![]() ![]() Even if they are not considered “porn,” they are damaging. Don’t think to yourself that TV shows or movies that emphasize sexual situations or portray women in the wrong light are harmless. ![]() If you are going to fight pornography, you need to protect yourself from everything that can cause harm. Man up, and destroy those items-right now. If you want to fight your addiction to pornography but you’re hanging on to that magazine or DVD in its secret hiding place, then your “fight” is really just a masquerade. If you have offline pornography at your disposal, destroy it. Set boundaries and use software to monitor all online activity. The same online accountability applies to your mobile device. Nowadays, our smartphones and tablets are even more of a gateway to pornography than a desktop computer. Finally, it allows you to celebrate with each other in putting online struggles to death. It lets you know when you need to follow up with each other on questionable activity. It allows you to receive your accountability partner’s reports weekly for the sites they visit and the searches they make. Use software to monitor your online activity. Voicing your struggle to others and admitting you have a problem is a huge step in the right direction. We would also suggest bringing your wife in on your struggle. Invite trusted friends to encourage you and hold you accountable. One of the best things you can do for yourself, your marriage, and your children is to admit you have a problem with pornography. We live in a world that wants us to make allowance for justifying and tolerating almost every off-color thing we can think of. If this is you, we want you to know it’s not too late to protect your kids, and there is hope for you too. ![]() Why are so many dads turning a blind eye to this? Is it because they don’t think it’s a problem? Is it because of their own porn use? Maybe they feel hypocritical setting boundaries for their kids that they themselves can’t hold. It sets our children up to have a distorted view of sex and to suffer from a desire that can’t be satisfied. Like a drug, it alters the brain, creating a need for a level of stimulation that healthy marital sex lives don’t always provide. Furthermore, research is beginning to give us the full, frightening picture of what porn does to a brain and to a life. And if that’s the average, some children are seeing it much earlier. Why are controls so critical? First, the average age of a child’s first exposure to pornography is 11. But their parents have no idea what their children are seeing. The study also asked what parental controls they had on their devices, and almost all said none-because their parents trusted them. A study once asked a group of kids how often their peers look at porn. ![]()
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