I was exposed to pornography at a young age. During those days, I could spend time gazing to satisfying the burning lust within. It is a fact that most youths are also into this act too. The constant porn watching became an addiction. Deep within me, I felt the urge to stop it but it seemed I was been made to watch as a slave.
This is the case with most youths today too. Pornography has become an addiction. Most people in their quest to be freed from the chains of ‘porn’ visits prayer camps and other places for help but the funny thing however is that, they still find themselves even much deeper into the act than before.
It is for this reason that I prepared this piece to help others who are also looking for a solution. There are various addictions most people are into. Look at these:
- Internet
- Gaming
- Sex
- Drunkenness
- Smoking
- Pornography
- Sleeping
The following also includes some facts on pornography
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The word “pornography” is from the Greek words “porne” (prostitute) and “graphos” (to write or to record). So, in other words, pornography means “writing about prostitutes”.
Twelve years ago, there were somewhere around 70,000 sites dedicated to porn. In 2014, there was 4.2 million in the U.S alone.
The biggest porn company is in Canada
Half of the internet is made up of porn or porn related content.
Women watch porn and even more than men.
More people are watching porn than Hulu, Twitter and Facebook combined.
Sunday is the most popular day to watch porn across the world.
The average age of first internet porn exposure is 11 years old.
Pornographic industries make billions of money annually through their movies than most footballers, basketball players combined.
Why Porn viewers must stop!
Porn makes you lazy.
Porn hides the true beauty of sex with lust.
Porn leads to sex problems like: Poor erection and low sperm count in men.
Porn makes you a slave to sex.
Porn makes you sick, unhealthy and dirty.
Porn makes you feel guilty.
Porn makes you lose: Your self respect, dignity and control over your own life.
How to Quit Porn Forever!
The first part to quitting porn is you really have to ‘want to quit porn’. You need to be sick and tired of porn and the sickness that it causes you in order to quit.
Second, close the sources of temptation to watch porn. That is:
• You might forbid the internet for a period of time or only accessing it only in public rather in private.
• You might need to clean your house, phone, computers from all pornographic materials like magazines, tapes, or others.
• You might need to quit friends who lead you to the path of pornography.
• You might decide to stop staying too much alone and be outside a lot.
Next, you really have to stay busy: Porn addiction usually starts because people are lonely. So, when you stay busy, you can minimize it and later forget it. For this reason, you can:
• Do some physical exercise to stay active.
• Get into hobbies that can keep you from your phone or computer.
Most importantly, you really need to be connected to your God. Doing this will help to activate your inner spirit to be strong. You can do the following:
• Constant praying
• Reading much of your spiritual books to refresh your mind.
• Visiting your places of worship.
Final step in your fight against ‘porn addiction’ is to be determine not to return to it again. These can be done:
• Get time tables to guide you.
• Let others also know about this so they can keep you under watch.
• Quickly move from anything that will stimulate you into it again.
I hope I have been able to convince you a lot on this subject. My doors are always open to help those in need. Get these keys into practice and escape the deadly deal of pornography before it enslaves your soul. Thanks a lot.