Porn - An Anonymous Poll

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Have you intentionally looked at porn in the last YEAR?

  • I'm a guy, and yes

    Votes: 77 48.1%
  • I'm a guy, and no

    Votes: 15 9.4%
  • I'm a girl, and yes

    Votes: 41 25.6%
  • I'm a girl, and no

    Votes: 27 16.9%

  • Total voters
    160
huh? I was talking about finding random wetness on my hand when I was pushing carts at work, when it wasn't raining or anyother reason for the cart to be wet.
 
I don't understand what is so bad about porn which is basically people just having sex so your allowed to have sex but your forbidden you to watch what you

just had or or film it ... whats the big whoop? someone? anyone? + ive never seen in any of the commandments say you shalt not watch porn or film it so ill continue to

though i don't watch it often i still view here or there i don't see anything bad about it everyone has sex its not a big deal to me its not something that can

be hidden it happens everywhere its happening right now whether you wont it to or not it still is.


The Ten Commandments (Exodus 20:2-17 NKJV)
1 “I am the Lord 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.
2 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My Commandments.
3 “You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.
4 “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.
5 “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
6 “You shall not murder.
7 “You shall not commit adultery.
8 “You shall not steal.
9 “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
10 “You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is your neighbor's.”

see nothing about porn being forbidden there me 1 you 0
 
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btw my mom doesn't let us rest on the Sabbath day she makes us work our buts off on that day
 
I think more men have this problem more than women. Not that I'm being... I can't find the word for it.
I was just stating what is on the poll board.
It's kinda sad, but true. It's alright, I used to have the problem too. It's not a happy place.
It ruins relationships. It ruins lives.
I'm sorry if someone got offended by my post, just saying what's on my mind.
 
I feel so stupid. Sometimes I ask myself, "what's the point of even hoping for a relationship? I'm not even close to the man I ever wanted to be."
 
I feel so stupid. Sometimes I ask myself, "what's the point of even hoping for a relationship? I'm not even close to the man I ever wanted to be."

A lot of us aren't. (Like me for example)... But that's what we have Jesus, and the atonement for :)
So that we have a chance to be exactly who we want to be.
 
In order to succeed you have to fail sometimes, it is best to flee temptation, literally. When you get the urge just run away from it, I know it sounds silly but if you do it enough times you mind will get the picture, and stop spending so much time alone, I normally leave the bedroom door wide open where people could see you, if your not alone you won't watch it.
 
I'm a girl and I've struggled with porn. And I still do. It's an ongoing process.
People who have not struggled with it think that we can stop looking at it and we'll be fine. Unfortunately it's not that easy..
There's more and more Christians falling to this, and there's actually more and more Christian women who fall to it. It's definitely something Satan's trying to use to take us down.
I've come a long way and I no longer feel the condemnation. But it still takes a huge effort not to be hard on myself. I find that I need to constantly remind myself of positive, encouraging things. I need to surround myself with positive things, positive people, positive music.
I watched a video today about the mind, and it talked about how we all like to feel happy and pleasured. After viewing porn, those "happy" emotions are stored in the brain. And time after time, the brain wants to feel those feelings again- and so it tries to zero in on feeling it again. And so we find ourselves giving in again, even when we don't want to. But if we can find a way to channel that to something else, get something else to cause those "happy" feelings- I think there could be a breakthrough.
I've also found that listening to Christian music helps me resist. I have it on almost all the time, and I don't allow myself to be alone unless necessary.
A big thing that helps is to talk about it, to remember we're not alone, to accept support and look for accountability :)
 
I'm a girl, and yes .....

Have struggled with this for a long time. So, it's not only men...us girls struggle too :( It's not easy to just stop. I have tried, and have failed. But, the more I don't do it, the more easier (I guess) it gets....
 
I don't understand what is so bad about porn which is basically people just having sex so your allowed to have sex but your forbidden you to watch what you

just had or or film it ... whats the big whoop? someone? anyone? + ive never seen in any of the commandments say you shalt not watch porn or film it so ill continue to

though i don't watch it often i still view here or there i don't see anything bad about it everyone has sex its not a big deal to me its not something that can

be hidden it happens everywhere its happening right now whether you wont it to or not it still is.


The Ten Commandments (Exodus 20:2-17 NKJV)
1 “I am the Lord 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.
2 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My Commandments.
3 “You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.
4 “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.
5 “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
6 “You shall not murder.
7 “You shall not commit adultery.
8 “You shall not steal.
9 “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
10 “You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is your neighbor's.”

see nothing about porn being forbidden there me 1 you 0



you probably don't see it because you don't understand the word covet, watching porn is because you want to see people having sex, your actually coveting what they are doing, when you lust its coveting something you don't have.
 
In order to succeed you have to fail sometimes, it is best to flee temptation, literally. When you get the urge just run away from it, I know it sounds silly but if you do it enough times you mind will get the picture, and stop spending so much time alone, I normally leave the bedroom door wide open where people could see you, if your not alone you won't watch it.


you made a good point when you talked about failures, it was all the times of failure that brought me to the place where I was able to finally see porn for what it was A BIG LIE! it always promises satisfaction but ALWAYS delivers unsatisfaction, I always left feeling bad and like I let Jesus down in my inability to control this part of my life.......

It took alot of failures to get where I am today, porn has no draw for me because when temptation came I simply rebuked the thought and verbally said out loud "YOUR A LIAR" you never leave me feeling good! its always the opposite" and now its been almost a year but I've not only got free from porn but from masturbation as well and I never in a million years thought I could ever get free from that, but the secret to getting free was honestly taking control of my thought life,

before I would allow myself to play out all sorts of sexual fantasies and memories and escapades in my mind, and soon I was completely powerless to stop my flesh from acting out what already began in my mind.

never realized how much strength I had to resist temptation if I snuffed out every ungodly thought that tried to cross my mind, if I see a beautiful girl and realize that a glance at her may cause me to think somthing more I will keep my eyes from looking at her.

control the mind and the eyes and your flesh will fall right in line, It took quite a while, and had more failures than success at the very start, but it was my greatest failures that brought the success I'm living in today......I give God all the glory, it was His words of holding every thought captive to Christ that brought this freedom
 
you probably don't see it because you don't understand the word covet, watching porn is because you want to see people having sex, your actually coveting what they are doing, when you lust its coveting something you don't have.

Or you're watching and laughing at how terrible the filming and acting was. Either way, not something that should be supported IMO.
 
I've gotta disagree with the video game parts. Kill is in video games, but there are people that play video games for more of the storylines than just random killing.