Not sharing the graph b/c it gives publicity to a prominent porn sight, but not surprisingly the quarantine that flattens the curve of the virus has led to a dramatic spike in porn usage. Avoiding a physical epidemic is leading to a spiritual epidemic. A thread with a plea... (1)
The allure of porn goes way beyond sexual urges. It’s is a drug. The most popular drug in our land. And like any good drug it hides its destruction behind the vail of thrilling promise. (2)
Porn is, quite literally, a fantasy world offering all who enter in a satisfaction to their deepest longings. Longings that are elevated during a pandemic. But in the end, it leaves the user internally ravaged, with those same longings only hungrier (3)
Feeling lonely in your quarantined isolation? Porn has an invitation for you. Come enjoy an endless fellowship of vulnerable intimacy. But it’s an empty intimacy that only leaves the user more isolated and self-obsessed. (4)
Feeling board as your normal routines have been brought to a halt? Porn has an invitation for you. Come enjoy endless stimulation of heightened ecstasy. But it’s an empty ecstasy that only leaves the user numb to the truest joys of life. (5)
Feeling unwanted as days go by without anyone reaching out to check in? Porn has an invitation for you. Come enjoy endless scenarios where you are affirmed as desirous above all. But it’s an empty affirmation that only leaves the user feeling rejected and dismissed. (6)
Feeling anxious in this hour of uncertainty? Porn has an invitation. Come enjoy endless comfort where nothing ever goes wrong and only ends in pleasure. But it’s a false comfort that only leaves the user with disproportionate anxieties over real world problems. (7)
And yes, of course, feeling suppressed sexual desires? Porn has an invitation. Come enjoy endless opportunity to indulge any and every sexual fantasy. But it’s a false fantasy that only leaves the user sexual impotent to real life sexual intimacy. (8)
And then comes porn’s greatest deception of all. Feeling ashamed because you view porn? Ironically, porn has an invitation for you still....(9)
Come back. Return to our word where you have nothing to be ashamed because your perversion is normalized and affirmed. But this is a false affirmation that only leaves the user more shame, which leads to more porn, which leads to more shame, which leads to more porn (10)
And so the cycle goes until the user’s life is utterly desolated by the very thing they thought would fulfill them. Please. I beg you to renounce the folly of porn and head the wisdom of Proverbs 9...(11)
“The woman of folly is loud and seductive. She sits at her door calling to those who pass by, “Come inside! Stolen water is sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.” But little do they know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of the grave.” (End)
