RANDOM NUMBERS

  • Percentage of scenes in today’s mainstream porn that includes violence against women. 88% 88%
  • Percentage of men UNDER 40 suffering from erectile dysfunction (a new phenomenon) 30% 30%
  • Percentage of the profits in the pornography industry coming from child pornography 20% 20%

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After 7 Years of Porn, I Experienced My First Month of Freedom

I was 12 or 13 when I first looked at porn, and I remember how it felt. The rush of adrenalin and dopamine, and then the feeling of immense guilt that followed. However, I’d poked the bear, and sure enough, I kept coming back to this new enticing world. I made a number of attempts to quit in my teens, but they were all half-hearted, short-lived, and didn’t have any accountability behind them. I remember switching between feeling helpless against my own sin, and constantly rationalizing and ignoring it. I could feel my behavior pulling me away from a life-giving…

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After 7 Years of Porn, I Experienced My First Month of Freedom

I was 12 or 13 when I first looked at porn, and I remember how it felt. The rush of adrenalin and dopamine, and then the feeling of immense guilt that followed. However, I’d poked the bear, and sure enough, I kept coming back to this new enticing world. I made a number of attempts to quit in my teens, but they were all half-hearted, short-lived, and didn’t have any accountability behind them. I remember switching between feeling helpless against my own sin, and constantly rationalizing and ignoring it. I could feel my behavior pulling me away from a life-giving…

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Porn and the Problem of Impatience

Fast food. High-speed internet. Instant message. Streaming on demand. Same-day shipping. Our culture doesn’t like to wait. And there’s little reason to bother with waiting these days—if your current provider can’t do it now, someone else probably can. Porn is the fast-food variety of sex. It’s right there, a ready-made, cheap, clickable imitation of the real thing. Porn provides sexual experience for impatient, busy people, who don’t have the time or opportunity for the real thing. Porn is impatient sex—instant access and instant gratification. In the Apostle Paul’s thinking, this is the opposite of love. 1 Corinthians 13 is perhaps…

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Twitter’s Plans for an OnlyFans Competitor Stalled Due to Child Porn Risks—But for How Long?

Earlier this year, Twitter shut down a proposed plan to start an OnlyFans adult content competitor due to a high risk of child exploitation images being shared, but what will happen now that the site is being run differently under billionaire Elon Musk’s leadership?

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The 2022 CESE Summit: A World Changing Event

On November 8-10, thousands of people from across the globe gathered online for the 2022 Coalition to End Sexual Exploitation (CESE) Summit!
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Pornography and Sex Trafficking: A Discussion With Dawn Hawkins

Who is affected by sex trafficking? When we think about sex trafficking—if we do at all—it’s usually as something that happens to “other people.” You might read about sex trafficking in the news, but it usually takes place in some distant location. Dawn Hawkins warns that sex trafficking occurs much closer to home than we might expect. “The reality is it’s happening in America. It’s happening in all of our communities. Nobody is immune to it. A lot of us think it’s happening abroad or just happening to certain groups of people. [Some groups] are more at risk. But it’s…

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6 Ways That Covenant Eyes Employees Stay Porn-Free

At Covenant Eyes, we’re passionate about helping people overcome porn. Over the years, we’ve walked with over 1.5 million people on the path to a porn-free life. But we’re not just passionate about helping others quit porn—we want to keep pornography out of our own lives, and out of our families. Many of us were drawn to the mission of Covenant Eyes because of our own battles with pornography. With that in mind, I asked my colleagues at Covenant Eyes to share what’s worked for them in the fight against temptation. 1. Make prayer a priority. Many people come to…

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