Last summer, I spoke to the women in a ministry cohort on the topic of pornography addiction. It can arise from childhood abuse or emotional loneliness and isolation. Also, the following comments do not necessarily reflect the views of Revive Our Hearts. He is the founder of t. Growing up, an emotionally detached father and lack of acceptance provided the kindling for addiction.

A Christian girl, attending her Youth Group, the kids at school started passing around a website address. Those are descriptions of intimacy. The Seduction of Sexual Sin. It was therefore relatively easy for her to cross one moral boundary after another until she stepped across the line into pornography. The majority have a Christian background and come to Bethesda because of its faith component. Maybe if we keep quiet, it will just go away.

Seventeen percent of all women struggle with pornography addiction. Left to themselves, women can easily stray off the narrow path and, like we saw in the cases above, become totally backslidden. It is what encourages me to share my story. In , she founded Bethesda Workshops in Tennessee, the first clinically based recovery program for women addicts. What kind of woman does that?

She believes the root of porn addiction for a woman is emotional, not physical. Sign up for our free CT Women newsletter: CT's weekly newsletter highlighting the voices of women writers. What you have done or are doing is not beyond the reach of the grace of the love of Christ. Gary Wilkerson says that what Satan is really after is not necessarily to get a man or woman to look at pornography but to become stuck in a pattern of shame—relief from our negative emotions by viewing something that brings us temporary pleasure, then dipping back down to being so ashamed. But research is starting to show that pornography isn't only a man's problem.