Generation Porn 09 & 10

 The impact of porn on lives is significant. Here are just two more reasons to stop watching / using porn.

9.             Porn wastes your time and energy (p35)

Think about a meal. You feel hungry, you consume the mean and then you feel satisfied. Twenty minutes later, you feel full and you don’t want to eat anymore. Think about porn. You feel a desire, you consume porn, but you don't’ feel satisfied. Porn doesn’t deliver. Twenty minutes later, you still feel empty and you still want more.

Porn promises so much, but doesn’t deliver. So you find yourself on an endless quest for the perfect image.  . . Hours go by.

Hours wasted. Staying up late at night and then struggling through the next day. Inability to concentrate.

Improved concentration and memory are among the most commonly reported post-porn benefits, and they may be explained by the reversal of addiction-related brain changes. (Other frequently reported benefits after giving up highspeed porn are decreased social anxiety and depression, greater attraction to real mates, seeing potential partners as people rather than sex-aids, and return to earlier sexual tastes.)

In short, porn users who quit porn and then notice improvements in concentration and memory aren't imagining those improvements. The evidence suggests the improvements come down to the reversal of addiction-related alterations in the brain.

http://yourbrainonporn.com/no-porn-better-working-memory

10.             Porn weakens your relationship with God (p10)

King Solomon’s reign was great . . . but his reign began to unravel because of his sexual sin. 1 Kings 11 tells us Solomon ‘loved many foreign women’.

Comments from porn users;

·      It has really deadened relationship with Jesus and robbed me of joy.

·      It definitely stopped me having a close relationship with God. I experienced such joy after stopping, and my prayer life has been reinvigorated.

·      When I hear the word ‘sin’ I hear it to mean pornography.

Porn also robs you of your assurance of salvation.

·      Feeling ashamed to pray for forgiveness

·      Feeling scared to read your Bible

·      Doubting someone truly saved could struggle with such a sin