for male sexual satisfaction instead of a critical component of a woman’s God-created, life-giving capabilities that also often serve an important purpose in sexual intimacy.

Pornography is a “sickness,” Mother Miriam said on an episode of her radio show last week. “It is a sickness, you have to believe that,” she said, emphasizing the need to show love to those working to break free from the chains of pornography. A listener had emailed Mother seeking advice on dealing with her husband, who hadn’t fulfilled his promise to stop viewing pornography.

Mother lovingly shared the story of a young married man addicted to pornography who showed up at her door after hearing her on the radio. She spoke with this young man and directed him to work with a priest who specialized in helping men overcome pornography addictions. It took time, but the man overcame his addiction and sent Mother a beautiful bouquet of flowers to thank her for restoring his life and saving his family.

n a Tuesday, April 23, 2019, file photo, film star Scarlett Johansson appears at a hand and footprint ceremony at the TCL Chinese Theatre, in Los Angeles. Johansson, who has been the victim of deepfake pornography, has said it’s a “useless pursuit” to try to make it illegal. But some legislators are still trying.

The study found a positive relationship between unethical behavior and self-reported frequency of viewing porn.

Pornography use among female adolescents and emerging adults specifically, has been linked with outcomes such as a higher likelihood of engaging in sex at a younger age, a higher number of sex partners, and a lower likelihood of using contraception (Maas and Dewey 2018; Peter and Valkenburg 2016). These findings suggest that pornography use is a correlate of risky sexual behavior, yet the majority of previous studies have been cross-sectional, warranting longitudinal research to establish directionality in these associations.