Does Marriage Cure or Even Lessen a Pornography/Sex Addiction? (All Are Welcome to Answer.)

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Does Marriage Cure or Lessen a A Porn/Sex Addiction?

  • Yes, absolutely! Someone find me an altar right now!

    Votes: 2 10.5%

  • No -- it makes marriage worse.

    Votes: 11 57.9%

  • I'm not sure.

    Votes: 1 5.3%

  • I know of marriages in which someone WAS cured/lessened their porn/sex addiction.

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • I know of marriages in which someone's porn/sex addiction was NOT cured or lessened.

    Votes: 4 21.1%

  • I know of marriages in which someone's porn/sex addiction GOT WORSE.

    Votes: 1 5.3%

  • I know of marriages that separated/ended because of porn/sex addiction.

    Votes: 4 21.1%

  • The church IS effective at helping marriages troubled by porn/sex addiction.

    Votes: 2 10.5%

  • The church is NOT effective at helping marriages troubled by porn/sex addiction.

    Votes: 6 31.6%

  • Singles should be encouraged to marry even if sex/porn addiction exists before marriage.

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    19
seekingthemindofChrist

seekingthemindofChrist

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It seems to me that porn is all about selfish carnal pleasure, so I cannot imagine that it would be a good thing to marry anybody who is ensnared by it. Carrying this thought process just a little bit further, I would think that the porn addict would inevitably objectify his or her spouse or basically use them as a means to their own selfish ends.
 
Lanolin

Lanolin

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Dec 15, 2018
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seekingthemindofChrist said:
It seems to me that porn is all about selfish carnal pleasure, so I cannot imagine that it would be a good thing to marry anybody who is ensnared by it. Carrying this thought process just a little bit further, I would think that the porn addict would inevitably objectify his or her spouse or basically use them as a means to their own selfish ends.
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yea
Your husband will start treating you like a prostitute/plaything for his pleasure/gratification and you will have to 'perform' for him. Is this love, I dont think so.
 
seekingthemindofChrist

seekingthemindofChrist

Casting down imaginations
#83
Jul 10, 2023
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Lanolin said:
yea
Your husband will start treating you like a prostitute/plaything for his pleasure/gratification and you will have to 'perform' for him. Is this love, I dont think so.
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Quite possibly true.

What surprises me is how many different women I have encountered who have confessed to major porn addictions. In some instances, it began because their boyfriends turned them on to porn. In other instances, there were different forms of sexual abuse, and always at the hands of a relative, that they suffered in the past. I'm not sure what the exact correlation is between the last group and pornography, but I definitely have noticed a pattern there.

Psalm 101:3

"I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me."
 
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