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Oceanandsun

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I'm relatively new to reading the bible and my husband has a pornography addiction which he is working on with Gods help but recently I was trying to get why he liked it and although I still don't understand his perspective and won't I would like to know if it's a sin to watch pornography for learning. I never liked porn but recently decided to watch some and it just made me want my husband more. I don't get aroused by others but by the thought of my husband doing what I see to me. My question is am I sinning? I don't want to do it again if I am.
 
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Eze20

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Yes it's sin.

Jesus spoke about that in the gospels. ( Looking with lust).

Please try to get time to read the Bible much as you can, starting from the gospels and then moving to other books in the New Testament.

God bless
 

blue_ladybug

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I'm relatively new to reading the bible and my husband has a pornography addiction which he is working on with Gods help but recently I was trying to get why he liked it and although I still don't understand his perspective and won't I would like to know if it's a sin to watch pornography for learning. I never liked porn but recently decided to watch some and it just made me want my husband more. I don't get aroused by others but by the thought of my husband doing what I see to me. My question is am I sinning? I don't want to do it again if I am.

Yes, pornography IS a sin!! Your husband needs to stop and repent of his sin to God!! And YOU certainly should not be looking at it for "educational purposes" either! That's ridiculous. Your husband watches it because he is addicted. If you keep watching it, you also will get addicted. Cease and desist this sin!!
 
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StoneThrower

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I'm relatively new to reading the bible and my husband has a pornography addiction which he is working on with Gods help but recently I was trying to get why he liked it and although I still don't understand his perspective and won't I would like to know if it's a sin to watch pornography for learning. I never liked porn but recently decided to watch some and it just made me want my husband more. I don't get aroused by others but by the thought of my husband doing what I see to me. My question is am I sinning? I don't want to do it again if I am.
Ok so watching porn is a sin, and it creates more and more sin in its path it destroys lives!
Depending what you saw on the screen, and if done between a husband and wife (only and together) if both are willing its not a sin but........heres the deal porn cause men to think of women as nothing more then sex objects and toys. You dont want that for you, your daughter or other women.

Also you could look and act and dress like a porn star and he will still want that more, and you dont want that. You wont rescue him by playing along. His porn is a result of his brokeness and its a doward spiral. I dont think you need that kind of education.
Read Martha Peaces book The Excellant Wife as she discusses bed room behavior.
 
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Yes, watching porn is a sin. I am also addicted to porn like your husband. I've been watching it since I was about 9 or 10 years old. I have tried to quit a few times, but I have ended up returning to it. I didn't watch it for seven months while I lived in Martinique, because I didn't have Internet access at my apartment.

So, advise that you stop watching it. It becomes boring after a while. Some people are different about how they watch it, thus some may say that it isn't a sin to watch it, but it definitely is. Read the Song of Solomon instead. It may give you some romantic ideas that you can direct towards your husband.

-- Aaron
 
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Ugly

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What happens in porn is it's like a drug. You start out smoking pot, lets say. But over time you need to smoke more to get the same effect. Eventually you need a stronger (more dangerous) drug. And it continues to escalate.
Porn has the same effect. You watch porn. But eventually the stuff you watch gets boring so you need to find porn that pushes it farther, getting into more fetish base ideas. The longer you watch the more you need to get into stranger acts to maintain the arousal. Or even just curiosity. You stumble across something and it may strike you as curious, so you investigate and get into it.

Also consider porn is a huge support of sex trafficking women and children all over the world.

Lastly, it's not your husband turning you on. You're getting aroused by other people (much as you want to deny it, it's true). You wouldn't be getting turned on if you weren't watching porn. Just because your focus goes to your husband when you get turned on doesn't change the fact that it's the porn itself getting you excited.
And eventually you'll find yourself wanting to watch it when he's not around. And that will lead to you doing other things when he's not around. And before you say you never would, don't lie to yourself. This is what porn leads to, this is what its all about.

Another thing is the porn industry is all about degrading women. While the females in the movies are called 'stars' in reality, behind the scenes they are treated quite poorly. Mostly porn is about a man getting what he wants from the woman, regardless of if she's getting anything from it herself. Women are just things to be used to satisfy men and should be grateful that the man wants to use her.

I heard recently that the new trend in porn is violence against women. While this has always had a side fetish in porn (bdsm, which could be aimed at men or women) the new 'norm' is mistreating and degrading women in mainstream (not just fetish) porn.

Not to mention porn ruins countless marriages all the time. Is aimed purely at lust and selfishness. So the effects of feeding your spirit with lust and selfishness and whatever other things you wander into as you delve deeper into it, plus, eventually, the addiction that Will form. I mean, you said yourself your husband is addicted. Meaning he is not able to be in control of his mind and body, but rather lust and selfishness are controlling him. Which means Gods spirit is being pushed aside. Any time there is addiction that means something other than ourselves or God is in control of us. We are not in control. Does this sound healthy mentally, physically or spiritually?
And the guilt that follows that seems to never let up.

Well, consider the above statements and decide for yourself if this is good.
 
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StoneThrower

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While this has always had a side fetish in porn (bdsm, which could be aimed at men or women) the new 'norm' is mistreating and degrading women in mainstream (not just fetish) porn.

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50 Shades of Gray was a great examle