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Porn Kills Love : Freedom Is Possible

Porn Kills Love : Freedom Is Possible

Imagine if nearly every person living in the state of Alabama today were there against their will, forced into sexual acts for profit, and 99% of them were women and 21% of them were children. If you have a mother, a spouse, a sister or a child, it is impossible to ignore the shocking link between human trafficking and sex slavery whenever the subject of pornography comes up. According to government sources, sex trafficking is a $3 billion a year industry and it sits just behind the drugs and weapons criminal business. Approximately 4.5 million men, women and children are enslaved, abused and exploited for pornography. On one side of the screen, behind erotic enticements, are the destroyed lives of people who are sex slaves, lying to their viewers they're choosing to be there - out of fear for their disposable lives, dreaming of being home with their families again; away form unimaginable abuse. On the other side, are broken and many times addicted people, looking to satisfy their thirst with a quick sexual high, many watching their lives crumble one click at a time. This Sunday pr. Emy will lovingly address without condemnation both sides of the screen, while pointing us all to the same man who quenched the thirst of the Samaritan woman, as He is looking to quench our thirst today.

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ExcelChurch 40 Spruce St Suite 207 Leominster MA 01453

122 Granite St, Leominster, MA 01453, USA

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Porn Kills Love: Freedom Is Possible

The average age of first exposure to pornography is now only 11 years old.

1 out of 4 online search engine requests are related to sex
1 out of 3 (35%) downloads from the internet are pornographic
40 million Americans say they regularly visit porn sites
One out of third internet porn users are women
56% of divorce involved one party having an addiction in porn.
47% of families in the United States reported that porn is a problem in their home.
Sunday is the most popular day of the week for viewing porn
Cite: https://www.therecoveryvillage.com/process-addiction/porn-addiction/related/pornography-statistics/#gref
Note:
You don’t know you’re addicted until you actually try to quit.
Note:
If you try to give something up and can’t, you don’t own it, it owns you.
Note:
God creates good things, Satan corrupts good things.
“Pornography consumption does not just develop habits or even addictions, it changes people! And it changes you in ways that handicap your ability to connect and attach in healthy loving ways.
Jill Manning, PHD, Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist, Certified Clinical Partner Specialist
BrainHeartWorld.org
Etymology for pornography.
Greek Word: Porne
"prostitute," originally "bought, purchased"
with an original notion, of "slave sold for prostitution”
“Its so easy to think that when you are looking at porn that you are no way part of the problem. That you are simply using the entertainment that is there for everybody. Each and every viewer feeds demand. Each and every viewer is further victimization of that person.”
Cordelia Anderson, MA
Founder & Principal, Sensibilities Prevention Services
Which specializes in preventing sexual harm.
BrainHeartWorld.org
1. Freedom is Possible from Sin in Christ.
Note:
Keep a attitude that you are determined to win even if your determination fails.
“You have no morality, you have no capacity for intimacy, you don’t want connection. That woman are disposable sex objects. This is the narrative of pornography.”
Gail Dines, PHD, Professor Emerita of Sociology & woman’s studies, Wheelock College (Boston), Founding President, Culture Reframed.
BrainHeartWorld.org
2. Don't be Confident in your Flesh.
Note:
Self-Honesty leads to strong deliverance.
Self-Deception leads to stronger addictions.
“You cannot guarantee that when you are looking at Porn that someone is not being exploited in that. You cannot guarantee the age of someone. You cannot guarantee what that image will be used for down the road. Even if the person is of age and chooses to do porn, maybe that image will be used to groom a child for child abuse…

Jill Manning, PHD, Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist, Certified Clinical Partner Specialist
BrainHeartWorld.org
3. See Porn as a threat.
Note: Secret worlds make us sick.
“There are over 50 studies showing a direct link between pornography and sexual violence.”
Dr. John D Foubert, Professor of Higher Education & Student Affairs, Oklahoma State University
Author, “How Pornography Harms”
National President, ONE IN FOUR
BrainHeartWorld.org
4. Begin to get Healing from Wounds.
NOTE:
Wounds don’t just hurt you, they change you, when the wound remains unhealed.
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Porn destroys your FOCUS on what intimacy really is.
You will never know real intimacy with porn in the picture.
“Sex industry business people don’t separate different arms of the sex industry. There isn’t pornography over here, prostitution over there and trafficking over there. They are all interlinked.”
Dr. Melissa Farley, Clinical Psychologist
Executive Director, Prostitution Research & Education
Authored 2 books, and 26 pier reviewed articles. BrainHeartWorld.org
5. Set Up Gates
NOTE:
It is possible to set up safe guards around your life today to PREVENT the temptation or intervention of porn addiction tomorrow.
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We need wisdom for prevention instead of intervention.
In the last 10 years we have seen an increase in studies showing a correlation between porn use and domestic violence. And we know from many studies, that if someone is a regular consumer of porn their risk of becoming abusive and aggressive increases by a third.”
Jill Manning, PHD, Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist, Certified Clinical Partner Specialist
BrainHeartWorld.org
6. Set Up Guards.
Note:
Accountability is difficult when you’re the only person holding yourself accountable.
If you could hold yourself accountable we wouldn’t be talking about this subject.
Traffickers have utilized porn to train their victims on how to provide acts on the people paying for them. Porn is used as a tool to groom victims of sex trafficking.”
Misa Nguyen,
Director of Education at United Against Human Trafficking
BrainHeartWorld.org
7. Seek the Baptism in the Holy Spirit.

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