Pornography and unhealthy sex.

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Pornography is one of the most addicting sins - just ask anyone who admits that they have struggled with it. It might begin with seeing a photo from a magazine or a picture from a web page or a newsgroup - that's all it takes to get started. The problem is not just about young boys looking at enhanced images of beautiful naked women and being sexually aroused. Boys and girls, men and women, of all ages, may be looking with lust on photos of nude models in sexy poses or at video of people having sex. Those images have a way of staying in the memory and of creating a desire to see more. It's like an addiction. After all, sexual desire is one of the strongest forces that men and women, boys and girls have to get under control and keep it there. The natural desire to get married and have a family has been twisted and perverted by pornography through computers, movies, TV, books, music and many other ways of sending the wrong messages about sex.

What is pornography? That has been widely debated. Images may range from cheesecake tease, nude striptease, simulations or actual sex acts or perverse and violent images. The debate has suggested that some of these images are more harmful than others and that porn is not only addictive but can encourage or lead someone to masturbate, become socially isolated or to commit crimes such as rape or sexual assault.

How easy it is to find pornography? If you've every clicked on a link in an ad on a webpage or in a spam email, you may have been led to a porn web site. It has been said that most of the server space on the internet is filled with porn-related images and video. How do you stay away from it or break away from it if there is an addiction problem? If you are a young person, ask your parents to help by changing the settings or installing a software program on your computer that blocks adult and other web sites. If you have friends that try to show you things you shouldn't see or read, ask them to stop or just stop hanging out with them. If there are friends or members of your family who have this problem or are trying to get you involved in it, you might want to talk to someone you can trust to help you and them. Make sure you find someone you can trust. Many churches and communities offer Bible-based counseling and there are even Christian therapists who specialize in sex addiction and other relationship-related counseling therapy. Be very careful who you trust with such intimate details of your life. Just because someone works at or from a church or even calls themselves a Christian is not a guarantee that they can be trusted - ask around and know who you are dealing with. There are web sites and organizations who have a track record of dealing specifically with the problem of addiction to and protection from pornography.

We can all trust Jesus to help us and prayer is one of the best ways to get out of an addiction or to avoid getting into one. If you feel tempted to look at a magazine or visit a page where there is something you should not look at, read or listen to, ask Jesus to help you. You can even remind Satan - who is the one tempting you - that Jesus died on the cross to set you free from sin. Jesus died and rose again so that we might be free from the bondage of sin of all kinds.

You can be free from anything that has you in bondage - all you have to do is want to be free and call on the Lord. Don't be afraid to talk to God - He loves you, cares for you and will help you. And, read the Bible, the Word of God, every day - especially when you are being tempted. (Good advice for men and boys from King Solomon to his son - Proverbs 31:3 Dont give your strength to women, nor your ways to that which destroys kings.) Open your Bible or find an online Bible or download a Bible study program and begin to read. There are many passages in the Bible about marriage and relationships - read the book of Exodus - Chapters 20-23, the book of Deuteronomy - Chapters 5-30 and the book of Leviticus, especially Chapters 18-22 that deal with sexual sin.

John 8:31 - Yeshua (Jesus) therefore said to those Judeans who had believed him, If you remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples. You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.

Pornography may be associated with child abuse. A person may have exposed a tender young mind to smutty pictures in order to get them to do something sexually. The best advice in that case is to run from it and find someone who you can trust to help you - a parent (if not yours someone elses,) a minister, a law enforcement officer or someone else you know will help and not harm you.

Just because young girls and women are willing to get naked and allow their photos to run wild and free all over the internet doesn't make it right. Many of them end up regretting it. Celebrities have photos all over the web because it makes money for them and for the fashion and cosmetic companies they represent. Movie and TV stars promote their work by being photographed at public events or in magazine spreads that may be more intimate. Often, the more they are seen, the more popular they become. Just because nudity is found in many places doesn't change the fact that intimacy of that sort was intended to be between a married man and woman in privacy. Public nudity and public sex is just another example of how far our world society has slid down hill morally. There are web sites from all around the world that feature nudity - very little of it is free - they will let you see a little hoping that you will pay to see more. No doubt, every type of perversion, fetish or type of sexual situation or activity has been staged and photographed, recorded, taped or filmed. And is there any mention of sexually-transmitted disease (std) at those websites? (In 2011, members of the medical community suggested through the national US media that males and females both take the HPV vaccine. In what may have been first time since the 1980s, the voice of reason stated that boys and men were getting throat, mouth and head cancers from having oral sex with women with the HPVirus. After years of lies from the queer community and the liberal-progressive media, the truth has once again surfaced - aberrant, perverse sex causes disease and you can get sick from oral sex, anal sex and any sex where you ingest fecal material and bodily fluids.) Make no mistake - pornography is very big business and those willing to take your money don't care anything about what their porn will do your spirit, mind, body and soul. All they care about is making money.
Some, if not most, of the photographers that pose women are either homosexual men or lesbian women. The gay guys don't have as much a of a problem concentrating on posing the girls - it's easier for them to keep their mind on their business. And the lesbians like being make-up artists or photographers because they get to be around the girls all day.

How do you know for sure that pornography is evil? Anything that makes you feel bad the longer you stay around it is certainly not good for you. The longer people look at and spend time with pornography, it begins to weigh heavy on their spirit, mind, soul and body. Where once there may have been light, now there is darkness. Get away from the darkness and the depression. While naked or in a sexy pose, if a model is wearing a cross or other jewelry with Christian symbols on it, it's evil because the purpose is to make you lust after who and what you're looking at while you are also seeing a symbol of Christ. Jesus died on the cross to save us from our sins - we should not be sinning while looking at the cross. It's blasphemy and disrespectful of the Lord God. The same is true for tattoos of satanic or anti-Christian symbols. Many models are wearing engagement rings or wedding rings in the poses when they may or may not be engaged or married - the purpose is to make you sin by lusting after girls and women who are or may be engaged or married. Matthew 5:27 (Jesus said) You have heard that it was said, You shall not commit adultery; but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart. Women may wear many rings with a wedding ring being just one of them - this is subtle attempt to suggest to you that the wedding ring (marriage) is not any more important than any of the other rings. Often you will see the wedding ring worn on the middle finger rather than the traditional fourth or ring finger. This is a not so subtle suggestion that the marriage commitment between a man and woman doesn't apply to sex - it even suggests that multiple sex partners should be shared or allowed among consenting adults. That is clearly a violation of God's standards and is one reason that many marriages don't last. Married women are shown posing with other married women suggesting that lesbian sex is okay between married women. Why are married people posing in sex photos or appearing in porn films? Could it be for the money? Or are they addicted to sex? Clearly, way too much emphasis is placed on sex and the amount of sex necessary is exaggerated. See Romans 1 below.

Jesus said about Satan in John 10:10 - The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

The tease of lesbian sex is found in many places - even on TV and in the movies. If people get used to seeing it, it becomes more socially acceptable. Whether between two females or two males, that kind of perversion is evil incarnate and you should get away from it as fast as you can. Ancient satanic rites included people standing and watching sex within a ritual symbol and perverse homosexual and lesbian sex has also had a place in the same kind of rituals, rites and ceremonies. Satan always wants to pervert or twist things away from the way God intended - often in the opposite direction. In the ancient world, fertility cult worship included so called temple priestesses who had sex with men and women who came to worship the pagan gods. This kind of thing is still going on today - flee from it with your life.

The looks and poses taken by the models or suggested by the photographers and producers of the photoshoots or videos may be designed to give the viewer specific messages about sex. A model may give a look or a pose that suggests oral sex or sodomy - practices that are associated with sexually-transmitted disease. A shaved body is not necessarily a clean one - our bodies secrete hormones and immune-system chemicals that were intended to protect us. According to many medical and health experts, these natural and protective body fluids taken internally through oral sex, sodomy and other unnatural sex acts may be clearly associated with sexually-transmitted disease. Is sex safer within marriage? In most cases, yes - because the couple is bonded as one and they know each other intimately. Hopefully, their sexual activity is preceded by a bath or shower and both are clean outside and inside as much as possible. Ask a wise medical professional how important it is to know all about the health of a sexual partner.

It seems that females and males in the porn business show up on more than one porn web site. They are making money while they can. As they get older and stay in the business longer, they become tougher and their looks often fade. Some of them suffer with sexually-transmitted and other kinds of disease. Outer beauty doesn't always last, but inner beauty can be eternal. Inner beauty in a person is much more desirable than outer beauty. Make-up, clothing or the lack of it, lighting, poses, photo retouching (photoshopping) and many other techniques can make a person look much more attractive than they really are. Go for what's real instead of what's fake. Why waste your life in front of unreal images of naked bodies - images that do not move of people that you can't touch or talk to or that may be staged to sexually arouse you rather than to spiritually fulfill you. The reality of working to build a good, strong, right relationship between a man and woman that is acceptable to God is much better and to be desired.

Romans 1:16-32 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, The righteous shall live by faith. For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth.
For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse. For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things. Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.
For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error. And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done.
They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. Though they know God's decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.

Exodus, Chapters 20-23 - God spoke all these words, saying, I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourselves an idol, nor any image of anything that is in the heavens above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me, and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments. You shall not take the name of Yahweh your God in vain, for Yahweh will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain. Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. You shall labor six days, and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your God. You shall not do any work in it, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your livestock, nor your stranger who is within your gates; for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day; therefore Yahweh blessed the Sabbath day, and made it holy. Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you. You shall not murder. You shall not commit adultery. You shall not steal. You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor. You shall not covet your neighbors house. You shall not covet your neighbors wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbors. All the people perceived the thunderings, the lightnings, the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking. When the people saw it, they trembled, and stayed at a distance. They said to Moses, Speak with us yourself, and we will listen; but dont let God speak with us, lest we die. Moses said to the people, Dont be afraid, for God has come to test you, and that his fear may be before you, that you wont sin. The people stayed at a distance, and Moses drew near to the thick darkness where God was. Yahweh said to Moses, This is what you shall tell the children of Israel: You yourselves have seen that I have talked with you from heaven. You shall most certainly not make alongside of me gods of silver, or gods of gold for yourselves. You shall make an altar of earth for me, and shall sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your cattle. In every place where I record my name I will come to you and I will bless you. If you make me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of cut stones; for if you lift up your tool on it, you have polluted it. Neither shall you go up by steps to my altar, that your nakedness may not be exposed to it.



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