http://www.alternet.org/personal-health/porn-addiction-christian-community-why-are-rates-so-high
In a piece titled “I’m a Christian Addicted to Porn” for
the magazine Christianity Today, Shaun Groves describes the torturous
shame he felt after enjoying sexually explicit media:
“The pleasure faded. And in its wake I fought pounding waves of
regret and guilt. I felt a million miles from good, a billion light
years from God. I'd often think back to how I saw that first picture of a
naked woman. I had used a stick to keep it away from me. I felt like
God had the stick in his hand now, poking at me from a distance, trying
not to get any of me on him.”
Joshua Grubbs watched students go through similar anguish during his
undergraduate years at a conservative college. So, as a doctoral
candidate in psychology at Ohio’s Case Western Reserve University,
Grubbs was excited to explore the link between religious values and
perceptions of porn addiction.
Grubbs' research team surveyed three representative groups of adults
(including undergrads at both a public and a religious university) about
their viewing of adult material over the Internet. The study, Transgression as Addiction, concluded
that "religiosity and moral disapproval of pornography use were robust
predictors of perceived addiction to Internet pornography while being
unrelated to actual levels of use among pornography consumers."
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