"The eyes are the window to the soul."
-William Shakespear
“The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single thy whole body shall be full of light. But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!”
-Jesus Christ
Why would you quit such a popular practice? In my practice of developing people in the last decade I have rarely seen more liberation in the lives of men particularly than the practice of abstaining from pornograhpy and/or masturbation.
1. Pornography Erodes Your Confidence
Weakened eye contact.
Increased self consciousness.
Festers fear of rejection.
2. Pornography Deconstructs Your Ability For Intimacy
Weakens your masculine ability to connect with a mature woman.
Weakened natural (non-fetish) sex drive.
Inability to connect emotionally with women.
3. Pornography Drains Your Motivation
Lower drive to break past average.
Produces a default lethargic state.
Plants seeds of shame / hopelessness.
4. Pornography Changes Your Masculine Physiology
Produces variants of erectile dysfunction.
Saps your body of natural testosterone build up.
Produces premature ejaculation.
5. Pornography Drains Your Time Away
Avg - 40 min wasted daily.
Avg - 4.5 hrs wasted weekly.
Avg - 19 hrs wasted monthly.
6. Pornography Supports Child Trafficking
Free Content Clicks = Funds Pornographic Ads.
Pornographic Ads. = Funds Pornographic producers.
Pornographic producers = Funds Human (child) trafficking.
7. Pornography Is A Path to Dark Addictions
Porn Addiction to Fetish Sex Addiction.
Fetish Sex Addiction to Prostitution Practice.
Prostitution Practice to Child Fetish/ Practice.
8. Pornography Corrupts Your Soul
Conditions your mind to scan women sexually on sight.
Creates emotional blockage to objectify women as objects not people.
Inability to exercise self control / long suffering.
9. Pornography Corrupts Your Spirit
Allows a foothold of perversion in your household.
Open's the door to unclean spirits to operate in your mind.
Causes you to avoid / hide from God and His healing.
10. Pornography Doesn't Just Affect You
Increases chances of divorce.
Increases chances of passing addiction to your children.
Decreases your ability to be a moral authority.
BONUS
11. Pornography Is Not As Secret As You Think
FACT - Your data is collected and attached to your name.
FACT - Your microphone is NEVER private.
FACT - Your front facing camera is NEVER private.
FACE - Your rear facing camera is NEVER private.
Strategy:
Decide to make a change.
Get help. (Pastor, Mentor, Coach)
Choose a battle plan and integrate a discipline. (See Purity Principal Discipline)
Daily Discipline: Purity Principal - Give up slavery to pornography, masturbation and extramarital sex.
Level 1: Give up pornography
Level 2: Give up pornography and sex with people you are not married to.
Level 3: Give up pornography, sex with people you are not married to, and masturbation.
I hope this article is helpful. Please let me know in the comments what your thoughts are on this topic. I plan on writing more on this topic in the days to come.
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