Porn Sunday
How To Maintain Moral Purity
Doug Doyle
Fort McMurray Alliance Church
February 3, 2013
“I tell you that anyone who
looks at a woman lustfully has
already committed adultery
with her in his heart.”
Matthew 5:28| NIV
“Guys who do not watch
porn do not exist.”
Simon Lajeunness,
University of Montreal
December 2009
3 It
is God’s will that you should
be sanctified (holy): that you
should avoid sexual immorality
… 7 For God did not call us to be
impure, but to live a holy life.
1 Thessalonians 4:3-7 | NIV
Porn Sunday
1. The Pervasiveness of Porn
Stats on Youth Pornography
• 11 years of age: average age of one’s first internet
exposure to pornography.
• 12 to 17 years olds: Largest consumer of internet
pornography.
• 80%: The percentage of 15 to 17 years olds having
hard core exposure to pornography.
• 90%: The percentage of 8 to 16 year olds who have
viewed porn online – most while doing homework.
Porn Sunday
1. The Pervasiveness of Porn
2. The Pain and Damage of Porn
Six weeks of exposure to pornography can:
• Lead to an increased callousness towards
women.
• Distorted perceptions of what is normal in
sexual practice.
• Develop an appetite for an increasing
intensity of the pornography experience.
• Begin to view non-monogamous relationships
as normal and natural.
Dolf Zillman & Jennings Bryan
Journal of Applied Science (1988)
www.yourbrainonporn.com
“Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that helps
control the brain's reward and pleasure
centers. Dopamine also helps regulate
movement and emotional responses, and it
enables us not only to see rewards, but to take
action to move toward them … and people with
low dopamine activity may be more prone to
addiction. The presence of a certain kind of
dopamine receptor is also associated with
sensation-seeking.”
~ Psychology Today Online
Symptoms of Arousal
Addiction:
• ADHD
• Social Anxiety
• Depression
• Concentration Problems
• Performance Anxiety
• OCD
The build up of Delta-PhosB can lead
to structural brain changes including:
• Numbed pleasure response
• Hyper-reactivity to porn
• Willpower erosion
“Internet porn is killing
young men’s sexual
performance.”
Italian Society of
Andrology & Sexual Medicine
February 2011
ED!!
“It starts with lower
reactions to porn sites. Then
there is a general drop in
libido, and in the end it
becomes impossible to get
an erection.”
Dr. Carlo Foresta,
Head of the Italian Society of
Andrology & Sexual Medicine
February 2011
Recovery time for
porn induced E.D.:
• Older men: 2 months
• Younger men: 4 to 5 months
“Can a man scoop up fire onto
his lap and … not be burned?”
Proverbs 6:26
Porn Sunday
1. The Pervasiveness of Porn
2. The Pain and Damage of Porn
3. The Path to Purity
“I have come that they may
have life, and have it to the
full.”
John 10:10 | NIV
The Path to Purity
i.
You have to understand and
live in the power of the cross.
5
Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to
your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity,
lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry. 6
Because of these, the wrath of God is coming. 7
You used to walk in these ways, in the life you
once lived. 8 But now you must rid yourselves of
all such things as these: anger, rage, malice,
slander, and filthy language from your lips. 9 Do
not lie to each other, since you have taken off
your old self with its practices 10 and have put on
the new self, which is being renewed in
knowledge in the image of its Creator.
Colossians 3:5-10 | NIV
8
Do not gloat over me, my
enemy! Though I have fallen, I
will rise. Though I sit in
darkness, the Lord will be my
light. 9 Because I have sinned
against him, I will bear the
Lord's wrath, until he pleads my
case and establishes my right.
He will bring me out into the
light; I will see his
righteousness.
Micah 7:8-9| NIV
The Path to Purity
i.
You have to understand and
live in the power of the cross.
ii. Replace wrong thoughts with
right thoughts.
“Fix your thoughts on what is
true and honorable and right.
Think about things that are
pure and lovely and admirable.
Think about things that are
excellent and worthy of praise.”
Philippians 4:8 | NLT
The Path to Purity
i.
You have to understand
and live in the power of the
cross.
ii. Replace wrong thoughts with
right thoughts.
iii. You need to understand and
experience the power of
community.
“Let us not give up meeting
together, as some are in the
habit of doing, but let us
encourage one another …”
Hebrews 10:25 | NIV84
Links to helpful sites can be found at:
www.missionalcanadian.com
www.fmalliance.ca