Porn’s Secret Death Wish
By Jay Wegter
Man is a creature made for God—we are created to ‘run on God’
According to the Word of God, mankind was made for fellowship with God. The byproduct of that fellowship is love, honor, glory, peace, joy, security, and satisfaction. God is both the source and fulfillment of man’s greatest longings. But because man is estranged from God due to sin, he seeks to meet his deepest soul’s needs in the creature and the creation instead of the Creator (Rom 1:25). Man’s whole purpose on earth is bound up in God, but when sinful man lives alienated from God, who is the source of all life, death is the result (Rom 6:23).
Jesus testified that the human condition is one of bondage, ruin, and confusion (Jn 8:34-35)—here is the reason why: man seeks the byproducts of a love relationship with God while rejecting God who is the only true source of these virtues. To take God-ordained longings (which only God can fulfill) to finite sources is self-destructive and tantamount to idolatry (Col 3:5-6). Sin cuts man off from God, who is the source of all life, love, and good. No wonder the Apostles plead with sinners to be reconciled to God. “Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making an appeal through us; we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God” (2 Cor 5:20).
Man lives in a moral universe because the Ruler of the cosmos is holy
God’s good, merciful, and all-wise commandments show us when we are transferring our affections from God to an idol. This helps us understand why His laws seem invasive and stringent to us at times. From God’s authoritative vantage point, the sin of idolatry is a death wish. Therefore, one of the major purposes to God’s moral laws, the Ten Commandments, is to act as safeguards for our love for Him and prevent us from abusing and misusing His creation.
But as every person can attest, man’s ruined condition and God’s standard come into mortal conflict. God says in effect, “As your Creator, I have an absolute claim upon your life. I know what is best for you. My laws are the path of life. If you attempt to live apart from my laws, you will abuse My good gifts and bring destruction upon yourselves.”
But, due to our fallen condition, the conviction that we may have our deepest needs met apart from a right relationship with God is the great delusion of every age. Porn offers itself as an ultimate source of fulfillment. This is of course why it is a death wish, for idols can only fragment, enslave and ultimately destroy us.
Man in his rebellion, is trying to get his needs met apart from God and apart from the wise limits set by His holy law. Man in effect says, “I will fulfill my longings, even if my effort to do so violates your laws. My effort to satisfy my desires and needs my way is so important to me, I choose to decide what is right and wrong for myself.” That was the independence and autonomy which Satan offered to Adam and Eve in the Garden. When that rebellious direction is followed, man’s longings become ruling lusts and God’s gifts are perverted into idols.
Deciding right and wrong for oneself is a bitter fruit of moral relativism
Culturally in the West we have reached a point at which morality is no longer public and enduringly true. We no longer see agreement on what is good, holy, true, and virtuous. Instead the ‘moral self’ has replaced the moral absolutes which emanate from our Creator. “But they became disobedient and rebelled against Thee, and cast Thy law behind their backs” (Neh 9:26). This condition has become pervasive in our society because when man disregards God’s commandments he turns to himself to determine what is ethical and moral (in his rebellion man seeks absolute independence from God’s authority and loving ownership).
A man’s natural moral compass is based on what he thinks is right and true, however this tends to act contrary to God’s plan and design. Because of love of sin, man’s moral compass and God’s moral compass are at odds. A man’s ‘broken moral compass’ points away from God’s holiness and toward the desires of the flesh. Man, in allowing his flesh to set the direction for his behavior, is acting hostile toward God. ‘For those who are according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who are according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace, because the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able to do so, and those who are in the flesh cannot please God” (Rom 8:5-8).
This is precisely the morass in which America is mired. Without the divinely ordained fixed moral rudder, our nation flounders on a shore-less sea of moral relativism. Sex has been yanked from its moral context. Smut, perversion, and indecency are defended as “free speech.”
God’s good gifts have the potential of being perverted and misused
God’s moral commands form the context which protects His gifts from perversion. When God’s gifts are removed from their moral contexts, corruption takes place. For example, it’s not a crime to ignite the logs in one’s cabin fireplace, but it is a crime to place a lit match in the dry brush and chaparral thirty feet away. The warm, comforting fire in the fireplace becomes an unbelievably destructive force when moved into the context of the nearby forest. Context is the difference between a legal and an illegal fire. Context is also the difference between sexual fidelity and sexual immorality. When God’s gift of sex is removed from its protective context
of marriage, immense damage takes place.
Only God, Giver of the gift of sex, truly knows its potential for good or evil
He designed us—He knows what is best for us. Therefore, morals and ethics are to be anchored in the moral authority and wisdom of God. Though humans labor to suppress the Creator’s righteous requirements, God’s moral absolutes are written upon the hearts of men. “For when Gentiles who do not have the Law do instinctively the things of the Law, these, not having the Law, are a law to themselves, in that they show the work of the Law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness and their thoughts alternately accusing or else defending them” (Rom 2:14-15).
God in His goodness is the ‘inventor’ of human sexual relations. He alone knows exhaustively its potential for good or evil. The power of sex is so great that for the purpose of mankind’s protection, God commands that it remain within the context of marriage. Within that God-ordained context, it retains its beauty, power and sanctity, guarded by the bonds of marital fidelity. Sadly, the culture of secular humanism completely discounts God’s goodness and moral authority and as a result, sexual perversion is legally protected and promoted as a
legitimate alternative lifestyle.
Sex is a powerful force because it touches the physical, the emotional, and the spiritual. It is a ‘whole person’ act. This is by God’s design, for the “act of marriage” is intended to reinforce the bond of marriage. Sexual oneness functions as a kind of ‘glue’ that deepens experientially the “one flesh” description of marriage given by God in His Word.
Illicit sexual relations also touch all three areas of our human unity (physical, emotional, and spiritual)—this is the very reason that sexual immorality is destructive. Because the spiritual, the emotional, and the physical are also involved in sexual immorality, a kind of ‘bonding’ takes place, however fleeting. Sexual sin, therefore, is antagonistic to the bonding principle that is built into the act of marriage.
“Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take away the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be! Or do you not know that the one who joins himself to a prostitute is one body with her? For He says, ‘The two shall become one flesh.’ But the one who joins himself to the Lord is one spirit with Him. Flee immorality. Every other sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his own body” (1 Cor 6:15-18).
Promiscuous relationships harm God’s design for lifelong marital fidelity
When God’s gift of sex is used outside or marriage, it is the perversion of a virtue. The perverting of a God-given gift entails the wanton use of it—wanton because it is used outside of the context prescribed by God. “For this is the will of God, your sanctification; that is, that you abstain from sexual immorality; that each of you know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor, not in lustful passion, like the Gentiles who do not know God; and that no man transgress and defraud his brother in the matter because the Lord is the avenger in all these things, just as we also told you before and solemnly warned you. For God has not called us for the purpose of impurity, but in sanctification” (1 Thess 4:3-7).
God regards the misuse of His gift, or perversion of a virtue to be an “idol.” The term has reference to where a person goes with his whole being in search of fulfillment. The biblical use of “idol,” when not referring to a graven image has to do with a false integration point (a false integration point is something in the creation which we serve and worship instead of God). Because man was made for God, our Creator alone is man’s source of life, unity and integration. Therefore, when God’s gifts are used as integration points (ultimate sources of meaning and happiness), they have the potential to become idols (Col 3:5).
Man’s faculties of soul could be described as comprising of the will, the intellect, the emotions and the conscience. Only God can integrate or unify man so that these faculties experience a joyful unity designed by the Creator. When man attempts to unify or integrate himself by means of a finite integration point (something in the creation), he is practicing idolatry and is willfully ignorant of the fact that only His infinite Creator can bring unity to his soul. Since man is made in the image of an infinite God, turning to a finite integration point is like trying to fit a 200 pound man in a two gallon garbage can. He just won’t fit. As the image of God, we are made to ‘run on God’. This is why Scripture describes Christ as the believer’s ‘life’. “For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our life, is revealed, then you also will be revealed with Him in glory” (Col 3:3-4).
Sexual idolatry is filled with deception
Illicit sex is an extremely potent idol because it touches all three areas of man’s unity; therefore it is a most convincing pseudo-integration point (an idol). It appears to deliver unity— the emotional, spiritual and physical are all engaged during a sexual encounter or act. Due to the fact that man is a fallen creature, he is always in search of that which gives him a sense of unity and integration. Drugs, alcohol, and illicit sex are some of the most common idols that offer a temporary ‘relief’ from the irritating brokenness and fragmentation which is the human condition by reason of sin. Illicit sex is more powerful and addictive than a drug because its offer of integration is such a compelling counterfeit.
Scripture makes reference to the “lusts of deceit” (Eph 4:22). Concerning porn’s false promises, let us keep in mind that it is a perversion of a divine gift. The gift of sexual oneness is designed by our Creator to form the most intimate bond that is possible on earth. Sexual oneness is a kind of a ‘cosmic epoxy’ which produces a bond between two people. God has planted in us this yearning for oneness with another person. We could describe this as ‘being
wired for intimacy’.
I think of an account shared by a pastor friend. He was counseling a couple who had been engaged for over a year. This Christian couple had achieved an excellent level of communication. They were behaving themselves in a chaste manner, and they were emotionally and spiritually close to one another, but they were postponing the marriage date for financial reasons. The pastor addressed their frustration by saying: “the only way you can get closer to one another is to sleep with one another within the bond of holy matrimony—get married!”
The use of pornography is a horrific violation of God’s gift of intimacy
Pornography ‘promises’ its users the fruits of intimacy without the risks of a relationship. Its counterfeit promise offers its viewers the byproducts of a committed, caring relationship without any relationship at all. Pornography is eros (desire) without phileo (love). It is the quest for erotic intimacy without a personal relationship. Herein resides its power to degrade and corrupt. It pushes its users further into narcissism, idolatry, isolation, and selfishness. Shocking as it may seem, some porn addicts who are deep into their habit have candidly admitted that they have reached a point wherein they prefer porn use to actual sexual contact with another person! It is difficult to imagine a more enslaving form of self-love (2 Tim 3:2).
The context God has ordained for sexual relations are a protection from the narcissistic use of pleasure. God has placed His good gifts within moral boundaries that safeguard them from decadent self-indulgence. The good feelings that accompany sexual relations are designed by God to be a pleasure that is experienced within the context of a committed relationship—which is why oneness is deepened during physical intimacy.
During porn use there is a temporary, fleeting high which drives the addiction factor. The media has given us shocking stories of husbands and fathers who after experimenting with cocaine became addicted. Their addiction did more than compromise their health, it radically corrupted their morals. They found that their addiction made them willing to lie, cheat, and steal in order to supply their habit. What was it about the cocaine that could so quickly degrade the ethics of a married businessman?
Insight into the answer is found in the drug-induced production of endorphins. Endorphins occur naturally in the brain in very small amounts—they are essential to a sense of well-being. Certain activities such as strenuous exercise increase the production of endorphins. By God’s design, endorphins are released in the brain in miniscule amounts. Drug-induced production temporarily increases endorphins to the point where the user of cocaine experiences a strong sense of well-being, elation, and confidence.
Addiction takes place in part because the drug-induced increase in endorphins is not the result of work, rest, or exercise (the normal way of production)—instead it is an instant high “for free,” not as a result of order, discipline or exertion. Cocaine addiction greatly impairs the normal production of endorphins. When the user is not under the influence of the drug, he is assaulted with negative emotions.
While off of the cocaine, he feels far worse than before he ever started using the drug. The easiest and quickest ‘relief’ from withdrawal is to get high again no matter the cost (therein is the formula for rapid corruption of morals). Like the drug cocaine, pornography offers its users a deceptive reward—deceptive because the pleasure appears to be “free.” But there are hidden damaging costs beyond calculation.
Porn use is a symptom of masculinity in crisis
When sensual pleasure becomes its own end, it becomes destructive. God’s intent for males is to pursue the redemptive relationship ideal of steward, provider, hero, leader, caretaker, and initiator. God-honoring intimacy in marriage is a hard won asset. It involves skill in communication, conflict resolution, self-denial, and sacrificial love. Men throw away this dignity and set of virtues when they descend the staircase of illicit sensual pleasure. When narcissistic eroticism replaces the redemptive ideal of a relationship of romance, manhood suffers in the process. Thus porn, in promising to minister to a man’s struggles with personal adequacy (his masculine crisis), actually makes matters far worse.
Pornography functions as a two-dimensional idol that enslaves its worshippers through deceptive pleasure. Pornography is about vicarious sex with a ‘cyber harlot.’ Thus, it is an escape from reality. The user engages his imagination in such a way that he rejects his own adequacy, his own station in life, and his own sexuality. Pornography offers an idealized
sexuality with an ideal partner.
When a man fantasizes about relations with a woman on the printed page or the screen, there is no relationship but with the self. By feeding lust and coveting the fruits of a relationship to the point of sexual arousal, the man is attempting to find fulfillment by way of a two-dimensional image, but the imagined prowess and adequacy is in his imagination alone.
There is a high price that comes with this escapism. Seeking the fruits of intimacy without actual intimacy produces guilt, shame, and self-recrimination. Male adequacy suffers
in the process instead of being enhanced.
Humanism, with its escape from transcendent morality, would suggest that any guilt feelings that occur are the result of childhood conditioning, or the result of learning a destructive behavior from someone else. God’s Word declares that the guilt the porn user experiences is real legal guilt before God. For man was made to be in relationship. The narcissistic passion accompanying porn use is lust turned back upon the self, it is anti-relational, and it is a rejection of God’s purpose for men. Instead of being augmented by porn, manhood atrophies when self is the primary object of love. Remember our example: God’s gift of sexual oneness is like ‘cosmic glue’ that makes two people one. But porn use, instead of building a bond
with another person is like sniffing glue instead of building with it!
The use of pornography degrades a man’s character
Pornography sows to cowardice because it permits a man to be insulated from the risk of relationship while grasping for what is not his. In his mind he can have the pleasure without commitment, without cost, without failure, and without giving himself. When that is done habitually while reinforced with temporary pleasure, subtle changes take place in a man’s character. The female is increasingly objectified, becoming an object that exists for one’s erotic pleasure. In the process, the world of sexual fantasy claims more and more of a man’s ‘mental geography’. Since the fulfillment that is implicitly promised is not really delivered, greater quantities of higher ‘potency’ porn are often consumed. Many men become increasingly enslaved because of the principle known as the law of diminishing return.
The comparison of porn to an addictive drug is not inaccurate. While under the brief influence of porn’s pleasure and adrenaline rush, the man does not feel the pain of his inadequacy, loneliness, and self-hate. Like a drug, the erotic event has taken him above the negative feelings for the moment. The trouble is his sensual self-indulgence is deepening his problem instead of relieving it.
Dependency upon a quick fix is taking him deeper into a false peace, a cowardly lifestyle, and an escapist’s way of coping. This cannot help but stab at his relational failures and paralyzing inadequacies. In the realm of manhood, sacrificial love equals power and self-absorbed narcissism equals radical weakness. This explains one of the reasons why porn fills a man with a sense of shame and impotence.
The book of Proverbs teaches that sexual immorality involves the giving away of masculine strength: “Keep your way far from her and do not go near the door of her house, or you will give your vigor to others and your years to the cruel one; and strangers will be filled with your strength and your hard-earned goods will go to the house of an alien; and you groan at your final end, when your flesh and your body are consumed” (Prov 5:8-11).
Unbelievers mock the truth of God’s universal, absolute moral code. What they do not understand is that their lives will someday serve as an object lesson to the watching universe that God’s laws are immutable. Rebellious man does not actually break God’s immutable laws, but ‘breaks himself’ upon those laws like a pottery jar dashed against rock wall.
As men who know God, we are the stewards of God’s truth and must diligently teach each other and younger men that God’s laws are the safeguard of love. This universe is based upon deferred or delayed gratification. Christ’s manhood perfectly illustrates this principle of self-denial for the sake of others. “Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus, who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men. Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross” (Phil 2:5-8).
Porn has a secret ‘death wish’
Concerning its ‘death wish’ role, pornography frequently plays a role in sexual crimes. Dr. Victor B. Cline, marriage and family counselor, makes the following observations about pornography use: 1.) 93% of sex addicts and sexual deviants had pornography as a contributor to their lifestyle. 2.) Men who are more intelligent are the most susceptible due to their greater capacity for fantasy and imagination. 3.) Frequent use produced desensitization, loss of inhibitions and a seared conscience. 4.) Regular users experienced an increasing desire to act out their fantasies. 5.) The more deviant users precipitated to violent imagery depicting victimization and sexual crimes.
Because there is a stifling of conscience that repeatedly takes place during porn use, the corrupted conscience may cease to be an internal deterrent to crime. The desire to act out may override the function of the conscience. Criminal investigators know firsthand what humanists often deny—heavy porn use is a common denominator among pedophiles and rapists. Porn use manifests a desire to live for eros pleasure without love. The person depicted in porn imagery is viewed as an object to be used, abused, and discarded. The sensual cravings of the user are commonly accompanied by enraged male impotence that is prone to violence (the aggression continuum runs all the way from verbal abuse to domestic violence, rape, pedophilia, and murder). Our ‘progressive’ culture is willfully naïve about the evil that porn produces in a society. It is unconscionable that porn is made available on computer in public libraries under the guise of free speech.
Sex, when taken out of God’s protective context, has the potential for great destructiveness. Feeding upon wanton illicit sensuality contributes to the wholesale erosion of a man’s character. Men were created by God to be protectors, but prolonged illicit sensual indulgence can play a part in changing a man from protector to predator.
A passage in the Old Testament provides an account of a rape that took place during the reign of King David (2 Sam 13:1-19). That particular rape account gives great insight into the effect of unbridled lust. The same account also sheds light upon the “glue principle,” and why it produces a self-loathing reminder of the wicked deed.
Amnon, a son of David, raped his half-sister Tamar after lusting for her day and night. Amnon pretended to be sick. He requested that everyone leave him and that Tamar alone enter his bedroom with food. That is when Amnon took advantage of her and sexually violated her (he later paid for the wicked deed with his life when Tamar’s brother avenged the crime).
What is profound in this account is how Amnon’s lust for Tamar drove him to frustration and agitation until he finally chose a course of action which allowed him to act out his lustful fantasies. Then something remarkable happened. The Scripture says, “Then Amnon hated her with a very great hatred; for the hatred with which he hated her was greater than the love with which he had loved her. And Amnon said to her, ‘Get up, go away,’ [and to his attendants said,] ‘Throw this woman out of my presence’” (2 Sam. 13:15, 17).
What a testimony this is of the ‘death wish’ principle. This is the “glue principle” (sexual oneness) in full backfire mode. Amnon is at war with the glue principle—he seeks to extinguish the reminder of the bond that only took place to fulfill his violent lust. He has a death wish so to speak—he wants to be rid of all memories of Tamar because her very presence and existence reminds him of the animal he is. If he could have extinguished her life without legal consequences, he probably would have done so. The very sight of Tamar now reminds him that in character, he is but a self-absorbed user.
When sexual pleasure is divorced from the discipline of love, the “discard principle” also kicks in with a vengeance. Amnon craved Tamar like some tasty cuisine to be consumed. After seizing her and violating her, she has become as undesirable as garbage. He would like to be rid of her for good. The corrupting power of indulging in lust is vividly displayed in Amnon’s behavior following his act of rape.
Amnon’s cowardly act involved using his male strength to prey upon another who was weaker. The shame, guilt, debauchery, and self-contempt associated with this act will not go away—the memory of the illicit bond keeps producing ‘fallout.’ What was once uncontrollable appetite is now revulsion. Amnon cannot rid himself of these internal recriminations and the sight and memory of Tamar only exacerbates the problem. This is one of the main reasons why many sexual predators take the lives of their victims! When the glue principle is ripped out of context, the bond keeps producing the fallout that the perpetrator would like expunge. The man indulging in lust hates the weakness that has enveloped his soul as a consequence of using another. This is reminiscent of the injunction in Proverbs, “Do not give your strength to women or your ways to that which destroys kings” (Prov. 31:3).
Widespread porn use is a mark of the West’s departure from God
Pornography is an ‘index’ sin that marks the level of our nation’s descent into greater sexual permissiveness. In our land, the floodgates of sexual license have been opened because God’s protective context for sexual relations has been slighted. Sex has been made into a toy, an amusement, an indiscriminate pastime without boundaries. The sacredness of giving oneself solely within the context of marital bonds is considered outdated and passé. Instead, sexual expression rages. Its beauty and spirituality are destroyed when its moral covenantal context is destroyed.
Visual promiscuity has become a multi-billion dollar business that enslaves, corrupts and debauches its users. As pornography is devoured by consumers, the degrading cycle is furthered—lewdness traded for dollars. Every year more of America’s sons and daughters fall to the seduction of income in exchange for acts of lewdness in front of a camera lens. Houses of prostitution flourish next to outlets of pornography for the simple reason that lust stimulated by visuals demands physical expression. Without the consumer of pornography, the cycle of smut production could not continue to grow.
The lies inherent in pornography enslave, degrade and deceive. Porn contains lies about sex, women, and the masculine self. As Scripture teaches, truth sets free, but lies enslave. Jesus taught this ineffable principle in the gospel of John (John 8:32-36). Porn’s enslaving character is tied to its radical misuse of God’s gift of sexual oneness. Though graphic (and understood by every man), it behooves us to grasp the truth that sexual arousal induces a compulsion to consummate the desire in an act of sexual union with another person. Herein is porn’s poisonous bait. It is an intense tool of sexual arousal, but it CANNOT produce consummation and intimacy (only self-focused auto-erotic release).
This is why the lies inherent in pornography make it a cruel hoax. Rather than making the two individuals ‘one’ through the gift of sexual oneness, porn leaves a person more alone than when he started. The man who views porn turns his yearnings back on himself—he was aroused by images, but never even held his cyber harlot in his arms, only in his mind.
As a result, instead of bringing fulfillment, porn erodes a man’s moral courage. It leaves a man less disciplined and less noble; it increases weakness, discontentment and guilt. The use of porn eats away at a man’s boldness for the cause of righteousness, leaving him craven and morally unstable, less able to take a stand. The man who yields to this ruling lust becomes a sensual opportunist—whether in print, in film, or in person, he never misses an opportunity to lust for a woman. We must help our brothers out of this trap of porn with the same diligence and seriousness as we would if he were standing in the path of a speeding freight train.
Our ultimate search for love and communion is satisfied in the Lord
A man’s real search is for completeness and the fulfillment of the soul, a quest only satisfied in the Lord. While a man is wedded to the idol of sensuality, he is blind to his true need. The immaterial, eternal soul of man CANNOT attempt to feed itself upon sensual
pleasure without an enslavement factor.
The eternal soul of man must have a non-material, personal, eternal and infinite source in order to truly satisfy its longing. The selfish pleasures of illicit sensuality only mask the painful deprivation of soul and steer a man away from God, the only true Source of completeness and fulfillment. Only God in Christ can love and comfort the soul and speak peace to it.
Only the redemption that is in Christ can restore fallen man’s true humanity. God’s moral mark is upon us. The only true freedom and dignity is found in Christ who restores sinners to their created purpose of knowing God. The good news of the gospel is that even the worst sinner is not beyond the reach of God’s power and mercy. The Corinthians of the first century world were notorious fornicators, yet by God’s grace a church was planted in their midst.
The Apostle Paul declares that among the Corinthian believers were those who by Christ were brought out of the lowest sexual sin: “Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, shall inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you; but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our God” (1 Cor 6:9b-11).
Christ has compassion for those who are weighed down with guilt and hopelessly entangled in sin. As the “Friend of sinners,” He calls the broken and ensnared to Himself and grants them forgiveness and repentance (Matt 11:28-30). As ambassadors of Christ, God’s men need to grow in character until they are champions for sexual purity. They must become skilled in freeing others from this dominant idol of porn which casts its destructive shadow over so many men.
Questions for Review:
- What causes God’s wonderful gift of sexual oneness to become so destructive when removed from marriage?
- Explain why porn use weakens a man.
- Describe how the Scriptures offer hope in Christ to those enmeshed in sexual sin.
- Explain why porn use is a kind of ‘death wish’.
- What do drug addiction and porn use have in common?