According to Focus On The Family research and our own research through Honor Bound Men's Ministries, 65% of Christian men admit to struggling with pornography. So what's the big deal?

Consider these facts:

• Pornography is a 20 billion dollar a year industry in North America
  
• Pornography is addictive - There is a neuro-chemical bond formed between the pleasure experienced and the stimulus that produces it.

• It is more addictive than cocaine - and quicker.

• The part of the brain stimulated by pornography is the same part stimulated by cocaine.

• Pornography appears to encompass all 3 major drug categories:
  
  • Anti-depressants
  • Anti-anxieties
  • Stimulants


• The brain has an escalating zero point - It takes more and more of the same thing to stimulate it.

• Pornography involvement is harder to treat and restore to wholeness than adultery:
  
  • Adultery diverts the sex drive from God's intended purpose.
  • Pornography perverts the sex drive from God's intended purpose.
  • It dehumanizes women and desensitizes men.

Be aware that you cannot control its lure nor gain victory from it on your own – once you become involved with it! So the best route is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it – even if that means you have to get rid of your cable, satellite dish and/or TV.

Here are two good guidelines from the God’s Word:

• Job 31:1 – Job stated: “I made a covenant with my eyes not to look lustfully at a girl.”
• 2 Corinthians 10:5b – Paul states: “…we take captive every thought and make it obedient unto Christ.”

There’s the two keys:

• Covenant with your eyes – discipline where and what you look at.
• Take charge of your thoughts.