To those of you are working on overcoming a porn addiction I offer you my deepest sympathies. It’s been said that the porn industry produces more revenue in the US in 2003 that the “combined revenues of all professional football, baseball and basketball franchises or the combined revenues of ABC, CBS & NBC.” (Internet Porn Statistics: 2003). None doubt that those numbers have grown since. When such profits are to be gained to they would and often do trample anyone to get it as is expressed by the ambivalence of several in the industry who were interviewed on Traffic Control: The People’s War on Internet Porn.
None who get involved in porn in any way fail to come out a victim. It is a disease that is paraded around so casually in much of the media. It is a core tenant of many marketers that “sex sells.” So with all that standing against us how can one overcoming a porn addiction stand a chance? Is there any way out?
Let me reassure you that there is hope! Thousands just like you have struggled to gain freedom and have triumphed. You are not alone and trusting others with your secret is perhaps one of the greatest steps you will make in your journey to overcome the snares of pornography.
To begin, let me borrow a few tenants from the time tested 12-step program of Alcoholics Anonymous. Six of the twelve steps involve turning over to God the addiction that has become unmanageable. What does this mean? Well, practically speaking it involves:
1) Admitting that nothing’s impossible with God.
2) Making a decision to turn your life over to God.
3) Admitting to him the exact nature of the wrongs you’ve been involved in.
4) Become entirely ready to have Him remove all of your defects of character.
5) Asking him to do so,
6) Improve your relationship with Him through prayer and meditation, seeking His will alone and power to carry it out.
The rest of the steps, in truth the above steps as well, all deal with the relationship we have with ourselves and others. These three relationships are so interconnected that when we affect change in one, we affect change in all.
We are never alone in our lives, least of all when we struggle with powerful urges that seem to have no other resolution that acting upon them. The way our brains work, the more we do something, the easier it becomes. Our brains seek to make like easy for us; however, when pornography gets involved an additional layer of strength is added that can very easily form an addiction because of the chemicals released during viewing.
You can and will overcome your porn addiction if you want to. Remember, you always have a choice. Make the best of it by learning today more about how you can harness the great ability already inside of you for breaking a porn addiction. Fill out the form to the right for a free mini-course.
