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Matthew 5:27-29 (NIV): “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart. If your right eye causes you to stumble, 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.

Matthew 6:21-23 (NIV): For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. “The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eyes are unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!

1 John 2:15-17 (NKJV): Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not of the Father but is of the world. And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.

James 4:7-10 (NIV): Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Come near to God, and He will come near to you.

Choose to fight!

Pornography is a lie about the spiritual and emotional bond made during sexual relations between a man and a woman.

It provides an emotional "fix": when a person indulges in this ‘passion,’ a hormonal cocktail of adrenalin, testosterone, oxytocin, dopamine, and serotonin is released into the body. The violence of this sensation is such that it can almost be compared to that of heroin! Those who indulge in this "drug" seek this pleasure. This pursuit creates an ever-deepening commitment that leads to psychological and physical dependence.

It responds to boredom, loneliness, or a complicated married life, offering temporary relief through masturbation, giving the illusion of feeling "good" or "in control" for a few seconds. It reassures the user with the illusion of self-centered pleasure without the need to invest in a relationship with a real person.

Pornography seems to reassure us, to provide an escape from our lack of self-esteem and meaning in life, our doubts and fears, and our lack of control over events and human relationships.

Above all, it betrays the lack of a deep, satisfying relationship with God.

Pornography generates growing feelings of shame, guilt, anger, and self-loathing. Self-esteem plummets, undermined by complexes, addiction, and compulsive masturbation.

Consumers of pornography are in danger of importing fantasies from the world of pornography into their real lives. They gradually lose the sense of relationships between human beings and adopt false standards about love and physical relationships. This phenomenon interferes with real sexual life and its demands, destroys emotional life, and develops fears and misunderstandings between the sexes.

There is an actual risk of bringing unacceptable, even dangerous, deviant behaviors into relationships with real people.

Pornography addiction is a proven source of attitudinal change and of evolution towards criminal behavior such as rape, pedophilia, and other sexual perversions, engendered by the need to go ever further in the search for strong emotions.

Without going to these extremes, it has also been shown that this influence plays a significant role in the loss of effectiveness at work, the deterioration of social relationships, depression, and even suicide...

The rebound theory: If your eyes stop on a source of temptation, bounce them off to another place. Do not let them settle!