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Twelve Reasons to Give Up Porn

August 30, 2011 by Andy Naselli

Tim Chester, Closing the Window: Steps to Living Porn Free  (Downers Grove: IVP, 2010), 17–35:

  1. Porn wrecks your view of sex.
  2. Porn wrecks your view of women.
  3. Porn wrecks women’s view of themselves.
  4. The porn industry abuses women.
  5. Porn is a sin against your wife. . . . If you’re not yet married, porn is a sin against your future wife.
  6. Porn wrecks families.
  7. Porn is enslaving.
  8. Porn erodes your character.
  9. Porn wastes your time, energy, and money.
  10. Porn weakens your relationship with God.
  11. Porn weakens your service.
  12. God’s wrath is against people who use porn.

Chester expounds on the above twelve reasons when explaining the first of what he calls five key “ingredients in the battle against porn”:

If you’re struggling with porn or shepherding people who are, Chester’s book will serve you well.

Related:

  1. Purity is always smart; impurity is always stupid
  2. Internet Pornography: The God of Truth and the Lies of Porn
  3. The Stain That Stays
  4. Accountability

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