http://www.gotquestions.org/pornography-Bible.html
Question: "What does the Bible say about pornography?"
Answer: By far, the most searched for terms on the internet are related to pornography. Pornography is rampant in the world today. Perhaps more than anything else, Satan has succeeded in twisting and perverting sex. He has taken what is good and right (loving sex between a husband and wife) and replaced it with lust, pornography, adultery, rape, and homosexuality. Pornography can be the first step on a very slippery slope of ever-increasing wickedness and immorality (Romans 6:19). The addictive nature of pornography is well documented. Just as a drug user must consume greater and more powerful quantities of drugs to achieve the same "high," pornography drags a person deeper and deeper into hard-core sexual addictions and ungodly desires.
The three main categories of sin are the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life (1 John 2:16). Pornography definitely causes us to lust after flesh, and it is undeniably a lust of the eyes. Pornography definitely does not qualify as one of the things we are to think about, according to Philippians 4:8. Pornography is addictive (1 Corinthians 6:12; 2 Peter 2:19), and destructive (Proverbs 6:25-28; Ezekiel 20:30; Ephesians 4:19). Lusting after other people in our minds, which is the essence of pornography, is offensive to God (Matthew 5:28). When habitual devotion to pornography characterizes a person’s life and he continues in sin without seeking help, making no attempt to stop, or feeling no desire to change his behavior, it demonstrates the person may not be saved (1 Corinthians 6:9).
For those involved in pornography, God can and will give the victory. Are you involved with pornography and desire freedom from it? Here are some steps to victory: 1) Confess your sin to God (1 John 1:9). 2) Ask God to cleanse, renew, and transform your mind (Romans 12:2). 3) Ask God to fill your mind with Philippians 4:8. 4) Learn to possess your body in holiness (1 Thessalonians 4:3-4). 5) Understand the proper meaning of sex and rely on your spouse alone to meet that need (1 Corinthians 7:1-5). 6) Realize that if you walk in the Spirit, you will not fulfill the lusts of the flesh (Galatians 5:16). 7) Take practical steps to reduce your exposure to graphic images. Install pornography blockers on your computer, limit television and video usage, and find another Christian who will pray for you and help keep you accountable.
http://www.gotquestions.org/overcome-internet-porn.html
Question: "How can I overcome an addiction to internet porn? Can addiction to pornography be defeated?"
Answer: Studies show that terms relating to porn are by far the most commonly searched-for terms in the internet search engines. Every day, literally millions of people do searches related to the porn industry. The powerful imagery of internet pornography is highly addictive. Many men (and women) have been caught in the snare of internet porn and find themselves helplessly addicted to its visual stimulation. This results in uncontrollable lust, an inability to experience true sexual intimacy in marriage, and often intense feelings of guilt and despair. Pornography is the #1 cause of masturbation, sexual assault, and sexual deviancy. Most importantly, pornography is offensive to God, and is therefore a sin that must be confessed, repented of, and overcome.
There are two primary aspects in the battle to overcome an addiction to internet porn: spiritual and practical. Spiritually, addiction to pornography is a sin that God desires you to overcome and therefore will enable you to do so. The first step is to make sure you have genuinely placed your trust in Jesus Christ as your Savior. If you are unsure, please visit our page on salvation and forgiveness. Without salvation through Jesus Christ, there is no possibility of a true and lasting victory over pornography: "Apart from me, you can do nothing" (John 15:5).
If you are a believer in Christ and are struggling with an addiction to internet porn, there is hope and help for you! The power of the Holy Spirit is available to you (Ephesians 3:16). The cleansing of God’s forgiveness is available to you (1 John 1:9). The renewing capacity of God’s Word is at your disposal (Romans 12:1-2). Commit your mind and eyes to the Lord (1 John 2:16). Ask God to strengthen you and help you to overcome pornography (Philippians 4:13). Ask God to protect you from further exposure to porn (1 Corinthians 10:13), and to fill your mind with things that are pleasing to Him (Philippians 4:8). These are all requests that God will honor and answer.
Practically speaking, there are numerous tools to combat an addiction to internet pornography. There are good programs available at www.X3pure.com and www.PornAddiction.com. There are several quality internet filtering programs that will completely block your computer from accessing pornography, such as Covenant Eyes. Another fantastic tool is available at www.X3Watch.com. X3watch is accountability software. It tracks your internet browsing and sends a report of any objectionable websites you have visited to an accountability partner of your choosing. Your temptation to view internet porn would be greatly reduced if you knew your youth pastor, parent, friend, pastor, or spouse would receive a detailed report about it. There are also quite a few good books on overcoming porn addiction: Every Man's Battle: Winning the War on Sexual Purity One Victory at a Time by Stephen Arterburn, Pure Freedom: Breaking the Addiction to Pornography by Mike Cleveland, and The Game Plan by Joe Dallas.
Do not despair! An addiction to internet porn is not an "unforgivable sin." God can and will forgive you. An addiction to internet porn is not an "unconquerable sin." God can and will enable you to overcome it. Commit your mind and eyes to the Lord. Commit yourself to filling your mind with God’s Word (Psalm 119:11). Seek His help daily in prayer; ask Him to fill your mind with His truth and block unwanted thoughts and desires. Take the practical steps listed above to keep yourself accountable and block access to internet porn. "Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us" (Ephesians 3:20).
Recommended Resources: X3watch, Every Man's Battle: Winning the War on Sexual Purity One Victory at a Time and Logos Bible Software.
This is the vision Jesus gave to a Christian porn addict, now former addict, by the name of Lonnie Mackley, a vision that made him start on a path to finally get free. First here is the vision followed by his whole article on the subject of pornography and Spirit-led recovery:
"When I was deep into P & M [porn & masturbation] as a Christian, I was laying in bed one night feeling very hopeless and I began to cry out to God for help. I knew I was trapped and doomed, and that I needed some outside help to get free.
"I then began to see a scene in my mind, kind of like a vision I guess. I saw a large, wide, dark canyon full of people shuffling forward to what I felt was their judgment and punishment for the evil they did in life. I was also in this crowd and I saw people there that were nearly nude that looked like they must have worked in the porn industry in life.
"I then saw a man high up on a cliff viewing the crowd as they moved along. Somehow I knew this was Jesus, and He had a very pained look on His face as He viewed the crowd. I tried yelling out to Him to get His attention, but He didn't seem to hear me. The crowd was pushing me forward, and just as I was just passing by where Jesus stood, He all of the sudden turned and looked straight at me. I screamed out to Him, 'Lord, I don't belong here with these people, I am a Christian, please get me out of here!' Then I heard Him speak to me without His lips moving, into my mind.
"He said very clearly 'If you do not repent in earnest, you too will suffer the same fate as these people around you'. The vision then ended, and I was beyond freaked out to say the least.
"I immediately jumped out of bed and got onto the Internet and desperately searched for some help. I found a place called "Setting Captives Free", and enrolled in an online course called "Pure Freedom" (now it's called "The Way of Purity"), and I then started on a path to finally get free from these life long problems of P & M and perversion."
Spirit-Led Recovery From Addiction
November 16, 2013
Pornography and Sexual Perversion Addiction Recovery
by Lonnie Mackley
God defines sexual morality as a husband and wife having mutually pleasing, non-harmful, natural sexual intercourse for the purposes of marital intimacy, mutual enjoyment, and/or procreating to have children. Now I understand that this definition may sound a bit outdated to some people, but God is the creator and manufacturer of the human body, and He alone is qualified to define how our bodies are to be used sexually. So, we can either obey these rules that He has made concerning how our bodies were created to be used properly, or we can ignore them and have major problems because of it.
When we drive our car, put gas or oil in it, or have maintenance done to it, we don't think that is outdated, because we know that we must stay within the laws that the manufacturer has set for our car, or suffer loss or harm if we don't. We must follow the rules for how and what something was created to do, if we want the maximum benefit from that product. Otherwise, we run the risk of breaking it, losing it, hurting someone with it, or destroying it and having to buy a new one.
We cannot just go out and buy a new body or soul, so we need to understand God's rules for proper sexual function and practice, so that this area of our life works out well for us and for those around us. God gave us sex as a gift and He created it, so He should know best how it works and how it doesn't. We can trust Him to give us the best in every situation, we need not change it. I will deal with pornography and masturbation (which we will just call P & M to save time) as one thing, and sexual perversion as a separate thing, since the motivations for doing them differ somewhat.
1. Pornography and Masturbation (P & M)
When we become pleasure addicts, we want our pleasure under our control, and we don't want to have to wait, or depend on someone else to gratify it. P & M is a form of "life-cheating" since we were designed to either wait and have sex with our spouse, or to wait and eventually have a nocturnal emission (if you are male).
So God has provided normal channels for sexual gratification, we aren't forced to cheat, we just choose to. When we are pleasure idolaters, we pervert the right use of God's normal gifts to kind of build our own little "pleasure amusement park" where we go from one ride to another, to get a fresh pleasure fix. But the price you pay to play in this amusement park can be very high.
This P & M problem is not just a male problem; more and more often now, females are being caught up in pornography, masturbation, online affairs, and sex chatting. When we surf porn or masturbate, we are feeding a very dangerous animal called "lust", and the more you feed it, the stronger it gets, and the weaker you get against it.
The constant hiding, or worse, getting caught looking at porn or masturbating, can take a terrible toll on your sense of self worth, your marriage, your pocketbook, your reputation, and even your job if you are caught doing it at work. We are constantly bombarded in the media with sexual images on our TV's and computers, or we are around people daily that dress to evoke sexual desire in others. To get free, you will have to understand how God created you to function sexually normal in order for you to abandon everything else that is abnormal.
When I was deep into P & M as a Christian, I was laying in bed one night feeling very hopeless and I began to cry out to God for help. I knew I was trapped and doomed, and that I needed some outside help to get free. I then began to see a scene in my mind, kind of like a vision I guess. I saw a large, wide, dark canyon full of people shuffling forward to what I felt was their judgment and punishment for the evil they did in life. I was also in this crowd and I saw people there that were nearly nude that looked like they must have worked in the porn industry in life. I then saw a man high up on a cliff viewing the crowd as they moved along. Somehow I knew this was Jesus, and He had a very pained look on His face as He viewed the crowd. I tried yelling out to Him to get His attention, but He didn't seem to hear me. The crowd was pushing me forward, and just as I was just passing by where Jesus stood, He all of the sudden turned and looked straight at me. I screamed out to Him, "Lord, I don't belong here with these people, I am a Christian, please get me out of here!" Then I heard Him speak to me without His lips moving, into my mind. He said very clearly "If you do not repent in earnest, you too will suffer the same fate as these people around you". The vision then ended, and I was beyond freaked out to say the least. I immediately jumped out of bed and got onto the Internet and desperately searched for some help. I found a place called "Setting Captives Free", and enrolled in an online course called "Pure Freedom" (now it's called "The Way of Purity"), and I then started on a path to finally get free from these life long problems of P & M and perversion.
2. Sexual Perversion
Sexual perversion includes anything that is different from God's original design and directions for normal sexual behavior (which I previously defined in the first paragraph above). Sexual perversion changes the normal practice of sex, into something that usually involves some kind of pain, power, punishment, humiliation, abnormality, or selfish pleasure, for the person who practices it.
Normal sex should contain intimacy and mutually respectful and pleasureful interaction between two married people (i.e. a male and a female). But sexual perversion is a means to gratify abnormal sexual desires to meet buried abnormal psychological needs and desires that most likely developed during early childhood.
These abnormal desires are real, and for someone who has "mis-developed" so to speak, and lived with these abnormal desires, life can be pretty miserable and difficult to say the least. Trying to just tell them to change their desires, is like trying to tell yourself to just stop liking a favorite food, like ice cream or pizza. It is an established preference that only God's power and the truth can change. Some of these behaviors include rape, child molestation, homosexuality, bondage, transvestitism, beastiality, sexual violence and torture, and fetishism (like women’s shoes, or underclothes).
Perversion is progressive, and can even lead to sexual murder in its later stages. Sexual perversion is always progressive.
Like I said, most sexually perverse desires develop when we are developing psychologically as children. A child that is molested, can develop abnormal desires because that is what they learned from being violated that way. Likewise, a child that does not receive the normal love and affirmation they need from a parent, may grow up with a desire and obsession to possess, punish, consume, and control that parents gender's traits. Much like a homosexual may inwardly desire to possess and experience what they feel they did not receive from their parent of the same sex. Some of this can also be caused by a chemical or hormonal imbalance as well, but usually, the goal of sexual perversion is to possess, have power over, consume, and punish their parents vicariously through a sexually perverse means. It is a secondary symptom, of an unmet primary childhood need.
Please understand that there is no judgment implied here. I once had sexually perverse/violent desires, and the only way that God could correct those wrong desires was to take me back to how, why, and where they got started.
God reminded me of my mother’s abandonment, and how she kept violent pornography around the house that I had viewed. He then showed me my buried anger towards her, and my longing to posses and punish her for not being there for us, and then dying in a car wreck while she was out partying.
You see, we long for our parents love, and approval, and if these needs are not met properly as children, we can then develop abnormal sexual desires very easily. Because we can subconsciously reject our own gender in favor of one that is considered safer or that we want to possess. Like cement that hardens and sets, our desires stay with us throughout adolescence and adulthood, and no matter how much we try to fight or deny them, they will eventually surface again until we let God help us.
So what is the answer? How do we get free from P & M, and sexual perversion? The answer is, to surrender this area of your heart and life fully and unconditionally to God so that He can heal those damaged childhood roots and help you to begin to walk and live in the truth.
It is the truth alone that sets us free in the end. It can take some time, to change old habits and wrong desires, but as you walk with the Lord and cooperate with His daily work, you will see this change happen.
Try not to be embarrassed about talking to God about your sexual problems. He has seen every session of porn surfing and masturbation you have had, and all the sexually violent images you have viewed, and like the prodigal son in the bible, His arms are wide open to receive and embrace you. He really is your loving Father that just cares about you, and He wants to cleanse your heart from all the pain you carry deep inside you.
Here is a prayer to pray if you need it.
"Lord God, I ask that you would forgive me for every time I have ever committed sexual sin against you, my spouse, other people, and my own body. I confess that I have been a 'life cheater' in this area, and that I need your help to get free from this problem, and to walk in obedience and freedom for good. I just surrender to you right now Lord Jesus, without condition or reservation. I give myself into your hands to be cleansed, changed, and corrected in my sexual desires and behavior as you see fit. I also ask God, that you would take me back, and heal the damaged roots of my heart from my childhood concerning my true sexual identity, my relationship with my parents, and my sexual life here on earth. I thank you Lord for helping me to take the first step in getting free. Guide me oh God, to the people and support that I need to heal completely and permanently in this area of my heart and life. In Jesus name I pray, amen."
Some scriptures to help you.
MT 5:27 "You have heard that it was said, `Do not commit adultery.' 28 But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart. 29 If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell. 30 And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to go into hell (radical amputation).
MT 15:16 "Are you still so dull?" Jesus asked them. 17 "Don't you see that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and then out of the body? 18 But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these make a man `unclean.' 19 For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander. 20 These are what make a man `unclean'; but eating with unwashed hands does not make him `unclean.' " (Remember, if you think it, and let it enter your heart, you will end up doing it, so you must change the lies in your thought-life into truth and walk in it when tempted, to overcome. It is what drops into our hearts that makes us run to addiction. It all starts in the mind, so we must renew our thinking to get and stay free).
REV 22:14 "Blessed are those who wash their robes, that they may have the right to the tree of life and may go through the gates into the city. 15 Outside are the dogs, those who practice magic arts, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
1CO 6:9 Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders 10 nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God (So you can see that it is possible to get free, and stay free like they did) .
GAL 5:19 The acts of the sinful nature are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; 20 idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions 21 and envy; drunkenness, orgies (unbridled lust and sexual gratification), and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.
HEB 4:14 Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has gone through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to the faith we profess. 15 For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are--yet was without sin. (He knows what you are going through, and can help you) 16 Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.
The dark blobby matter of lust that stuck to humanity after its fall consists of a blind energy that does not reason or feel, except for an overwhelming urge to accomplish its ends by any way possible.
A male human, who is a victim of this lust energy, will use the three orifices of the human body for its end; namely the vagina, the rectum, and the mouth. Had the ears and nasal nostrils had bigger openings it would have used those also.
The mouth and the rectum are not made for sex, in case of the rectum and its opening, the anus, they are made very delicately in comparison to the strong made-up of the vagina, and can be damaged easily when abused by sex. I heard once a proctologist saying in a video that he never uses toilet paper but wipes only to avoid damage, and he recommended others to do the same. Proctologists are doctors who solely treat conditions associated with rectum, anus, and colon.
God, the Creator, never intended the rectum+anus for sex as He did not put any nerves in the rectum for connection to the pleasure-center in the brain, there are only some nerves at the anus opening for the obvious reason of controlling the muscle ring during visits to the toilet.
Females and males would never get any physical pleasure from a penis inserted in the rectum; a female would submit to that abuse for the feeling she gets that she is pleasing her partner, or because her psychic is damaged and self-abuse gives her psychological pleasure.
And of course in the porn industry a female would get double her wages if she does anal in addition to vagina sex, so money counts.
Females, lost in lust, often rub their clitoris while being abused anally because that is where they get their pleasure of lust, from the clitoris which has direct connection by nerves to the sex-pleasure center in the brain. Anal sex would never give them that feeling of pleasure, and this goes also for homos who do anal.
Do males enjoy anal intercourse? Apparently they do since a penis get excited by rubbing it with hands (masturbation); by rubbing it inside the vagina; or rubbing it between the legs, the breasts and buttocks. Therefore there is no reason that a penis when using the anus and the rectum will not get excitement, however there are often messy mishaps related to the feces during such perverse intercourse.
I remember an interview that was given to a female porn model on prime time TV by Diane Sawyer, the model told the news anchor that, before she does anal on the set, she is required to abstain from eating starting early morning and has to do washing three times by enema on the same day before the shooting.
In addition males will get often an inner satisfaction from the abuse that they are inflicting on the opposite sex during this perverse intercourse; often males enjoy abusing females because of their hatred of the female gender, because of what sometime the female gender has done to them.
Anal sex, including kissing and licking of the anus, is of the devil and it's wrong. It's a one façade of manifestation of the human rebellion against God their creator.
CONCLUSION
Throughout history civilizations eventually came to destruction when they legalized sodomy (anal sex) and considered it normal, exactly like it is happening nowadays in USA. It can take 50 years, or 100 years, or 500 years, but eventually USA civilization will be destroyed because of this sin or wrong doing; and because of calling wrong right (like in abortion) and calling right wrong.
To those pondering in engaging in anal sex for whatever reason, I would strongly recommend that they visit first an office of a proctologist, a doctor specializing in rectum and anal issues, and take their time to watch the misery and embarrassment on the faces of those patients at the office.
Here is an article I came upon in the site:
http://www.webmd.com/digestive-disorders/picture-of-the-anus
The anus is the opening where the gastrointestinal tract ends and exits the body. The anus starts at the bottom of the rectum, the last portion of the colon (large intestine). The anorectal line separates the anus from the rectum.
Tough tissue called fascia surrounds the anus and attaches it to nearby structures.
Circular muscles called the external sphincter ani form the wall of the anus and hold it closed. Glands release fluid into the anus to keep its surface moist.
A plate-like band of muscles, called the levator ani muscles, surround the anus and form the floor of the pelvis. A network of veins lines the skin of the anus.
Anus Conditions:
Internal hemorrhoids: Swollen veins inside the anus or rectum. These cannot be seen from outside the body.
External hemorrhoids: Blood vessels that swell near the opening of the anus or bulge outside.
Anal cancer: Cancer of the anus is rare. Infection with human papillomavirus (HPV), anal sex, and multiple sexual partners increase the risk.
Anal herpes: Anal sex may spread the herpes viruses HSV-1 and HSV-2. Symptoms include painful sores around the anus that come and go.
Anal warts: Infection by the human papillomavirus (HPV) can lead to warts in and around the anus.
Anal fistula: An abnormal channel developing between the anus and the skin of the buttocks. Inflammatory bowel disease (Crohn’s and ulcerative colitis) or previous surgery are common causes.
Anal fissure: A tear in the lining of the anus, often caused by constipation. Pain, especially with bowel movements, is the main symptom.
Anal abscess: A pocket of infection in the soft tissue around the anus. Antibiotics and surgical drainage may be required to effectively treat an abscess of the anus.
Anal itching: Itching in or around the anus is a common problem. In most cases, no serious cause is responsible.
Proctalgia fugax: Sudden, severe pain in the area of the anus and rectum, lasting seconds or minutes, then disappearing. The cause is unknown.
Constipation: Difficulty passing stools is common, and can cause anus pain, anal fissures, and bleeding from hemorrhoids.
Anal bleeding: Bright red blood from the anus is sometimes from hemorrhoids, but requires evaluation to rule out a more serious cause
Physical examination: A doctor may inspect the outside of the anus, and insert a gloved finger to feel for abnormal areas on the inside of the anus.
Sigmoidoscopy: An endoscope (flexible tube with a lighted camera on its tip) is inserted into the anus and moved into the colon. Sigmoidoscopy can only reach part of the colon for viewing.
Colonoscopy: An endoscope is inserted into the anus, and the entire colon is viewed to look for problems.
Fistulography (fistulogram): A liquid that helps improve image contrast is injected into an abnormal opening in or near the anus, and X-ray films are taken. Fistulography can detect an abnormal connection (fistula) between the anus and skin.
Anus Treatments:
Antibiotics: These may be used to fight infections of the anus caused by bacteria.
Antiviral medications: Medicines such as acyclovir (Zovirax), famciclovir (Famvir), and valacyclovir (Valtrex) are used to treat anus infections caused by the herpes viruses HSV-1 and HSV-2.
Incision and drainage: Serious skin infections (abscesses) in or around the anus may require this surgical procedure to drain the infected fluid.
Anus surgery: Cancer of the anus, anus warts, abscess, or fistula may require surgery to correct the problem.
Anus wart treatments: Doctors may use surgery, freezing (cryotherapy), a laser or heat probe, or other treatments to remove warts from the anus.
Stool softeners: Constipation may cause hard stools and painful bowel movements. Over-the-counter or prescription stool softeners can relieve these symptoms.
Fiber: Increasing fiber in the diet or taking fiber supplements can improve constipation and reduce bleeding from hemorrhoids.
Hemorrhoid cream: Over-the-counter or prescription topical medicines can relieve the itching and discomfort caused by hemorrhoids.
Hemorrhoid banding: A doctor ties rubber bands around external hemorrhoids, causing the tissue to slowly die and fall off.
Hemorrhoid procedures: A doctor may use a laser, heat probe, injections, or other treatment to destroy hemorrhoids and reduce symptoms.
Steroid cream: Itching in the anus often responds to over-the-counter creams containing hydrocortisone or a similar steroid medicine.
