CAN'T I JUST STOP WATCHING PORN WHEN I GET MARRIED?
My friend suffered from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) after returning home from his military deployment. He would regularly relive the horrific war images in his head. The images had been burned into his memory.
Military veterans can suffer from war-related PTSD. Porn veterans can suffer from porn-related PTSD.
When someone views pornography, the chemical norepinephrine is released. It chemically burns the porn image into the memory, similar to what happens when soldiers see graphic war scenes. [source]
I stumbled upon pornography in the 1st grade and that image stuck with me for nearly 20 years thanks to this chemical scarring.
People often carry these scars with them into future relationships, which means, porn can ruin your marriage before you even meet your spouse!
Randy, a retired porn star, was asked about all the women he “performed with” throughout his career. He said he didn’t have sex with any of the women; he just used their bodies to masturbate.
That sounds gross, but it’s true. Porn ruins sexual intimacy.
Many porn users end up treating their spouse like a movie screen instead of a person. Porn pries away the humanity of the person’s spouse and turns them into a blank screen upon which their pornographic memories are projected. It robs you of the ability to see the value of the person, and if you downsize your spouse’s dignity, you will downsize their identity. They’ll be reduced to a warm body whose only use is pleasure.
When Bishop Fulton Sheen wrote his book, Three to Get Married, he didn’t mean husband, wife, and porn. He meant husband, wife, and God. You deserve to be married to a person, not a movie screen.
My friend suffered from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) after returning home from his military deployment. He would regularly relive the horrific war images in his head. The images had been burned into his memory.
Military veterans can suffer from war-related PTSD. Porn veterans can suffer from porn-related PTSD.
When someone views pornography, the chemical norepinephrine is released. It chemically burns the porn image into the memory, similar to what happens when soldiers see graphic war scenes. [source]
I stumbled upon pornography in the 1st grade and that image stuck with me for nearly 20 years thanks to this chemical scarring.
People often carry these scars with them into future relationships, which means, porn can ruin your marriage before you even meet your spouse!
Randy, a retired porn star, was asked about all the women he “performed with” throughout his career. He said he didn’t have sex with any of the women; he just used their bodies to masturbate.
That sounds gross, but it’s true. Porn ruins sexual intimacy.
Many porn users end up treating their spouse like a movie screen instead of a person. Porn pries away the humanity of the person’s spouse and turns them into a blank screen upon which their pornographic memories are projected. It robs you of the ability to see the value of the person, and if you downsize your spouse’s dignity, you will downsize their identity. They’ll be reduced to a warm body whose only use is pleasure.
When Bishop Fulton Sheen wrote his book, Three to Get Married, he didn’t mean husband, wife, and porn. He meant husband, wife, and God. You deserve to be married to a person, not a movie screen.