What is Pornography and Sex Addiction?
Any Christian man who is engaging in sexual immorality of any kind is a man in conflict. He is a man who believes one thing and yet his actions are not matching up with his beliefs. Often it starts by viewing pseudo-pornography–things like modeling sites, chat sites, personal homepages, and other sites that often contain seductive images, but may not be classified as pornography. Very quickly this kind of online behavior can spiral down to a place where these images don’t cut it anymore–and the viewer begins to “need” more intense images to be stimulated. Often you will hear someone who has gotten addicted say, “I have no idea how I got here–it started so innocently.” Pornography is both very alluring and very addictive. The websites that are distributing the material are designed to draw in the viewer, dangle free content and easy sign-ups–in an attempt to capture a new user. What is Sex Addiction? There are good “sex addiction” tests all over the web that can help you determine i
The National Council on Sexual Addiction and Compulsivity has defined sexual addiction as “engaging in persistent and escalating patterns of sexual behavior acted out despite increasing negative consequences to self and others.” In other words, an individual who is addicted to a sex behavior will continue to engage in these behaviors despite facing potential health risks, financial problems, shattered relationships or even arrest. Not all persons are equally vulnerable to sexual addiction such as the habitual use of pornography. For example, Dr. Victor Cline, Clinical Psychologist at the University of Utah identified four stages of pornographic addiction following initial exposure.
