How’s that for a title? It got you here though, right?
All kidding aside, today‘s post is about something quite serious.
obviously… PORN
… but from a woman‘s vantage point. Here are some stats from XXXChurch.com:
- Breakdown of male/female visitors to pornography sites: 72% male & 28% female
- 70% of women keep their cyber activities secret
- 17% of all women struggle with pornography addiction
- 1 of 3 visitors to all adult web sites are women
- 9.4 million women access adult web sites each month
These numbers, in my humble opinion, are low.
Think about it: These are the results of women who were courageous enough to admit it. What about all those who aren’t ready to admit it yet? It’s still rare for women to talk about their interaction with porn, so it’s probable these numbers are quite a bit higher.
In the past 10 years, the number of female students who’ve confided in me that they “had come across” or actually struggle with porn has increased like the number of gray hairs sprouting out of my head.
Porn is becoming epidemic in this generation of women and is quickly shortening the innocence God has intended for His daughters. It’s grasping our daughters… it’s pulling WOMEN in and telling us lies of what we should look like, act like, dress like, talk like and think like. It’s wrecking our self-esteem…our marriages…and, most importantly, our beautiful and original purpose designed by God.
So what do we do???
My good friend, Crystal Renaud, is writing a book appropriately titled “Dirty Girls”. Isn’t that how we feel about porn? She has experienced this first hand and is stepping out boldly from her secret silence. ”Dirty Girls” will help us all better understand how to face and support our girls/women who are in bondage because of porn…and how to tell it, “You have no home here!”
So… where do you come in???
Crystal is gathering information for this book. She needs YOUR help. Go to TheNewPornAddicts.com survey site and fill out the appropriate one for you. Send your girlfriends, daughters, sisters, sisters‘ girlfriends (basically all female humans) to this site. It’s completely confidential and the information will be used to resource the next generation.
Titus 2: 3-5 says:
“Likewise, teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live, not to be slanderers or addicted to much wine, but to teach what is good. Then they can train the younger women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled and pure, to be busy at home, to be kind, and to be subject to their husbands. so that no one will malign the word of God.”
It’s time to step up, ladies. Time to break out of our silent bondage so we can help free the next generation of sexual addiction, so they can pay freedom forward to the generation after theirs.
