Overcoming Pornography Addiction

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You can also make the choice to overcome. God wants you to break free from porn addiction.

When we think of addiction, we most often think of being addicted to chemicals. The truth of the matter is that people can also be addicted to behaviors. Some of these behaviors include eating, gambling and sex. And the number one type of sexual addiction is habitual viewing of pornography.

Many may not be aware of the debilitating effect of pornography on Christians.

Indulgence to any addiction has increasing detrimental consequences, and that is powerfully true of addiction to porn. One has a sense of powerlessness and becomes a virtual slave to the addiction as it increasingly controls your life.

One of the best-proven paths to recovery is the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous, but adapted to a particular sexual addiction. The 12-step program helps members restore their network of human relationships, especially in their family. Members are taught how to live the program, leaving behind their double life and its delusion and pain.

Next we'll take a look at practical as well as spiritual solutions and strategies to overcoming an addiction to pornography, and even the temptations to indulge in viewing pornography.

Follow these suggestions to help overcome a sexual addiction.

Sexual addiction occurs in many forms and can be very destructive spiritually. How can it be overcome?

Use these tools to help overcome a pornography addiction.