YOUNG PEOPLE ASK/Why Reject Pornography?

How to reject pornography

What if you feel that the temptation to look at pornography is too powerful to resist? The worksheet "How to Reject Pornography" can help you.

Be assured that you can reject the temptation to look at pornography. You can also learn to stop viewing pornography if you have already started. You have everything to gain by doing so.

Consider Calvin, who admits that he developed a habit of viewing pornography at about age 13.  "I knew it was wrong," Calvin says, "but I just couldn't overcome the temptation to look at it. After doing so, I would feel just horrible. Eventually, my dad found out-and to be honest, I was so relieved!  Finally, I was able to get the help needed."

Calvin has learned to reject pornography. He says:  "Getting involved with pornography was a big mistake that I'm still paying for because the images replay in my mind. And at times I'm still tempted to think about what I could see if I were to look at things I shouldn't. But then I think about how happy, how clean, and how bright  my future is when I do things Jehovah's way." 

Note:  To me, pornography is the most disgusting and degrading stuff. I, for one, never wanted to see it and would click off of it whenever it popped up on the computer screen, these people that produce it, to me have sick and devient minds made possible by Satan.   To me, this disgusting garbage would seem  to men, that when they did get married, they would be comparing the women in pornography with their wives and may indeed affect their marriage as well as causing problems as well. 

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