Christian leaders should not be trying to convince women to send nude photos. This doesn't seem like it should even have to be said, but earlier this week I put up a Fixed It for You of Gary Thomas' and Debra Fileta's book Married Sex, which had this sentence: Here's...
Is there hope for recovery for unwanted sexual behaviors, fantasies, or compulsions? I've been wanting to do this podcast for ages! I love Jay Stringer's book Unwanted, and we've connected behind the scenes a bit over the last few months, talking about our respective...
How many of us have heard a grown man grumble about what a teenager is wearing, saying “She knows what she’s doing”? Rebecca here on the blog, bringing you another dose of data from new research we haven’t reviewed on the blog yet! This one is super interesting, and...
If you feel stuck in a porn addiction, how do you break that stronghold? This month, in April, we're talking about defeating porn every Monday--but there's so much to say that I'm carrying that series over into other days of the week! We've looked at the effects of...
How is porn related to sex trafficking? We've been talking in the month of April in our Monday series on porn and how to recover from it. We started by talking about the effects of porn; we looked at 4 things you had to do if you spouse used porn, and then yesterday...
What does recovery from porn look like in a marriage? On Mondays in April we're talking about porn in marriage, and how to defeat it. We've looked at the effects of porn; at four things you must do if your husband uses porn; at women porn users. This week we're going...
What should you do if your husband watches porn? This month our theme is pornography use--how to understand the effects of porn; how to defeat porn and recover from porn; how to help the future generation not get hooked. We've also already talked about how women can...
How serious is the porn issue we face today, both for ourselves and for the next generation? Should we be panicking, or is it all going to be okay? I say neither... but also kind of both? All during the month of April, we're going to be looking at the porn epidemic...
How do men who have recovered from a porn addiction see that porn addiction in retrospect? As I unpack from my vacation, I'm happy to have a post to share with you this week from Hugh Houston, who has written the book Jesus is Better than Porn. I know so many wives...
This month, as we're talking about pornography's effects in marriage, let's remember that men are not the only porn users. In fact, women make up an increasingly large portion of porn users, and women deal with a lot of the same effects of porn as men do. Recently a...
This post may contain links to amazon products. After you navigate to Amazon using one of my links, any products you purchase during that visit earn me a commission at no additional cost to you.The side effects of porn are devastating. Pornography is ravaging...
What do porn and coronavirus have in common? We hate them both, and we want them to stop! My series on the blog in April will be on porn, and so to launch that series, I wanted to give a big picture perspective on the real problem with porn (hint: it may not be what...
Is the antidote to lust that men learn the "bouncing your eyes" technique, as advocated in Every Man's Battle? We've been talking about new ways to think about lust this week, with Keith's post yesterday (and our podcast coming up tomorrow. UPDATE: It's live now!). In...
What if the real reason that lust is bad really isn't about sex? i've talked about lust before on the blog--with the question "is lust really every man's battle"? I've written that noticing is not lusting. But my husband Keith wanted to chime in today, as he writes...
How does porn use before marriage affect marriage afterwards? I wrote a big post on how porn hurts your sex life earlier this week, and I felt like it was such an important subject (and we got so many comments) that I thought it was important to expand on it a bit and...