Don't Allow Lust and Addiction to Ruin Your Relationship

Pornography has become the most damaging virus on your computer. Perhaps you aren't a purveyor of porn, but if you have an internet connection available to you, you are at risk of ruining your relationships and your life. Pornography is fast becoming one of the most common reasons for broken homes in America. So today I'm leaving you with some research statistics so that you can better keep your family from becoming a casualty.

* Psychologist Edward Donnerstein, at the University of Wisconsin, conducted a study that found that even brief exposure to violent forms of pornography can lead to anti-social attitudes and behavior including psychopathy and violent crime. Other studies back his up.
* Exposure to pornography may diminish a person's capacity for true intimacy. Researchers have found that those exposed to nonviolent pornography indicated a diminished satisfaction with their partner's physical appearance, affection, and physical intimacy. Porn is fake, yet it causes one to expect the impossible from intimate relationships.
* Nationwide studies show that where the circulation rates of pornography are up, so are the rape rates. Although rape is not usually a sexual act, but an act of violence, there is some correlation here.
* Approximately 70 percent of the pornographic magazines sold end up in the hands of minors ( The Pornography Plague , Kerby Anderson). Those minors cannot all be someone else's children. Do we know what our children are experiencing — and accepting as a norm? What kind of marriages will they be able to create once their norms have shifted away from healthy moral standards?
* When viewing of pornography becomes habitual, there is a correlative increase in doubts about the value of marriage. Again, immersion into that fantasy world interferes with one's ability to separate fantasy from reality.

Don't rush to assume that you and your family or friends are incapable of giving in to this insidious and destructive force. In today's world, all of us need to be continually committed to stay away from any form of pornography.

Remember, not to condemn is to condone!